Companies that regularly use AI have begun tracking their workers’ token use, a new unit of measurement. AI output has turbocharged productivity, changing the nature of work, and the number of tokens burned is the new hot metric. Companies like ibl.ai, the parent house of the iblnews service, have launched a token counter. Every prompt generates computing resources, measured in tokens. For example, generating 750 words takes about 1,000 tokens. It gets more complicated when writing code, creating video and audio, or enlisting agents to perform elaborate, days-long tasks. Another example: Anthropic’s Claude Code to develop around 300,000 lines of code can cost $2,000 in tokens. The more work done, the more tokens are used. Token pricing has gone down, but costs can be higher for some newer sought-after models. Especially given the fact that most businesses are trying to get their employees to use AI. Sometimes, companies opt for pay-as-you-go plans or buy enterprise plans with a set amount of use per worker. “Companies need to start measuring token use,” said Brian Jabarian, a researcher with the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business who studies how new technologies reshape workplaces. Some tech startups have even started monitoring token use on a per-engineer basis. • Explaining Tokens — the Language and Currency of AI    

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Anthropic raced yesterday to contain the accidental leak of Claude Code’s underlying software instructions, which developers analyzed on GitHub. By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies, clones, and adaptations of the raw Claude Code shared on GitHub. When a developer de-obfuscated it and released the source code on GitHub, Anthropic filed a DMCA complaint — a copyright notification requesting the code’s removal. Developers on social media weren’t pleased by the move, which they said compared unfavorably with OpenAI’s rollout of Codex CLI. After the leak, developers reverse-engineered Claude Code, and competitors gained access to Anthropic’s feature roadmap and much of its software secrets. The leaked zip archive on Anthropic’s own cloud storage, containing the full source code, with nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, included dozens of feature flags for capabilities that appear fully built but haven’t shipped. One of the crown features of the code was a “persistent assistant” running in background mode that lets Claude keep working even when a user is idle.  

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