EPRA freezes fuel, DeepSeek $1.5B, Meta faces AI layoff suit

Meta's internal AI token consumption is approaching billions of dollars annually -- employees burned through over 60 trillion tokens in 30 days, with one user alone hitting 280 billion. Adam Mosseri told TechCrunch that managing token budgets will become a standard operational discipline, akin to how companies allocate GPU capacity, labeling budgets, and headcount. The cap per engineer would be proportional to the company's trust in their ability to deploy tokens in ROI-positive ways. For startups and SaaS builders, this signals that AI inference is transitioning from unlimited experiment to metered resource -- a shift with implications for how products price and govern AI features.

When Albania's DNSSEC signing keys broke during a rollover, every validating resolver stopped being able to resolve .AL domains. Cloudflare applied a Negative Trust Anchor per RFC 7646 to bypass validation and restore access, but this meant .AL queries were served without cryptographic guarantees. To fix the transparency gap, Cloudflare now returns EDE 33 in DNS responses from 1.1.1.1 -- a new extended DNS error code that explicitly signals a Negative Trust Anchor has been applied. Every response served under an NTA now carries this code, giving operators full visibility. It is the kind of quiet infrastructure work that keeps the internet running but most users never see.

Boston Dynamics is testing Spot as a delivery assistant, adding a conveyor-belt accessory that lets the robot carry packages from a delivery van and autonomously unload them at a customer's doorstep. The company says the system could reduce physical strain on human drivers and add one more package per route for every three delivered via Spot. With over 1,500 Spots already deployed in factory inspections, security patrols, and archaeological sites, this is the first serious attempt to turn the quadruped into a logistics tool. It is a concrete example of robotics creeping into practical commercial operations rather than staying in hype videos.

Plex services went down for several hours on Tuesday, affecting users' ability to stream shows and movies from their own locally hosted media servers. The outage -- which covered Plex's authentication, watchlist, and server update systems -- sparked frustration because Plex requires a cloud-based connection even to serve content from a local NAS or PC. For users who run Plex as their primary media infrastructure, the incident highlighted the fragility of depending on cloud authentication for self-hosted content. Plex has not disclosed the root cause. The outage is a reminder that self-hosted services are often still dependent on someone else's infrastructure.