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Consumer Reports found that Uber and Lyft use AI to charge different customers significantly different prices for the same ride at the same time, with one route in Kansas City generating 29 different prices. The investig…

The SaaS and AI software markets are heading toward a major pricing reset, with traditional per-seat models shifting to outcome- and consumption-based billing, according to analysts. This change introduces budget volatil…

Apple @ Work podcast features Dan Jaenicke of MacPaw discussing Leebry, a platform that unifies SaaS tools for AI use. The episode explores how Leebry integrates with Apple devices to streamline AI workflows in business …

Spotify's international markets now drive most of its growth, with non-English content accounting for over half of consumption and songs in 16 languages reaching its global top 50 last year. The platform has 761 million …

A veteran enterprise software leader recounts the evolution from traditional coding to low-code and no-code platforms, arguing that AI coding agents and orchestrated workflows now represent the next natural step in reduc…

Salesforce agreed to acquire AI customer-service company Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, aiming to bolster its Agentforce platform with a packaged autonomous support solution. The deal, expected to close in Q4 of fis…

GiveDirectly tested an unrestricted AI chatbot alongside cash transfers in Rwanda, funded by Imara Fund, finding that recipients used it for personal advice beyond program questions. The pilot showed AI can fill informat…

Varonis Threat Labs discovered a three-stage vulnerability chain called SearchLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search that allows attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data with a single click. The chain combines Par…

Emerald AI, a Virginia-based startup backed by NVIDIA, tested its Conductor software in Phoenix and the UK, claiming it can reduce data center power consumption by up to 40% during peak grid stress without sacrificing AI…

Apple has not yet released two anticipated iOS 27 features—a customizable Camera app and AI extensions for Siri—despite leaks, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports they are still in testing and will arrive later. The cust…

Anthropic has paused a planned billing overhaul for its Claude Agent SDK that would have separated SDK and third-party app usage from subscription limits, reversing course just before the June 15, 2026 implementation dat…

Toptal CEO Taso Du Val is revising his remote work strategy due to AI, now advocating that 80% of employees can work remotely while 20%—those focused on complex AI work—should be in person. He plans to build a headquarte…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek raised over $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, achieving a $50 billion valuation. Investors, including Tencent and CATL, contributed to a limited partnership with no voting righ…

A developer with no formal coding experience who shipped three AI SaaS products switched from Claude Desktop to Antigravity, citing cost efficiency as the primary driver. The developer found that Antigravity's latest upd…

Silicon Valley companies like Meta, Amazon, and Salesforce are grappling with soaring costs from AI token usage, co-opting the term 'tokenomics' from crypto to describe budgeting for large language model queries. Uber ex…

A freelance developer discovered that AI recommendation systems can be built at a fraction of the cost quoted by full-service agencies by carefully selecting cost-effective language models. Testing on real client data sh…

A developer argues that many AI startups waste money on GPUs by paying for uptime rather than actual usage, leading to low utilization and unnecessary infrastructure costs. The developer proposes a usage-based model wher…

Mozilla launched the MDN MCP Server after testing Claude Code on Firefox 151 features revealed the AI confidently gave incorrect browser compatibility information, including falsely claiming Firefox did not support the W…

Companies like 8x8 are saving millions by replacing software subscriptions with Anthropic's Claude AI, while others like Cisco and Royal Bank of Canada report surging token usage costs. The phenomenon, dubbed 'tokenomics…

A developer created Practical AI Engineering, an open-source curriculum for building production AI systems with LLMs. The curriculum covers 8 phases from token basics to deploying monitored systems with safety guardrails…