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World’s Top 2% #Scientists | #Stanford / #Elsevier 2026

Career-long & single-year citation impact | 2025 data.

https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.9

#Top2Scientists #AIEconomics #DigitalCitizenship #AnticipatoryGovernance #SocialSciences

🧐 Ah yes, the classic saga: "Everything's getting cheaper, but investors still want their money back!" 🤷‍♂️ It's a riveting read on AI economics for those who enjoy pondering the Jevons Paradox while sipping overpriced lattes. ☕️💸
https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/ #AIeconomics #JevonsParadox #InvestmentTrends #OverpricedLattes #EconomicSaga #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, the irony! 🤡 A deep dive into AI economics, but first, we're asked to master the #microeconomics of web browsing. 📉 Because nothing says "cutting-edge technology" like struggling with #cookies and #JavaScript. 🍪🔧
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6067/The-Microeconomics-of-Artificial-Intelligence #AIeconomics #WebBrowsing #HackerNews #ngated

Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6 Sol on capability benchmarks while undercutting it by 42% per task. The trade: costs rose versus Meta's prior version after token consumption increased. Competitive pressure on pricing continues. https://www.implicator.ai/meta-muse-spark-1-3-cost-per-task/ #AI #LLMs #AIEconomics

A Skeptical Look at Elon Musk’s AI Utopia

Our tech overlords tell us that artificial intelligence will soon create a world of abundance while solving our major…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIeconomics #AIhallucinations #ArtificialIntelligence #CA #Canada #DataCenters #ElonMusk #Largelanguagemodels #StarTrek #surveillance #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/830218/

https://www.europesays.com/people/168080/ A Skeptical Look at Elon Musk’s AI Utopia #AI #AIEconomics #AIHallucinations #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #ElonMusk #LargeLanguageModels #Musk #StarTrek #surveillance #Technology

After SAP’s AI Reorg, Hiring and Travel Face New Scrutiny

SAP’s AI strategy is now reaching the company’s operating budget. ERP Today reported on July 1 that SAP…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #SAP #agenticAIcosts #AIbudgetdiscipline #AIeconomics #AIhiringstrategy #AutonomousSuite #cloudERPstrategy #ERPleadershipreorganization #ERPToday #JouleWork #sap #SAPBusinessAIPlatform #SAPSapphire2026 #travelandsupplierspending
https://www.europesays.com/germany/48228/

@nixCraft I bet some AI bros see soaring prices as a side bonus, given that users dealing with increasingly narrow hardware constraints might be pushed to make a heavier use of cloud computing power even for trivial activities.

The higher the barriers to access to good hardware are, the more power is wielded by those who control data centers. And there is always going to be enough funding for building more data centers. #AIeconomics

"4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit. Goldman Sachs builds an altar to Benjamin in their lobby and cuts out the heart of a junior analyst on it every Friday. They call it “Blood Sacrifice Friday.” The name isn’t catchy, but the event becomes a management favorite nonetheless."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

#AI #GenerativeAI #PonziScheme #AIBubble #AIEconomics

Linux Foundation launches Tokenomicon conference focused on AI economics

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/linux-foundation-tokenomicon-ai-economics/

Linux Foundation launches Tokenomicon conference focused on AI economics

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/linux-foundation-tokenomicon-ai-economics/

Corporate America is waking up to the eye-watering cost of AI after companies burned hundreds of millions in token spend with little to show for it. One client reportedly spent 500M USD in a single month with no usage limits. Meta and Amazon have already scrapped internal leaderboards after staff were giving AI agents pointless tasks just to climb the ranks. https://gizmodo.com/companies-are-getting-burned-by-burning-tons-of-tokens-2000765232 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEconomics

https://www.europesays.com/people/91866/ The Job Apocalypse Sam Altman And Dario Amodei Warned About Never Came #AIAutomation #AIEconomics #DarioAmodei #JobApocalypse #JobDisruption #JobLayoffs #LaborMarket #layoffs #SamAltman #WhiteCollarApocalypse

AI is driving productivity gains and massive investment, but rising layoffs and shrinking labor share raise deeper economic questions. https://hackernoon.com/the-ai-productivity-paradox-nobody-wants-to-price-in #aieconomics

Agentic AI is reshaping the classic buy or build decision. Not by replacing SaaS across the board, but by shifting the economics and governance of building software. The real change is hybrid: owning code while depending on external AI infrastructure. #agenticai #enterprisesoftware #aieconomics

The Buy-or-Build Decision, Rev...

