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Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap

1 sources2 storiesFirst seen 4/17/2026Score45Mixed Progress
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20
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99
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47
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60
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North America

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TechCrunch - AI

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The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it.

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While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release publicly …but apparently not too […]

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Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?.

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