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The Chinese AI company has opened its internally built search engine to developers through new APIs priced at $0.75 per 1,000 requests, extending its cost-competitive strategy beyond AI models into the search infrastructure market.
Google claims Gemini 4 Argon outperforms Claude Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks at half the introductory price, but hands-on testing of three complex tasks paints a more complicated picture.
Knowledge graphs are helping financial services firms like Raymond James build trustworthy AI infrastructure by connecting disparate data sources and grounding agents in business expertise.
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra pairs an Nvidia N1X Blackwell GPU with up to 128GB of unified memory. We ran local AI models on the device to see if it can match the performance of high-end desktop machines.
Meta's newly launched Muse Wonder model performs comparably to Claude Fable 5.1 on agentic tasks, though it consumes significantly more tokens and costs more per task in real-world testing.
Blue Origin unveiled a sweeping expansion of its Cape Canaveral operations Friday, committing billions to new launch pads, manufacturing capacity, and support facilities as it races to establish New Glenn as a heavy-lift alternative to SpaceX's Falcon vehicles.
Confirmed Q3 2026 earnings dates and call times for Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, with each company's latest capital spending figures as a baseline.
At LogicMonitor's Chicago conference, enterprise IT leaders demonstrated how artificial intelligence and observability tools are automating incident response and reducing operational complexity across hybrid environments.
