I want to like the “AI is deflationary” story. It’s clean, it’s optimistic, and every model launch this year has come with a chart showing cost per token falling off a cliff. I’ve written versions of that chart myself. The chart is real. It’s just not the whole curve. Qualcomm telling customers it’s raising prices by double digits, after exhausting its ability to absorb supplier costs, landed in the same news cycle as Anthropic pricing Opus 5 at roughly half of what Fable 5 costs for comparable capability.

Wi-Fi 8 is the marketing name for IEEE 802.11bn, the amendment being developed under the working title Ultra High Reliability (UHR). It is the first Wi-Fi generation in roughly thirty years that does not lead with a bigger headline speed number. That single fact explains almost everything else about it — the feature set, the silicon marketing, and the confusion among buyers who assume every new generation is a throughput upgrade.