Pricing changes

A Contractive Feedback Semantics for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.24759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discounted reinforcement learning is usually presented through Bellman equations on closed Markov decision processes. This paper develops a compositional view: a one-step decision process is treated as an open stochastic component,…

Word Class Representations Spontaneously Emerge from Successor Representations Trained on Natural Language

arXiv:2605.24585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are typically trained to predict the next token in a sequence. Here, we explore an alternative predictive principle from reinforcement learning: Successor Representations (SRs), which model the expected discounted…

Vercel Domains now supports price sorting and availability filtering

Vercel Domains now supports price sorting and availability filtering. Price sorting shows lower cost domains first, so you can quickly find a domain that fits your budget. Availability filtering moves unavailable domains to the bottom of the search results, so you can focus on…

5 days left: Save up to $410 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes before prices increase

Early Bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now to save up to $410 before prices increase.

Instance-Optimal Estimation with Multiple LLM Judges on a Budget

arXiv:2605.23362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models increasingly relies on LLM-as-a-judge protocols, but such evaluations remain costly: different judges have different prices and reliabilities, and the difficulty of each prompt-response pair can…

PrefBench: Evaluating Zero-Shot LLM Agents in Hidden-Preference Personalized Pricing Negotiations

arXiv:2605.22855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalized pricing negotiations are a challenging testbed for LLM agents because successful interaction does not guarantee profitable decision making. A seller may produce valid actions and close many deals while still pricing…

Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

Article URL: https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-support-for-free-tier-?language=en_US Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309 Points: 247 # Comments: 121

Does GPU spacing matter if we’re undervolting anyways?

How close can GPU cards be to each other on the mobo to remain safe and keep the hardware healthy over time? I have 4x 5060ti16gb cards in my mobo (I know 5060ti’s are not ideal when it comes to bandwidth, but I found a few at a decent price so it felt worth it at the time).…

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics David Oks provides the clearest explanation I've seen yet of why consumer products that use memory are likely to get significantly more expensive over the next few years. The short version is that memory…

DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

> (3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC. https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2057854261699195173 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237663…

Oura Confidentially Files for IPO

Oura Health, which makes rings that track users’ health data, filed its initial public offering paperwork Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said. Oura has not yet determined the number of shares it’ll offer, nor the proposed offering’s price…

On the Sample Complexity of Discounted Reinforcement Learning with Optimized Certainty Equivalents

arXiv:2605.21763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study risk-sensitive reinforcement learning in finite discounted MDPs, where a generative model of the MDP is assumed to be available. We consider a family or risk measures called the optimized certainty equivalent (OCE), which…

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229319 Points: 224 # Comments: 253

Strix Halo 128GB vs M5 pro 64GB

What would you pick if they were at the same/similar price, say around $3000 (Macbook pro 16" vs laptop at a little more or even Mini PC at a little less like $2500). Has someone tried both in terms of speed? I use LM studio. I tend to prefer MacOS because of Drawthings, which…

LLM planner - pick a rig for your use-case/model/budget, or pick models for your rig. 60+ builds, 50+ models, 130+ cited t/s sources, 150+ reviewer YouTube videos, idle+active watts, multi-region prices, regular updates.

TL;DR: Sourced internet info into llm model/hardware choise guide. Two directions: "What rig should I buy for use-case / model /budget?" "I have a 3090 / M3 Max / DGX Spark / Strix Halo / R9700. What runs well on it?" Plus a side-by-side compare mode for rigs and LLMs.…

With aluminum prices up 20%, recycling startups bet on AI to cash in

Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal.

AI server under 5k?

I have a framework desktop 128GB and a 3080 12GB running qwen 7b I want to move to a proper server rack + switch but not sure how to move from desktop PC to server rack. Any advice on what GPU/Server to get under 5k? Or at that price just stick to workstation?   submitted by…

Decent deal on RTX 3080 20GB on ebay - $30 per GB

So I was shopping for extra 3090s, I noticed a seller listing RTX 3080 with 20GB VRAM for $600. I decided to message them about the import tax and I didn't realize they handle it. So the price on their ebay page is the price you pay for the item. No import tax.…

Comparing data annotation platforms [D]

Scale AI Highest quality in the industry. But no public pricing and every project requires a sales call. Onboarding takes weeks not days. In June 2025 Meta bought a 49% stake and hired Scale’s CEO as Meta’s Chief AI Officer. Several major customers quietly reduced engagements…

Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.

Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.

Public Repository "Codegraph" claims to reduce Claude, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode API tool calls by 94% locally, an innovation that could directly offset the most recent Claude API pricing model.

Author Colbymchenry has developed a tool leveraging Claudes Explore Agents to utilize a pre-indexed knowledge graph — symbol relationships, call graphs, and code structure. Agents query the graph instantly instead of scanning files, which he declares reduces API tool calls by up…

Is the Gap Widening Between Anthropic and Open-Source Models?

