OpenAI appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former President of Uber India and South Asia, as its Managing Director for India, effective September 2026. Singh will lead OpenAI's expansion in India, its second-l…
OpenAI has appointed former Uber India and South Asia president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, the company's second-largest market after the U.S. Singh will join in Septembe…
SpaceX's IPO has sparked envy among Blue Origin employees, who feel their stock options were essentially worthless under the company's old equity plan. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing fo…
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…
Per-token prices for large language models are collapsing, but AI bills are exploding as reasoning models consume far more tokens per task. Uber burned through a year's AI budget in four months, and M…
Uber burned through its entire year's AI budget in just four months, while Microsoft, Salesforce, and GitHub are cutting AI spending, highlighting unsustainable costs of frontier models like GPT 5.5 a…
Gartner predicts that by 2028, AI coding costs will exceed the average global developer salary of around $2,000 per month due to rising token consumption and consumption-based billing. The research fi…
OpenPhone, a new open-source AI-native Android OS, was released as a developer preview for the Google Pixel 9a. The OS integrates a system-level AI agent that can see the screen, operate apps, and per…
Uber exhausted its 2026 AI coding budget by April, prompting a $1,500 monthly cap per engineer on tools like Claude Code and Cursor, as token consumption from agentic workflows surged. The FinOps Foun…
A developer reports that AI coding costs can be slashed by 70% through task-level model routing instead of using a single frontier model for all tasks. After profiling usage, the developer found that …
Enterprise customers are cutting AI spending from OpenAI and Anthropic due to high costs and unclear benefits, with major firms like Microsoft, Uber, Amazon, JPMorgan, and Meta reducing usage. The AI …
Chinese open-source model GLM-5.2, released by z.AI under an MIT license, is challenging U.S. AI leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI by offering competitive coding and agentic-workflow performance on a …
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, driven by widespread use of AI coding tools like Claude Code across the organization, not by a single moonshot project. Leaked audio from …
Fin (formerly Intercom) has created a Forward-Deployed Data Scientist (FDDS) role to measure AI ROI for enterprise customers, complementing Forward-Deployed Engineers. The FDDS defines success metrics…
Uber, DoorDash, and Cloudflare are deploying AI earlier in the software lifecycle to review product requirements, design documents, and code before human review. Uber's AI evaluates PRDs for clarity a…
Accenture is scrambling to curb non-technical workers' AI token spending on trivial tasks like PDF conversions, as leaked audio reveals soaring costs. The consulting giant's internal data shows engine…
Amazon shut down its internal AI leaderboard after it drove more AI-powered tasks but fewer useful results, with the SVP instructing staff not to use AI just for the sake of it. Uber blew past its 202…
Fintech company Slash reported that an employee accidentally burned $80,000 in AI tokens building a 'brainrot shooter game' called Brainrot Shooter. The employee, Nicolas Brilliante, Slash's head of s…
Three of the largest IPOs in history—SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI—are arriving, with valuations tied to token consumption and model pricing. However, enterprise customers are adopting model routing t…
Meta suffered its most embarrassing outage ever when a bug allowed users to change any account's email by simply asking the Meta AI bot, leading to high-profile account takeovers. Engineers attributed…