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Australia's subsidized home battery program has installed over 500,000 batteries, cutting wholesale power prices by roughly half and reducing reliance on fossil fuel plants.
An FT opinion piece argues that China's approach to subsidies is more strategic and effective than other countries'.
Analyzes how sharp discontinuities in U.S. tax and subsidy policy—like the ACA subsidy cliff—incentivize people to lose money, and draws parallels to similar discontinuities in hardware and software queues.
The article analyzes the unsustainable economics of AI platforms, revealing massive subsidies where companies like OpenAI and Anthropic lose billions by charging far below cost, leading to an affordability crisis.
A commentary on the subsidized pricing of AI APIs, warning that current costs are below actual expenses and may rise significantly, posing risks to businesses built on these assumptions.
The article warns that current low pricing for frontier AI models is propped up by venture capital subsidies, and advises building systems now before prices rise or quality drops.