{"id":3975,"date":"2026-07-01T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/podcast-the-ai-tokenpocalypse-is-here\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:40:59","slug":"podcast-the-ai-tokenpocalypse-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/podcast-the-ai-tokenpocalypse-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We start this week with Joseph\u2019s story about the Tokenpocalypse, which is companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI after providers started charging per AI token. After the break, Joseph and Emanuel tell us about the ways companies are trying to do this, including using a tool to make their LLMs talk like cavemen. In the subscribers-only section, Emanuel explains how entirely fake AI-generated flowers are all over eBay, Etsy, and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the weekly podcast on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Spotify, or\u00a0YouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode&#8217;s bonus content and to power our journalism.\u00a0If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player. \u2060The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI\u2060\u2060Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop\u2060\u2060AI\u2019s Soaring Costs\u2060\u2060Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don\u2019t Exist\u2060<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>How companies are burning through their AI tokens; and the fake AI-generated flowers all over Etsy, eBay, and Amazon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-and-ml","category-podcast","tag-ai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here - Imperative Business Ventures Limited<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/podcast-the-ai-tokenpocalypse-is-here\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here - Imperative Business Ventures Limited\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How companies are burning through their AI tokens; 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