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TechCrunch · FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2026

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

OpenAI is spending money to make tokens, which makes people anxious about tokens, which OpenAI monitors via spending. File under: recursive billing. Our filing cabinet has filed itself.
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