New Alibaba AI framework skips loading every tool, cutting agent token use 99%

A new framework called SkillWeaver tackles AI agent tool routing by skipping full-library loading, cutting token use 99% on ...
VentureBeat

Anthropic ships major Claude Design overhaul with design system imports, code round-trips, and a fix for its token-burning problem

When Anthropic quietly released Claude Design in April as a "research preview," it generated the kind of instant traction most product teams dream about: more than one million users in its first week.
Forbes

Freedom: The Rise Of The LLM-Agnostic, Token-Efficient Agentic System

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Companies initially embraced AI for "tokenmaxxing," driving up usage with incentives and ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic

OpenAI is considering drastically lowering the prices it charges users as it seeks to win customers from its rival Anthropic. The company is weighing significant cuts to what it charges for tokens, ...
The Next Web

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

Enterprise AI bills are tripling despite a 98% drop in per-token prices, as agentic tools drive consumption 18.6x higher per developer. The Linux Foundation is launching the Tokenomics Foundation to ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

Uber Technologies Inc. has set usage caps on some artificial intelligence-powered tools used by its staff, a move meant to manage costs after the company blew through its AI budget earlier this year.
Becker's Hospital Review

Health systems using AI: 50 examples

Health systems across the country are well past the pilot stage and deploying AI across clinical, operational and financial functions. CommonSpirit Health (Chicago) has approximately 250 active AI ...
Ars Technica

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many ...
TechCrunch

‘What a joke’: GitHub Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs

The golden age of Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot appears to be at an end — for the little guy, at least. The company is switching its billing system from a flat subscription rate to a token-usage system ...
Gizmodo

Companies Are Getting Burned by Burning Tons of Tokens

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 ...
THE WEEK

Tokenmaxxing: the AI workplace trend pushing rapid integration

Eagerness about artificial intelligence has led to a competitive push at tech companies to use as much AI as possible in a trend called tokenmaxxing. Employers are happily spending thousands to keep ...