Technology
AWS Gives AI Agents Their Own Desktop to Run Legacy Apps
Amazon WorkSpaces now gives an AI agent its own cloud desktop to operate legacy apps that have no API — under a real login, with a full audit trail.
IT Leadership
Technology
Microsoft 365 Prices Rise July 1 — but Not Until You Renew
The first Microsoft 365 price increase since 2022 takes effect July 1 — but most businesses won't pay more until their next renewal, and an early one can lock in today's rate.
AI
Anthropic Gave Me $3,959.78 of Claude Code Use for $200
I spend $200 a month for Claude's Max plan and lean on it every day. I metered 30 days of that work at Anthropic's own API rates: $3,959.78 — a near twenty-to-one discount, and probably the cheapest frontier-AI access of the foreseeable future.
AI
What a $200 Claude Max Plan Really Buys: I'm Nearing $3,000 in Value
I've spent the better part of a year wondering whether my flat $200 Claude Max plan was a bargain or a rip-off. So I built a tool to meter my Claude Code usage across four machines — one ordinary week billed out at $737 by API pricing.
Healthcare IT
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI: BAA Coverage for Healthcare
Two of the three frontier-model coding CLIs are explicitly carved out of their vendor's HIPAA BAA, even when bundled into Enterprise seats. Here's what's actually buyable for healthcare today, what it costs at twenty-five seats, and why an individual Max plan plus AWS Bedrock might out-economize all three Enterprise tiers.
Technology
Crown Castle Fiber Sale Closes: What Customers Should Do
Crown Castle closed the $8.5B sale of its Fiber Solutions and Small Cells businesses on May 1. Zayo gets the fiber, EQT's Arium Networks gets the small cells. Bundled customers now have two counterparties. Practical guidance for IT teams with active Crown Castle MSAs.
Technology
Cloudflare 1,100, Meta 8,000: Tech's AI Layoff Week
Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs the same week its Q1 revenue grew 34% and beat estimates. Meta confirmed 8,000 cuts on $201B in 2025 revenue. The layoffs are real; 'AI did it' is part of the answer, not the whole one.
AI
Anthropic Books Musk's Colossus 1 While the Altman Trial Plays
Anthropic took 300 megawatts and 220,000 GPUs at SpaceX's Memphis data center on the same day Musk testified against Sam Altman. Compute, not ideology, is now setting deal terms at the top of the AI stack.
AI
Anthropic Approaches $900B: Mythos Has a Compute Bill to Pay
Anthropic is weighing offers for a fresh round at a $900 billion valuation — more than double February's mark and ahead of OpenAI's most recent post-money. The trajectory is real, the differentiator has a name, and the bill is for compute.
AI
Claude Code Is Showing Me What I'd Owe on the Meter
Anthropic now puts a dollar figure on every Claude Code session. I'm on the flat-rate Max 20x plan, but the receipts arrived anyway — and one workday cost $64.