Big Tech is spending $725 billion on AI this year. Who actually pays for it?

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>There's a documented arc here, not vibes: launching a tech startup cost about $5M in 2000 (servers, Oracle licenses, salaried engineers), about

<p>The data is clear on what’s already happening.</p> <ul> <li><p>Labor’s share of GDP fell to <strong>53.8% in Q3 2025</strong> — the lowest in the modern BLS series back to

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<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't

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