Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.
05-06-2026 18:05 via thenextweb.com

Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.

Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licences six months after enabling them. One company reportedly ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after forgetting to set usage limits. A Priceline employee told TechCrunch that a routine Cursor contract renewal came back four to five times […]
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