12 stories tagged ai-economics, newest first.
62 points by ianand | 62 comments
Venkatesh Rao essay arguing that AI panic resembles mercantilist thinking before capitalism, drawing on Joyce Appleby's history of capitalism to frame intelligence as abundant.
5 points by levzettelin | 1 comments
Business Insider article on an Apollo economic analysis by Torsten Slok arguing AI has delivered no financial payoff to companies outside the tech sector.
365 points by minimaxir | 347 comments
Blog post by Max Woolf tracing a 2026 timeline of OpenAI and Anthropic LLM price cuts and analyzing why, citing competition from cheap open-weight models.
501 points by the-mitr | 557 comments
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok's Daily Spark note with charts arguing AI has shown no revenue, margin, or productivity payoff outside the Mag 7 tech firms.
579 points by ex-aws-dude | 629 comments
Ask HN thread asking why AI labs like OpenAI sell model tokens instead of building many companies themselves on top of their models.
36 points by Luc | 15 comments
A 404 Media article by Jason Koebler examining Character.ai's bankruptcy filings and what they reveal about the unsustainable economics of AI companies.
114 points by keeda | 60 comments
Blog post about reverse engineering and modernising the old war game War of the Lance with AI, and what it suggests about the economic impact of transformers.
326 points by teoruiz | 214 comments
Blog post on jyn.dev arguing LLM token prices are falling by orders of magnitude, so quality and access, not token cost, will limit AI use.
641 points by martinald | 412 comments
Blog post by Martin Alderson, first of a two-part series arguing that open models like GLM 5.2 will drive a collapse in AI provider margins.
472 points by martinald | 438 comments
Blog post by Martin Alderson doing napkin-math estimates of whether OpenAI and Anthropic actually lose money serving LLM inference at scale.
356 points by Dachande663 | 204 comments
Blog post by Utkarsh Kanwat arguing that the hype around fully autonomous AI agents is unrealistic and describing what actually works in production agent systems.
529 points by meetpateltech | 214 comments
Anthropic announcement introducing the Anthropic Economic Index, a research effort measuring how AI like Claude is used across economic tasks and occupations.