VentureBeat

MiniMax's new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants, which promise to make high-end ...
Wall Street Journal

Big Tech’s AI Push Is Costing a Lot More Than the Moon Landing

Sources: National Archives and Measuring Worth (Louisiana Purchase); the companies (Tech capital spending); Visible Alpha (projected Microsoft capital spending) Louis P. Cain (U.S. Railroads); Robert ...
New York Post

Most Costco shoppers never check the best part of the store — a mistake that could be costing them hundreds

The best deals at Costco aren’t necessarily where many shoppers are looking. Jacquelyne Devine, a content creator from Pennsylvania who posts under the handle @costcojacque, spends a lot of her time ...
GitHub

Social Media APIs for Posting, Scheduling, and Analytics

The Social Media API is a Node.js wrapper SDK for Ayrshare's APIs. The Ayrshare Social API handles all the setup and maintenance for the social media networks. One API to rule them all (yeah, went ...
Investopedia

The Hidden Ways Inflation Is Still Costing You

Terry Lane is a writer for Investopedia with 25 years of experience in journalism and communications. He covers personal finance, Congress, government regulations, and economics. Joe Raedle / Getty ...
Bleeping Computer

IBM warns of critical API Connect auth bypass vulnerability

IBM urged customers to patch a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in its API Connect enterprise platform that could allow attackers to access apps remotely. API Connect is an application ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI is ending API access to fan-favorite GPT-4o model in February 2026

OpenAI has sent out emails notifying API customers that its chatgpt-4o-latest model will be retired from the developer platform in mid-February 2026,. Access to the model is scheduled to end on ...
Microsoft

SesameOp: Novel backdoor uses OpenAI Assistants API for command and control

Microsoft Incident Response – Detection and Response Team (DART) researchers uncovered a new backdoor that is notable for its novel use of the OpenAI Assistants Application Programming Interface (API) ...
CNBC

Small businesses are being crushed by Trump's tariffs, and economists say it's a warning for the economy

CNBC interviewed nearly a dozen small business owners to get a better understanding of how much tariffs are costing them and the impact the duties are having on their strategy and operations. Many of ...
Reuters

Shutdown could cost US economy $15 billion a week, Treasury says

Bessent earlier estimated cost of shutdown at up to $15 billion a day Bessent says shutdown is cutting 'into muscle' of US economy US Treasury chief says deficit was lower in fiscal 2025 Bessent says ...
The Hill

Shutdown may start costing economy $15B a week: Bessent

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the ongoing government shutdown may start costing the economy as much as $15 billion per week. In his remarks Bessent actually used the figure of ...