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What did Sam Altman say about paying for AI like a utility bill?

Altman and Nvidia's Jensen Huang have reportedly floated the idea of treating AI spending like a utility bill, or even funding it out of employee salaries, as executives search for ways to justify runaway compute costs to increasingly skeptical enterprise buyers.

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Sam Altman Is Freaking Out

OpenAI reportedly faces $44B in projected losses through 2028 as enterprise AI costs spiral industry-wide and trust erodes.

Crashtech Editorial July 3, 2026 AI Business & Money

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