AI money
How AI makes money, who it pays, and what the mechanics cost.
Whop sellers average $22,000 a month. Whop won't give the median.
Whop's 25,000 earning operators average $22,000 a month. Its AI Blueprints built 21,000 more businesses in six weeks and pay a copied seller 60 cents per $100.
Robot-training video pays $2.40 to $40 an hour. The platform sets it.
Filming chores for robot training pays $2.40 to $40 an hour in 2026. The platform sets the rate, and it pays only for footage a reviewer approves.
Can you sell AI-written books on Amazon? KDP's 2026 rules and pay
Yes, if you tell Amazon what AI generated. KDP pays 70% on ebooks from $2.99 to $12.99 since July 7, 2026. What a sale nets, and what courses leave out.
ChatGPT Pro 200 halves on October 30. The cut lands on Astra.
OpenAI's $200 plan drops from 20x to 10x Plus usage on October 30. Sol got 50% cheaper, so its tokens hold. Astra didn't, so Astra users lose half.
AI agents pick $198 pricier flights for the rich. Set a dollar cap.
In 325,000 test runs, 8 of 13 AI models steered users they read as wealthy to pricier picks, even when told to find the cheapest. A dollar cap mostly fixed it.
An H100 now rents for $4.50 an hour. Idle cards lose to the API.
Nebius raised H100 rent to $4.50 an hour on October 1. Serving one request at a time, a self-hosted 70B model now costs more than OpenAI Sol in batch.
Google's AI contribution pilot pays for grounding. Links earn nothing.
Google pays when your page shapes an AI answer. Being linked, or used to check a fact afterwards, pays zero. Read where the money actually sits.
GitHub Copilot cut team AI credits up to 44%. The price didn’t move.
On 1 September, Copilot Business seats fell from 3,000 included credits to 1,900 and Enterprise from 7,000 to 3,900. Seat prices did not move.
When your AI tool gets acquired, you get about a week to export.
Acquisitions are 150 of the 285 entries in the biggest AI tool graveyard. Clockwise and Hiro users each got seven days. Read where the risk sits.
OpenRouter charges 5.5% to load credits. Stripe just bought it.
OpenRouter takes 5.5% when you load credits and zero markup on the tokens. Four outlets report four different prices for what Stripe paid to own it.