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Why AI Subscriptions Are About to Break (Tokenomics Explained)
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- May 5, 2026
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Summary
Why are AI subscriptions about to break? This week's AI podcast unpacks tokenomics, the gym-membership flaw in ChatGPT and Claude pricing, and what happens when AI agents start running 50,000 queries a minute instead of one human at a time. Plus Huawei's 7nm chip independence, the Musk vs Altman trial, and what Meta's Indiana data center should look like if big tech borrowed the solar industry's community-benefit playbook. Key topics covered: AI tokenomics and why subscription pricing collapses under agentic workloads Huawei 7nm chips running DeepSeek and Kimi K2 outside U.S. control Open-source vs closed-weights vs closed AI models, in plain English The Musk vs Altman OpenAI trial and the $151 billion question Whether OpenAI ends up as a U.S. government arm of AI Alpha School, $100K teacher salaries, and AI in K-12 compensation Meta's Lebanon, Indiana data center and community-benefit agreements Bottom line: the AI economy is about to reprice itself, and the people who quietly benefit from that shift will not be the same people getting billed for it. About Julie Koehrer: On-Air Personality at Lafayette Q106.7. 15+ years in radio and broadcast. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/ Resources mentioned: OpenAI → https://openai.com Anthropic (Claude) → https://www.anthropic.com Huawei → https://www.huawei.com DeepSeek → https://www.deepseek.com Kimi K2 → https://www.moonshot.cn Alpha School → https://alpha.school Empire of AI by Karen Hao → https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780593657508/empireofai Work with Jason → [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletters (No Code CAIO) → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 (School's Out Notes from…