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2026-06-24

Your AI coding tools may soon cost more than you

By 2028, the AI tools a developer uses could cost more than the developer’s salary, Gartner warns. AI coding costs are climbing fast, and most companies cannot even see what they are spending. The AI coding boom has a bill, and it is growing fast. By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-24

Figma adds code layers to the canvas and lets users build custom AI plugins at Config 2026

Figma used the opening keynote of its Config 2026 conference on Wednesday to unveil code layers, a feature that brings executable code directly onto the collaborative design canvas. Teams can now clone repositories and extract flows from code into design layers for testing, collapsing a handoff step that has defined the design-to-development workflow for over […]<br /> This story continues [...]

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2026-06-24

Mistral OCR 4 targets the enterprise back office

Mistral OCR 4 reads a document like a structured map, not a wall of text. It is cheap, speaks 170 languages, and can run entirely on your own servers. Europe’s AI champion is going after the enterprise back office. Mistral has a new model, and it is not a chatbot. The French company on 23 […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

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2026-06-24

xLight’s $350m bet to break ASML’s chip monopoly

xLight, a US-backed startup chaired by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, is raising $350m to build an xLight EUV light source that could loosen ASML’s grip on chipmaking. Days earlier, a Dutch rival took aim at Nvidia. Deep-tech chips are hot again. The hardware behind AI is pulling in venture money again. xLight, a Californian […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

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2026-06-24

Ferrari replaces its marketing chief one month after the Luce EV reveal wiped billions off its stock

Ferrari is replacing its Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer Enrico Galliera, who has held the role for more than 16 years, with former BMW Italy CEO Massimiliano Di Silvestre. The change takes effect July 1 and comes exactly one month after the controversial reveal of the Luce, Ferrari’s first fully electric vehicle, which sent the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-06-24

Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nearly matches Claude Opus 4.7 in a Snowflake benchmark with 103 coding tasks at one-fifth the cost per output token. But the Chinese model burns through nearly twice as many tokens per task. Still, that pricing gap is putting real pressure on Anthropic and OpenAI, and could rattle the valuations of Western AI labs.<br /> The article Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 compet [...]

Destination

2026-06-24

'Deepfake as a service' sees 39% spike in dark web conversations — and experts fear it will fuel the next wave of “fake boss” scams

Businesses must prepare for what's coming by focusing on prevention and employee education. [...]

Destination

2026-06-24

'Real Alien Sh*t': US F15 pilot claimed to have seen a minefield of Iranian drones moving like 'jellyfish', perhaps thanks to meshed networking

US pilot describes Iranian drones forming coordinated jellyfish-like patterns during combat, sparking debate over advanced networking or misperception claims. [...]

Destination

2026-06-24

'A compelling choice': Western Digital 1TB SSD that fits in your pocket is over 40% off for Prime Day — the perfect upgrade for rugged on-the-go storage

This Western Digital My Passport SSD is a bigger, faster alternative to portable storage - and it's cheaper than ever this Prime Day. [...]