Agentic AI is reshaping the classic buy or build decision. Not by replacing SaaS across the board, but by shifting the economics and governance of building software. The real change is hybrid: owning code while depending on external AI infrastructure. Make becomes viable for commodity tools and differentiating layers, while regulated core systems remain in the buy domain.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26482v1

#AgenticAI #EnterpriseSoftware #BuildVsBuy #AIeconomics

“When the bill arrives, the industry may discover that the storm was not intelligence. It was arithmetic.” 3/3 www.pootlepress.com/2026/04/ai-t... #aiEconomics

AI, Tokens, and the Gathering ...

Ah, the age-old tale 🎭: AI economics are ludicrous! Yet, let's humorously pay $70 a year for a novella-length newsletter to tell us why 🤡. Because nothing says "insightful analysis" like a word count that rivals War and Peace 📚.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/ #AIeconomics #HumorNewsletter #InsightfulAnalysis #WarAndPeace #NovellaLength #HackerNews #ngated

Chinese AI companies spent two years giving away models as loss leaders. Now AI agents have created the monetization opportunity they were waiting for. Zhipu raised API prices 83% in Q1 2026 while call volumes jumped 400%. Demand appears increasingly price-insensitive as agents run overnight workflows.

#AIEconomics #OpenSource #AIAgents

https://www.implicator.ai/china-gave-away-its-best-ai-models-agents-made-the-giveaway-profitable/

Google's Gemma 4 trails Claude Opus and GPT models by 7-10 benchmark points but runs locally at 15-40x lower cost. A Munich startup processes the same regulatory work as their API-using competitor for electricity costs alone on a $900 GPU. The economics may matter more than the performance gap for routine tasks. #OpenSource #AIEconomics #LocalAI

https://www.implicator.ai/gemma-4-cant-match-opus-or-chatgpt-that-stopped-mattering-for-most-ai-workloads/

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing attack data through their Frontier Model Forum to counter Chinese labs using fraudulent queries for AI distillation. Anthropic found 16 million fake exchanges from three Chinese companies alone. With Chinese models now 14x cheaper and surpassing US models in global API volume, the economics may favor attackers despite these defenses. #AI #cybersecurity #AIeconomics

https://www.implicator.ai/openai-anthropic-google-share-attack-data-to-counter-chinese-ai-distillation/

OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation in largest private round ever, with individual investors accessing shares through ARK ETFs for the first time. Amazon's $35B stake hinges on IPO conditions. Meanwhile Oracle fires thousands via 6AM emails to fund $50B in AI data centers, stock up 6%. Capital floods up, workers flow out.

#AI #TechFunding #AIEconomics

https://www.implicator.ai/122-billion-in-thousands-out/

Anthropic began throttling Claude subscribers during peak hours without notice, despite knowing the economics don't work. A $20/month user generates ~$58 in inference costs, with power users burning far more. The company acknowledged some subscribers consume "tens of thousands of dollars" against flat-rate plans. Echoes AOL's 1996 unlimited access crisis that ended in regulatory settlement.

#AIEconomics #LLMPricing #TechPolicy

https://www.implicator.ai/opinion-anthropic-knew-the-math-it-sold-the-tickets-anyway/

AI Productivity Gains: A Catalyst for Interest Rate Cuts?

Will AI productivity boost the economy enough for lower interest rates by 2025? A former Fed pick thinks so, but others are unsure.

#AIEconomics, #InterestRates, #ProductivityGrowth, #FederalReserve, #EconomicPolicy

https://newsletter.tf/ai-productivity-gains-lower-interest-rates-2025/

Experts believe AI could increase productivity by 25% by 2025, potentially leading to lower interest rates. This is a big change from current trends.

#AIEconomics, #InterestRates, #ProductivityGrowth, #FederalReserve, #EconomicPolicy

https://newsletter.tf/ai-productivity-gains-lower-interest-rates-2025/

Global Investigation into Satellite Data and AI Use for Economic and Environmental Monitoring

See how new satellite and AI tools reveal hidden fishing and city growth, showing more global activity than official reports claim.

#SatelliteData, #AIEconomics, #HiddenEconomy, #GlobalMonitoring, #EnvironmentalData

https://newsletter.tf/how-satellite-data-and-ai-show-more-global-activity-than-official-reports/

New AI and satellite tools show that about 75% of industrial fishing boats are not tracked, much more than previously thought.

