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"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." - Psalm 90:12

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@LearnDomaining Congrats!

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If the Spurs lose this game, I think they might get swept.
The Spurs may need to invest in a true big man and move #Wemby to the 4. The Spurs need an enforcer.
#Spurs #Knicks #NBAFinals

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@speakeasytlkshw @CutonDime25 FACTS!

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@joeroganhq Well, that explains Californians.

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Microsoft and Uber are cutting back on heavy Claude use. Uber got to 84% of engineers on it, heavy users burning $500-2k a month each, and blew their full year budget by April.

Microsoft is moving 100k+ over to their own tools by June. Even Nvidia's VP admitted compute costs more than his team's salaries.

It's not that AI is broken. Token pricing just bites hard at real scale before you get the usage dialed in. CEOs sold the quick headcount savings story too hard for the stock bump. There are real productivity wins in the code, but you need actual cost discipline or it adds up fast. Same mess we saw with cloud early on.

Optimize it or get left behind.
#AIEconomics #TechReality #EnterpriseAI

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Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

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@raphousetv7 AMEN!

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@domainpro Agreed. Modern society may reject, reinterpret, or redefine Scripture, but it still struggles to explain objective morality once it separates moral truth from the transcendent authority that Scripture reveals.

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@RW0Media Katt is officially the GOAT.

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@WellsJorda89710 Jamal Bryant is a heretic!

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This message from Byron Allen is powerful. Capital hunts for operators who bring elite performance and undeniable value. When you commit to the highest level of hustle and results, money and opportunity begin to chase you.
Dream bigger, work harder, and build the empire you were meant to create.
#ByronAllen #Hustle #Entrepreneurship #BusinessMindset #Capital

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Byron Allen, Founder of Allen Media Group, explains how treating business like a contact sport unlocks unlimited capital:

Byron once borrowed $310 million on a Friday to acquire the Weather Channel. He paid it back in five months.

When the lender hit him with a $28 million prepayment penalty for closing too quickly, he paid that too.

His philosophy on why capital is never the real obstacle:

"Business is a contact sport. You're nothing more than economic athletes. They will see your passion. They will see your stats. And they will always want you on their team because you make them money."

The framing shift here is everything.

Byron sees founders as athletes whose performance is being evaluated by people who need them to win.

"You have unlimited amounts of capital available to you if your hustle is at the highest level."

@RealByronAllen drives the point home:

"Keep your hustle at the highest level because capital is always looking for you to get the money back and a return. There's trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of capital looking for you. Go get it."

The takeaway: Capital is hunting for operators who can put up the stats. Hustle at the highest level, and the money will find you.

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@NameBio WOW! lol

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@tadgh_dc Pure evil.

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Allbirds just went from making shoes to building AI compute infrastructure… and the stock exploded +300% overnight.
Sold the brand/assets for $39M, raising $50M to become NewBird AI.
From sneakers to GPU leases in one move 😂👟→🤖
Wildest pivot of 2026?

https://t.co/B0B5zy5oXN
#Allbirds #AI

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@domainpro Amen.

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@ishmilly Congrats!

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@ishmilly @afternic Congrats! Great sale!

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@XTopDomains @domainpro @XTopDomains Well said. .COM remains dominant until it doesn’t. In this case, the brand value of owning “Longevity” outweighs the benefit of appending a secondary word, even with a .COM TLD.

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@domainpro Nope!