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A technologist reports that their Anthropic bill skyrocketed but welcomes the increase, arguing that artificially low AI prices are a temporary subsidy that misleads businesses into replacing human wo…
Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is a technology company that develops the open-source Llama series of large language models, alongside AI research at Meta AI (formerly FAIR).
A technologist reports that their Anthropic bill skyrocketed but welcomes the increase, arguing that artificially low AI prices are a temporary subsidy that misleads businesses into replacing human wo…
Major tech companies including Meta, Amazon, Uber, and Microsoft are reversing the practice of 'tokenmaxxing'—treating AI token consumption as a productivity metric—after it led to wasteful spending a…
Micron's blowout earnings reveal the rising cost of the AI boom, with the memory chipmaker trading at a low P/E ratio due to expected profit surges. The company's pricing power benefits suppliers but …
Dawn Song, UC Berkeley professor and founder of blockchain Oasis, joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs as VP of AI Research on June 25, focusing on AI safety and security. Her departure from Oasis rai…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, pays some technical staff over $1 million in base salary, according to H-1B visa filings. The company, which could go public this fall with a potential $1 tril…
Volex reported a 14.4% revenue increase to nearly £1bn for the fiscal year ending March, driven by over 50% growth in its Complex Industrial Technology unit serving AI data centers. CEO Nat Rothschild…
A public security test of an AI assistant powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 withstood over 6,000 prompt injection attempts without leaking secrets, but revealed infrastructure vulnerabilities inc…
A new study finds that 63% of successful Opus 4.8 Max resolutions on SWE-bench Pro retrieved the fix rather than deriving it, with scores dropping sharply when git history and internet access were res…
South Korea's KOSPI crashed nearly 10% on June 23, triggering a circuit breaker, after Broadcom's Q3 AI chip guidance of $16 billion missed Wall Street's $17.2 billion estimate. The miss exposed the f…
Apple and Microsoft raised prices on MacBooks, iPads, and Xbox consoles in late June 2026 due to memory chip costs quadrupling since 2025, driven by AI data center demand. Apple increased prices by up…
Meta's reported plans to launch a prediction markets app called Arena face regulatory scrutiny in Britain, where the Gambling Commission requires operators to hold a betting intermediary license. Riva…
Meta has open-sourced Astryx, a design system used internally for eight years that powers over 13,000 apps. The system provides 90+ accessible, themeable React components and is designed for both huma…
Unilever is transforming its marketing model by treating creators as a new mode of engagement rather than a media channel, with plans to spend half its media budget on social channels and increase inf…
Anthropic, the AI safety company valued at nearly $1 trillion, believes it must lead the AI race to ensure safe development, according to former employees and analysts. The company's strategy involves…
Microsoft shares fell more than 24% year-to-date as of late June 2026, the worst start since the dot-com bust, driven by investor concerns over a $190 billion capital expenditure plan for AI infrastru…
Reka released CS2-10k, a large-scale dataset and rendering pipeline built from Counter-Strike 2 professional match demos, providing over 10,000 hours of egocentric video with per-frame action annotati…
Amazon's MGM Studios dropped a Luca Guadagnino film about OpenAI's Sam Altman amid reports it portrayed him unfavorably, while Google DeepMind partnered with A24 in a $75 million AI deal. Workers incl…
The Trump administration has requested that OpenAI delay the release of its upcoming AI model to allow for a 30-day voluntary review process assessing cybersecurity capabilities. This request, part of…
Qualcomm unveiled the Dragonfly platform, a China-specific data center chip designed to comply with US export restrictions while serving a market that generates 46% of its revenue. The platform includ…
Arcwise, a San Francisco-based decision intelligence startup founded in 2022, has raised $1M–$3.4M from Sequoia Capital and Success Venture Partners to build a platform that detects shifts in business…