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AXIOS (Madison Mills) - AI may never be as cheap as it is today

AI may never be as cheap to use as it is today. Why it matters: AI companies are hooking users with low prices that won't last — straight out of the Amazon and Uber playbook. The big picture: The push to show profits before IPOs could end the era of cheap AI. - "These LLM companies are going to go public and they're going to raise prices because they have to," May Habib, CEO of Writer, told Axios. State of play: New models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are generally getting faster and cheaper. - The industry was fixated on training chips. Now Nvidia and its rivals are focused on inference — the computing that lets models answer your questions. - Aggregate token pricing — the cost of generating text — has fallen, partly due…

NPR (Joel Rose) - The Trump administration's crackdown on immigrant truckers shifts into higher gear

The White House wants tougher rules for commercial licenses after several high-profile crashes involving foreign-born drivers. But critics say that would do little to make the nation's roads safer.

NPR (Marielle Segarra) - 5 ways to resist the urge to keep looking at your phone

So you want to spend less time on your phone. How do you do that when it's designed to suck you in? Life Kit spoke to experts in behavioral science, psychology and technology for real-world advice.

NPR (Ashley Lopez) - Trump's war with Iran is angering some swing voters who want money spent at home

Swing voters who helped reelect President Trump in 2024 don't support his decision to go to war in Iran and instead want to see U.S. tax dollars spent tackling economic pressures facing Americans.

WASHINGTONPOST (Christopher Rowland) - How GLP1s are changing the ways Americans buy medicine

Consumers are paying in cash in a hotly competitive marketplace, creating a rare phenomenon for a relatively new class of prescription drugs: falling prices.

WASHINGTONPOST (Isaac Arnsdorf, Maria Sacchetti) - DHS pick Markwayne Mullin once hired felon who illegally stored guns at work

Sen. Markwayne Mullin denied knowing about the employee’s criminal record, but the employee says he did. A “cache” of weapons was found at Mullin’s business.

WASHINGTONPOST (Dan Merica, Clara Ence Morse) - AI money is already influencing the midterms. And more is coming.

Candidates backed by AI companies have found early success — of the 20 candidates in the Texas and North Carolina primaries who received AI funds, only one lost her race.

NEWSCATS - 2027: The Hottest Year Yet? Climate Change and El Niño’s Impact

Image: New Study Finds 20-Year Pause In Arctic Sea Ice Decline – Scientists suggest ‘internal variability’ was ‘perhaps more’ important than human-caused impacts Related: New Temperature Study in Reno Finds Strong Urban Heat Island Bias [...]

NEWSCATS (MeighTimbol) - Two Foreign Nationals Arrested in Occidental Mindoro ₱6.8-B Shabu Smuggling Case

Authorities seize sacks of suspected shabu estimated at P6.8 billion from a speedboat that ran aground along the shoreline of Barangay Harrison in Paluan, Occidental Mindoro. Courtesy of 76 IB, 203rd Brigade, Philippine Army Published March [...]

YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - 'I don't think' someone took missing ex-general for UFO secrets: Avi Loeb

A retired U.S. Air Force general with vast knowledge of UFO research has been missing for 11 days. "It's hard to believe that the material retrieved from many decades ago would be a reason for taking him," Professor Avi Loeb tells "Jesse Weber Live." MORE: https://www.newsnationnow.com/missing/missing-air-force-general-homes-contacted/