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Claude Opus 4.8: Full Breakdown of API Pricing and Subscription Costs
8 sources0Official API pricing for Claude Opus 4.8 is $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, unchanged from version 4.7 [1][7].
AI 'Super Bubble' Warning: Chinese Hedge Fund Managers Yang Dong and Li Bei on Why They Say a Collapse Is Inevitable
30 sources0Two of China's best known hedge fund managers, Yang Dong of Wealspring Asset Management and Li Bei of Shanghai Banxia Investment Management, warned in late June 2026 that global AI stocks are in an unsustain...
Plankton, MSA, and Climate: The CLOUD Experiment's Surprising Discovery
30 sources0In June 2026, the CLOUD Collaboration at CERN published findings showing that methanesulfonic acid (MSA)—produced when plankton emitted dimethyl sulfide oxidizes—drives new particle formation in cold marine...
Google at ISTE 2026: Free AI Education Tools Including Gemini Study Notebooks and Classroom App
30 sources0At ISTE 2026 (June 25–26), Google announced several free AI powered education features: Study Notebooks in Gemini acts as a personal tutor with diagnostic quizzes and adaptive lessons; the Connected Classroo...
Strait of Hormuz Traffic Hits Post-War High of 78 Vessels on June 24 — Then Brent Crashes 42%
32 sources0On June 24, 2026, the Strait of Hormuz recorded its highest single day vessel traffic since the war began, with S&P Global counting 78 transits — roughly 57% of pre conflict levels.
MIM Stablecoin Crashes to $0.49: Abracadabra's Emergency Rate Hikes and What Really Happened
32 sources0On June 25, 2026, Abracadabra's MIM stablecoin crashed to $0.49 (a 50% depeg from $1), prompting emergency interest rate hikes across all Cauldron lending markets and a suspension of all Curve bribes and inc...
Russia's crude exports hit a 2026 high of 3.89 million bpd — just as the U.S.-Iran deal threatens its grip on India
31 sources0Russia's four week average crude exports reached 3.89 million barrels per day in June 2026 — the highest level so far this year — fueled by Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries, the Strait of Hormuz crisis...
Microsoft's 2026 AI in Education Report: 92% Adoption, New Classroom Tools, and a Training Gap
15 sources0Microsoft's 2026 AI in Education Report found that 92% of students and education leaders and 88% of educators have used AI for school, yet 77% of students and 53% of educators have received no formal AI trai...
Airwallex Raises $320M Series H at $11B Valuation and Launches AI Finance Products T:0 and Airi
21 sources0Airwallex raised $320 million in Series H funding on June 25, 2026, at an $11 billion valuation — up from $8 billion just six months earlier — and announced two new AI powered products: T:0, an autonomous fi...
Qualcomm's 2026 Investor Day: $15B Data Center Pivot, Dragonfly C1000 CPU with Meta, and a Stock Surge That Shook Wall Street
45 sources0Qualcomm set a fiscal 2029 data center revenue target of more than $15 billion and a nearer term $5 billion target for fiscal 2027, unveiled the Dragonfly C1000 server CPU with Meta as its first named custom...
Why China's 'Teapot' Refineries Just Hit Their Lowest Run Rate Since 2017
26 sources0China's independent 'teapot' refineries slashed run rates to 50.5% in the week ending June 21, 2026—the lowest since 2017 and even below pandemic era lows—as a US Iran conflict severed their supply of discou...
TrueFoundry Acquires Seldon AI: A Unified Control Plane for Traditional ML and Agentic AI
15 sources0On June 24, 2026 , TrueFoundry acquired Seldon AI's business, customers, and its Kubernetes native MLOps stack (Seldon Core 2, Alibi, LLM Module) for an undisclosed sum [2][3][4].