{"id":1012417,"date":"2026-06-05T08:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012417"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:45:56","slug":"sam-altman-says-he-is-unsure-why-companies-are-suddenly-worried-about-rising-ai-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/05\/sam-altman-says-he-is-unsure-why-companies-are-suddenly-worried-about-rising-ai-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman says he is unsure why companies are suddenly worried about rising AI costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI costs are rising, and OpenAI\u2019s CEO, Sam Altman, has highlighted a sudden shift in corporate attitudes toward AI spending. Altman noted that skyrocketing token costs, which were barely a concern once, have now rapidly emerged as a major worry for businesses aggressively adopting generative AI tools. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an enterprise event earlier this week, Altman described the change as abrupt. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a meme now, \u2018My company spent my entire 2026 budget in Q1, can you make this more efficient?\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI costs are rising, and OpenAI\u2019s CEO, Sam Altman, has highlighted a sudden shift in corporate attitudes toward AI spending. Altman noted that skyrocketing token costs, which were barely a concern once, have now rapidly emerged as a major worry for businesses aggressively adopting generative AI tools. Speaking at an enterprise event earlier this week, Altman described the change as abrupt. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a meme now, \u2018My company spent my entire 2026 budget in Q1, can you make this more efficient?\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012432,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012417\/revisions\/1012432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}