Palantir (PLTR) CEO Alex Karp spoke out against the token pricing model being pushed by frontier labs such as Anthropic (ANTHRO) and OpenAI (OPENAI) during an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. "I'm ...

Artificial intelligence is expensive to use, many companies discovered. That has led to a new era of saving costs. Credit...Andrea Chronopoulos Supported by By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco ...

In ad tech, everything is becoming, well, everything. Viant has released a publisher data feed and dashboard-style product called Viant Publisher Solutions or VPS for short, because why not. The tool ...

At the Visa Payments Forum 2026, the global payments providers revealed a suite of technologies centered on artificial intelligence, stablecoins, and enhanced digital tokens. According to the update ...

Workflow automation vendor Pegasystems Inc. today unveiled a broad set of artificial intelligence enhancements aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI agents in mission-critical business processes ...

Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months after ...

For technical decision-makers deploying autonomous agents, the primary bottleneck has rarely been initial model intelligence. Instead, it is state decay—the tendency of an agent framework to lose its ...

Just last month, the most important metric in Silicon Valley was tokens burned—the units of measurement for the computing power being used by AI models. CEOs were giving employees the Matthew ...

AI is turning out to be more expensive than enterprises expected, and CFOs are now trading future headcount for tokens. Roughly 95% of enterprise AI still runs on the priciest frontier models even for ...

On benchmarks, Opus 4.8 is a step up rather than a leap. It scores 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified (vs. 87.6% for Opus 4.7), 69.2% on the harder SWE-bench Pro (vs. 64.3%), and 74.6% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 ...

HANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alipay today introduced its full-stack AI payment solution to partners across industries, ranging from AI companies to traditional retailers, and debuted two new ...