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Chesky plans AI lab, entering competition with Altman's OpenAI

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to back a new AI lab focused on user interaction and design, while remaining at Airbnb. The move puts him in competition with Sam Altman, whom he helped reinstate at OpenAI in 2023.

AI token prices fell 98% but enterprise bills tripled

Enterprise AI bills are tripling despite a 98% drop in per-token prices, as agentic tools drive consumption 18.6x higher per developer. The Linux Foundation is launching the Tokenomics Foundation to bring cost discipline to AI spending.

Von der Leyen's AI envoy pick draws conflict-of-interest fire

The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as its special envoy for industrial artificial intelligence. He will advise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen on how to accelerate AI adoption across European industry.

Watch SpaceX's 17-minute IPO roadshow pitch to potential investors

SpaceX shared a 17-minute investor pitch from CFO Bret Johnsen for its upcoming IPO. He covers the rocket business, Starlink, AI, and more.

Axios AI+NY Summit: Takeaways from the 2026 summit

Policy, business, technology and entertainment leaders joined Axios for its third annual AI+NY Summit on June 3.

Google debuts Pixel Studio AI image-making app

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The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs

The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and 'go fast' to 'we need guardrails, how do we control this?'

C.H. Robinson Debuts AI to Run Global Supply Chains

C.H. Robinson launches the Lean AI Engineer, the world’s first AI technology that continuously operates and optimises global supply chains for 4PL shippers

Google has officially sunset its Pixel Studio app.

The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down

OpenAI and Anthropic's next lock-in play: Databases of coding intent

Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic, sees the top AI frontier labs creating databases of coding intent.

AirTrunk plans $30bn, 5GW India data centre push by 2030

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans to invest $30 billion in India by 2030, building 5GW of data centre capacity across multiple states. The announcement comes six weeks after AirTrunk entered India through its acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra.

This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film

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