{"id":1013126,"date":"2026-06-09T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013126"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:50:32","slug":"ai-for-everything-until-the-hefty-bill-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/ai-for-everything-until-the-hefty-bill-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"AI for everything until the hefty bill comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that \u201cuse AI for everything\u201d is excellent advice \u2014 right up until the moment the bill arrives. Barely months after companies enthusiastically urged staff to embrace generative AI, a quieter, more accountable memo has gone out: slow down, we\u2019re bleeding tokens. What began as a productivity revolution is bumping into a rather old-fashioned constraint \u2014 money. <\/p>\n<p>The culprit is not a lack of enthusiasm. If anything, that\u2019s the problem. Tokens \u2014 the basic units of text that AI models chew through to produce their outputs \u2014 are being consumed at a rate that has caught finance teams off guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that \u201cuse AI for everything\u201d is excellent advice \u2014 right up until the moment the bill arrives. Barely months after companies enthusiastically urged staff to embrace generative AI, a quieter, more accountable memo has gone out: slow down, we\u2019re bleeding tokens. What began as a productivity revolution is bumping into a rather old-fashioned constraint \u2014 money. The culprit is not a lack of enthusiasm. If anything, that\u2019s the problem. Tokens \u2014 the basic units of text that AI models chew through to produce their outputs \u2014 are being consumed at a rate that has caught finance teams [&hellip;]<\/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-1013126","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\/1013126","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=1013126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013145,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013126\/revisions\/1013145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}