Overview
- OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger showed a 30‑day OpenAI API bill of $1.305 million for about 7.6 million requests and 603 billion tokens, which OpenAI covered, and he said turning off Codex fast mode would have cut raw API costs to roughly $300,000.
- OpenClaw runs many autonomous coding agents that review pull requests, scan for security flaws, merge fixes, de‑dupe GitHub issues, monitor performance, and even listen to meetings to open pull requests, illustrating how “agent farms” can burn through tokens, the unit used to meter and bill AI model usage.
- China Mobile’s Shanghai unit launched a token service that offers 400,000 tokens for 1 yuan with one account across models and phone‑bill payment, signaling carriers want to sell token access as a consumer utility.
- Lenovo released Tianxi AI 4.0 with a local ‘Claw’ agent that stores multimodal memory on‑device and a marketplace for models and skills, and it introduced compact AI hosts that run agents locally with up to 190 TOPS and 128K context windows.
- Industry revenue keeps concentrating at the top as The Information reported OpenAI and Anthropic account for about 89% of annualized sales among 34 AI firms, and a California jury’s dismissal of Elon Musk’s lawsuit on statute‑of‑limitations grounds removes a legal overhang for OpenAI’s expected listing.