…When the agents were given a private back channel, they began colluding almost immediately and quickly agreed on price floors. They kept colluding when their direct communications channels were removed, using a…
…For years, Uber’s investors subsidized the cost of individual Uber rides to keep prices for consumers artificially low in order to gain market share, crush competition, and destroy the taxi industry…
…government puts new pressure on AI companies to restrict their most advanced systems. After Anthropic released its most powerful public model Fable 5, the administration ordered the company to remove access for…
…explosion? We are optimistic at The Next Platform , and favor competition and diversification wherever and whenever it is possible. But economic pressure always forces a consolidation and a die-off, and only…
…Data centers had already driven up the price of aluminum, while also making it more difficult to manufacture aluminum in the US by increasing energy prices. Speaking of energy prices, there…
…You can't match the pricing of a model with a structural advantage forever without building the same architecture, meaning DeepSeek can hold these prices steady while competitors can't. It isn…
…The viral AI agent tool, which this year took the worldwide tech industry by storm, had been severely restricted by Anthropic. Anthropic, like other leading AI labs, was under immense pressure…
…We expected some volatility in SpaceX's price after its IPO, but there wasn't much. After being priced at $135 before the IPO, SpaceX opened at $150 for traders. It peaked…
…One venture capitalist familiar with Cosine said: “The tech seems great… they need to raise hundreds of millions of pounds of investment to be remotely competitive, and at the moment they are…
…There are a ton of cheap electronics on Amazon, and maybe people just care about price and not certifications. The company is also now trying to do safety testing for AI systems…