#SatelliteData, #AIEconomics, #HiddenEconomy, #GlobalMonitoring, #EnvironmentalData

https://newsletter.tf/how-satellite-data-and-ai-show-more-global-activity-than-official-reports/

Anthropic's new $3 Sonnet 4.6 model outperformed its $15 Opus flagship on enterprise benchmarks within two weeks of Opus launch. On office tasks, Sonnet scored 1633 vs Opus at 1606. The pricing premium for AI capabilities appears to be compressing faster than expected, with potential implications for enterprise AI economics.

https://www.implicator.ai/anthropics-3-model-matched-its-15-flagship-the-spread-collapsed/

#AIModels #EnterpriseAI #AIEconomics

SpaceX absorbed xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal without shareholder approval, as Musk controlled both sides of the negotiation. Existing SpaceX investors now own stakes in an AI subsidiary they never chose to back. Meanwhile, software stocks posted worst month since 2008 amid concerns about AI displacement. #TechMergers #AIEconomics #CorporateGovernance

https://www.implicator.ai/musk-negotiates-with-musk-software-bleeds-out/

META

Being graded by AI on the subject of AI. 😅

#AIGovernance #aieconomics #aiteachers

New #Book just arrived!

#DatafiedDemocracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged: #TechnoPolitics in #SmartCities & Datafied #NetworkStates

https://link.springer.com/book/9783032118875

Economía de modelos AI: caída de costos de 280x desde finales de 2022.

Workload que costaba $100 → ahora $0.36

Implicaciones:
• Casos de uso previamente inviables ahora son rentables
• Automatización a escala accesible para startups
• ROI positivo en más aplicaciones enterprise

La barrera ya no es técnica, es de implementación.

#AIEconomics #MachineLearning

🚀 New #ActionResearch published update!

My article on #AIEconomics, #Web3 & #SocialInnovation in the #GlobalSouth has passed 1,000 views in <1 month 🎉

Reframing #AI beyond tech—toward justice, participation & inclusion

📖 #OpenAccess: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-2688/6/12/309#metrics
#DataSovereignty

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/12/23/softbank-liquidates-assets-to-meeet-22-5b-openai-payment-deadline-xcxwbn/

SoftBank Liquidates Assets to Meet $22.5B OpenAI Payment Deadline

#AI #SoftBank #OpenAI #ArmHoldings #AIInfrastructure #StargateProject #Investments #DataCenters #AIEconomics #AIFinancing

Datafied Democracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged #book by @SpringerNature will be broadly presented in #AAG2026 in #SanFrancisco #SiliconValley #California 17-21 March 2026 @theAAG #AuthorMeetsCritics

#Preorder https://link.springer.com/book/9783032118875

Proofs submitted!

My new #book Datafied Democracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged @springernature_ct is forthcoming by 1/1/2026 🚀

Explore how AI, data governance, and #technopolitics are reshaping democracy and political economy

📘 Preorder:

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#AI #Web3

🚨NEW ARTICLE OUT!

Decentralizing #AIEconomics for #Poverty Alleviation in #AI #journal #IF 5.0 #CiteScore 6.9

Exploring how #Web3 #DataCooperatives can support fairer AI-driven development in the #GlobalSouth #Decentralization #AI #SDGs #OpenAccess

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-2688/6/12/309

My article “Decentralizing #AIEconomics for #Poverty Alleviation” has been accepted in #AI #journal — #IF 5.0, #CiteScore 6.9.

Exploring how #Web3, #DataCooperatives, and new governance models can support fairer AI-driven development in the #GlobalSouth.

#StayTuned #Forthcoming

Nothing is given: China’s open-source AI tsunami

Innovation never follows a script. It acceler…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIEconomics #Alibaba #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #Block3 #chainofthought #ChinaAI #ChinaAILeadership #claude #cursor #DeepSeek #GenInnov #Google #JensenHuang #KimiAI #Largelanguagemodels #MINIMAX #mistral #MixtureofExpertsAI #Moonshot #OpenAI #QwenSparseGating #SocialCapital #Technology #Tencent #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/256694/

Nothing is given: China’s open-source AI tsunami

Innovation never follows a script. It accelerates…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIEconomics #Alibaba #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #Block1 #chainofthought #ChinaAI #ChinaAILeadership #Claude #cursor #DeepSeek #GenInnov #Google #JensenHuang #KimiAI #Largelanguagemodels #MINIMAX #mistral #MixtureofExpertsAI #Moonshot #OpenAI #QwenSparseGating #socialcapital #Technology #Tencent
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/275184/