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Claude Max Usage Complaints Show Why /usage Needs to Become an Explainability Surface, Not a Progress Bar

Usage bars are fine for vibes. They are not enough for debugging an agentic workflow. Once a developer’s Claude Code setup includes Opus 4.8, 1M context, scheduled routines, Gmail MCP, Calendar MCP, max-effort reasoning, and subagent-heavy execution, “you used your weekly limit” is not an explanation. It is

xAI’s Priority Processing Turns Latency Into an Explicit API Purchase

xAI’s Priority Processing Turns Latency Into an Explicit API Purchase

Latency used to be one of those AI-platform problems developers complained about but could not really buy their way out of without a sales call. xAI just made it a request parameter. The company’s new Priority Processing feature lets API users opt into higher scheduling priority by adding service_

SpaceX Buying Cursor Is the Clearest Sign Yet That Grok Build Is Not Just a Side Quest

SpaceX Buying Cursor Is the Clearest Sign Yet That Grok Build Is Not Just a Side Quest

SpaceX buying Cursor for an implied $60 billion is easy to misread as another entry in the Elon Musk mega-deal ledger. The more useful read is narrower and more important for developers: xAI is buying the workflow layer Grok Build does not yet own. The June 16 SEC filing says

OpenClaw Adds a Stream Stall Guard Because Agent Providers Sometimes Finish the Work and Forget to Say Done

OpenClaw Adds a Stream Stall Guard Because Agent Providers Sometimes Finish the Work and Forget to Say Done

OpenClaw PR #93640 is a reminder that “OpenAI-compatible” is not the same thing as operationally compatible. A provider can send every token the agent needs, include a finish_reason, record the request as successful on its dashboard, and still leave the client hanging forever because the stream never sends [DONE]

Codex 0.140 Imports Claude Code Setup, Because Agent Workspaces Are the New Lock-In

Codex 0.140 Imports Claude Code Setup, Because Agent Workspaces Are the New Lock-In

OpenAI’s most interesting Codex update this week is not a better benchmark score, a shinier model switcher, or another “agentic” demo with a suspiciously clean repository. It is a migration button. Codex CLI 0.140.0, published June 15, adds /import for “selectively importing setup, project configuration, and recent

NVIDIA’s New MoE Kernels Are a Reminder That AI Cost Gets Won in the Epilogue

NVIDIA’s New MoE Kernels Are a Reminder That AI Cost Gets Won in the Epilogue

AI cost does not only get decided in model architecture diagrams. It gets decided in the epilogue of a grouped GEMM, in whether quantization causes another memory pass, and in whether the CPU is still being asked to schedule dynamic expert work while thousands of GPUs wait politely. Not the

Claude’s June 15 Agent SDK Billing Split Turns Coding Agents Into a Budget Line Item

Anthropic’s June 15 Agent SDK billing split is not just a pricing update. It is the moment Claude automation stops hiding inside a subscription and starts looking like the infrastructure it already was. That distinction matters because developers have spent the last year treating Claude Code as two different

DSX Is NVIDIA Admitting Tokens Are an Industrial Operations Problem

DSX Is NVIDIA Admitting Tokens Are an Industrial Operations Problem

NVIDIA’s DSX announcement is easy to file under “more AI factory branding,” which would be a mistake. The useful thing buried in the launch is not the phrase AI factory. It is the phrase token performance per megawatt. That is NVIDIA admitting, out loud, that tokens are no longer

NVIDIA’s NVFP4 MaxText Recipe Makes 4-Bit Training Look Operational, Not Experimental

NVIDIA’s NVFP4 MaxText Recipe Makes 4-Bit Training Look Operational, Not Experimental

Everyone wants to talk about agents because agents demo well. NVIDIA’s more important June 9 story is less photogenic: making 4-bit training boring enough that infrastructure teams can put it into a budget spreadsheet. The company published a JAX and MaxText recipe for training large language models with NVFP4