Token price cuts, new tiers and billing changes across providers — the signals that reset AI product margins.
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Token prices set the floor on every AI product's margins. When a provider moves pricing, it ripples across competitors, routing choices and the cost of every downstream feature.
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
I'm the developer. I built this because AI-generated conspiracy videos were getting out of control in my own YouTube feed. Weedout is a $1.99 Safari extension for macOS that removes videos YouTube labels “Made with AI”…
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance t…
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, the same model behind two different safeguard layers. Fable 5.1 is generally available on the Claude API, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry; Mythos 5…
Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model's safeguards.
The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.
AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.
I never realized how revolutionary a simple stand could be. And the Satechi OntheGo Foldable Stand Hub does so much more than hold my tablet.
Not into the chunky sports watches? The Garmin Forerunner 170 and Coros Pace 4 are ultralight devices for athletes with smaller wrists. Here's how they compare.
Fall marathon training season is here: Save up to $310 on early Labor Day 2026 Garmin watch deals, including the tested Forerunner 165, Instinct 3, and Fenix 8.
Blue Voice is trained on department-specific laws, local ordinances, protocols, and guidelines that general-purpose AI tools can't access on the public internet.
Early Labor Day 2026 laptop deals are live. Save up to $1,100 right now on Apple M5 MacBooks, Samsung Galaxy Book6, Surface Laptops, and gaming rigs we've tested.
Labor Day deals are already making this a great time to buy a streaming device, and these prices are hard to beat.
The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.
OpenAI's advertising business has reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, according to the company. The article OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hits a $1 billion annual run rate appeared first on The D…
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.
OpenAI is offering some large customers outcome-based pricing, where they pay only once the AI actually finishes a task. Salesforce, Adobe, and several startups are also moving away from fixed subscription fees. The cen…
Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month.
ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why…
Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, opened pre-orders for Microduck — a 25 cm bipedal robot where every movement is a neural policy trained in MuJoCo and exported to ONNX. At $399, it puts the f…
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.
Talix's USB-C cable is compact and powerful enough to charge a laptop, and it's nearly 40% off.
The Roborock Qrevo 2 Pro is a midrange robot vacuum and mop with a hands-free cleaning experience.
In one instance, an AI agent stayed open for four days and ran 4,819 calls for almost $4,000. No one had budgeted for this cost.
Google is offering its premium AI subscription plan for free. It usually costs $20 a month - and comes with many benefits.
The Mammotion LUBA 3 AWD 3000H and the LUBA Mini 2 mowers are both heavily discounted - here's which you should get.
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Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a 2.3B-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides and images into Markdown with HTML tables, bounding boxes and image descriptions. It runs at $1.50 per 1,000 page…
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it, and no two vendors quote the same units. This comparison measures burst cold start across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel, normalizes per-second rates…
Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model now analyzes up to ten seconds of existing footage instead of just the last second for more consistent scene extensions. Scenes can be extended in 10-second increments up to 40…
Snag the HP OmniBook 3 16-inch laptop for under $700, plus get a 43-inch Toshiba smart TV for just $99 when you bundle at Best Buy.
The Bravia 6 OLED TV is a new entry-level option in a variety of screen sizes.
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Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blu…
The suit alleges that Meta designed its platforms to be addicting to young people.
Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that dema…
Nvidia is buying open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, about 80 times its $150 million annual revenue. The deal fits Nvidia's push to invest billions in open AI models while closed providers like OpenA…
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reac…
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series — a 320B-total / 18B-active MoE with a 1,048,576-token context window, MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face, and API pricing at $0…
The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is an 11.5-inch Android tablet that can be all you need, especially with this early Labor Day deal.
Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion parameters per token. At one-ninth the training cost, it beats much l…
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
Anthropic wants to sell investors on a theoretical market opportunity worth more than $30 trillion ahead of its planned IPO. The article Anthropic sees a market opportunity of more than $30 trillion ahead of its IPO app…
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technol…
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
Perplexity releases Portable Computer, packaging local models, harness, sandbox, and connectors into one system running on NVIDIA DGX Spark. The post Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness…
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-expected-to-tell-investors-it-sees-over-30-trillion-in-potential-revenue-a611efea Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436536 Points: 39 # Comments: 78
Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.
The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.
Fairphone is finally selling its latest model in the US. The $649 handset has 11 swappable parts, and a replacement battery is only $40.
