DeepSeek built a Claude Code rival, then quadrupled its prices

Start with the money, because it is the part every developer noticed. From 16 August, a million output tokens through DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $3.96 at peak, up from $0.87. V4-Flash goes from $0.28 to $1 [...]

YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool

Interior design creator Cliff Tan has apologised to his 2.4 million YouTube subscribers for a paid advertisement for Dreamina, ByteDance’s AI creative tool. It is the second creator apology in a wee [...]

A $1.3bn loan will help build a Texas data centre for Anthropic

An investment firm is lending about $1.3bn to help build a giant AI data centre in Texas that will house Anthropic. It is one of the latest jumbo deals fuelling the AI boom. Eagle Point Credit Managem [...]

SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader for its rockets and chips

SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader. The company wants someone to build and lead a trading team for its own fuel and power needs, according to Bloomberg. Julian Hast, who covers US gas markets from [...]

Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.

ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The Dublin company is a contract research organisation, which means pharmaceutical firms [...]

Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday, when two [...]

Taco Bell’s voice AI expansion shows the drive-thru has entered a new phase

Voice AI in the drive-thru is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operating decision for quick-service restaurants. Food On Demand recently reported that Taco Bell has expanded its voice AI [...]

Monday.com is cutting 20 percent of its workforce as it pivots to an AI work platform

Monday.com is cutting roughly 20 percent of its global workforce, about 620 people, as the Israeli project management company restructures around what it calls its AI Work Platform. The company disclo [...]

Mozilla adds a built-in ad blocker to Firefox on iOS, built on Apple’s WebKit API

Mozilla has launched a built-in ad blocker for Firefox on iOS, built on Apple’s WebKit content blocker technology with the EasyList filter and switched off by default. Apple opened its browser engin [...]