Liz Ticong

Smarter AI is driving up costs for developers as token-hungry workflows balloon bills, while startups feel the squeeze and larger firms absorb the hit with scale.

Chinese leader promoted “true multilateralism” at the SCO summit in Tianjin, framing the bloc as a counterweight to Western dominance.

A US appeals court struck down most of President Trump’s global tariffs, ruling he overstepped his authority and setting up a Supreme Court fight.

All shipments to the US now face duties, with the White House ending exemptions to curb fentanyl, close trade loopholes, and reduce deficits.

Wyoming has issued the Frontier Stable Token, the first state-issued stablecoin in the US. This milestone aligns with Trump’s pledge to make the country the “crypto capital of the world.”

Kairos Power’s Hermes 2 reactor uses liquid salt cooling for safer, lower-cost nuclear energy. It’s set to power Google data centers by 2030.

Broadcom uses AI automation to cut IT workload, reduce costs, and boost efficiency, as industries ramp up adoption in a digital labor shift.

Apple’s $3,499 Vision Pro faces slow adoption and a thin immersive video library, as the company takes a cautious approach while planning future updates.

In addition, through Google’s AI for Education Accelerator, students at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University will gain free access to AI certifications and training programs.

A North Korean spy’s computer was hacked, leaking phishing logs, stolen South Korean government email platform source code, and links to Chinese hackers.

Microsoft is targeting Meta’s top AI staff with multimillion-dollar offers, internal docs show, amid rising stakes in the Big Tech talent war.

We look at hallucination rates for AI models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and xAI.