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Revolut cuts its AI coding bill by about 90% by self-hosting an open-weight model, Menlo Ventures puts enterprise AI spending at $177B, and Postman installs plugins into developers' AI coding agents without asking. North Wayne, who writes First Opinion, joins us on Revolut. Plus four quick hits, and what each one means for you.
Today's stories
- 00:20 Revolut cuts its AI coding bill by about 90% by self-hosting an open-weight model for about 2,000 engineers. North Wayne, who writes First Opinion, on what the number leaves out and why it's still worth asking your vendors about. (The Register, AI Engineer)
- 03:20 Menlo Ventures puts enterprise AI spending at $177B this year, and says companies spent 2.5 times what they budgeted. Menlo invests in Anthropic, so read it as a direction, then put your own spend next to your budget. (Menlo Ventures)
- 05:00 Postman installed plugins into developers' Codex and Claude Code without asking, and says it will make the opt-in clearer. Find out what plugins and standing instructions your AI coding tools have, and who added them. (GitHub, RuntimeWire)
Quick hits
- Palantir's US commercial revenue passes US government revenue, on shorter contracts (TechCrunch)
- Salesforce agrees to buy Cresta, maker of voice agents for customer service (Salesforce)
- Google Meet admins can show a policy notice before Gemini records or takes notes (Google)
- Anthropic publishes FlashProve research on proving which model answered (Anthropic)
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