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Microsoft Pulled Back on Claude, Uber Burned Its 2026 AI Budget by April: The Inference Cost Wall Is Here

Reports that Microsoft cut its use of Anthropic's Claude over exploding costs — and that Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months — signal that enterprise AI economics are hitting a hard ceiling far sooner than anyone planned.

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Half of All GenAI Projects Are Failing, Says Gartner — and Healthcare Shows Why

Gartner researchers report a 50% failure rate across generative AI deployments, with healthcare emerging as a case study in how the trough of disillusionment plays out in high-stakes domains.

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Argentina Launches an AI 'Social Digital Twin' — and the Announcement Video Was Full of Slop

The Milei administration unveiled an AI system designed to simulate citizen sentiment for policy testing, but the rollout was marred by deepfake imagery, grammatical errors, and the exact kind of AI-generated slop the system was ostensibly meant to transcend.

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Microsoft Pulled Back on Claude, Uber Burned Its 2026 AI Budget by April: The Inference Cost Wall Is Here

Half of All GenAI Projects Are Failing, Says Gartner — and Healthcare Shows Why

Argentina Launches an AI 'Social Digital Twin' — and the Announcement Video Was Full of Slop

Newsrooms Are Building 'Editorial Air Gaps' to Keep AI Out of Content

AI Safety Tests Miss Where Words Do the Most Damage, New Research Shows

The Weekend Builder Wave: Autonomous Agents for Invoices, Sales Outreach, and On-Chain Identity

Indie Builders Keep Shipping: Profile Roasters, Website Assistants, and a New Codex

AI Still Can't Pronounce Names Correctly, and Users Are Losing Patience

Google Brings Conversational AI Search to YouTube

Can You Tell If This Research Paper Is AI-Generated? Neither Can Reviewers.

Your AI Agent Wants a Face — and Someone Built a Tool for That