OpenAI's $122B in funding comes at a perilous moment
…yet knock the AI boom off course OPINION OpenAI has secured an additional $122 billion in capital from a diverse group of investors and reached a nominal $852 billion valuation, the highest…
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AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in
…or mismanagement, and Bill Shock still works at AWS, but you have a chance of linking results to costs. Good luck with LLM-based services, let alone AI agents. Add this lack…
Microsoft's GitHub suspends Copilot account sign-ups
…study finds flattery will get AI everywhere AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London Now, as part of GitHub's cost cutting and service realignment, Binder said the operation…
Cheap Chinese models are overtaking Anthropic
…company, which has raised $30 billion , has only managed to make $5 billion while spending $10 billion on inference and training alone. Against this backdrop, recent cost-saving moves designed to reduce…
Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access
…Another hidden cost is that open source maintainers must deal with a flood of bogus AI slop security reports. Some AI bug reporting is great and helpful. Unfortunately, most of what programmers…
Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments
…Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure Chromebooks, the low-cost computing option popular with education buyers, will be squeezed hardest…
Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security
…in June, with an expected cost of $1.6 billion. During its most recent earnings call on March 10, Oracle said it expected to spend $50 billion on capital expenditures during fiscal…
Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028
…More V12N news Nutanix last week launched an “Agentic AI solution” it says tweaks its AHV hypervisor, Kubernetes distribution, Enterprise AI platform, and Flow software-defined networking to provide a platform on…
Tiny violins as Amazon execs face pay packet pinch
…Amazon’s revenue rose 12 percent year-on-year to $716.9 billion in 2025 , while net income climbed 31 percent to $77.7 billion, thanks in no small part to AWS…
Microsoft shivs OpenAI with new AI models for speech, images
…The AI hype-leader is burning cash and is expected to lose $14 billion this year, according to internal projections published by The Information. An internal effort to streamline its focus on…