
Altman Pitches AI as Metered Utility Like Electricity
At BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit, Sam Altman laid out OpenAI's vision of selling AI compute by the token like a metered utility, backed by a $110 billion war chest and the Stargate buildout.
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At BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit, Sam Altman laid out OpenAI's vision of selling AI compute by the token like a metered utility, backed by a $110 billion war chest and the Stargate buildout.

METR found maintainers would reject roughly half of AI PRs that pass SWE-bench automated grading, with a 24-point gap that suggests benchmark scores substantially overstate production readiness.

Researchers at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa built Italian-Legal-BERT, a 110M-parameter model trained on 3.7GB of Italian court decisions that outperforms general Italian BERT on legal NLP tasks.

Google Antigravity Pro subscribers report 5-7 day lockouts on premium models after quota changes replaced five-hour refreshes with weekly caps and AI credit overages, sparking backlash across developer forums.

Oracle's Q3 FY2026 results show $553B in contract backlog - up 325% year-over-year - as AI infrastructure demand continues to outpace supply.

Johns Hopkins and Microsoft's JBDistill achieves 81.8% attack success rate across 13 LLMs by auto-generating fresh adversarial prompts on demand.

At Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats announced a shift from Anthropic's MCP toward APIs and CLIs, citing high context usage and authentication friction, alongside the launch of their multi-model Agent API.

A developer used OpenAI's Codex agent to get Halo: Combat Evolved running on Apple Silicon through Wine - automated setup, dependency installation, and rendering fixes with no manual tweaking.

Nvidia commits a gigawatt of Vera Rubin chips to Mira Murati's startup, a supply the FT values at tens of billions of dollars, alongside an undisclosed cash investment.

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter open model with only 12B active at inference, combining Mamba-2 and Transformer layers for agentic AI workloads with a 1M token context window.

Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.

Anthropic's Claude Code CLI suffered an OAuth authentication outage on March 11, locking developers out mid-work while the Claude API remained operational.