Some developers have told me that the rising costs of frontier AI models from Anthropic and other firms could prompt them to shift to cheaper open-source AI. After all, when companies as sophisticated as Uber are accidentally blowing through their entire year’s AI budget in a…

R2V Agent: Teaching SLMs When to Ask for Help

arXiv:2605.16604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient agentic systems should incur expensive frontier-model costs only on decisions where a cheaper local model is likely to fail. Existing LLM cascades usually route whole queries before execution, but task difficulty shifts…

Flat Rate CDN in Limited Beta

Flat Rate CDN is now available in Limited Beta for Pro teams. It replaces usage-based CDN pricing with a fixed monthly fee. Viral posts, unfiltered bots, or misconfigured routes can turn a normal month into a surprise bill. Flat Rate CDN makes your cost predictable. Fixed…

Memory expert suspects RAM price drop in 2027'H2 due to china heavy investments

Quote: ..., the former executive remarked that Chinese companies are investing aggressively to boost their memory chip production. According to him, if these investments are successful and lead to an increase in output, then the surge in supply could cause prices to fall a year…

On the Fragility of Data Attribution When Learning Is Distributed

arXiv:2605.15520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data attribution has become an important component of pricing, auditing, and governance in machine learning pipelines, yet most attribution methods implicitly assume that attribution values faithfully reflect participants'…

Shein Buys Everlane

Everlane, a San Francisco-based startup that soared during the last decade’s e-commerce boom, will sell itself to Shein, a Chinese discount e-retail giant. The deal values Everlane at $100 million, a far cry from the valuations that it once received at its height. Everlane was…

Corsair desktop PC with Ryzen 395 and 128GB of unified RAM, has anyone tested it for LLM? Seems "a good" price

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Built a 6x cheaper CodeRabbit alternative using open source models

Coderabbit apparently uses GPT + Claude models to review PRs and it costed $60/month. So I grabbed a friend and made a alternative which does the same things but uses open source models as backend instead( because inference costs are wayyyy cheaper) We tested it on a PR…

Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite ski spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.

Figma Sees Revenue Growth Jump as New AI Pricing Sticks

Figma stock rose more than 8% in after hours trading as the design-software firm reported accelerating revenue growth for the first quarter. Revenue for the three months that ended March 31 rose 46% to $333 million, higher than the 40% jump in the previous quarter and the 38%…

NVIDIA Reportedly Prepares RTX 5090 Price Hike Amid Rising GDDR7 Costs (maybe RTX 50 and PRO series as well)

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Why Anthropic Costs Are Unpredictable

Anthropic customers are already feeling pinched by the company’s AI price hikes, Aaron and I reported Wednesday. Making matters harder, Anthropic customers like PagerDuty and ServiceNow, which says it already blew through its full-year budget for Anthropic AI tools, can’t…

I tracked EU GPU prices across 15 stores for 50+ days - RTX 5090 is the only card not dropping in price

been tracking EU GPU prices since early march - 15 stores, 6-hour scrape cadence, ~126k readings. posting here because the 5090 trend is directly relevant if you're buying for local inference. the tier divergence RTX 5090 is the only tier going up. everything else is falling.…

Cerebras Prices Offering at $185 a Share

AI chip designer Cerebras Systems priced its initial public offering at $185 a share Wednesday night, well above its initial expectation of between $115 and $125. The IPO price values Cerebras at $56 billion taking into account all outstanding options and warrants. Cerebras sold…

Plan Before You Trade: Inference-Time Optimization for RL Trading Agents

arXiv:2605.12653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning agents for portfolio management are typically trained and deployed as static policies, with no mechanism for using price forecasts at inference time. We propose $\text{FPILOT}$ (**Fin**ancial **P**lugin…

Web-Search is coming to a screeching performance halt as Google shuts down their free search index, and traffic defenders like Cloudflare challenge AI at every gateway. What are our options?

Google is closing its free tier to just 50 domains for site-specific search, and an inheritance date of January 1st, 2027, with no public pricing being listed for advanced searches. Cloudflare's new site-default is to challenge all AI bots attempting to scrape web-information…

Anthropic Flexes Pricing Power as Its Customers Willingly Eat the Cost

Anthropic’s revenue growth is unprecedented. Newer Anthropic customers such as PagerDuty are a big part of the reason. Eric Johnson, chief information officer at PagerDuty, which helps software engineers respond to tech outages, said he is bracing for volatile costs as his…

OpenAI prices reduced 30% on flagship models

A new pricing tier for high-volume API users brings cost-per-token down meaningfully for GPT-5 and the latest reasoning-tuned variants.

Dessn raises $6M for its production-focused design tool

A new startup called Dessn has raised $6 million to build AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases.

AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals

Vapi says its enterprise business has grown tenfold since early 2025 as companies shift customer support and sales calls to AI agents.

Statistical Inference and Quality Measures of KV Cache Quantisations Inspired by TurboQuant

arXiv:2605.08114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We analyse three KV cache quantization schemes under a fair bit budget: \textbf{KV} (scalar MSE baseline), \textbf{KQV} (WHT + MSE on $K$; WHT + MSE + QJL on $V$), and…

Feature Repulsion and Spectral Lock-in: An Empirical Study of Two-Layer Network Grokking

arXiv:2605.08119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tian (2025) proves a repulsion theorem (Theorem 6) for the matrix $ B = (\widetilde{F}^\top \widetilde{F} + \eta I)^{-1} $ during the interactive feature-learning stage of…

There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers — Cowboy Space raised $275M to build them

The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entrepreneurs looking to the stars. There's a key problem: There aren't enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around Earth, and they're too expensive.

OpenAI launches DeployCo to help businesses build around intelligence

OpenAI launches DeployCo, a new enterprise deployment company built to help organizations bring frontier AI into production and turn it into measurable business impact.

How frontier firms are pulling ahead

OpenAI’s B2B Signals research shows how frontier enterprises deepen AI adoption, scale Codex-powered agentic workflows, and build durable competitive advantage.

April 2026 newsletter

I just sent out the April edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . In this month's newsletter: Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5, both with price increases Claude Mythos and LLM security research…

Announcing our partnership with the Republic of Korea

Google DeepMind and Korea partner to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using frontier AI models

Decoupled DiLoCo: A new frontier for resilient, distributed AI training