Agentic AI development today runs on token maxing: buying capability with tokens -- longer reasoning traces, more turns, wider tool payloads, bigger replayed contexts -- so tokens per task grow faster than task value. Falling per-token prices mask the pattern; total spend rises anyway.
arXiv:2607. 06906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI development today runs on token maxing: buying capability with tokens -- longer reasoning traces, more turns, wider tool payloads, bigger replayed contexts -- so tokens per task grow faster than task value.
By Muayad Sayed Ali, Aliaksandra Novik, Anji Boddupally, Artem Yavorskyi, Chris Nickerson, Daniel Rica, Emily DuGranrut, Felix Leung, Garrett Prince, Grace Barnett, Heath Robinson, Hosain Al Ahmad, Jesse Resnick, Juan Carlos Farah, Jyothi Swaroop Meruga, Leonid Kuznetsov, Luke Gorham, Marie Schmoll, Michael Paciullo, Saumya Das, Sharath Sheripally, Tommy Griscom, Mykyta Osadchyi, Neha Mantri, Nick Westrum, Olivia Benowitz, Parikshith Kulkarni, Radik Chernyshov, Rakshith Vasudev, Rohith Nadimpally, Vikas Gangadevi, Waseem AlShikh
Budgets for AI tokens can’t be infinite, no matter how much hyperscalers wish they were The post Drilling Into AI’s Financial Sustainability appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Stephanie Kirmer
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
arXiv:2606. 14769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems are increasingly being deployed as productive resources in organizational workflows, yet existing evaluation methods primarily measure isolated technical performance rather than economic contribution.
By Quanyan Zhu
arXiv:2606. 07632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proper accounting of the energy requirements and environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is necessary for researchers, developers, policy makers, and users to assess the barriers to building systems at scale.
By Jared Fernandez, Clara Na, Yonatan Bisk, Constantine Samaras, Emma Strubell
arXiv:2606. 08998v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic AI systems can behave differently across runs: the same request may produce a different plan, a different tool call, a different code edit, or a different final answer.
By Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal
arXiv:2606. 08998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems can behave differently across runs: the same request may produce a different plan, a different tool call, a different code edit, or a different final answer.
By Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal
arXiv:2606. 26118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We work towards measuring both AI adoption and the capability of AI to perform discrete labor tasks across various occupations.
By Seamus Somerstep, Aritra Guha, Divesh Srivastava, Yuekai Sun
arXiv:2608. 08528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI coding assistants incur substantial inference spend, and naive token-cost minimization often fails to reduce end-to-end cost once retries, escalations, and developer wait time are included.
By Srinivasan Manoharan, Junhua Zhao, Fangbo Tu, Haifeng Wu, Jian Wan, Maliah Rajan M, Ashwin Hegde, Mithun Sasidharan, Kalyan Chakravarthi Podamekala
arXiv:2606. 10660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI inference services -- API subscriptions, enterprise chat tools, and SaaS products with embedded AI features -- fall unambiguously within Scope 3 Category 1 under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires disclosure for fiscal years starting January 2024.
By Guillermo Llopis (SOMA AI, Barcelona)
arXiv:2606. 11215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) usage in recent years has become increasingly widespread in the Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) community.
By Sabrina C. Eimler, Lukas Erle, Daniel Flood, Aditi Haiman, Luca H\"ackert, Andr\'e Helgert, Lachlan McGinness, B\"usra Yapici