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Uber caps employee spending on artificial intelligence after going over budget in four months

Uber caps employee spending on artificial intelligence after going over budget in four months

🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Anthropic,claude code,Uber ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AI has become expensive, and some companies are scaling back its use in an attempt to cut costs. This group includes Uber, which recently set internal usage caps as a way to reduce its costly spending on artificial intelligence. Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that sets a monthly limit of $1,500 per employee and per proxy encryption tool, including Anthropic's Claude Code, or Cursor. Usage can be tracked through an internal dashboard that every employee can access, although —…
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GitHub Copilot app · GitHub

GitHub Copilot app · GitHub

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: What you get in the technical previewThe full dev lifecyclePick up an issue or PR from your inbox, put agents on it, review the diff, and merge. Or let an agent close the loop for you.Parallel agents, fully in viewRun multiple agent sessions across repos, each isolated and tracked in real time.Built to adapt to how you workAutomate recurring workflows and extend agents with MCP servers and your own custom skills.Tell us about yourself, and we’ll see if you’re a good fit for the…
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Martin Scorsese has become Hollywood’s latest voice on artificial intelligence, and it’s unlikely

Martin Scorsese has become Hollywood’s latest voice on artificial intelligence, and it’s unlikely

✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and advisor to AI photo-production startup Black Forest Labs, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors only uses technology in storyboarding. “For 70 years, I have been creating my own comics,” he told the Times. He said this tool helps him communicate his vision to cinematographers and production designers faster and more efficiently. Black Forest Labs is a 70-person group headquartered not in San Francisco, but…
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Announcing Intelligent Terminal 0.1 – Windows Command Line

Announcing Intelligent Terminal 0.1 – Windows Command Line

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Today we’re announcing Intelligent Terminal version 0.1, an open-source experimental fork of Windows Terminal with native agent integration. Get started Install from the Microsoft Store: Intelligent Terminal on the Microsoft Store Install via WinGet: winget install Microsoft.IntelligentTerminal Visit our GitHub repository for documentation and to file issues. Here’s a look at what’s in this experimental stage. We will continue to iterate and listen to you, the community, as we improve the product, fix bugs, and add new features. The agent status bar at a glance…
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Focused Energy raises a massive $240 million Series A for its laser-powered fusion technology

Focused Energy raises a massive $240 million Series A for its laser-powered fusion technology

💥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Fundraising,Startups,Focused Energy,fusion power,lasers,nuclear fusion,Prime Movers Lab 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Focused Energy recently raised a $240 million Series A round, one of the largest early-stage rounds for a fusion energy startup. The new round, announced last week, brings the company's total private equity capital to $300 million, the company told TechCrunch. The startup has also received $200 million in grants, collectively making it one of the most funded startups. Germany-based Focused Energy is developing a reactor that uses lasers to compress fusion fuel, a technique known as inertial confinement. The…
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A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time! We’ve done our best to cite our sources, but this page has not been professionally fact-checked. This workshop was first run as part of two pilot workshops with the Tech Equity Coalition, in partnership with the ACLU of Washington, in October 2019. A zine based on this work was included at the CtrlZ.AI zine fair and the HOT MESS digital exhibition in 2020. Introduction In this tour of downtown Seattle, we’ll…
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OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white collar work

OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white collar work

🚀 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI ​​Lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, which aims to expand the proxy tool's uses in the workplace. Along with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used in knowledge work, finding that its uses extend beyond software engineering. “Codex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, an increase of more than 6-fold since the launch of the desktop app in February,”…
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Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson’s Web Log

Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson’s Web Log

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When we first announced the transition to Plasma Wayland, one of Martin's slides from stated, "It's done when it's done!" That talk was 15 years ago! Nothing in software is never truly "done", but as announced previously we are finally at a point where we're ready to retire the X11 and put all our focus on the future. As of today, the Plasma X11 session you can log into has been officially removed, and we will start a mass cleanup of X11-specific code soon.…
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How does Europe’s AI strategy differ from Silicon Valley’s?

How does Europe’s AI strategy differ from Silicon Valley’s?

✨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,Vivatech,Startup Battlefield 200,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The global AI race is often framed as a battle between the United States and China. But at VivaTech, Europe is expected to introduce a completely different model. In recent years, Silicon Valley has pushed aggressively toward scale, speed, and market dominance. On the other hand, Europe provides a counterweight: a vision for AI centered around industrial competitiveness and technological sovereignty. This difference has become more apparent over the past year. While American AI companies continue to race to launch increasingly…
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AI Doesn’t Have ROI

AI Doesn’t Have ROI

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s finances, and the AI bubble writ large. My Hater's Guides To the SaaSpocalypse, Private Credit and Private Equity are essential to understanding our current financial system, and my guide to how OpenAI Kills Oracle pairs nicely with my Hater's Guide…
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