AITechCrunchabout 14 hours ago
AI token costs surge past budgets industry-wide
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Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked developers' Claude Code licenses months after enabling them. A Priceline employee reported a routine Cursor contract renewal came back 4-5x more expensive. The Linux Foundation unveiled the Tokenomics Foundation to instill cost discipline around AI tokens, mirroring FinOps for cloud spend.
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