token economy

Microsoft’s chief executive did not mince words in Davos: the AI industry is running an energy experiment and the public’s patience will not be an unlimited resource. Satya Nadella used the World Economic Forum stage to crystallize a blunt thesis — generative AI is only socially legitimate if it...

The industry’s shift from subsidized experimentation to priced precision has arrived: AI’s “Uber moment” — the transition from heavily discounted or loss‑leading access to market‑priced, metered services — is already reshaping vendor strategies and enterprise budgets, and 2026 looks set to be...

Microsoft’s “big pause” on AI datacenter expansion is not a stumble so much as a strategic reset — one that exposes the tension between raw compute-scale ambitions and the practical realities of energy, cost, product economics, and the new monetization mechanics Microsoft is building around...

Nebius this week unveiled a production-grade “Open AI Platform” — marketed as Nebius Token Factory — a full‑stack inference and model‑lifecycle product pitched as an enterprise alternative to hyperscaler AI services and designed to host, fine‑tune and run open‑weight models at scale. Background...

It was a harmless enough question, tossed into the abyss of Twitter (now X—the artist formerly known as Delectable Hellsite) with the casual curiosity only the internet can foster: How much electricity—and by extension, cold hard cash—has OpenAI lost, simply because people can’t resist typing...

In a development that merges the cutting edge of artificial intelligence (AI) with the decentralized charm of Web3, WORLD3 has teamed up with Microsoft for Startups. The goal? To bring intelligent, autonomous AI Agents into the hands of the digital masses—without requiring any coding skills...