NVIDIA Takes Aim at the $200 Billion PC Processor Market
At Computex in Taipei on June 1, NVIDIA unveiled a chip that puts the company in a business it has never been in: making the central processor of a personal…
MiniMax Pushes Open-Weight Models Into the Agentic Frontier
The release notes landed on a Monday, and within days the weight files were on Hugging Face for anyone to download. MiniMax, the Chinese AI company best known for its…
GitHub’s New Copilot Billing Has Developers Doing the Math
The change went live at midnight UTC, and by morning the developer forums were full of arithmetic. GitHub switched Copilot from a flat-rate subscription model to token-based billing on June…
Treasury Seizes $1 Billion in Iranian Crypto, Expanding a New Sanctions Weapon
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that American authorities had seized roughly $1 billion in cryptocurrency tied to Iran, the largest U.S. action of its kind against a single country’s…
A New Jersey Town’s Data-Center Ban Signals a Growing Backlash
In a small city in southern New Jersey, the AI boom hit a brick wall. On May 19, Millville’s Board of Commissioners voted to prohibit data centers in every zoning…
Spain Blocks Polymarket and Kalshi in Gambling Crackdown
Spanish users who opened Polymarket or Kalshi this week found the sites unreachable. Spain’s gambling regulator ordered internet providers to block the two prediction-market platforms on the ground that they…
The $500,000 Token Bill: AI Costs Test Silicon Valley’s Faith
The figure circulates privately among AI executives, usually in the form of a question: do you know what one of your users is costing you? A report this week by…
Google Resets Gemini Quotas to Placate Developers
A developer asks a chatbot to fix a typo, draft a function, or summarize an email, and watches the same meter drain that a heavy coding session uses. Complaints of…
Uber Burns Through Its AI Budget in Four Months
Uber Technologies set an artificial intelligence budget for 2026 that was supposed to last the year. It lasted four months. Andrew Macdonald, the company’s president, said publicly that Uber exhausted…
Global AI Usage Rises for a Fifth Week, Led by Chinese Models
The counter on OpenRouter’s dashboard keeps climbing. The service, which routes traffic from developers to hundreds of AI models, recorded 28.9 trillion tokens of usage in the week ending May…
