The AI Token Shortage Begins

Recap of May's major AI shift from subsidized seat pricing to a token-based economy driven by agentic usage and runaway API consumption. Coverage of business-model pivots to usage-based billing, enterprise deployment and consulting plays, and market responses including cheaper specialized models. Analysis of compute and infrastructure competition highlighted by SpaceX/Colossus partnerships, corporate AI sticker shock, and emerging policy debates over token taxes and data-center moratoriums. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Get it ad free at http://patreon.com/aidailybrief Learn more about the show https://aidailybrief.ai/