Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
… Those numbers seem to reflect the significant costs OpenAI incurred in training new models and include $10.59 billion in R&D costs paid to Microsoft alone in 2025. …
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Spot testing by Ars Technica found that re-running our simple “build a Minesweeper game” prompt through Claude Haiku 4.5 via Copilot used about 94 credits (you can view the results here). That’s a pretty decent rate for a relatively simple toy project. But it’s also easy to see how those kinds of costs could balloon quickly for requests involving major changes or reviews on complex codebases. You can see that kind of ballooning cost in reports of a single complex prompt burning through 171 Copilot credits, or another spending 700 credits on “a few prompts,” or a couple of Copilot-led commits u
AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments
… In March, Barclays said that Oracle makes less profit per employee than its rivals, CNBC reported at the time. In its SEC filing, Oracle said it spent $1.8 billion on restructuring costs in its fiscal year, which is a 481 percent increase from the prior fiscal year’s $374 million. …
AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. …
The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
… By harnessing excess power capacity among US households, SPAN aims to quickly expand the available compute for AI workloads without the costs and delays associated with trying to build warehouse-size data centers. “Data centers are loud, ugly, and often drive up local electricity bills,” said Chris… …
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
… AI companies are generally facing more challenges in funding and building expensive AI data centers , even as they shift more of the subsidized costs of running AI services onto shocked customers through usage-based pricing . …
Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time
… The remaining $26.5 trillion is believed to come from AI, largely from enterprise applications. “We believe we have identified the largest TAM in human history,” the company states on page 171 of the filing. “We believe our next trillion-dollar market is AI compute, which we contemplate will levera… …
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
… As she explained, people aren’t just educating themselves to keep noisy factories from driving up utility costs, threatening public health, or wasting local resources; some people are, for the first time, experiencing what it’s like to work with their neighbors to overcome adversity through politic… …
3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild
… A commercial humanoid robot still typically costs between $30,000 to $150,000 per unit as companies work to build out supply chains, according to an April 2026 report by the consulting firm McKinsey. …
South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
… Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor Company is racing to mass manufacture humanoid robots developed by its subsidiary, Boston Dynamics, so that the robotic workers can start taking over certain laborious tasks in automotive factories and other workplaces. “We must secure the core elements of AI faster than an… …
Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
… The company further argued that it has paid $17 million in “needless costs,” since a lawsuit over the same two-factor authentication issue ended with a verdict in Twitter’s favor. …