Nvidia servers with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips are set to cost about 15 percent more due to an ongoing DRAM shortage from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, Bloomberg reports. The price hikes hit cloud giants like Microsoft, Google, and Meta, which are pouring billions into AI infrastructure while bankrolling the market power of the very supplier they're trying to break free from.

Anthropic's strict access controls against China, from geoblocking to selfie verification, are being systematically bypassed through a thriving network of so-called "transfer stations." Chinese developers can buy Claude tokens for as little as ten percent of the list price. Analyst Zilan Qian warns that the circumvention infrastructure weakens export controls and Anthropic's own safety systems.

AI agents have consumed more tokens than humans on OpenRouter since February 6, 2025. Agentic usage has grown 14x since then, while human usage is up just 2.8x. Nearly 70 percent of agent token consumption comes from cheap cached prompts, though, so actual costs are rising far more slowly than the raw numbers suggest.

Even if language models worked perfectly, they could make research worse, not better. A new theoretical study argues that because AI saves time, researchers' remaining hours become more valuable and get funneled into starting new projects instead of improving existing ones. In two out of three modeled scenarios, the quality of individual publications drops.

Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time but needed a clear push from the operators to do it. When the scenario was replayed with seven models, more capable AIs recommended termination more consistently, while weaker ones hesitated. When it came to hiring, nearly all models were uncritical.