Out-of-Control AI Spending: Uber, Meta, and the Token Crisis in 2026

Uber burned through $3.4B in AI tokens before summer. One Meta user consumed 281 billion tokens in a single month. Artificial intelligence spending is out of control, and 85% of companies don’t even know how much they’re actually spending.

In this episode, we analyze why AI bills keep rising even as the price per token falls, what tokenmaxxing is and how it’s quietly destroying budgets, and the three levers the most efficient companies are already using to cut costs by up to 86% without sacrificing quality: prompt caching, intelligent routing, and real governance. The data comes from the FinOps Foundation, PwC, Deloitte, and real-world cases from 2025–2026.

The race isn’t about who spends the most on AI, but who spends the smartest. If your company already uses language models in production, this episode is for you. Subscribe so you don’t miss upcoming episodes, and hit like if you found the content useful.

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