Google wants your app code so badly, it’s willing to pay for it

Google is offering to pay Android developers for access to their code through a “confidential content offer pilot.” The program is framed as a revenue opportunity, but the link in the email tells a different story.

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history,” remarked CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.

AethexAI raises $3M to build voice AI infrastructure for Africa and the Middle East

AethexAI, a UK voice AI infrastructure company building for enterprises across emerging markets, today announced a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures and the launch of its platform. The rou…

AMD’s Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects — AMD’s Vera Rubin rival surfaces, but the downsides of Ethernet could hamstring performance

AMD’s Helios set to compete against Nvidia’s NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system later this year, but its UALink-over-Ethernet interconnection may affect performance in certain workloads before real UALink interconnects are depl…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming ‘a huge issue’ — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme

OpenAI’s clients are complaining about out-of-control AI spending, and they’re asking Sam Altman to make it more efficient so they don’t blow their annual AI budgets in just one quarter.

How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits

Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small to interest one. She reads each one carefully, mindful of how daunting…

China is moving beyond super-apps to embrace AI agents that do it all for you

Alibaba’s Qwen and Tencent’s WeChat are pushing China’s app economy toward AI agents that can order food, book travel, shop, pay, and move through services from a chat prompt.

The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners
The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners

Artificial Intelligence is entering the late stage of its hype cycle. Not a collapse. A correction. For the past two years, AI has dominated venture capital flows, with capital pouring into the sector at unprecedented scale and startups multiplying rap…

You can literally save the planet by being less polite to AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini

A new UN report reveals that keeping your AI prompts short and concise could save enough electricity to power millions of homes. Here’s why your words literally matter.

Complexity is the ceiling: software design in the age of AI coding
Complexity is the ceiling: software design in the age of AI coding

AI has made writing code faster than ever. The harder work is understanding a system and changing it without breaking it. That has not gotten cheaper, and it now decides how much you can hand to a machine. Introduction In 1987, in an essay called “No S…