Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.
TL;DR Enterprise AI bills are tripling despite a 98% drop in per-token prices, as agentic tools drive consumption 18.6x higher per developer. The Linux Foundation is launching the Tokenomics Foundation to bring cost discipline to AI spending. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude…
bubmagJune 5, 2026