Out with Tokenmaxxing. In with Mergemaxxing
Token prices have fallen 98% since late 2022, yet enterprise AI bills have tripled, with Uber exhausting its 2026 AI coding budget by April. Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises using consumption-price…
Token prices have fallen 98% since late 2022, yet enterprise AI bills have tripled, with Uber exhausting its 2026 AI coding budget by April. Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises using consumption-price…
DevOps is a practice that unifies software development and operations teams to build, test, and release software faster and more reliably. It solves the problem of siloed teams in early 2000s companie…
Anthropic faces a class action lawsuit alleging it misled users about token allowances for its $100 and $200 monthly Claude Max subscription plans. The plaintiff claims actual usage limits are far bel…
CEOs are reversing their push for maximal AI usage as costs spiral out of control, with some employees spending over $150,000 monthly on AI tokens and companies like Amazon and Meta ditching AI leader…
DoorDash and Uber are lobbying to prevent the spread of gig worker protection laws, aiming to block legislation that would classify their drivers as employees entitled to benefits and minimum wage.…
Tech companies are laying off tens of thousands of workers at a record pace, citing AI as the primary reason, but critics including Marc Andreessen argue AI is a convenient excuse for pandemic-era ove…
Nvidia vice president Bryan Catanzaro said the cost of AI compute far exceeds employee costs, challenging the notion that AI is cheaper than human labor. An MIT study found AI automation is economical…
General Motors shut down its Cruise robotaxi division but plans to re-enter the robotaxi race by developing autonomous driving technology for personal cars that can later be applied to ride-hailing se…
Expedia Group B2B announced an AI toolkit and Intelligent Experience Platform at its Explore 26 conference on May 20, 2026, to help partners embed AI-assisted trip planning across APIs and agent workf…
Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun, a former Uber executive and AI researcher, says she prefers hiring Gen Z workers over industry veterans because of their adaptability and curiosity. Her autonomous trucking s…
Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by the second quarter, highlighting unsustainable costs as enterprises mix and match AI models from multiple providers. OpenAI is considering cutting token pri…
A price war is erupting in the AI industry as companies face soaring inference costs, with startups like Swan AI paying $113,000 monthly for a four-person team. Businesses are dynamically routing quer…
A federal agent testified Thursday that Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man on trial for allegedly starting the deadly Palisades Fire, used ChatGPT to search for the home address of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu wi…
AI spending is projected to reach nearly $2.6 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase from the prior year, as enterprises face mounting cost pressures from heavy AI usage. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has cal…
SpaceX will pay its underwriters a gross spread of just 0.75% for the largest initial public offering in history, matching the lowest percentage on record for a conventional U.S. IPO. Despite the reco…
Anthropic's new model Fable stores customer data for 30+ days and restricts usage perceived as commercial threats, alienating users and potentially boosting rival Codex's market share. The launch high…
NVIDIA introduced the Halos Operating System, a safety-certified software foundation for robotaxis, at GTC Taipei, alongside new collaborations with Uber, Foxconn, VinFast, and HUMAIN to deploy autono…
Uber's CTO revealed that the company's entire annual AI budget was exhausted by April 2026 due to agentic AI costs, with monthly API expenses per engineer ranging from $500 to $2,000. OpenAI CEO Sam A…
AI Gateway data shows DeepSeek's share of tokens on the platform surged from under 1% to 17% in May, while its share of spend remained near 1%, as the low-cost model entered production use. Anthropic'…
Rising AI costs are forcing businesses to scrutinize spending as price hikes from providers like OpenAI and Microsoft challenge the value proposition of large language models. Companies such as Uber a…