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Token prices dropped 67% and enterprise AI bills still exploded to $7 million a year. Companies like Uber and Microsoft are already paying the price. Here's what the data says and what to do
Token prices have dropped more than 99% since 2023, but enterprise AI spending is still heading toward $644 billion in 2026. The Tokenpocalypse isn't about expensive tokens. It's about what happens when cheap tokens
Global AI spending is forecast at $2.59 trillion in 2026, but the real crisis isn't capital. It's kilowatts. Data centers can't get grid connections, token costs are busting enterprise budgets, and the physical limits
The AI free ride ended on June 1, 2026. GitHub Copilot dropped flat rate pricing and switched to token billing with cost multipliers up to 60x. Google just signed a $30 billion compute deal
Per-token AI prices dropped 98% but enterprise AI bills surged 320%. The Tokenpocalypse is already here, companies like Uber and Microsoft have already hit the wall, and the ones without hard cost controls are
OpenAI's June 2026 restructure confirmed what insiders already knew: chat is dead. With only 50 million of 900 million users paying, the company is ditching the free tier and racing toward an agent-based super