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The Verge 1 month ago 28 ● 6 sources
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, claiming it performs more reasoning steps and uses iterative tool calls compared with Gemini 3.7 Flash. Pricing starts at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but Google warns it may use more tokens at higher effort levels. Developers can stay on Gemini 3.7 Flash to minimize token usage.
Fortune 2 ● 3 sources
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago CEO Austan Goolsbee warned that AI-driven data center expansion could soon contribute to “aggregate overheating” by crowding out spending and inputs from other parts of the economy. He said he’s “not far” from that outcome turning into aggregate overheating, with AI-related capex growth expected to peak in Q4 2026. As a result, AI is becoming a larger political and economic wedge issue around resource costs and hiring, even as AI-linked investment continues to boost GDP and certain stock sectors.
The Neuron 1 month ago 5 ● 4 sources
Anthropic updated its Claude Fable 5 agent model (Fable 5.1) by cutting repeated-context costs and easing some safety interrupts. Cache reads now cost $0.25 per million tokens after a 75% reduction. As a result, long-running coding and agent workflows are cheaper and experience fewer safeguard interruptions, with partner reports citing large task-completion gains.
The Verge 1 month ago 50
Loudoun County, Virginia, built its economic recovery strategy around attracting data centers after earlier tech booms left behind vacant infrastructure, and it has since become highly visible as “Data Center Alley.” In 2024, data center tax revenue exceeded the county’s operational budget by $35 million. As generative-AI demand expands the US buildout from existing 3,000 operating centers and 1,500 under development, Loudoun and other communities are seeing louder opposition and more political pushback against further expansion.
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20 October 2026
AI policy and AI product rollouts collided today, with governments trying to pin down a technology that’s been treated—by everyone from startups to procurement officers—as if it will simply arrive anyway. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used People’s AI Assembly to argue that AI deployment isn’t inevitable, pointing to his order banning AI use in elementary and middle schools and pressing residents to demand accountability rather than waiting for federal guidance to catch up.
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