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business thro…
Alibaba's video generation model Wan3.0 creates clips up to 30 seconds long from text, PDFs, and PowerPoint files. A 30-second 1080p clip costs $6. Alibaba's quarterly profit dropped 75 percent year-over-year as the com…
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valo…
Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421074 Points: 329 # Comments: 322
To generate intelligence at scale, AI factories run continuously, and their economics are defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. That requires AI infrast…
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
Thomson Reuters is launching "Thomson," its own language model built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years. But the benchmarks only show top marks when the model can tap into the company's own…
Nvidia is negotiating an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, more than 50 percent higher than its last funding round, The Information reports. Perplexity's annualized revenue has tripled to over $…
The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs; Groq rebuilt itself as an inference cloud after licensing i…
<p><strong><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245">Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive</a></strong></p> A few interesting numbers in this FT sto…
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
Mint uses the same 5G and LTE networks as T-Mobile, so I had no service interruptions after switching.
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-cuts-developer-pricing-frontier-gpt-56-sol-model-by-more-than-20-2026-08-21/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395638 Points: 36 # Comments: 3
The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs; Groq rebuilt itself as an inference cloud after licensing i…
There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees. The article Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model Factory" and 109 employees for $6 billi…
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.
The LG C6 OLED is one of my favorite TVs of 2026, with excellent color accuracy and picture quality - especially for this deal with free wall mounting and a free $200 gift card.
The Q7 M5+ is a strong value robot vacuum for households that want reliable mapping and an auto-empty dock without flagship pricing.
I've been using an iPad Air M2 for over two years, and these are my go-to essentials to get the most out of my tablet.
Unitree Robotics rose 460 percent in its Shanghai IPO, hitting a valuation of around $50 billion. But an FT report shows much of the demand for its robots comes from state-backed training centers that buy the machines a…
The subtle changes are nice, but not enough to justify spending $1,900 on Google's latest foldable phone when better alternatives exist.
Fairphone is finally selling its latest model in the US. The $649 handset has 12 swappable parts, and a replacement battery is only $40. This is truly the Goldilocks of Android phones.
Bose's second-gen QuietComfort headphones retain their $359 price tag, but flaunt meaningful upgrades from their predecessor.
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.
Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
KeySmart's SmartCard (Gen 3) is perfect for Android and Apple users, and it's an extra 20% off with a ZDNET-exclusive code right now.
The latest T-Mobile 5G Home Internet offer will get you a first month on T-Mobile and up to $200 back, with a price that won't change for five years.
Anthropic dominated Vercel's AI Gateway spending in July, pulling in 65.1 percent of total revenue while accounting for only 30 percent of tokens processed. Its tokens cost 4.4 times as much as those from competing prov…
Incogni is taking 58% off annual plans with our code this month only, dropping the Standard plan to $6.79 per month.
Anthropic's annualized revenue has topped $65 billion, a sevenfold increase in one year, according to Bloomberg. The company could go public as early as fall 2026 at a $1 trillion valuation, potentially beating OpenAI t…
Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.
The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602 Points: 613 # Comments: 435
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-big-techs-ai-spending-is-3-trillion-higher-than-it-seems-e1067bb2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332588 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio. Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the residual value of the facilities and becomes the exclusive chip supplier. According to the Wall…
The funds will allow Wispr to increase its footprint as it ventures into new areas, such as meetings, with its newly released note-taker tool.
Here's how I saved hundreds on a new phone and watch in just a few seconds.
The Tab A1 Plus Nxtpaper is a new offering from TCL that has arrived just in time to become a partner for school productivity.
According to Bloomberg, Stripe is acquiring the AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, up from a latest valuation of $1.3 billion. OpenRouter offers access to over 400 AI models, has eight million users, and it…
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ipo-valuation-hinges-190-200-billion-2028-revenue-forecast-sources-say-2026-08-15/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323620 Points: 43 # Comment…
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381 Points: 235 # Comments: 169
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/15/anthropic-revenue-jumps-to-over-11point5-billion-in-q2-report.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320144 Points: 31 # Comments: 75
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-center-rural-america-backlash-c0af4e16 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318835 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwhile, Anthropic is complicating the AI bu…
AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpublished NeurIPS papers rated the results…
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
OpenAI is launching "Ultrafast," a new inference mode that delivers GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by Cerebras hardware from their $10 billion partnership. Together with "Standard" and "Fast,…
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release…
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a refinement of Gemini 3.6 Flash with algorithmic improvements to its reasoning core. It handles text, images, audio, and video across a 1M-token context window with 64K-token outpu…
Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history
Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token costs. Each model call made by an AI agent can include schemas, names, descriptions and parameters for every tool exposed by a…
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/anthropic-said-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-6-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280945 Points: 34 # Comments: 4
Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.
Google's latest lineup of Pixel 11 phones is here, and Amazon has a free gift card offer on every single one.
This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.
Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.
At least there’s no new proprietary charger this year. Huzzah!! | Photo: David Imel / The Verge The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap color…
Article URL: https://power2026.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271050 Points: 23 # Comments: 5
We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support the b…
The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
OpenAI wrapped up a $7 billion stock buyback, letting current and former employees sell shares at the company's $852 billion valuation. The move is meant to ease pressure on employees waiting for liquidity ahead of a po…
River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.
