{"id":702077,"date":"2026-07-11T00:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702077"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:52:55","slug":"the-token-revolt-goes-mainstream-palo-alto-ceo-demands-90-ai-price-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702077","title":{"rendered":"The Token Revolt Goes Mainstream: Palo Alto CEO Demands 90% AI Price Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight days ago it was Palantir&#8217;s Alex Karp going ballistic on live television\u00a0about the &#8220;effing insane&#8221; economics of renting intelligence by the token.\u00a0<strong>On Thursday it was Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora&#8217;s turn<\/strong>, and while his delivery was calmer, his number was not: Arora told CNBC\u00a0that<strong>\u00a0AI token prices need to fall as much as 90%<\/strong>\u00a0before enterprise adoption can actually scale.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0<strong>the chief executive of one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world &#8211; that buys this stuff at industrial scale<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; telling the frontier labs, on their favorite network, that their pricing model is broken by roughly an order of magnitude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/ai\/token-revolt-goes-mainstream-palo-alto-ceo-demands-90-ai-price-collapse-meta-and-openai-reach\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/ai\/token-revolt-goes-mainstream-palo-alto-ceo-demands-90-ai-price-collapse-meta-and-openai-reach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight days ago it was Palantir&#8217;s Alex Karp going ballistic on live television\u00a0about the &#8220;effing insane&#8221; economics of renting intelligence by the token.\u00a0On Thursday it was Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora&#8217;s turn, and while his delivery was calmer, his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702077\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702080,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702077\/revisions\/702080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}