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AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report
By Jon Martindale published
Premium Microsoft and Uber are both considering refining their AI strategies as costs mount.

Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company ruined their life
By Bruno Ferreira published
Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits

AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee 'tokenmaxxing' backfires
By Jowi Morales published
Agentic AI is consuming so many tokens that it's draining AI budgets way faster than expected. Jevons Paradox rings true 161 years after it was coined.
Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs
By Hassam Nasir published
Only available with games downloaded via the Xbox PC app.

Microsoft launches Cloud‑Initiated Driver Recovery for remote rollback of faulty updates
By Mark Tyson published
Microsoft introduces Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, an important Windows reliability change designed to minimize buggy driver mayhem.

Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores
By Luke James published
Amazon is the latest hyperscaler where employees have been caught inflating AI token consumption to hit internal usage targets.

Compromised Mistral AI and TanStack packages may have exposed GitHub, cloud and CI/CD credentials in 'mini Shai Hulud' malware infection
By Etiido Uko published
The malware reportedly refused to run on Russian-language systems but could execute a destructive payload under certain geographic conditions.

Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says
By Luke James published
The project was supposed to bring a geothermal-powered data center to the Olkaria region in Kenya's Rift Valley.
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