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Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored
US spot Bitcoin ETFs post $425M outflow after brief rebound
US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw their largest single-day outflows in July, with $424.66 million leaving the funds, reversing a...
Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower
The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that
India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business
Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed
US government moves $297M in seized Bitcoin, Ether to Coinbase Prime
The transfers have raised questions over Trump’s Bitcoin reserve pledge, though deposits to Coinbase Prime do not confir...
Gobi X: Creating more energy for AI, not taking it from society
PARTNER CONTENT: How Envision is reversing the datacenter playbook by making computing chase abundant desert power, not...
Thai scammer's $122M wallet, Japan embraces crypto credit: Asia Express
Bitcoin backed mortgages and stablecoin yield are hot topics in Japan right now, as Hyundai experiments with Avalanche f...
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider
Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company
Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’
The port took just 11 days and about $165,000 at API pricing
Bitcoin Covenants Part 4: OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK and OP_CAT
OP_CSFS authenticates signatures over arbitrary data. OP_CAT concatenates stack values into a single message. Together,...
Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street
Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors
Prefect just bought Dagster, another big Airflow rival — and it’s not a data pipeline story
Prefect, best known for the eponymous open-source data pipeline and workflow orchestrator, has announced that it’s acqui...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says you’re paying for AI twice — the second price is worse
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella took to the internet to share his thoughts about the hidden cost of enterprise...
Global law firm launches MiCA compliance tool as crypto companies navigate new EU rules
Reed Smith’s Aquarius platform automates regulatory filings and legal workflows as demand for MiCA compliance tools grow...
The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs
Cheap can be expensive
Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP
Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old d...
Amazon Prime members can get this Asus RTX 5060 for just $2 above MSRP — upgrade to Blackwell gaming power for less than the cost of an RTX 3060
Amazon is giving some Prime customers a deep discount on Asus's Prime RTX 5060 8GB OC, bringing its price to just $2 abo...
German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks
ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option
Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though)
First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy
What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
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