{"id":222938,"date":"2026-05-30T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/firms-spent-heavily-on-ai-now-rising-costs-are-outpacing-its-value\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:00:19","slug":"firms-spent-heavily-on-ai-now-rising-costs-are-outpacing-its-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/firms-spent-heavily-on-ai-now-rising-costs-are-outpacing-its-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms spent heavily on AI. Now rising costs are outpacing its value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3355439\/firms-spent-heavily-ai-now-rising-costs-are-outpacing-its-value\">Firms spent heavily on AI. Now rising costs are outpacing its value<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3355439\/firms-spent-heavily-ai-now-rising-costs-are-outpacing-its-value\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3355439\/firms-spent-heavily-ai-now-rising-costs-are-outpacing-its-value<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 23:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the article using an unordered list with 6 key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; AI companies initially charged low prices to attract customers using the &#8220;subsidised intelligence&#8221; model.<br \/>\n&#8211; Kevin Simback&#8217;s Delphi Labs describes this era as where investors subsidized the low costs for AI offerings.<br \/>\n&#8211; The financial climate is changing as major AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic plan to go public and seek new investors.<br \/>\n&#8211; As the industry matures, there is an increasing focus on profitability.<br \/>\n&#8211; Prices for AI services are rising due to the complexities and costs of operating AI agents, which can execute multiple tasks simultaneously.<br \/>\n&#8211; AI agents, unlike simple chatbots, involve significant operational costs due to the number of agents working concurrently to complete tasks.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firms spent heavily on AI. Now rising costs are outpacing its value https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3355439\/firms-spent-heavily-ai-now-rising-costs-are-outpacing-its-value Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/31\/2f08dbb9-cc38-44da-93f1-7215a8d5bbb9_ce59741c.jpg?itok=_3vDEGW1&v=1780197075","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222940,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222938\/revisions\/222940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}