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Move over gigabytes, AI tokens are the new unit on your phone bill

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It’s honestly wild how quickly artificial intelligence has gone from being a futuristic curiosity to something people casually rely on every single day. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are slowly becoming part of everyday digital life — helping people write emails, summarize documents, plan schedules, debug code, and sometimes even think through problems altogether. And now, according to a new report, telecom companies in China are monetizing that shift in a way that feels both fascinating and slightly dystopian: by selling AI token plans almost like mobile data packs. Yes, actual AI usage quotas are slowly becoming a thing….

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