Moh
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Moh
@moh_moneys
finance advocate (all thoughts and comments are my own, this is not investment advice)


🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗





🇮🇷/🇨🇳/🇺🇸 Iran has started to allow Chinese ships to pass the Strait of Hormuz after paying tolls In China, where the FM said they reject the concept of tolls, the fee is being framed as a fee for ‘environmental and logistical upkeeping costs’. By allowing Chinese ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has effectively neutralized the leverage that Trump held over China during his visit. Trump planned to pressure Iran, with the help of China, to open the Strait. But now that Chinese vessels are transiting freely, China won’t feel the need to be on board with this pressure. -MES, TASS












The imperial scribes are circling the wagons










