Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently went on CNBC’s Squawk Box and delivered a brutal takedown of the API token pricing model pushed by commercial frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. His core argument is that American enterprises are quietly "livid" because they are burning massive cash on skyrocketed token costs without seeing a clear return on investment. He noted that the industry’s incentive structure has completely devolved into meaningless "tokenmaxxing" —essential...