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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-17 | tags: big tech, ai spending, data centers

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AI Spending Snuffs Out Tencent’s Profit-Growth Run (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-12 | tags: tencent, hy3, profit

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After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Julie Bort | tags: employees, macinnis, rippling

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Figma says it’s hiring less because of AI. Wall Street doesn’t seem impressed (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: appear, appear having, concerns spending

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SpaceX stock falls 13% as AI spending surge rattles investors and massive share unlock looms (cnbc.com)