AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in
…There is no concept of usable work actually done, no sense that inefficiencies are rewarded, and no easy way to relate the price paid to the actual cost of production. But it…
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Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior
…Wu also thinks developing its entire stack will mean Alibaba can lower inferencing costs, and that doing so will mean the company’s cloud can rake in plenty of profits as demand…
Microsoft's GitHub suspends Copilot account sign-ups
…request multiplier as part of promotional pricing until April 30th. The discontinued Opus 4.6 incurred a 3x premium. So the new option is more costly, at least on paper – although there…
Cheap Chinese models are overtaking Anthropic
…faces rivals who deliver similar results for one tenth of the price or less. When Kilo Code compared the cost of Claude 4.6 Opus to MiniMax M2.7 earlier a few…
Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem
…Cisco had the same idea, which is why it decided to develop its own hypervisor called NFVIS-for-UC just to support its calling applications. MORE CONTEXT AMD puts $250M into Nutanix…
Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11
…screens.” Microsoft wants to do this to give developers “a simpler, more unified path to reach more players while helping reduce development costs.” Fair enough, if that means creating games for both…
Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized for Chinese AI
…a “64-bit multi-core CPU IP.” MORE CONTEXT Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to…
Anthropic: Claude quota drain not caused by cache tweaks
…minute cache costs 25 percent more in tokens, and writing to the one-hour cache 100 percent more, but reading from cache is around 10 percent of the base price. Jarred Sumner…
Cops hand Motorola £25M to keep 2000-era radios alive
…200M price cap for Airwave service rejected IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door Supporting Airwave technology while developing the ESN has cost a combined…
Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most
…supply chains choking critical component costs everywhere except Cupertino, there is no Windows laptop that can duke it out with the Macbook Neo at the same price point on two vital points…