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Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…
UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit
The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers
Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.…
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools
Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database
Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. …
The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown
The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.…
Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm
The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific
Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.…
Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins
Medical and utility tech companies hacked by digital intruders
Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…