Lithium-ion power banks keep catching fire. Is semi-solid-state the safer solution?
Anthropic is preparing an IPO for September or October, according to the Wall Street Journal, potentially the largest ever. During investor meetings, the company, valued at $965 billion, is fielding tough questions abou…
OpenAI is rolling out "Premium Seats" for ChatGPT Business customers at $125 per user per month, five times the price of the existing Standard Seats. In return, users get significantly more capacity and no five-hour usa…
Anthropic is leasing $9.1 billion worth of data center capacity from Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms in Texas, according to Bloomberg. The deal covers 191 megawatts at Riot's Rockdale site, with extension options that coul…
Nvidia is teaming up with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure. To win over investors, the chipmaker is guaranteeing up to 25 percent of t…
You don't have to spend lots of money to make your home smarter. Here are the best affordable gadgets to upgrade your space.
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/openai-wraps-7-billion-share-sale-ahead-of-potential-ipo-.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253785 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/what-is-openai-s-device-a-doughnut-shaped-speaker-that-costs-over-300 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245062 Points: 34 # Comments: 77
I finally get full support for two displays - without paying Thunderbolt prices. But there is a catch.
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business. Sign up by August 20 to get $100 in workspace credits and unlock higher usage for your team's most demanding work.
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
A verified 2026 comparison of LLM observability platforms covering tracing depth, evaluation capability, production monitoring, and pricing. The post Top LLM Observability and Evaluation Platforms in 2026: Langfuse, Lan…
There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source.
The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas. Amazon, meanwhile, is building…
OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It's designed to learn from conversations and adapt to users, fitting Sam A…
The Marshall Stanmore IV is a more expensive home speaker, but there's so much to like that $430 sounds like a good value.
OpenAI's planned smart speaker is taking shape. The company's first hardware device will be donut-shaped, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and priced above $300, according to Bloomberg. The article OpenAI's hockey-puc…
Meta's total fine has racked up to $942 million in this case.
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
Microsoft generated $24.1 billion in AI revenue through OpenAI in the fiscal year ending in June. That's about 70 percent of its total AI business, according to a Bloomberg analysis. The heavy reliance helps explain why…
Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.
Composio tested Deepseek V4 Flash across four agent frameworks on 30 real-world tasks. Success rates were mostly similar, but costs varied by nearly 3x: OpenCode came in cheapest at $0.073 per task, while Claude Code co…
The LG C6 is a powerful refresh of the brand's flagship OLED TV, and right now at Best Buy, you can get the 65-inch version for 26% off.
The Portsmouth, Ohio site where SoftBank will build its data center. | Image: US Department of Energy SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it'…
The startup's platform predicts which product a shopper wants next, learns their general taste, and fine-tunes continuously based on what they do in real time.
Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development.
Meta released Muse Spark 1.2 along with its own coding agent, Muse Code, which is designed to pick up exactly where it left off after a crash. The cheapest tier runs just 20 cents per million output tokens but requires…
The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million.
Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186762 Points: 378 # Comments: 105
T-Mobile customers affected by the outage in July have been requesting credit. Though $10 is standard, the more persistent you are, the more you may be able to get.
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/openai-settles-claims-discrimination-against-221429616.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182971 Points: 23 # Comments: 9
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, as DeepSeek’s latest V4-Flash model draws attention for inference pricing that is lower than several competing systems. Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parame…
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-pays-32-million-us-probe-over-hiring-foreign-workers-2026-08-04/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176664 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://projecthub.arduino.cc/neelbuilds/build-a-voice-based-kiosk-for-retail-store-using-moorcheh-edge-and-arduino-uno-q-7f3c7b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175303 Points: 17 # Comm…
The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.
Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2…
SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX's quarterly earnings. The…
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
The popular Ninja Slushi is on sale for under $300 once again. Here's where to find the deal.
Anthropic is locking in $10 billion worth of computing capacity from Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud startup that's only a few months old. The article Anthropic locks in $10 billion of compute from Volta, a cloud startup…
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-capital-spending-hidden-borrowing-bond-issuance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160699 Points: 130 # Comments: 156
New and existing T-Mobile customers can save up to $1,100 on Samsung's latest flip phone now (including the pink color). Here's how.
Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
AI is involved in 55 percent of reported cybercrimes in Africa, according to a new Interpol report. Financial losses more than doubled from $192 million to $484 million, and about 600,000 cases of digital extortion invo…
GSK has entered into a research collaboration with British biotechnology company Relation Therapeutics worth up to $110 million, expanding the companies’ existing work in AI-assisted drug discovery. Under the agreement,…
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
Alibaba's Qwen team moved Qwen3.8-Max from preview to general availability, with published per-token pricing and open weights due next week. The 2.4T parameter MoE model accepts text, image and video input across a 1M-t…
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/8ae9e6e4-a53c-44da-8e7d-c9d81f0df4b9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150420 Points: 22 # Comments: 1
Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review pipeline. As a result, Italian startup Bynario was…
The best investment I've made for my MacBook Pro only cost me $13 - here's why I recommend it.
