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 ...

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 ...

A security researcher has released exploit code for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to steal GitHub authentication tokens by tricking users into clicking a ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a one-click attack via Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes it possible to steal a user's GitHub token. "Just by clicking a link, it's possible ...

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 ...

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. Peter Steinberger is on a token spending spree. On Friday, the creator of OpenClaw posted a screenshot ...

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, ...

VS Code 1.118 ships a suite of token efficiency features -- including prompt caching with 93% reuse rates and a tool search tool with up to 20% token savings -- just two days after GitHub's ...

GitHub Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, replacing Premium Request Units (PRUs) with GitHub AI Credits tied to token consumption. Base plan prices are unchanged, but ...

China’s cheap artificial intelligence models are rapidly attracting global users and creating new winners in the nation’s stock market. As AI development increasingly focuses on performing a diverse ...