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archive.ph: DeepSeek To Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model (May 23, 2026)
DeepSeek will make permanent a 75% discount on its V4‑Pro model, keeping developer prices at one quarter of their original level. -
aiweekly.co: Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun (May 22, 2026)
Microsoft cancelled its internal Claude Code pilot after token-based billing consumed an annual AI budget in months, and is moving developers to GitHub Copilot. -
WSJ: The Secrets Revealed in SpaceX’s IPO Filing (May 20, 2026)
The February xAI deal has driven massive cash burn and capex with xAI reporting $3.2B revenue while the company also signed a $1.25B/month compute-rental deal with Anthropic through May 2029.
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WSJ: Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter (May 20, 2026)
Anthropic will more than double revenue to $10.9 billion in Q2, and post a $559 million operating profit as enterprise demand for Claude surges. Growth may lift its valuation above OpenAI’s. -
NY Times: Powered by A.I., Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years (May 19, 2026)
Google redesigned its search box after 25 years, making it larger and able to accept longer queries, images, and video via Gemini 3.5 Flash. It adds chat follow-ups, AI agents, shopping tools, and video editing. -
WSJ: Google Unveils New Gemini AI Agent for Personal Tasks (May 19, 2026)
Google unveiled Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent that acts across its products, launching to AI Ultra subscribers at $100/month. It also announced Gemini Omni video tools, faster Gemini 3.5 models. -
Farnam Street: Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI (Apr. 22, 2026)
Greg Brockman recounts OpenAI’s founding, the Napa plan, the 72-hour crisis after Sam Altman’s firing, and the shift from nonprofit to commercial structure. He discusses AI’s rapid progress, internal tools, access to AGI, and job impacts. -
Arnon Shimoni: The current AI pricing was always going to go away (May 22, 2026)
The AI subsidy era is ending as GPU and memory costs surge, and cheaper inference has driven huge demand, breaking flat-rate AI plans. Products must shift to per-action, credit, or hybrid pricing, or face shrinking margins. -
NY Times: To A.I. Executives, We’re All Just ‘Meat Computers’ (May 24, 2026)
The “meat computer” metaphor, once philosophical, is now used by tech leaders like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Andrej Karpathy, framing humans as biological machines. -
NY Times: White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I. (May 22, 2026)
The White House approved a secret $9 billion request to buy advanced chips so the CIA and NSA can run the latest AI models on classified systems. -
Waco Trib: McLennan County leaders say data center ban not an option (May 23, 2026)
Hill County approved a one-year ban on rural data center construction, drawing public support but raising legal doubts. McLennan County officials say they won’t copy the move. -
WSJ: Workday’s Returning CEO Has a Plan to Survive the AI Era (May 21, 2026)
Aneel Bhusri returned to lead Workday’s “re-founding,” streamlining teams and AI agents, and accelerating AI-driven HR, finance, travel, and IT service-management products to compete with startups and incumbents.