{
  "id": 668043,
  "title": "AT&T says open models currently account for ~25% of its AI usage, and it targets 70% to 80% over time; AT&T uses an average of 45B AI tokens per day (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/at-t-says-open-models-currently-account-for-25-of-its-ai-usage-and-it",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T13:50:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/why-at-t-is-betting-big-on-open-weight-ai-a0ea03b1?st=t7aCLG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The telecom company is staking its future on open models, both to control token cost and protect its proprietary data",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "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."
}