{
  "id": 12149597,
  "title": "Survey: only 11% of ~400 businesses could forecast AI spending; a study finds lower-priced models cost more than higher-priced models on 32% of 6,800+ tasks (Wall Street Journal)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/survey-only-11-of-400-businesses-could-forecast-ai-spending-a-study",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-05T12:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-token-spending-businesses-431ee94a?st=1trc2u&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Artificial-intelligence use is measured in tokens, but the models' use of tokens at any given task can be unpredictable",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}