Post #4349008
2026-07-04 11:02 UTC
Related courage or stupidity? - https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116860922240961497
‘as AI companies are starting to charge based on token-usage not simply a flat subscription, many of their customers are shocked at the bill. "Companies are scrambling to stop spending so much on AI," as 404 Media reports.-https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/
These are businesses that moved fixed-cost to variable-subscription- cost and are “surprised” they can no longer afford essential service price increase. What did they think would happen?
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@dahukanna@mastodon.social 2026-07-11 09:53
Related courage or stupidity?- https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116896277399131257 “Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that lots of companies smarting from increasing costs of AI tokens might start to look for cheaper alternatives, and that those alternatives increasingly are going to come from our adversaries.” … "Cursor, which will be acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX for $60 billion, built its Composer 2 model using Chinese AI model Kimi, which was developed by Moonshot AI." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/chinese-ai-models-probe-us-lawmakers.html