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AI companies are getting a brutal reality check, and so are their customers. Loading audio narration… As users devour AI tokens, a few frontier AI model makers and hyperscalers are showing signs that they’re the ones being maxxed out.On Monday, Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot said it was pausing new signups for its Student, Pro, and Pro+ plans. It is also tightening its usage limits.On Tuesday, Anthropic said it was experimenting with whether to stop offering Claude Code, its most popular tool, to its lowest-tier paid subscribers. Anthropic later said it was a “test” and that it would inform users before making such…
Earlier this year, Advait Paliwal built an AI tool that he said could act as a student. Given an email and a password, Einstein could log in to Canvas, a portal where professors at colleges across the country upload presentations and list assignments. The bot could attend lectures, write essays, and do homework. Paliwal, 22, says he built it as a joke for a friend who said he was bogged down with coursework, and didn’t plan to code the ultimate cheating tool. It ended up becoming the latest flashpoint in a debate over AI and cheating at colleges.Einstein had a…
India’s mobile app market is generating record revenue, with in-app purchases crossing $300 million in the first quarter, up 33% year-over-year, according to Sensor Tower — but much of that spending is flowing to global platforms. Non-gaming apps were the main driver of growth in Q1, generating over $200 million in in-app purchase revenue — rising 44% year-over-year and increasing their share of overall spending, Sensor Tower said in its report. The gains were led by categories including utilities, video streaming, and generative AI. The progress reflects a broader shift in India’s app market, where annual in-app purchase revenue has…
Building a website has never been easier thanks to AI. But how much easier? Loading audio narration… Vibe-coding tools like Lovable and Anthopic’s Claude Code can take a rough prompt and build a website with little to no human intervention.Established players like Wix let individuals create websites without coding knowledge, but require a human user to decide on design elements and layout.Wix has embraced AI and vibe coding to keep pace with emerging rivals like Lovable. In June last year, it announced that it had acquired Base44, a vibe-coding startup, for $80 million. In January, it announced the launch of…
Elon Musk has pushed back the release date for the long-anticipated Tesla Roadster — and offered another vague timeline for its release. Loading audio narration… On Tesla’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday, the CEO said the company might unveil its next-generation Roadster “in a month or so.””It requires a lot of testing and validation before we can actually have a demo and not have something go wrong with the demo,” Musk said. “But I think it will be one of the most exciting product unveils ever.”Musk said eventually the Roadster would be the only human-driven car in Tesla’s lineup, adding that…
Desperate buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of secondary shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company’s valuation on some sites to $1 trillion, a price that would have seemed unthinkable even a few weeks ago. Loading audio narration… Meanwhile, traders Business Insider spoke with are seeing slumping demand for OpenAI, which is now trading at a discount to Anthropic, despite OpenAI being valued at $852 billion, more than twice Anthropic’s valuation in their most recent funding rounds.Anthropic’s valuation now hovers at around $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, its CEO Kelly Rodriques…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the company’s first-quarter earnings call with a monetary heads-up — or depending on the mindset of the investor, a warning. Tesla’s capital expenditures will skyrocket to $25 billion in 2026, far outpacing its previous annual spend as it races to stay ahead of the competition and transitions to an AI and robotics company, according to its first-quarter earnings report. That figure, which covers what Tesla plans to spend on physical assets outside of its day-to-day operating expenditures, is three times higher than its annual capex budget in previous years. For comparison, Tesla’s annual capital…
At Google Cloud Next this week, the tech giant announced a bevy of new updates to Workspace, its subscription-based productivity suite aimed at professionals. As you might expect, the updates are heavy on AI, integrating new automation tools into various workflows — everything from drafting emails to organizing Google Sheets. Overall, the changes are clearly designed to give office workers a leg up in their pursuit of less busy work. Here’s some of what is new: Workspace Intelligence. Workspace Intelligence, a new AI system built into Google’s office suite, is designed to automate assistance across various tasks. The system draws…
Even two lines on the most expensive mobile-virtual-network-operator (MVNO) plans are less expensive than two lines on the cheapest postpaid plan from a major carrier. And for most people, there’s arguably little to no compromise by going with an MVNO.With that in mind, Mint Mobile, starting at just $15 per line, is the best cell phone plan for two lines overall among the brands we’ve spent extensive time testing for daily use. In comparison, the cheapest major carrier postpaid plans with two lines average $52 per line a month.Mint Mobile operates on T-Mobile’s network, so if T-Mobile’s coverage doesn’t work for you,…
Bluesky isn’t the only company leaning into AI to help build custom feeds, it seems. Amid a slate of recent product releases, X this week announced the launch of Grok-powered Custom Timelines, which let you dive into one of over 75 specific topics through curated feeds that can be pinned to your home tab. The company touted the feature as one of the “biggest changes” to the app to date, saying it uses Grok’s AI to not only build these custom timelines but also personalize them for individual users. The custom feeds are arriving at the same time as X…