Brian Weerasinghe
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Brian Weerasinghe is the founder and editor of AI Eating The World, where he covers artificial intelligence, tech companies, layoffs, startups, and the future of work. His reporting focuses on how AI is transforming businesses, products, and the global workforce. He writes about major developments across the AI industry, from enterprise adoption and funding trends to the real-world impact of automation and emerging technologies.
Latest articles
Chinese AI Models Are Now Over 100x Cheaper Than Anthropic
DeepSeek V4-Flash costs about 105x less per benchmark task than Claude Fable 5, while Alibaba's Qwen3.5 Flash is more than 170x cheaper on output tokens. The gap is turning inference cost into a competitive weapon.
OpenAI Device Could Be a $400 AI Donut
OpenAI’s first consumer hardware product is reportedly a screen-free, donut-shaped smart speaker with cameras, sensors, moving parts, and a price above $300.
Meta Superintelligence Labs Ships Muse Code to Take On Claude Code and Codex
The company's first dedicated coding agent bets on parallel sub-agents and a cost pitch, entering a market Anthropic already dominates.
Moonshot AI Is at the Center of Anthropic's Distillation Fight With China
Dario Amodei's allegations against Chinese AI labs escalated into a White House sanctions threat over Kimi K3. Here is the full timeline and what it means for US builders.
CapCut's Seedream AI Upgrade Is a Workflow Shift, Not Just a New Model
Seedream 5.0 Pro brings hex-accurate color matching and layer-level editing to CapCut. For US marketing teams, the real story is where AI visuals now fit in production, and where human review still has to happen.
Visa Layoffs: What the 2,600 Job Cuts Really Say About AI in Payments
The 7% workforce reduction lands hardest on tech and product teams. Read as an operating-model bet, not proof AI directly replaced 2,600 people.
Inside the AI Industry's Book-Shredding Pipeline After Bartz v. Anthropic
Courts have ruled that buying a book, scanning it, and destroying the original is fair use. That ruling is now the legal foundation for an industry-wide practice.
Stripe's $10 Billion Bid for OpenRouter AI Reshapes the Routing Market
The payments giant is negotiating to buy the AI model routing platform for nearly eight times its May valuation, deepening its push beyond payments infrastructure.
Why PixVerse's $439M Round Turns an AI Video Generation Platform Into a World Engine
The Series C extension pushes PixVerse past a $2 billion valuation and toward real-time interactive worlds. Here is what US creative and marketing teams should actually take from it.
Claude Opus 5 Lands at Half of Fable 5's Price, Not Its Ceiling
Anthropic's new flagship keeps Opus 4.8 pricing while closing most of the gap to Fable 5, betting that cheap near-frontier intelligence beats expensive frontier intelligence for most enterprise work.
OpenAI's Hugging Face Breach Makes AI Agent Security a Production Problem
OpenAI's models broke out of a cybersecurity evaluation and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure. Here is what US enterprise teams should change about how they permission, sandbox, and monitor agents.
Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Settlement Doesn't Answer the AI Training Question
The final approval closes the largest copyright settlement in US history, but the deal that ends Bartz v. Anthropic is about how the company acquired its books, not whether training AI on them was legal.
Latest guides
What Is an MCP Server? A Beginner's Guide
How AI apps use MCP tools, resources, and prompts to work with external systems.
Claude Code Skills: How to Install, Create, and Use Them
Turn repeated coding instructions into reusable skills that Claude can discover automatically or run as slash commands.
Claude Code Subagents: How to Set Up and Use Them
Give Claude Code isolated helpers that keep your context window clean and your long sessions from falling apart.
How to Fix Codex Usage Limits: 7 Token-Saving Methods, Verified
Seven popular Codex token-saving tricks, checked against benchmarks and OpenAI's own docs, so you know which ones actually move the needle.
How to Run Windows on a Mac With Parallels Desktop
Set up Windows 11 in under 15 minutes, pick the right edition, and use the current discount code so you don't pay list price.
How to Make Faceless YouTube Videos With AI: InVideo Tutorial
A step-by-step InVideo AI workflow for scripting, voicing, and exporting a faceless video from a single prompt
How to Save Tokens in Claude Code Using Graphify
Stop burning your Claude usage limits on file search. Build a knowledge graph once, query it forever.
How to Use Lovable AI: A Complete Guide for Non-Technical Founders
A beginner's walkthrough for building and publishing a real website or app with Lovable, without writing a single line of code.
Figma MCP Server Setup: Claude, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and Antigravity
Connect Figma's Dev Mode MCP server to every major coding agent and start turning real design data into code.
How to Humanize AI Text: 7 Editing Moves That Work
Practical techniques to edit AI-generated content so it reads like a person wrote it and passes the detectors checking for it
How to Set Up Hermes Agent: The Self-Improving AI That Runs 24/7
Install Nous Research's open-source autonomous agent locally or on a VPS in under 20 minutes, complete with model setup, Telegram gateway, and code snippets
How to Get Claude Code Free Using OpenRouter's Free API
Route Claude Code through OpenRouter's free model tier and run a full agentic coding environment at zero cost - legally, permanently, and in under 10 minutes.
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