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Tokenpocalypse: why the AI bill is rising even though prices are falling

Accenture is fighting soaring token spend, Uber burned its annual AI budget in four months — while the price per token keeps falling. The paradox has a name, a cause, and a fix that isn't a hard cap.

MiniMax H3 and the small print: the best local video model Europe isn't allowed to use

MiniMax released the weights of its H3 video model — a genuine 'local Sora'. Then you read the licence, which excludes the EU, the US, the UK and South Korea. A look at what that means, and at Mistral's answer to it.

AI that does research: Astra solves open maths problems — and Google's AI veteran leaves

An internal OpenAI model solved ten decade-old open problems in maths and computer science, with machine-checkable proofs, for around USD 2,000 of compute. Four days later, Jeff Dean left Google. Both point the same way.

The open-weights letter: 50 corporations signed, two did not

Nvidia's Jensen Huang asked Washington not to restrict downloadable models. Around 50 companies signed within days — but Anthropic and Amazon stayed away, and their reasons say a lot about where the industry is heading.

The three red threads of our 4th Gen AI Conference

On 25 June, our 4th Gen AI Conference brought speakers and practitioners to Berlin. Instead of recapping every talk, we distilled the day into three observations that ran through almost every session.

SaaSpocalypse? Starbucks is building its own software now

Starbucks is replacing Microsoft and IBM systems with software it builds itself using generative AI. A coffee company taking on enterprise vendors — and what it means for your next contract.

The first model recall in history — and how it ended

In June, Claude Fable 5 became the first AI model pulled from the market by government order. Eighteen days later it was back. Here is what the episode tells us about model access as a business risk.