Trump Insists Iran Caved On Nuclear Inspections, As Tehran Touts US To Unfreeze $12BN

Was Amazon's Tokenmaxxing Fiasco Behind Claude's $500M Mystery Bill? Axios reported this week that an unnamed Anthropic enterprise client managed to run up roughly $500 million in Claude charges in a single month after failing to put usage limits on employee licenses. The company was not named, but we suspect Blue Origin might not be the only thing that blew up for Jeff Bezos this month. Just as the Axios report landed with the $500M tidbit, Amazon was shutting down an internal AI-usage leaderboard after employees reportedly began “tokenmaxxing” - routing unnecessary work through...

Maersk Lifts Outlook As Wall Street Questions Whether Freight Tailwinds Can Last A.P. Moller-Maersk shares rose in Copenhagen trading after the world's second-largest container carrier surprised analysts by raising its full-year profit outlook, citing stronger-than-expected containerized demand, particularly across Asia. The upbeat guidance suggests the global container market has remained resilient despite earlier Hormuz-related chokepoint disruptions, with global shipping demand holding. The Danish shipping and logistics giant now expects global container volumes to grow about 4% this year, up from its prior forecast of 2% to 4%. It also lifted guidance...

Israel extended its evacuation order in the city of Tyre to include effectively the whole south of Lebanon, declaring the entire region an active combat zone, despite a ceasefire nominally having been in place in Lebanon for well over a month now. That ceasefire has consistently failed to cease Israeli attacks on Lebanon, and even […]