The New York Times

Legal and Lobbying Costs Surge as Universities Face Trump Pressure

Some universities’ tax returns showed that their legal bills had more than doubled. Others reported that their spending on lobbying had risen at least fivefold. By Alan Blinder Alan Blinder has been ...
The Economist

Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs

“It’s going to be an absolute nightmare,” says an executive at a big American tech company. He is talking about an emerging problem for businesses that use artificial intelligence. AI agents—bots that ...
The New York Times

These Young Politicians Want to Fix America’s Housing Problems

A cohort of young Millennial and Gen Z politicians have centered their campaigns this year on housing costs, and the divide is more generational than partisan. A cohort of young Millennial and Gen Z ...
The Next Web

Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.

Enterprise AI bills are tripling despite a 98% drop in per-token prices, as agentic tools drive consumption 18.6x higher per developer. The Linux Foundation is launching the Tokenomics Foundation to ...
Reuters

Australia's CBA flags surging AI costs as tasks grow complex, slams 'work slop'

SYDNEY, June 2 (Reuters) - The cost of using AI will rise in less predictable ways as companies deploy the technology for complex tasks, the head of Australia's biggest bank said on Tuesday, calling ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

On standard, cache-miss pricing, DeepSeek-V4-Pro comes in at roughly one-seventh the cost of GPT-5.5 and about one-sixth (1/6th) the cost of Claude Opus 4.7. With cached input, the gap widens: ...
The Hollywood Reporter

The Trump Administration Is Setting Its Sights on TV’s Most Valuable Programming

The DOJ and FCC are investigating the NFL's national TV deals over concerns that access to games is getting harder and more expensive. It's a review that could benefit Fox and Paramount. By Alex ...
IEEE

Cost Minimization in Energy Communities with Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning and Linear Programming

Abstract: With energy costs on the rise and with ever growing concern for environmental impact, energy providers and regulatory bodies have been pushing for dynamic energy prices as a means to ...
VentureBeat

Google's Nano Banana 2 takes aim at the production cost problem that's kept AI image gen out of enterprise workflows

For the last six months, enterprises wanting to deploy high quality AI image generation at scale have faced an uncomfortable trade-off: pay premium prices for Google's Nano Banana Pro model, or settle ...
CNBC

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology, after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to ...
VTDigger

Benjamin Brickner: Vermont’s cost crises are connected. Our solutions should be, too.

Vermont is better when we’re all informed. Join 30,000+ neighbors who start their day with local news that matters. Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger ...