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8 billion tokens a day forced AT&T to rethink AI orchestration — and cut costs by 90%

When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models. So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T personal assistant, they reconstructed the orchestration layer. The result: A multi-agent stack built on LangChain where large language model “super agents” direct smaller, un

Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) with support for agentic tool calling, three of which are available for commercial usage by enterprises and indie developers under the standard open source Apache 2.0 license:Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen3.5-27BDevelopers can download them now on Hugging Face and ModelScope. A fourth model, Qw

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse

Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.

“Karma is real”: Elon Musk reacts after netizen calls out Bill Gates over admission of affair with two Russian women

Soon after, Elon Musk weighed in on the post and penned: This was not the first time Musk took a dig at Bill Gates. Musk regularly condemns Gates for betting against Tesla. In a September 2023 X post, ...

Who Are The Mothers Of Elon Musk’s 14 Kids?

Elon Musk reportedly wants a “legion-level” of children, and he’s well on his way with 14 children from four different women. The mothers of Musk’s many kids include his ex-wife Justine Wilson Musk, ...

Mexican President Sheinbaum considering legal action against Elon Musk

The billionaire accused the Mexican government of being a “narcogobierno,” or a government controlled by drug traffickers.

Musk asks US judge to block OpenAI’s use of WilmerHale probe at trial

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and his artificial intelligence company xAI have asked a federal judge to block jurors at an upcoming trial from considering prominent law firm WilmerHale’s ...

Mexico’s president considers legal action over Elon Musk cartel remark

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government is reviewing possible legal action after tech billionaire Elon Musk suggested she was linked to drug cartels in a post on X. According to the...

Guy Bets Entire Life Savings Against Elon Musk, Wins

If you had to put the entirety of your life savings on a single bet, what would it be? According to the Wall Street Journal, ...

Gushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging

Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.

Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders

Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.

Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends

"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.

The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would.

Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases.

US cybersecurity agency CISA reportedly in dire shape amid Trump cuts and layoffs

Under the first year of the Trump administration, the U.S. cyber agency CISA has faced cuts, layoffs, and furloughs, as bipartisan lawmakers and cybersecurity industry sources say the agency is unprepared to handle a crisis.

Welcome to the post-hype crypto market

Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETHDenver last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether and stablecoins face scrutiny, players like Stripe re-enter the conversation, and startups either find traction or flame out. The hype cycle is over, or at least taking a break. So what comes next?  On […]

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google

Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.

Snapchat announces ‘The Snappys,’ its first-ever creator awards show

Snapchat is the latest social media platform to launch awards for creators, joining TikTok and Instagram.

An accountant won a big jackpot on Kalshi by betting against DOGE

A tax accountant saw Elon Musk fans bidding up a Kalshi prediction market and saw a sure bet to make easy money.

Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia

The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker. This is how we first learned of his arrest, reported the story, and some of the unanswered questions we still have.

Samsung shows off new display tech that adds a privacy screen to apps and notifications

The new privacy tech uses different types of pixels to let you block certain apps and notifications from being viewed by others.