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The Trillion-Dollar Token Trap: Why Microsoft and Uber Are Pulling the Plug on Cloud AI Billing

Hacker Noon

The Trillion-Dollar Token Trap: Why Microsoft and Uber Are Pulling the Plug on Cloud AI Billing

The generative AI boom sold the enterprise world a beautiful promise: infinite productivity for a predictable price. However, as the industry scales its adoption in 2026, a harsh financial reality check is hitting corporate balance sheets…

Hacker Noon

Musk Leaves Investors Starstruck at Dimon’s SpaceX Extravaganza

Bloomberg

Musk Leaves Investors Starstruck at Dimon’s SpaceX Extravaganza

Elon Musk can still enchant investors with his vision of the future.

Bloomberg

Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100,000 illegal insects

Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100,000 illegal insects

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — More than 100,000 live cockroaches illegal to keep in Australia were confiscated from a single breeder in the country’s largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates, officials said Friday. The haul of Madagascar…

'It's a very big deal' - curlew eggs hatch after being saved from wildfire

BBC

'It's a very big deal' - curlew eggs hatch after being saved from wildfire

The four chicks, which hatched from the eggs, are being cared for until they are old and strong enough to be released.

BBC

Develop indigenous tech security solutions, defence minister tells innovators

The Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (Rtd), has called on Nigerian innovators, startups, and researchers to direct their expertise toward developing homegrown solutions to the nation’s security challenges. Musa also disclosed…

China unveils world’s first superfast quantum memory, paving way for practical computing

South China Morning Post

China unveils world’s first superfast quantum memory, paving way for practical computing

Chinese scientists have created the world’s first superfast memory for quantum computers, solving a critical data-reading bottleneck and paving the way for big-data challenges such as drug discovery and detecting fraudulent financial…

South China Morning Post

Ateneo scientists identify 3 Visayas straits as top sites for tidal power

Ateneo scientists identify 3 Visayas straits as top sites for tidal power

MANILA, Philippines—Harnessing just a fraction of the Philippines’ tidal energy resource could theoretically generate enough electricity to match the country’s current power consumption, according to Ateneo de Manila University researchers…

Auto Policy to incorporate EV, CNG-powered vehicles – FG

The Federal Government said it is reviewing Nigeria’s automotive policy to accommodate emerging technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered vehicles, and other alternative energy solutions. Minister…

Biggest universal magnetic map unlocks new chapter of space research

ABC News

Biggest universal magnetic map unlocks new chapter of space research

Data gathered by scientists at the Square Kilometre Array has resulted in a new "map" detailing the magnetic web of our observable universe.

ABC News

Australia seizes 100,000 cockroaches in bug-breeder bust

Australia seizes 100,000 cockroaches in bug-breeder bust

SYDNEY, Australia — Wildlife officers have busted an illegal cockroach-breeding operation in rural Australia, seizing a skin-crawling haul worth more than $100,000 on the black market for exotic bugs. More than 100,000 contraband…

Africa: School in a Hot World - What Research Is Saying About Children's Health and Learning

[The Conversation Africa] Climate change is making southern Africa hotter. While much attention has focused on climate impacts like droughts, floods and food insecurity, another crisis is unfolding quietly inside classrooms. Research has…

Congo-Kinshasa: Two Scientists On Their Race to Make a New Ebola Vaccine

[The Conversation Africa] As health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to battle an ongoing Ebola outbreak, scientists around the world are racing to develop a vaccine against the strain of the virus that's causing…