InfoWorld

AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll

Growing use of coding agents and consumption-based pricing models could push per-developer AI spending to unprecedented ...
InfoQ

Inside Atlassian’s Forge Billing Architecture for Distributed Usage Tracking at Scale

Atlassian details the Forge billing platform built for usage-based pricing across its cloud ecosystem. It processes ...
The New York Times

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert ...
Wall Street Journal

You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry

John Wall has spent nearly his entire career working for the same company. And when he tells people where he works, nobody has any clue what he’s talking about. “If I tell them I work at QNX,” he said ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

VS Code 1.118 ships a suite of token efficiency features -- including prompt caching with 93% reuse rates and a tool search tool with up to 20% token savings -- just two days after GitHub's ...
WNDU

New Indiana law to use levelized billing to prevent electric bill increases during extreme cold, heat

INDIANA (WPTA) - A new state law could bring change to how you’re billed for electricity. Beginning in July, electric companies, including Indiana Michigan Power and NIPSCO, will be required to enroll ...
Flying

FAA Administrator on ADS-B Billing: ‘That’s Not the Intended Use’

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford is closely monitoring the controversy surrounding airport landing fees, particularly when they utilize ADS-B data. The FAA warns that using ADS-B data for fee ...
CNN

The demise of software engineering jobs has been greatly exaggerated

Computer science and engineering students at the University of Washington, spooked about AI, returned from spring break last week to a surprising email from the department head. “I’m reaching out ...
Wall Street Journal

Companies Aren’t Ripping Out Business Software for AI. Here’s What They’re Doing Instead.

Despite the AI-driven software stock meltdown, America’s largest corporations aren’t ditching their core business software just yet. Instead, they’re using the moment to squeeze better deals from ...
NPR

A college student's perspective on using AI in class

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...
Harvard Business Review

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...