Writer says its new Palmyra X6 model cuts AI agent costs by 52% as token spending surges

Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform used by Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, released its new flagship model Palmyra X6 today, alongside a rebuilt agent orchestratio [...]

Nebius revenue grew 454%. Most of the cash came from customers paying in advance

Nebius rents out computing power. It buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centres, and charges companies to train and run AI models on them. The trade calls this a neocloud. It is based in Amsterdam, [...]

Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut

Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade — while temporarily cutting API pr [...]

Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business

A St. Louis PBS station is suing a data center provider to rescue a 70-year archive. [...]

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars. [...]

OVH Cloud tells users to expect 87% price rise — with gaming servers hit particularly hard

OVHcloud's cheapest gaming server goes from €336 a month to nearly double that, as it cites memory costs that are six times what they were a year ago. [...]

How Heidi built production-ready AI for healthcare at global scale

Presented by MongoDBBuilding AI that is accurate, secure, and reliable is a major engineering feat for organizations subject to the compliance obligations that govern healthcare, financial services, a [...]

‘Once the right balance between cloud and local AI is found, organisations will find the sweet spot between cost, performance and security’: The future of AI strategy and how businesses can get the best results

Token costs, trust, and security all shape an AI strategy [...]

Baidu missed revenue expectations as its ad business sank faster than AI cloud could grow

China's Baidu reported second-quarter revenue of 31.3 billion yuan, below analyst expectations, as online marketing continued to slide [...]