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Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. The ride-hailing giant’s heavy use of tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code sent costs soaring. Engineers loved the productivity boost. Yet executives struggled to point to new customer features or clear returns. COO Andrew Macdonald voiced the frustration in May. ROI questions hung heavy. Now

Gas prices jumped again last month. The national average for regular unleaded stood at $4.096 on Aug. 2, according to AAA. That’s after a volatile spring and summer shaped by conflict halfway around the world. Since late February, when U.S. and Israeli forces struck Iranian targets, oil markets have lurched. Tehran responded by disrupting traffic

Linux just hit a number that once seemed like a punchline. In North America, the open-source OS now commands 10.65% of desktop web traffic. That’s according to Linuxiac, citing Statcounter Global Stats data for July 2026. Windows still towers above everyone at 57.54%. Yet its dominance looks less absolute. macOS variants together exceed 29%. Chrome

IBM has not sold a consumer product in more than two decades. Its last PC left the lineup in 2005. The x86 server business followed in 2014. Yet every time a credit card clears at checkout or an airline reservation system books a seat, the odds point to hardware few people ever see. That hardware

Hikers across several popular trails have recently encountered a disturbing problem with Google Maps that has rescue teams raising serious alarms about potential dangers to outdoor enthusiasts. The issue centers on inaccurate elevation data and misleading trail information that can lead users far off course or into hazardous terrain without proper warnings. According to a

Supply lines for one of Apple’s most popular laptops have tightened to a breaking point. Customers searching for an M5 MacBook Air now face waits stretching to the end of the month. Retail partners report the device sits in shorter supply than at any point they remember. The culprit traces directly to insatiable demand from

Brussels has drawn a line. Starting today, companies must label AI-generated images, audio, video and text that look convincingly real. The requirement, part of the European Union’s landmark AI Act, aims to curb deception in an era when synthetic media can mimic reality with alarming precision. According to The Guardian, the rules kick in for

Office workers don’t hide their frustration anymore. Two-thirds say they miss the days before AI tools flooded their inboxes, reports, and meetings with low-quality output they now call slop. They spend extra hours checking facts. They rewrite vague summaries. And many wonder why leadership pushes the technology so hard when it adds to their load

Coinbase Global Inc. posted its strongest-ever grip on worldwide crypto trading last quarter. The company captured 10.3% of global crypto trading volume in the second quarter of 2026. That figure marks an all-time high. It also represents the third straight quarter of gains. Yet shares tumbled after the earnings report. Investors focused on the bottom

ChangXin Memory Technologies spent a decade bleeding cash. Then artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips flipped the script in one quarter. The Hefei-based company, better known as CXMT, racked up roughly $5 billion in cumulative losses over 10 years. Yahoo Finance laid out the numbers. Yet in the first three months of 2026 alone,