The ugly economics of consumer AI

By Russell Brandom · TechCrunch · Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 17:24 (7h ago) · Original article ↗

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

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