OpenAI's employees are spending tokens on tokens on tokens. And yet it's someone outside the company who is spending the most. The AI lab's employees are known for their high AI spending. Peter ...

Just last month, the most important metric in Silicon Valley was tokens burned—the units of measurement for the computing power being used by AI models. CEOs were giving employees the Matthew ...

AI is turning out to be more expensive than enterprises expected, and CFOs are now trading future headcount for tokens. Roughly 95% of enterprise AI still runs on the priciest frontier models even for ...

OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman says he is offering $2 million in OpenAI API tokens to every startup in Y Combinator’s current Spring 2026 batch, in exchange for an undetermined amount of equity.

Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI). Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, ...

Ethereum treasury firm Bitmine acquired 101,745 ether last week, bringing total holdings to 5.18 million ETH. Chairman Tom Lee said "crypto spring" has begun despite muted investor sentiment. Firm ...

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