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Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said he can’t believe how much his software startup is spending on AI. Loading audio narration… “Our costs have more than tripled since November of 25,” Palihapitiya said during an episode of the “All-In Podcast” posted on Friday. “Between the inference cost that we pay AWS, which is ginormous, between our cost with Cursor, between Anthropic, we are just spending millions.”Palihapitiya said 8090, which he started with “the goal of replacing/rewriting all the legacy software in the world,” is trending toward spending $10 million a year on AI costs. His concern about ballooning bills comes as…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gautami Nadkarni, 33, who lives in New Jersey. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… In 2024, six years into my time at Google, I started questioning myself.I joined as a customer engineer in the Google Cloud org in 2018. My job was to design scalable cloud solutions that would help Google’s enterprise customers manage their data and operations. At the time, cloud computing was the thing everyone in the industry was talking about.By 2023 and 2024, AI was cropping up more in my projects and…
Alphabet’s chief executive just got a new equity pay package that, for the first time, ties a chunk of his payout to Waymo, the company’s robotaxi service. Loading audio narration… In an SEC filing posted on Friday, the company awarded CEO Sundar Pichai a three-year equity cycle that could be worth up to $692 million if the CEO meets the board’s performance targets.Much of the package remains unchanged from the CEO’s 2022 award, according to the filing. The new incentives revolve around the value of two of Alphabet’s “Other Bets”: Waymo and Wing Aviation, a drone delivery service.According to the…
BRONKHORSTSPRUIT, South Africa (AP) — At the command of a female instructor, a line of girls and women, some wearing pink ear protectors, shoot five rounds at a target with 9 mm pistols as they undergo firearm training at a range in the agricultural town of Bronkhorstspruit just outside South Africa’s capital, Pretoria.The group, some as young as 13 and others up to 65, are looking for ways to protect themselves in a country where gender-based violence is such a critical problem that it was declared a national disaster by the government in November.“Check your grip, check your line of…
Omaha, Nebraska — Surrounded by friends and family at his birthday party this week, 10-year-old True Beethe of Omaha, Nebraska, was on cloud nine, but his bliss had not come easy.Back in 2022, at the age of 5, True needed a heart procedure for a serious congenital heart defect known as hypoplastic right heart syndrome.He was under the care of social services at the time. On the day of the surgery, for an unknown reason, he was just dropped off at Children’s Nebraska, an Omaha children’s hospital.Anesthesiologist Dr. Amy Beethe found him in pre-operative care.”He was just sitting there all…
Mayer Mizrachi, the 38-year-old mayor of Panama City, wants Elon Musk to build him a pedestrian tunnel under the Panama Canal. And Musk’s Boring Company recently announced it just might.Panama City this week was named one of 16 finalists — the only one outside the United States — in the company’s Tunnel Vision challenge, which offers the winning municipality a free tunnel that can be used for freight, pedestrians, water, utilities or Loop — the electric, underground system that uses Tesla vehicles to transport people.Mizrachi’s idea is a 0.6 mile pedestrian tunnel under the Panama Canal, which would give city…
President Donald Trump’s statements in September about Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism have likely had a real-world impact despite experts and years of evidence disproving any link, according to a new study.After a Sept. 22 White House briefing, in which Trump, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials said they had found an “answer to autism” and told pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol (the brand name for acetaminophen or paracetamol), emergency room orders for the drug took a noticeable downturn, according to research published March 5 in the medical journal The Lancet.The study found…
LG just took the wraps off its 2026 OLED TVs: the C6 and G6. They’re up for preorder now and will start shipping later this month. I got to see both in person during a visit to LG’s US headquarters in New Jersey, and they left a strong first impression.The C6 is LG’s new midrange OLED, replacing last year’s C5. As you’d expect, it gets a typical year-over-year boost in picture processing. But here’s where things get interesting. For 2026, LG is offering a submodel called the C6H, and it’s the TV I’m most excited about. The C6H is available…
The Pentagon’s R&D chief said the Department of Defense was “scared” about Anthropic shutting off access to its AI during a critical moment.During an appearance on the “All-In Podcast” posted on Friday, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael detailed two pivotal moments that culminated in the Pentagon formally designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, effectively blacklisting one of the nation’s largest AI companies.One of those instances, Michael said, was when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei suggested that the impasse over how the Pentagon could deploy the AI startup’s models could be bridged with a phone call, even…
As Anthropic and the Pentagon clashed over how the military should use AI, another new reality of warfare emerged several thousand miles away: data centers are now targets. Loading audio narration… This week, Amazon said that three of its data centers in the Middle East — two in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain — had been damaged by drone strikes during the US-Iran war.Amazon Web Services, its cloud division, evacuated staff and closed access to at least one data center due to “structural damage” and flooding caused by the Sunday attacks, according to an internal document reviewed…