The Pulse: AI token spending out of control – what’s next?

Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning, and more

Also: Anthropic’s speed run to break devs’ goodwill, big price increases from GitHub Copilot, Mitchell Hashimoto on the “building block economy,” and more

… which will probably be the shortest-lived trend because it’s so wasteful. Also: coding AI agent subsidies could be ending, Cal.com going closed source and blaming it

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Per Bloomberg:</p> <p>Global AI sales, excluding China, reached $25 billion for hyperscalers and neoclouds in the first quarter of 2026,

<p>There is a number going around tech right now that I genuinely cannot fit in my head.</p> <p>Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta plan to spend somewhere around <strong>$725

Cost-saving efforts reveal that moving simpler workloads to open AI models is the easiest way to save ~50% on AI bills. Also: automated software maintenance experience, and more

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>A Meta employee built a leaderboard on the company intranet called &quot;Claudeonomics&quot; that ranks token usage across 85k employees. top 250