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<span class="">By <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold" href="/author/jose" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jose Antonio Lanz</a></span></span></span> <span class="">Edited by <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold " href="/author/guillermo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guillermo Jimenez</a></span></span></span> <span class="whitespace-nowrap">Oct 17, 2026Oct 17, 2026</span> Meta employees burned through 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days earlier this year, chasing spots on an internal leaderboard nicknamed "Claudeonomics." Tech columnist Gergely Orosz <a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-tokenmaxxing-as-a-weird-new-trend/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>estimated the tab</a> at roughly $900 million at Anthropic's list prices, though Meta likely pays far less. Bain & Company consultant Jue Wang sees a quieter version of that waste everywhere: "So many companies, so many users, default to using Opus for everything, including generating emails," she <a href="https://wtop.com/news/2026/07/a-flex-in-corporate-america-ai-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-workplaces-look-to-cut-tech-spending/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>told the Associated Press</a> this summer, referring to Anthropic's high-end models. If you do the same thing, you're hiring Albert Einstein to calculate your change at a MacDonald’s. Every word you type into ChatGPT or Claude, and every word it writes back, is metered in <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>tokens</a>, chunks of text that average about three-quarters of a word. On a $20 subscription that meter decides how fast you hit your usage limit. On the API, the pay-per-token access developers use to plug models into their own apps, it decides the bill. Here's Anthropic's current <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>price list</a>, per million tokens: Haiku's rate applies to prompts under 100,000 tokens; longer prompts cost five times as much. The top model costs 100 times more than the smallest, and OpenAI's <a href="https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>own lineup</a> runs the same spread, from $10 to $0.10 per million input tokens. Those per-token prices add up fast for the labs—and you: Anthropic's revenue run rate went from about $9 billion at the end of 2025 to more than <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/29/anthropic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>$47 billion</a> by May, while OpenAI is fighting a <a href="https://decry
Over the past 4 hours, active buy trades accounted for 51.33% of ETH futures contract volume.
CoinWorld data: Over the most recent 4 complete hours, the taker buy share of ETHUSDT perpetual contract trades was 51.33%, while the taker sell share was 48.67%, with taker buying prevailing. Compared with the same-methodology snapshot 24 hours earlier, it fell by 1.3487 percentage points; compared with the same-methodology snapshot 7 days earlier, it fell by 0.126 percentage points.
China's GDP grew 4.5% year-on-year in the third quarter.
According to Bijie.com news, China's GDP grew by 4.5% year-on-year in the third quarter, and by 4.6% year-on-year in the first three quarters. In September, total retail sales of consumer goods grew by 1.1% year-on-year, 0.7 percentage points faster than the previous month, and rose 3.9% after excluding the drag from automobiles. In September, the year-on-year growth rate of value-added of industrial enterprises above designated size rebounded to 5.5%, with output of industrial robots and integrated circuits both increasing by more than 18%. From January to September, urban fixed-asset investment fell by 7.2%, while information services grew by 20.2%. From January to September, real estate development investment fell by 20.6% year-on-year, and sales of newly built commercial housing fell by 13.9% year-on-year. September home prices in 70 cities: month-on-month gains in second-hand home prices in first-tier cities widened, new home prices continued to rise month-on-month, and month-on-month declines in second- and third-tier cities generally narrowed.
BTC saw a net capital inflow of 942.6673 BTC over the past 24 hours.
BiJie.com data: BTC saw inflows of 7,197.3952 BTC and outflows of 6,254.7279 BTC over the past 24 hours, for a net inflow of 942.6673 BTC. This figure comes from the rolling 24-hour calculation of the same BTC fund distribution interface, with the net amount calculated as inflows minus outflows. It does not represent exchange net inflows, on-chain exchange flows, or institutional fund flows, and should not be conflated with deposit/withdrawal data from any single exchange. Compared with the same-calculation snapshot 24 hours ago, it is up 271.45%; compared with the same-calculation snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 60.07%.
The VIX volatility index stands at 19.99 points.
CoinWorld US stock market data: The VIX volatility index closed at 19.99 points. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 4.78 points.
Over the past 4 hours, active buy trades accounted for 51.21% of BTC contract volume.
CoinWorld data: Over the most recent 4 complete hours, the taker buy volume share of the BTCUSDT perpetual contract was 51.21%, while the taker sell share was 48.79%, with taker buying prevailing. Compared with the same-methodology snapshot 24 hours earlier, it decreased by 5.7575 percentage points; compared with the same-methodology snapshot 7 days earlier, it increased by 1.9704 percentage points.
Doubao refutes claim that "half of China's computing power is used to make short dramas": ByteDance uses only about 10% of its computing power for video generation.
Bijiè Network News: Liu Xing, head of public relations for Doubao, publicly questioned the claim that "more than half of China's AI computing power is being used to create short dramas," saying the relevant data is "somewhat unreliable." He revealed that only about 10% of ByteDance's total computing power is used for the training and inference of video generation models, and this proportion also includes model research and development, not all of it being used to produce short dramas. The controversy stems from an investor communication record disclosed by Chinese Online in June this year, which stated that 55% of domestic AI token consumption comes from short dramas and video generation, 24% is used for e-commerce marketing, and software development accounts for only 15%. This set of data has recently been resurfaced and, after being spread by the media, evolved into "half of China's computing power is creating short dramas," even giving rise to discussions such as "the United States builds the future, China builds short dramas." However, Chinese Online did not specify the original statistical agency, sample scope, or calculation method for this nationwide data. More importantly, token consumption is not equal to actual computing power consumption, and video generation is not entirely short dramas.
BTC had $63.824 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours.
CoinWorld data: BTC liquidations over the past 24 hours totaled approximately $63.824 million on a rolling basis, involving about 3,808 liquidated accounts. This represents a 121.52% increase compared with the same-metric snapshot 24 hours earlier, and a 53.1% increase compared with the same-metric snapshot 7 days earlier.
Cysic suspends bridging after attackers mint tokens and transfer $727,000 to Ethereum.
Cysic has announced the suspension of its bridging service after an attacker minted tokens and transferred approximately $727,000 to Ethereum, according to a report by Bijie.
The long-to-short account ratio for BTC contracts (October 19, 2026, 12:00) is 1.55.
CoinWorld data: The BTCUSDT 4-hour long-short account ratio is 1.55, with more net long accounts than net short accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is down 0.1789; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 0.1734.