Touchmark launched a futures-style market where companies can prepay for AI inference capacity as tradable token contracts tied to delivery windows. The platform offers discounts of up to 30% for tokens covering September based on prepaid timing. Buyers get standardized forward pricing and delivery through an API contract system, while providers can sell capacity months ahead instead of relying on private one-off deals.
OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices on new model releases as customers shift to lower-cost Chinese AI rivals. OpenAI slashed prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent. More companies will move to cheaper options to control rising AI spending, increasing competitive pressure from Chinese labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek.
Hyperscalers including Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are building large natural-gas power plants to supply their AI data centers, and a research report warns that this could expose them to higher gas price risk. Natural gas prices could triple in some U.S. hubs, with Noreva forecasting levels above $10 per million BTUs versus roughly $2 to $4.50 now. If that happens, data-center operating costs and token costs could rise, or hyperscalers may shift more load to the electricity grid, pushing up electricity prices.
The article argues that the AI funding “bubble” is unlikely to burst soon because AI factory bottlenecks in areas like memory, packaging, networking, power, and site readiness keep tightening. It says these constraints won’t ease before at least 2028. As a result, deployment slows, price discovery gets delayed, and the market’s ability to judge whether overbuilding happened is postponed.
Anthropic is approaching its IPO valuation goal of $2 trillion without yet having net income. The article estimates Anthropic would need annual profits of about $59 billion to $79 billion to match common Nasdaq 100 valuation multiples. As a result, the valuation gap highlights a need for substantial future earnings rather than near-term fundamentals.
Anthropic is preparing for an IPO targeted for October at a valuation of $2 trillion or higher while investors scrutinize whether it can justify the price without being profitable yet. The article says a $2 trillion valuation would require roughly $59 billion to $79 billion in annual net income to match typical public-market earnings multiples. As a result, the focus shifts to when Anthropic can reach net profitability (not just operating profit) and how it secures compute costs, with the timing also affecting how OpenAI is valued against a live competitor.
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, a Flash-line model aimed at enterprise coding, agent workflows, and document processing. Until December 31, 2026 it is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, with a planned doubling of list prices to $1.50 and $7.50 on January 1, 2027 and retroactive discounts for Gemini 3.6 Flash. As a result, API costs for Flash usage drop through year-end, while evaluations continue to show mixed benchmark performance versus rivals.
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