{"id":28804,"date":"2026-07-28T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=28804"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:02:59","slug":"ai-tokens-make-headlines-at-last-and-could-be-used-to-rein-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/28\/ai-tokens-make-headlines-at-last-and-could-be-used-to-rein-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;AI Tokens&#8217; make headlines at last &#8211; and could be used to rein in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is an AI token? Something that could potentially be taxed. Here&#8217;s how it works\u2026<\/p>\n<p>First, a quick definition: an AI token is a basic piece of text, such as a single word, part of a word, or punctuation mark, that a language model reads. As a general rule in English, one token can be anywhere from a four characters or three-quarters of a word.<\/p>\n<p>NPR: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/planet-money\/2026\/07\/28\/g-s1-135475\/ai-tokens-could-become-the-kilowatt-hour-of-the-ai-age\">AI tokens could become the kilowatt-hour of the AI age<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semafor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/07\/28\/2026\/token-diplomacy-how-china-is-shaping-the-worlds-ai-future\">China leverages &#8216;token diplomacy&#8217; to shape the world\u2019s AI future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottumwacourier.com\/news\/business\/workplaces-look-for-cheaper-ai-as-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-a-corporate-fad\/article_bee63cb3-58e8-5f9f-bdf1-3a6dda771f9c.html\">Workplaces look for cheaper AI as \u2018tokenmaxxing\u2019 fades as a corporate fad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tax the Tokens: <a href=\"https:\/\/taxthetokens.org\">Artificial intelligence is a <em>utility<\/em>. Tax it like one.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an AI token? Something that could potentially be taxed. Here&#8217;s how it works\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}