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Amazon Web Services is facing some uncomfortable questions tonight after a billing glitch sent monthly invoices soaring from a few cents to billions of dollars for some customers. AWS says the error has been corrected, but the incident is a sharp reminder of how much trust businesses place in cloud infrastructure they don't fully control.
That question of trust connects neatly to a conversation happening in education circles, where critical thinking has become something of an AI-era rallying cry. A piece in The Conversation asks what the phrase actually means and whether we even know how to teach it. As AI handles more cognitive tasks, the ability to evaluate, question, and reason independently may be the skill that matters most, and it turns out defining it is harder than it sounds.
Meanwhile, OpenAI's coding assistant Codex appears to have quietly crossed ten million active users, with usage limits reportedly resetting again as demand strains capacity. It's an early signal that AI-assisted development isn't a niche experiment anymore. Developers are leaning on these tools daily, and the infrastructure behind them is being stress-tested in real time.
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