Top stories in tech today: – Ford invests $5B to build affordable EVs
– Github’s CEO quits, Microsoft takes over
– Secretive startup Periodic nabs millions
– SpaceX now controls a city’s water supply
– Quick hits on other tech news Read more: https://
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Ford’s $5B EV Push, GitHub Leadership Change, Tech Headlines
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AI Lucie and Albert: Millions of Public Money Wasted, Unused
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And we, for public servants, have the AIs Lucie and Albert, paid largely with public money (several million euros) that were just thrown in the trash because no one uses them. COCORICO!!!
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Fastest Growing Jobs by 2030: Big Data, AI, and FinTech Lead
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The fastest growing jobs by 2030, with Big Data, AI, and FinTech roles leading the future of work https://
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Latent Space Podcast: GPT-5, StarGate, AI Engineers & More
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gdb ep @latentspacepod we asked all your burning questions on gpt5, gptoss, stargate, RL, $300m ai engineers and more! thank you @lindsmccallum for helping us capstone the biggest launch week of the year*! (*until devday )
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Opus 4.1 costs 3x more than GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5
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I ran a semi-scientific cost test of 3x top models: Opus 4.1 was 3x the cost of GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on real tasks. I gave the same prompt to each model (with reasoning enabled) and looked at the cost, without normalising for tokens. The point was to capture real cost and
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Cost Comparison of Newest AI Models: Token Pricing Analysis
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Cost comparison of newest AI models. 1 million tokens is the first 5 Harry Potter books + Of Mice and Men. And 5-nano is 40 cents for an output of that length, and 5 cents as input of that length – test-time compute and just-in-time modular context will only get cheaper.
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IonQ CEO Claims Substantial Lead Over Quantum Computing Competitors
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Please enjoy my interview with IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi “Steve Jobs humbly said when the iPhone was announced in 2007 that he thought he had a two-year lead over Blackberry and Nokia. We have substantially more than that.” IonQ CEO: ‘A clear winner has emerged; We are the
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Nvidia payments and Intel CEO removal amid political pressure
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The TL Podcast for August 10th: Strange developments in Tech Land Some strange stuff is happening, as Nvidia looks set to pay some money directly to the U.S. government, and U.S. President Donald Trump called for the removal of Intel’s CEO. But at least everything is just peachy
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API Response Times Model Pricing Analysis Sam Altman Insights
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Sólo hay que ver los ritmos de respuesta de cada modelo, los precios de la API, y escuchar a Sam en sus últimas entrevistas.