When it comes to AI, tokens are the coin of the realm. Here’s how to understand their importance to both users and AI vendors. Google has only one way to measure the phenomenal AI growth it’s seen: in ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Before some startup founders raise their Series A, they'll be raising AI tokens. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ...

OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman says he is offering $2 million in OpenAI API tokens to every startup in Y Combinator’s current Spring 2026 batch, in exchange for an undetermined amount of equity.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger spent $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in 30 days running 100 Codex instances on his open-source project. The bill, covered by OpenAI where Steinberger now works, ...

The biggest mistake people make when trying to get their ChatGPT API key is that they use the wrong URL. The key can't be found at chatgpt.com. Instead, point your browser to the OpenAI developer ...

“A foundation of everything we do has to be trust. But within digitization, it’s trust that my cards will not be damaged when it goes through,” Bigler told Variety. “And the Sifter we’ve developed is ...

Is maximizing AI usage inside a company always a good thing? That’s the question startups, investors and big corporations were asking after an internal dashboard at Meta Platforms went viral for ...

For the uninitiated, tokens are essentially the units of data that AI models process as inputs and generate as outputs. AI models can generate thousands of tokens within minutes, especially when ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Forget lines of code written, engineers have a new way to compete amongst each other. Welcome to the ...

At companies including Meta, Nvidia and Databricks, engineers are celebrated the more they spend to use AI. “This is easy money,” Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said. “No limit.” Earlier this month, ...

The AI industry has a quiet addiction problem: It is addicted to tokens. Every new generation of agentic AI seems to assume that the answer to complexity is to throw more context at the model, keep ...

According to a column by the New York Times’ Kevin Roose, employees at companies including Meta and OpenAI compete on “internal leaderboards that show how many tokens[…]each worker consumes.” At Meta ...