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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
Jinshi Data compilation: Summary of important news on Sunday.
Biji.com news, compiled by: Summary of important news on Sunday. Domestic news: 1. A number of leading A-share companies, including Montage Technology, collectively took action to buy back shares. 2. Several Nasdaq ETFs and global chip LOFs issued suspension announcements. 3. Deepseek disclosed its API web search and crawling fees: 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests. International news: 1. Large-scale protests occurred in many places in France. 2. The support rate for the Takaichi cabinet fell below 50% for the first time. 3. South Korean media: Samsung will use TSMC technology to produce next-generation memory chips for Nvidia. 4. Middle East situation—① Iran's parliament approved Akhlaghi as the new defense minister. ② Iran's new defense minister responded to Trump's "mother of all bombs" threat: just see how many US soldiers will be carried out of the region horizontally. ③ Iran's foreign minister: the plan to "reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 7 days" remains valid. ④ Iran: response plans have been formulated for possible new "adventurist acts." ⑤ Trump supports Netanyahu in running for re-election as Israel's prime minister.
The spread between US 10-year and 2-year Treasury yields stands at 35 basis points.
BiJie.com US stock market data: The spread between the 10-year and 2-year US Treasury yields is 35 basis points, and the yield curve has a positive slope. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours earlier, it is unchanged.
Meta faces $145 billion AI spending test as Wall Street expects 6% stock swing
Meta Platforms will report its third-quarter earnings on October 21, facing the test of $145 billion in artificial intelligence spending. Wall Street expects the company's third-quarter revenue to be about $63.3 billion, with analysts paying increased attention to its advertising performance and return on AI investment. Options traders expect Meta's stock price to potentially swing 6% after the earnings release, equivalent to a move of about $42 up or down from Friday's closing price of $709.33. Meta's capital expenditures are expected to reach $130 billion to $145 billion in 2026, covering AI infrastructure and existing businesses. Although Meta achieved revenue of $60.8 billion in the second quarter, up 28% year-over-year, investors are still watching whether it can offset rising infrastructure and personnel costs through higher advertising revenue and operating profit.
Michael Intrator: From natural gas trading to CoreWeave, backed by $104 billion in AI contracts
CoinWorld news: Michael Intrator transitioned from natural gas trading to become CEO of CoreWeave, a company that currently holds approximately $104 billion in AI contract backlog. CoreWeave is one of the largest specialized AI cloud companies in the United States, focusing on providing computing infrastructure to major AI developers. Despite the massive borrowing obligations brought about by the company's rapid expansion, its revenue reached $2.58 billion in the second quarter of 2026, a year-over-year increase of 112%. CoreWeave's business model relies on long-term customer agreements and financing to meet growing computing demand.
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is at 5.1%.
CoinWorld US stock market data: The latest daily reading of the US 10-year Treasury yield is 5.1%. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is unchanged.
Fuel prices in Ukraine rose 46.2% over the year.
According to CoinWorld news, fuel prices in Ukraine rose 46.2% within a year. Ukraine's State Statistics Service stated that in September, prices of fuel and petroleum lubricants in Ukraine increased by 46.2% compared with the same period in 2025. A fact sheet from Ukraine's State Statistics Service showed: "Consumer prices for goods and services have changed; compared with September 2025, prices of fuel and petroleum lubricants rose 46.2% in September 2026." The agency said that compared with September 2025, prices of transportation services also increased. For example, road transport costs rose 41.7%.
Stablecoin payment volume grew 45% to reach $482 billion.
Crypto news data: Allium data shows that despite stagnant stablecoin supply, stablecoin payment volume grew 45% this year to $482 billion, driven by payment giants such as Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe.
The US $10 trillion AI infrastructure faces major challenges.
According to a report by Bijie, a recent Financial Times investigation shows that building AI infrastructure in the United States may require nearly $10 trillion, but at least 47 data center projects face delays, withdrawals, or being blocked in 2026. Analysts estimate that only about 35% of development plans are credible, raising concerns about the billions of dollars in investment promised for data centers that fail to be completed on schedule. Building AI data centers is not just about purchasing NVIDIA GPUs; it also requires securing land, power, transformers, cooling equipment, regulatory permits, and sufficient financing.
The U.S. 2-year Treasury yield is at 4.77%.
CoinWorld US stock market data: The latest daily reading of the US 2-year Treasury yield is 4.77%. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is unchanged; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 0.02 percentage points.