Azure Functions shipped a serverless agents runtime in public preview at Build 2026. Agents are defined in .agent.md markdown ...
The Inflation Reduction Act’s attempt to improve insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries—by capping out-of-pocket costs at $35—was associated with lower out-of-pocket costs and increased insulin ...
AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on ...
Perplexity AI announced a platform at Computex that dynamically routes AI inference between PCs and cloud servers in real time, acting as an “air-traffic controller” for AI tasks. The chip-agnostic ...
Token-based billing for GitHub Copilot went live today, and 4.7 million paid subscribers woke up to a fundamentally different product than the one they paid for yesterday. The new GitHub AI Credits ...
AI Usage Policies are being explored by employers to balance efficiency, human judgment, and employee skill development. Trump hits out ahead of birthright citizenship ruling by Supreme Court CBS ...
The World Cup is bringing the world’s best soccer players to the New York area — and sex workers are scrambling to score. Escorts are experiencing a spike in bookings ahead of the arrival of 1.2 ...
A company has reportedly faced unexpectedly high expenses after unrestricted access to the AI system Anthropic led to massive token consumption. Heavy use of AI coding tasks and unchecked automation ...
Use of artificial intelligence by big companies is exploding—and the soaring cost has some of them pumping the brakes in a way that could complicate AI’s triumphal march across the economy. Executives ...
More and more companies are realizing that AI might not be worth its sky-high price tag—at least, not without limits. One company reportedly learned that the hard way, after its employees blew through ...
Test-time scaling (TTS) has emerged as a proven method to improve the performance of large language models in real-world applications by giving them extra compute cycles at inference time. However, ...
Starbucks Corp. is tying most tech workers’ bonuses to how much they’re using artificial intelligence as the coffee chain seeks to improve efficiency. A quarter of bonuses paid to tech employees will ...