AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee 'tokenmaxxing' backfires — agentic AI eats up to 1000x more tokens than standard AI, sparks corporate pullback at Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

Agentic AI is consuming so many tokens that it's draining AI budgets way faster than expected. Jevons Paradox rings true 161 years after it was coined.

Source: Tom's Hardware — read the full report at the original publisher.

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