๐ฆMicrosoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.
My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.
This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.
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The entire use of numbers/statistical methods by media and hate actors to infer some type of wrong doing by Israel or the IDF is a false methodology. This is not how war works. Women can and have partaken in the hostilities (combatants). Child status is evaluated at 18 or above when Hamas is well documented at deploying soldiers 17-14 and younger. The only question should be whether Israel has prosecuted the war against Hamas legally, morally, ethically. All data says yes, they have gone above and beyond the legal requirements of the law of armed conflict and the need to balance the humanitarian imperative against the legitimate military objectives. Any other question or statistical games is seeking to distort realities of IDF and Hamas actions during the war.
How absolutely ridiculous and yet totally obvious that Bernie, AOC, Rashida and virtually all of the progressive leadership hasnโt tweeted a word about the Trump peace deal even though theyโve been screaming about โgenocideโ for two years.
They should be dancing in the streets and instead silence.
The masks are off.
This tweet has gotten a lot of negative response from the pro Palestine crowd. I want you all to know that I take your feedback seriously. In the spirit of dialogue and mutual understanding, allow me to further clarify: Hamas is entirely responsible for the war they started.