For three years the AI boom ran on capability claims and vibes. This year it runs on invoices. An inference platform most ...

When OpenAI and Anthropic make their IPO prospectuses available to the public, investors are going to have to learn about a whole new economy.

Current token pricing is giving enterprises a false sense of comfort. For many cloud customers, today’s cheap AI will become tomorrow’s cost crisis. Enterprises are moving aggressively into generative ...

Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months after ...

Acer chairman Jason Chen said artificial intelligence (AI) is entering a new phase, shifting from early investment in energy and computing infrastructure toward token-based business models, practical ...

HANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alipay today introduced its full-stack AI payment solution to partners across industries, ranging from AI companies to traditional retailers, and debuted two new ...

Alipay today introduced its full-stack AI payment solution to partners across industries, ranging from AI companies to traditional retailers, and debuted two new services — the world’s first AI Wallet ...

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On its surface, the U.S. chip sanctions regime appears to have locked in an American victory in the AI race. As of late 2025, the best U.S. AI chips were roughly five times more powerful than China’s ...

Most token models fail for a simple reason: the token never becomes part of the product or the business behind it. It may attract attention through rewards, listings, or short-term hype, but once that ...

Token economy interventions constitute a structured form of contingency management in which individuals earn symbolic tokens for emitting target behaviours. These tokens serve as conditioned ...

New economic data this week delivers fresh evidence of the exceptional strength and accelerating momentum of the American economy under President Donald J. Trump. America’s core fundamentals are ...