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Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his company's credit card — 'I’m going to be working until I’m like 94,' refuses to set up GoFundMe or put up crypto coin to help repay massive bill (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-19 | by Jowi Morales | get Amazon Kids parental controls device → | tags: minecraft, youtube ads, credit card fraud

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The FAA Is Spending Nearly a Billion Dollars to Make AI the “Brain” of Air Traffic Control Towers, Starting This Monday (futurism.com)

2026-09-19 | by Frank Landymore | tags: faa, air traffic control, smart system

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Cramer bets AI spending will 'continue apace,' says he's not giving up on data center trade (cnbc.com)

2026-09-16 | by Alexa Lomonaco | tags: jim cramer, ai spending, data center trade

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AI Security Spending Jumps as Fear Outpaces Proof of Value (darkreading.com)

2026-09-16 | by Jai Vijayan | get YubiKey 5C NFC security key → | tags: ai security spending, ciso surveys, ians research

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Oracle announces new layoffs to offset AI spending (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: oracle, layoffs, artificial intelligence

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How One Financial Services Company Manages Its AI Token Costs (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-10 | tags: ai token costs, financial services, llm

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Andrew Tulloch, Poster Child for Out-of-Control AI Spending, Reportedly Quits Meta (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-10 | tags: andrew tulloch, meta, agentic ai

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Uber rival inDrive scales beyond ride-hailing to capture more consumer spending (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-09 | by Jagmeet Singh | get iOttie Easy One Touch 5 dashboard phone mount → | tags: indrive, uber, ride-hailing

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AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign? (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-09 | by Tim Fernholz | get ChatGPT Plus gift subscription → | tags: ramp, ai adoption, ai spending

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German scammer dupes two different buyers into spending thousands on hollow RTX 5090 GPUs — stripped-out cards netted fraudster $5,000 despite being worthless (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-08 | by Zhiye Liu | get MSI GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card → | tags: rtx 5090, nvidia, palit

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Elon Musk starts spending his midterm election millions, revealing his key Senate targets (cnbc.com)

2026-09-03 | by Luke Fountain | tags: tes, spacex, tesla

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AI Spending Is Up. So Is the Guesswork. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-03 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card → | tags: nvidia, hugging face, ai spending

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Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-02 | get Writing Science Joshua Schimel book → | tags: omb, office of management and budget, grant funding

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I Returned as CEO Just as AI Took Off. These 4 Lessons Kept My Spending Honest (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-01 | by Dax Dasilva | get Measure What Matters John Doerr book → | tags: large language models, meta, netflix

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Big Tech's massive AI spending is putting one of its longtime strengths to the test (cnbc.com)

2026-08-28 | by Paulina Likos | tags: meta platforms, amazon, alphabet

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Even an AI cost-management vendor can lose control of its agent spending (zdnet.com)

2026-08-28 | by Joe Mckendrick | tags: ai agents, stackgen, revenium

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Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | tags: corporate donations, us midterms, political funding

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To rein in wanton AI spending, we need AI ‘nutrition labels’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-27 | tags: ai nutrition labels, google, uber

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Nvidia Reports Blowout Second Quarter, Forecasts 70% Revenue Growth in 2028 (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-26 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super graphics card → | tags: nvidia, second quarter, ai spending

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Nvidia’s Blowout Second Quarter Leaves Investors Unmoved (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-26 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card → | tags: nvidia, second quarter, ai spending

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Is Cyber Facing an Affordability Crisis? (darkreading.com)

2026-08-25 | get YubiKey 5 NFC security key → | tags: cyber, breach costs, defense spending

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Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-23 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card → | tags: nvidia, poolside, chinese

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Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-22 | by Luke James | tags: playstation 5, xbox series, nintendo switch

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Government Spending on Mass Transit Would Be Incredible for Small Towns, Study Finds (futurism.com)

2026-08-22 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: federal transit administration, mass transit, transportation research

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Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: waymo, uber, robotaxis

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One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: enterprise ai, microsoft, anthropic

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U.S. national debt crosses $40 trillion (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: u.s. national debt, trump administration, social security

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Alibaba shares fall 5% as AI spending drives 75% drop in net income (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by April Roach | tags: alibaba, ai spending, cpu-compute

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Alibaba shares fall 3% as AI spending drives 75% drop in net income (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by April Roach | tags: alibaba, ai spending, cpu-compute

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One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Beck Klein | tags: oakland police department, police union, overtime spending