Big companies and startups, chafing at rapidly escalating artificial intelligence costs, are increasingly turning to tools that tap in to cheaper AI models, including some from China. That’s raising ...

OpenAI is weighing token price cuts to win customers from Anthropic. The company expects Anthropic to make similar moves, according to the Wall Street Journal. At a recent event, CEO Sam Altman said ...

In the emerging generative AI economy, tokens that measure computing usage are the currency. They'll be at the center of Anthropic's and OpenAI's efforts to go public and will be repeatedly referenced ...

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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 ...

When it comes to AI, tokens are the coin of the realm. Here’s how to understand their importance to both users and AI vendors. Google has only one way to measure the phenomenal AI growth it’s seen: in ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Before some startup founders raise their Series A, they'll be raising AI tokens. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ...

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.

Sam Altman just figured out how to print his own currency. And he’s spending it. OpenAI’s CEO has offered every startup in the current Y Combinator batch $2 million worth of OpenAI API usage credits ...

The Linux Kernel Crypto API provides kernel-level cryptographic operations accessible to both kernel modules and user-space applications through AF_ALG sockets. User-space applications communicate ...

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger spent $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in 30 days running 100 Codex instances on his open-source project. The bill, covered by OpenAI where Steinberger now works, ...