• AI token costs are becoming a meme.  Here's why that's a good thing.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's not.  I mean, not unless for the AI companies, and not for anyone else unless it pops the bubble, and not even then as trillions of dollars of virtual money suddenly disappearing would cause a certain amount of drama.

  Despite that, Altman projects that AI token usage will continue to increase.  He said that six-and-a-half years ago, the top token spender at the startup used 100,000 tokens a month - today, that is the global per capita average token usage, and that OpenAI’s token leader uses about 100 billion a month.  The OpenAI chief also admitted, to his own embarrassment, that someone else uses even more. So, if token usage were to grow linearly, then he would expect the global per capita token usage to hit 100 billion monthly.

  Somehow I don't think that will happen.  At OpenAI's current rates, that would cost the average user over a million dollars a month and provide the company with a quadrillion dollars in monthly revenue.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Everything new is old again: DDR4 is back on the menu.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I'm thinking of picking up a 5800X3D because I have plenty of DDR4 and the larger cache on that chip helps hide the lower bandwidth.
  
  In addition to production of DDR4 modules restarting, CPUs using DDR4 have resumed production - or, from Intel, never stopped - and fresh motherboards are rolling out of factories.
  
  
  
• There is now - or soon will be - a 12,060 piece Lego model of the Sagrada Familia.  (Lego)
  
  Available to pre-order now; shipping in November.  $799.
  
  
  
• The UN suffered a breach that revealed the household details of 600,000 welfare recipient families.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  In Gaza.
  
  
  
• Alphabet - Google's parent company - just raise $85 billion for its AI division.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Google made $110 billion in profit last year, and it's still not self-funding its AI plans.
  
  
  

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