Alistair Barr

Articles by Alistair Barr

AI prices are plunging. That feels bad, but something else is happening. - Business Insider

Business August 15, 2026

The price of AI is falling fast. That might sound like bad news for the industry. Early evidence suggests the opposite is happening. OpenAI recentlyslashed the price of its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%οΏ½...

OpenAI is breaking Silicon Valley's unwritten code. That's why Apple is so angry. - Business Insider

Business July 15, 2026

For years, Silicon Valley has had a comfortable way of digesting disruption. OpenAI is refusing to play by these unspoken rules. That's my takeaway after reviewing Apple's angry lawsuit against the οΏ½...

AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows - Business Insider

Technology July 13, 2026

Here's some delicious AI irony for you. For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the internet, it can be used for AI model development and outputs. They call it fair usοΏ½...

This new research challenges nearly every big AI narrative of 2026 - Business Insider

Business June 27, 2026

New research from RBC Capital Markets turned up a string of unexpected findings that challenge many of the biggest AI narratives. Every six months or so, Rishi Jaluria and other RBC tech analysts suοΏ½...

Claude, brought to you by Elon Musk - Business Insider

Business May 10, 2026

I went to Anthropic's developer conference this week with Business Insider's new AI reporter, Stephen Council. He's a terrific writer and a joy to work with, so give him a follow. The big news: AnthοΏ½...

Compute is destiny. Google just proved it. - Business Insider

Business May 2, 2026

Sam Altman likes to say that compute is destiny. This week, Google proved him right. After the latest round of Big Tech earnings, Google's stock jumped 10%, while Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon either οΏ½...

ServiceNow CEO dismisses AI software threats as 'parlor tricks' as he raises forecasts - Business Insider

Business April 23, 2026

ServiceNow reported solid first-quarter results and raised forecasts, underscoring continued demand for its software even as questions swirl about the impact of AI on the industry. Still, the stock οΏ½...

EV bloodbath: US sales plunge as Tesla tightens its grip - Business Insider

Business April 11, 2026

It's a bloodbath. New first-quarter 2026 EV sales estimates from Cox Automotive show the US electric-vehicle market shrinking sharply, with total sales down 27% year over year to about 216,000 unitsοΏ½...

She saw the AI software collapse coming almost a year ago. Here's what she expects next. - Business Insider

Business February 7, 2026

Almost a year ago, Michelle Miller co-authored a prescient study that warned the software industry would be squeezed by the rise of generative AI. Now, software stocks have plunged for many of the sοΏ½...

The $1 trillion reason Elon Musk ended Tesla FSD purchases - Business Insider

Business January 15, 2026

"You get what you measure" is one of my favorite concepts in modern business. It means people and organizations tend to focus their behavior on whatever metrics get tracked and rewarded. This even aοΏ½...