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Google's Andi Gutmans is back in conversation with the Stack Overflow Blog, this time digging into the cost side of agentic AI development. His focus is on token economics, return on investment, and what it actually takes to build infrastructure for teams going all-in on AI agents. The trade-offs are real, and the numbers matter.
Shifting to a story that will get cryptographers talking, a tweet circulating on Hacker News claims that RSA-two sixty has been factorized. If confirmed, that would be a meaningful milestone in computational cryptography, though the post carries just one point and zero community discussion so far, meaning verification and scrutiny are still very much ahead of us.
And in a story about competing interests colliding in the streets, Uber is reportedly allying with driver unions to slow the rollout of robotaxis. That is a striking alignment of incentives, a platform company and its own workforce finding common ground against the autonomous vehicle push threatening both their futures. The politics of disruption rarely look this complicated.
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