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.
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednes…
While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
Comparing models on dollars per million tokens misses what production workloads actually pay for: outcomes. This post shares an open-source benchmarking harness that measures cost per correct answer, agent trajectory co…
A class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of misrepresenting how much Claude subscribers actually get to use the service. The article Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with decept…
Authors and publishers fight over how to split Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement, the largest copyright deal in US history. The article Anthropic's $1.5 billion book settlement descends into chaos as authors and publi…
Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model built for machine translation across 50 languages. It uses 25B of its 218B parameters per token and scores 83.6 on Cohere's WMT26 evalua…
Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, 2 models built on the same learned orchestration architecture. Fugu Max routes tasks to lean open and specialized models, including NVIDIA Nemotron, at $2/$6 per 1M tok…
The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.
OpenAI releases GPT-Live-1 as a developer API. The full-duplex speech model scores 80.1 percent in interactivity tests, up from 45.4 percent for its predecessor. At $0.05 per minute, it's not cheap. The article OpenAI's…
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
Supply chain disruption cost businesses about $184 billion in 2025, according to the J.S. Held Global Risk Report, and most of that bill still buys faster detection, not faster action. That figure is usually treated as…
The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people…
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.
OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.
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Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
CloudNC has secured $20 million in new capital to scale its AI precision machining technology across global supply chain networks. The investment round was led by US venture investor Nimble Ventures, with participation…
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
Anthropic says power users are key to its business - it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believ…
Benchmark two 30B Mixture-of-Experts models, Qwen3-Coder-30B and NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Nano-30B, across G5, G6, G6e, and G7 GPU instances on Amazon SageMaker AI. Compare throughput, latency, and cost-per-token, and see how…
Apply now for OpenAI’s $5 million grant program supporting independent research on how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety.
We look at r-1, the document parsing model Reducto released on September 1, 2026. We walk through how it folds OCR, layout detection, tables, formatting and grounding into one full page pass, replacing the multi stage a…
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Anthropic signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months but still trails OpenAI's $750 billion plan through 2030. In early 2026, CEO Dario Amodei warned against investing too fast. Now Anthropic is…
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
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The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute" to the development of future models by sharing th…
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source model repository’s platform and infrastructure. The transaction targets platform growth and infrastructure investment, aiming to expa…
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Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies use the hub. CEO Jensen Huang promises to keep the pl…
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world's biggest AI chipmaker. Huggin…
I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and insti…
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal appeared first on The Decoder.
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.
Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use.
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.
ChatGPT Ads has hit $1 billion in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days, and OpenAI is expanding self-service ads to new regions. Tens of thousands of advertisers now use the platform and self-service access thr…
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.”
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