Ed Zitron declares victory after Uber’s COO Andrew McDonald admitted that AI costs are becoming impossible to justify, confirming Zitron’s years-long argument that AI’s economic model is fundamentally broken. The moment companies pay real token costs instead of subsidized access, the lack
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