{"id":710845,"date":"2026-06-02T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710845\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:00:10","slug":"australian-businesses-face-ai-budget-blowouts-as-tokenomics-prices-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710845\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian businesses face AI budget blowouts as \u2018tokenomics\u2019 prices surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPssst. Do you want a taste? Just try it, the first few hits are free \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very telling that even before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/afrlive\/ai-summit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian Financial Review AI Summit<\/a> kicked off on Tuesday, two ASX 200 executives had jokingly compared artificial intelligence giants to drug dealers \u2013 having hooked their customers on low or even no-cost AI services, they are now hiking prices as usage of tokens, the little bits of data that power AI models, explodes.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPssst. Do you want a taste? Just try it, the first few hits are free \u2026\u201d It\u2019s very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-710845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}