Article URL: https://costperprompt.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140340 Points: 20 # Comments: 8
AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. It holds 16B total parameters but activates only 2.8B per token, using Gated MLA…
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.
What you'll get back depends on how much you spent - but don't expect much.
Over at Best Buy, the 2024 Moto G Play dropped down to $100, making this Android one of the budget buys around.
Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
Article URL: https://greyswansignals.com/?theme=dark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118933 Points: 138 # Comments: 148
Starting July 30, OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent. OpenAI says its top-tier Sol model helped make the company's own infrastructure more efficient, enabling the cuts. Price pre…
Former OpenAI employee Andrew Ho and Cambridge researcher Adam Hunt see a growing problem with large language models. Instead of becoming more versatile, the models are becoming more specialized, excelling at coding and…
Article URL: https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113059 Points: 347 # Comments: 205
Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million in funding to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway with ads promoting artificial companionship? Yeah wel…
The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
Apple's budget MacBook Neo is already affordable, but if you're an educator or student, you can get one for even less.
Marktechpost AI has released Token Saver, an open-source MCP extension for Claude Desktop that uses local Hybrid RAG to slash PDF token consumption by up to 99% while ensuring absolute document privacy. The post Meet To…
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are d…
Are free streaming services that bad? I swapped my paid subscriptions for free ones to see.
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.
Students can save big on an Apple Music subscription. Here's how to get it.
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/28/apple-second-ever-5tn-company-as-investors-flee-ai-stocks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091512 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 bil…
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
Recursive’s emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into compute, as the company seeks to automate its own product devel…
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
If you're a college student, Spotify has an exclusive bundle that can save you cash on music and streaming. Here's how to get it.
Is the Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra worth the extra cost versus the Amazfit Balance 3? Here's what I found after living with both for a month.
Dear all, our team is using a Claude AI Team plan for more than 1 year already: - we are a normal company, doing normal business, nothing critical - all our bills are paid and we can see them as paid - nontheless, the s…
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/nvidia-s-750-billion-deals-revive-fear-of-ai-circular-financing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071512 Points: 81 # Comments: 76
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.
Cursor asked its upgraded agent swarm and its predecessor to rebuild SQLite in Rust using only the documentation, with no source code or internet access. Every configuration of the new system, which separates planners f…
Article URL: https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050512 Points: 256 # Comments: 65
The brand's new flip phone takes an accessible approach to minimalism - with a gentle touch.
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5…
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Samsung just launched its latest lineup of phones, and Amazon has free gift card offers on every single one.
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-24/spacex-at-100-would-imply-zero-ai-value-says-morgan-stanley Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039831 Points: 34 # Comments: 29
Anthropic's latest Claude upgrade targets developers and enterprises with stronger coding, better reasoning efficiency, prompt-cache-friendly tool changes, and near-Fable performance at Opus pricing.
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios has no science background. | Image: The Verge; Getty Images The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds…
AM/FM, NOAA weather band, solar and hand-crank charging, and a power bank - this tech is what actually works when the grid doesn't.
AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.
We granted the Dell 14 Plus an Editors' Choice award for great hardware and design. Now, the high-end version of the PC is over $1,000 off.
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
Until now, efforts to identify and combat deepfakes and AI scams have been scattered. Which proposed standard will dominate?
Alphabet has raised its 2026 investment forecast to as much as $205 billion, saying demand continues to outpace spending. Google Cloud grew 82 percent in the second quarter. CEO Sundar Pichai says Google needs a larger…
AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacity using AMD’s Insti…
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
Anthropic has to pay $1.5 billion to book authors, the largest copyright settlement in class action history. But the payout is for downloading roughly 482,460 works from piracy databases, not for AI training itself. Jud…
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of soc…
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic. In return, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs for training and running its Claude models. For AMD, this is another major deal after Meta and OpenAI as i…
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
Mobile carriers aren't the only ones offering deals on Samsung's new Galaxy phone lineup. Preorder at Amazon and get a free digital gift card.
OpenAI is planning a data center in Georgia called "Project Camellia" with a 3.2-gigawatt power deal from Georgia Power. The company pledged $80 million for the local community and $71 million in Codex credits for stude…
<p>San Francisco tip: it only costs around $15 ($10 in quarters plus a $5 bill for the self-playing violin) to activate every single Orchestrion in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_Mécanique">Musée Mécanique…
AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up…
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-invest-up-5-billion-anthropic-wsj-reports-2026-07-22/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007177 Points: 24 # Comments: 6
Save up to $1,900 on the new Galaxy Z Fold 8 at AT&T right now.
Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave…
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B active parameters per token and a 1M-token context. It matches or beats models several times its size on agentic coding benc…
A field experiment with 1,559 Pakistani judges found that the AI assistant JudgeGPT boosted case resolution by 6.3 percent. The catch: only judges who got hands-on training saw gains. Without it, the effect mostly disap…
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Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996652 Points: 446 # Comments: 405
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026. The Flash tier gets cheaper and more token-efficient, with 3.6 Flash cutting output tokens 17% and dropping its output price to $7.…
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Mond…
Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite as new workhorses designed to cut latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The economics of running autonomous software agents inside a production environ…
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is here, and it’s going gigascale. Vera Rubin NVL72 production is ramping up with racks running at partners CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Nebius. Spanning 35…
Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-effic…
The monthly price for Business Unlimited Ultimate 3.0 depends on how many phone lines you have - and can include up to 50.
New T-Mobile 5G Home Internet customers can get their first month on T-Mobile, plus up to $200 back via prepaid Mastercard. We break down the details.
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
https://archive.ph/20260720174223/https://asia.nikkei.com/bu... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863 Points: 320 # Comments: 219
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
Meta's Ray-Ban Blayzer Optics are made specifically for prescription eyeglass wearers with a lightweight, stylish design.
If you feel like you're missing out on Android Auto by having a vehicle with no screen, here's your chance to fix that.
Apricorn's new 4TB Aegis Secure Key is the biggest-capacity hardware-encrypted flash drive on the market right now.
Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/real-estate/residents-fume-as-georgia-power-seizes-homes-under-eminent-domain/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980718 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
The $230 Codex Micro sold out before I could buy one, so I turned my Stream Deck+ into a surprisingly capable alternative.
T-Mobile Fiber's latest offer covers your first month and pays you $100 back on the 2 Gig plan. Here's all you need to know.
Moonshot has temporarily stopped selling new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model as demand nearly maxed out its GPU capacity within 48 hours. The company plans to split its subscription model to spread computing power m…
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model it calls "second only to Fable 5." The preview is live on Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork at 10% of standard pricing. Wha…
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Article URL: https://training.perforce.com/learn/courses/535/p4-helix-core-user-basic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965886 Points: 53 # Comments: 84
Anthropic will include Claude Fable 5 in Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20, but at just 50 percent of regular limits, which themselves drop by a third that same day. Pro users get a one-time $100 credit, then…
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open-weight AI models for coding.
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-ai-computing-power.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949290 Points: 28 # Comments: 3
Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks. The closing of the company’s Series B round, announced today, folds in continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum…
Lowest cost per token from extreme codesign maximizes intelligence per dollar for post-training in the agentic era.
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
If you skipped Google's phone insurance at checkout, you can now add it again. But should you?
Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939524 Points: 371 # Comments: 497
Google's Pixel 10 Pro has one of the best camera systems for an Android today. Grab it for $699 right now, one of the best prices we've seen.
These kitchen gadgets won't break the bank, but will seriously upgrade your cooking.
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one…
The Claude Corps fellowship matches professionals with partner nonprofits and pays them with benefits. But the deadline ends soon.
Neko Health has raised $700 million to expand its AI body scans in the United States, starting with a clinic in New York. The company’s preventive screening service combines medical imaging, blood tests, proprietary sen…
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey. It's on track to rake in anywhere between $80-$100 million in just a…
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.
The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.
The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.
OpenVPN offers three modes of deployment with varied pricing based on the same underlying protocol. Here are the pros, cons, and costs associated with each.
Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
DeepSeek is already raising again. The Chinese AI lab just closed its first funding round and needs capital for its own data centers and chips to keep its aggressive pricing strategy going. The article DeepSeek needs mo…
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
Hi HN, we're Kiran and Vijay! Over the past two years, we have built a columnar storage engine for observability: logs, metrics, and traces. Today, it's exciting for us to show what we've built on top of that foundation…
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse is now valued at over $2 billion after an extended Series C round. The article PixVerse's $2B valuation shows investors still believe AI video generation has room for another wi…
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap to Opus 4.8 on agentic coding, at cheaper Sonnet token pricing. The post Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-…
With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.
The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
Article URL: https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/anthropic-sf-affordability-ipo-housing-evictions-rent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899454 Points: 28 # Comments: 25
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trilli…
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use today. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit for Fable 5. The ext…
Article URL: https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882716 Points: 253 # Comments: 126
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's credit rating to "BBB-," one notch above junk status. OpenAI accounts for roughly half of Oracle's $638 billion in contractual obligations. If OpenAI walked away, Oracle would be stuck…
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scored 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up eight points in three months. In coding, it edges past GLM-5.2 with a score of 71.3 at a lower cost of $0.26 per task. The hallucination…
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
Tencent is in talks to buy a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at the same $2 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times, after Beijing blocked Meta's acquisition. Tencent sees overlap with its own agent…
Upgrade your home theater with a big-screen Insignia F50 for less than $400 right now at Best Buy.
Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it comes with a token budget attached. Speaking on the All-In Podcast at the close of GTC 2026, the Nvidia chief executive said that if a $500,000 en…
The TP-Link Tapo C465 is a wireless security camera with a built-in solar panel for power, and it doesn't require a subscription.
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
OpenAI moved GPT-5.6 to general availability on July 9, 2026, shipping three tiers instead of one model. Sol is $5/$30 per 1M tokens, Terra is $2.50/$15, and Luna is $1/$6. Sol sets the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol scores 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, just one point behind Claude Fable 5. At $1.04 per task, it costs a third of what Anthropic's top model charges. In agentic coding, So…
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.
Meta is entering the AI API business with Muse Spark 1.1 at prices that undercut even the dirt-cheap Grok 4.5, released just yesterday. At $4.25 per million output tokens, Meta charges a fraction of what Anthropic or Op…
The TP-Link Tapo C465 is a wireless security camera with a built-in solar panel for power, and it doesn't require a subscription.
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.
Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.
Databricks benchmarked coding agents on its own multi-million-line codebase and found that the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 matched Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at $1.28 per task versus $1.94. The company plans to roll it…
A single wording mistake cost the government millions. Now Estonia is using AI to spot legal errors before they become law—and to automate more of the state.
xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. In coding benchmarks, the model trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 but needs 4.2 times fewer tokens than Opus 4.8. At $2 per million input tokens, it cos…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a Cursor-trained model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. It serves at 80 TPS, costs $2/$6 per million tokens, and ranks #1 on Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark. The post SpaceXAI Re…
The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.
Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
Samsung Unpacked will take place later this month in London, and all eyes are on the Galaxy Glasses.
Article URL: https://odra.dev/slopfix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823359 Points: 280 # Comments: 201
Thanks to the Ugreen DXP4800 Plus, I've been able to cancel several storage subscriptions. Here's how.
The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.
Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it comes with a token budget attached. On the All-In Podcast at the close of GTC 2026, the Nvidia chief executive said that if a US$500,000 engineer’…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and major cloud providers are racing to outbid each other with free compute credits to pull startups into their ecosystems. Some individual offers top $3 million. At Y Combinator alone, OpenAI and Ant…
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under $1, and some prov…
Tencent's Hy team released Hy3, a 295B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that activates only 21B parameters per token. It ships under Apache 2.0 with a 256K context window, targeting reasoning, agentic, and long-context ta…
How does a budget tracker tag perform against the best of the best? Turns out all Bluetooth range is not created equal.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans will share in the we…
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-sk-hynix-launch-28-billion-us-listing-ride-global-ai-wave-2026-07-06/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807283 Points: 17 # Comment…
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Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/05/microsoft-365-just-got-a-price-hike-over-continuous-innovation-but-copilot-is-the-ai-tax-on-businesses/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798330 P…
Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that activates about 48 billion parameters per token. It pairs a native 1-million-token context, built on LongCat Sparse Attention, wit…
Wealthy US families are increasingly sending their kids to AI schools like Alpha School, which combines two hours of AI tutoring with project-based workshops for up to $75,000 a year in tuition. The trend highlights a g…
<p>I wrote about the <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils-40rc1/">sqlite-utils 4.0rc1</a> release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more day…
The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, not text content. Developer Steven Chong reports cost saving…
Some of my favorite practical Bluetooth gadgets are cheaper than you think.
The latest Apple AirTags are now on sale for the Fourth of July weekend.
Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, a free Apache-2.0 code agent model for Lean 4. It saturates miniF2F and solves 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems. The 119B mixture-of-experts activates 6.5B parameters per token. We brea…
You can pick up a GoPro camera bundle for under $400 at Best Buy during the July 4th weekend.
The Hisense Canvas Art TV is on sale for $350 off during July 4th weekend.
Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week, according to an internal memo reported by The Information. The article Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week appeared first on The Decoder.
Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI in early-stage drug discovery across the Japanese pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic areas. The companies did not disclose…
Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The article Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO appeared first on The Decoder.
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new unit called "Frontier Company" that puts 6,000 engineers directly at enterprise customers. The goal is to integrate AI into core processes with measurable ROI, not more exper…
Article URL: https://willpenman.com/klara/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765743 Points: 17 # Comments: 19
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
You bought the hardware. Now you’ll need to subscribe for “expanded access” to the most advanced features.
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office and Google Apps with AI.
Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now applies to Meta: why…
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap to Opus 4.8 on agentic coding, at cheaper Sonnet token pricing. The post Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-…
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
Google adds two new generative AI models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds at $0.034 a pop. Gemini Omni Flash brings video generation and editing via text prompts to the API for the first time. Google…
San Francisco's AI boom is driving up the cost of living so fast that even couples earning $365,000 a year can't find an affordable apartment. Median rent sits at $3,827, and homes cost $1.7 million on average. The expe…
As organizations move from AI pilots to production AI factories, infrastructure decisions have shifted from peak chip specifications to cost per token: how many useful tokens they can deliver per dollar, per watt and wi…
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.
The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.
Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models into smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. Starting next year, Amazon will pay by tokens processed rather than compute hours, which could push costs up shar…
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
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The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.
Thermal cameras have saved me thousands over the years. Just the other day, one simple check saved me $1,000.
Sony's Bravia 8 II might be a generation behind, but it still offers plenty of reasons to buy - especially with this discount.
Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.
Samsung and SK Hynix, backed by the South Korean government, are pouring $590 billion into new chip factories and packaging centers as AI data center demand surges. According to Jefferies, memory prices could climb to 5…
Raspberry Pi boards have gotten expensive, so I found a cheap alternative in a tiny ESP32-S3 board.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is switching his company to Chinese AI models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7. An automated routing system picks the best model for each request based on task and price, and better caching pushed…
Sony's Bravia 8 II might be a generation behind, but it still offers plenty of reasons to buy - especially at this price.
Amazon Prime Day 2026 deals have come and gone, but we're still seeing some of the same discounts live on editor-approved products like TVs, laptops, and more.
Tim Cook recently said price increases were "unavoidable" and described the company's pricing as "unsustainable." The 16-inch MacBook Pro saw its price go up by $300. The 11-inch iPad Air went from $599 to $749. Even th…
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has launched "Raise Us," a bipartisan nonprofit to prepare American workers for AI-driven job shifts. Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation are jointly fundin…
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Epoch AI's new MirrorCode benchmark tests whether AI models can recreate complete programs without access to the original code. Claude Opus 4.7 leads with a 56 percent solve rate, rebuilding a 16,000-line toolkit in jus…
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Advisors are telling OpenAI to hold off on going public until next year. The triggers: volatile tech markets and SpaceX's weak stock performance after its record IPO. SoftBank, one of OpenAI's biggest backers, lost 13 p…
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Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.
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General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.
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Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.
Acer's new $699 Swift Air 14 is a direct competitor to the MacBook Neo. Here's how it compares, by the specs and my hands-on experience.
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Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company's profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.
Indie movie fans are upset about Google DeepMind’s $75 million investment in the studio, which comes as AI companies are deepening their influence in Hollywood.
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The Xgimi Horizon 20 Max is impressively bright for its size and offers an excellent picture quality. But I recommend it more for the ease of use.
Alex Bores (D-NY) enters his watch party at The Freehand Hotel after conceding the congressional race to Micah Lasher who will replace Rep Jerry Nadler (D-NY) in NY's 12th Congressional District on June 23, 2026 in New…
Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, expects to generate $620 million in proceeds.
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Modular, one of the most promising chip software startups of the AI era, heads for a multibillion-dollar exit.
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HP's OmniBook 3 combines decent hardware and exceptional battery life, making it one of the best-value laptops I've tested this year.
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Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles, creating something that feels like a cross between LinkedIn and TikTok.
For the past three years, "Meta" and "Ray-Ban" have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses - no Ray-Bans - in three different styles and seven colo…
Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in t…
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
The Acer Predator Helios Neo is a high-end 16-inch gaming laptop that's $450 off right now - a banger of a deal.
Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
Portable power stations from Jackery, EcoFlow, Anker, and more are all discounted for Amazon's Prime Day sale this week.
AI tokens will remind many enterprise customers of cloud pricing's early days. However, measuring the value derived from AI remains an unsolved problem.
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Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tenness…
The MacBook Air M3 (13-inch) is on sale ahead of Prime Day for $799 - one of the lowest prices we've ever seen.
Google Deepmind and film studio A24 are entering a long-term research partnership. Google is also investing roughly $75 million in A24, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article Google Deepmind and A24 team up o…
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I didn't think that this would work, but the EverExceed 5V solar panel has done wonders for my security cameras.
In the first quarter of 2026, OpenAI pulled in $5.7 billion in revenue and burned through about $3.7 billion, both figures tripled year over year. Stock-based compensation alone ate up over $2.3 billion. With $73 billio…
HP's Omen gaming laptop has dropped to $1,599, making it a great early deal for gamers on a budget.
Amazon MGM Studios has dropped "Artificial," the nearly finished OpenAI film directed by Luca Guadagnino with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Amazon struck a $50 billion partnership with OpenAI in February. According to…
Deductive AI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.
Both Google and Amazon have generative AI-powered smart speakers for under $100, so which one stands out?
AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.
Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark "Attention Is All You Need" paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, is joining OpenAI. He only returned to Google from Character.AI in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion d…
Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD are putting $310 million into world model startup Odyssey ML, now valued at $1.45 billion. CIA-linked fund IQT and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean are also backing the round. World models are sh…
World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.
Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational Gemini interacti…
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing the Snap Specs. They’re not the worst on him, but bold fashion rarely makes for mainstream success. | Screenshot: CNBC Yesterday, Snap debuted its new $2,195 Specs glasses. In an interview…
Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.
SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.
Microsoft is weighing a fine-tuned version of Deepseek V4 as a cheaper model option for Copilot Cowork. The company is also switching to usage-based billing, since Copilot head Charles Lamanna says flat-rate pricing isn…
Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.
Just two trading days after its IPO, Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Anysphere. The deal is meant to help the struggling xAI division catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI. The article SpaceX bets $60 billio…
Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.
SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.
Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.
Days after its massive IPO, SpaceX says it is spending $60 billion to buy Cursor - a bet designed to help Elon Musk's sprawling rocket / AI / social media behemoth win over lucrative enterprise customers and close the g…
The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.
Anthropic has pulled back its planned billing change for the Claude Agent SDK just before launch. Instead of separate credits, the SDK and third-party apps will keep drawing from regular subscription limits. The article…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised more than 50 billion yuan - about $7.4 billion - in its first external funding round. The article DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time at a $50 billion valuation appeare…
OpenAI spent $34 billion in the past year, far more than the year before. The article OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year appeared first on The Decoder.
Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.
Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.
Nvidia wants to raise at least $20 billion through its first bond sale since 2021, Bloomberg reports, citing people with direct knowledge of the deal. The article Nvidia joins AI debt boom with $20 billion bond sale app…
Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Operating since 2019 on a repurposed former…
Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.
Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.
NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.
OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.
Meta starts dismantling its $2 billion Manus acquisition after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weights model with one trillion parameters built for programming. It still trails GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 in coding benchmarks but costs a fraction of the price. So t…
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The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
Elon Musk's net worth has passed the trillion-dollar mark after SpaceX's IPO. His net worth, which was hovering around $800 billion before the IPO, includes the value of his 4.8 billion shares in SpaceX, along with his…
Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation.
Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.
Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus has closed a $12 billion funding round at a $41 billion valuation. The company launched just last November with $6.2 billion in seed funding. No products yet, because Bezos says sharing…
OpenAI is weighing token price cuts to win customers from Anthropic, the Wall Street Journal reports. The article OpenAI vs. Anthropic: A price war over API tokens is brewing appeared first on The Decoder.
The GeForce NOW summer sale kicked off today with limited-time savings of up to $70 off a 12-month membership, making now the perfect time to upgrade to get the best of the cloud and see just how far Ultimate gaming can…
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing.
The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.
If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.
China plans to invest roughly $295 billion in a nationwide AI data center network over the next five years, Bloomberg reports. At least 80 percent of the technology would come from domestic suppliers like Huawei. Meanwh…
Sandstone's Series A comes just six months after a Sequoia-led seed round.
Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and replacing internal software.
Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers.
Monthly subscription, open chat, ask question: This is how generative AI used to work. Agentic workflows go beyond this model. They consume many times more tokens, run autonomously for hours and make flat rates unafford…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind the Kimi chatbot, is looking for a valuation of up to $30 billion in a new funding round. The article Moonshot AI targets a $30 billion valuation, more than six times its late-202…
Deepseek topped Ramp's trending software vendors in June 2026 as a paid service that US companies send data to directly. Ramp chief economist Ara Kharazian points to growing cost awareness as a driver but warns about se…
A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying…
Meta is developing a paid AI agent product called "Hatch" that could cost up to $200 per month. Users describe what they need in simple language, and Hatch builds working tools, schedules appointments, or sends emails.…
SpaceX is leasing AI computing capacity to Google for $920 million per month, according to an SEC filing. The deal gives Google access to about 110,000 Nvidia chips to meet demand for its Gemini Enterprise platform. Tha…
In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products.
The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.
Vibe coding turns plain language into working software. Explore 15 tools shaping how developers build apps in 2026. The post 15 Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026 Compared: Pricing, Features, and Best Fit appeared first on…
Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. That trajectory faces a real test, th…
Apple's App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digital goods.
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”
A leading provider lowered output token pricing on its flagship tier, narrowing the gap to mid-tier models and pressuring competitors on cost.
If Alphabet's record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.
Deeper discounts for batched and cached workloads are reshaping cost planning, rewarding teams that can tolerate latency or reuse context.
Several China-based providers adjusted token pricing downward, pushing the China AI Model Price Index to a new monthly low.
Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surgin…
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of sof…
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of hi…
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