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Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs
IA Programmation

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, before anyone could have predicted how popular token-burning coding agents were about to become. Natalie Lung for Bloomberg: The rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool, an Uber spokesperson said in response to a…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Context as Code
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Context as Code

As syntax becomes cheap and abundant, architectural control becomes the scarce resource. Effective governance starts upstream, where intent, constraints, and threat models shape the agent’s working context before generation begins. The goal isn’t better prompting but build-time boundaries that prevent structurally invalid code from entering the system. The Frankenstein factories The dark factories (as Dan […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
Federal Audit Finds NIST Wasted Funds With No Plan to Clear NVD Backlog
Cybersécurité Programmation

Federal Audit Finds NIST Wasted Funds With No Plan to Clear NVD Backlog

A newly released federal audit now documents NIST’s long-running NVD backlog, with findings that are hard to square with two years of public assurances that the database was being brought back under control. The U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General found that NIST had no strategic plan for the National Vulnerability Database, set a public deadline it did not have the capacity to meet, delayed use of CISA enrichment data, and spent taxpayer funds on duplicated vulnerability…

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Microsoft's new MAI models
IA Programmation

Microsoft's new MAI models

Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 1T parameters, 35B active, available to "select early partners") and MAI-Code-1-Flash (137B Parameters, 5B active, "purpose-built for GitHub Copilot and VS Code to deliver high performance and lower cost [...] rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in Visual Studio Code"). I've not been able to try either of them just yet. It's very interesting to see Microsoft releasing models with such low parameter…

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