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At tech giants like Meta Platforms, employees may have embraced the idea of “tokenmaxxing” as a way to show off how dedicated they are to using AI in their jobs. Don’t expect businesses beyond the deepest-pocketed tech giants to follow their lead, though.
As The Information reported on Monday, employees inside Meta have been competing to see who could rank highest on an internal leaderboard called Claudeonomics as the most prolific user of tokens—a basic unit of AI consumption companies like Anthropic use.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word. It's another challenge to Microsoft's software empire, and a bid to appeal to lawyers. Read more ›
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The first vessel ever called a "super carrier" might not be what you'd expect. But its design, missions, and legacy tell us a lot about Naval history. Read more ›
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У каждого бывали моменты, когда в голове уже готов идеальный визуал - чёткий, детальный, именно такой, какой нужен. Открываешь стоки - не то. Лезешь в Canva - честно, компромисс на компромиссе, а Photoshop возиться не хочется. Знакомо?А теперь другой сценарий: вы просто описываете словами то, что у вас в голове, - и через несколько секунд изображение уже на экране. А именно то, что хотели. Звучит подозрительно? Понимаем. Но это не... Read more ›
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The US Federal Aviation Administration is turning to gamers to plug a gap in a national shortage of air traffic controllers. Read more Read more ›
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Verbatim Japan and I-O Data have widened their joint commitment to keep recordable Blu-ray products on shelves in Japan, this time covering drive hardware as well as media. Read more ›
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IBM has agreed to settle the US Department of Justice's accusations that the company violated civil rights laws with its DEI practices. According to a press release from the DOJ, IBM will pay more than $17 million to resolve allegations of taking "race, color, national origin, or sex" into account when making employment decisions. This settlement is the latest development in a longstanding effort from the Trump administration to end... Read more ›
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Phoronix staged "a showdown" between Firefox and Chrome, testing them both on an Intel Panther Lake laptop running Ubuntu 26.04. JetStream 3.0 was announced at the end of March as the latest major web browser benchmark. This updated version of JetStream is focused on intensive portions of modern JavaScript and WebAssembly web applications... Google Chrome 147 came in at 1.47x the performance of Mozilla Firefox 149. A very strong showing... Read more ›
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Часть 1.Когда я шёл в DevOps, я думал, что буду приручать серверы. Оказалось — людей, процессы и древнего дракона по имени Легаси.Я пришёл в Башню релизов ровно в девять ноль‑ноль — как человек, который ещё верит в расписание.Башня стояла на холме, укрытая облаками и корпоративными ценностями. Над входом висел герб: три кольца, перечёркнутые молнией, и девиз, вырезанный на граните так, чтобы его невозможно было отрефакторить:«Не деплой в пятницу».Внутри меня встретила... Read more ›
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As we previously reported, astronauts aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft used the iPhone 17 Pro Max to take selfies of themselves with the Earth in the background during the Artemis II mission around the far side of the Moon last week. Now that the crew members have safely returned to Earth, Apple's CEO Tim Cook and marketing chief Greg Joswiak have both turned to social media to congratulate them on their... Read more ›
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В ансамблевом прогнозировании важнее не индивидуальное качество моделей, а разнообразие их ошибок. Эксперимент показывает: пул из «худших» по отдельности моделей даёт лучшую точность ансамбля, чем пул из «лучших». Читать далее Read more ›
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Сегодня расскажу очередную интересную мини-историю из цикла разработки JMatrixPlatform. В прошлой серии я показал как элегантно удалось решить проблему загрузки исторических данных и справочников. В этот раз поговорим о многомодульной навигации в UI. Или как удачная архитектура открыла новые возможности, которые я раньше просто не замечал. Читать далее Read more ›
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Юзербот — это обычный аккаунт MAX с подтвержденным номером телефона, которым управляет скрипт. В отличие от официальных чат-ботов, юзербот сидит под капотом обычного клиентского профиля. Официального API для этого нет, платформа такие вольности не любит. Но если нужно обойти ограничения и автоматизировать рутину — приходится использовать сторонние библиотеки. Что нужно знать перед запуском:Скрипт работает 24/7 с обычного аккаунта.Доступны любые действия, которые может выполнить живой человек.Нужно жестко ко Read more ›
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Tech DIYer Kent Walters has used a metalworking file to round over the corners of his MacBook. Apparently, some people freak out about this. Read more ›
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Battery replacement is one of the fears that has come up with electric cars becoming mainstream. How can the state of California help out here? Read more ›
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Polymarket bets started popping up in Google News alongside legitimate news articles. But now those results aren't showing, and Google says they were never supposed to. Spokesperson Ned Adriance told The Verge that "Google News is designed to show sources that create content about current issues, events, and important topics, and we have policies for […] Read more ›
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By dropping the no-swearing rule, I found a calmer, more connected home — and fewer unnecessary arguments with my kids. Read more ›
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Amazon has announced wholesale changes to its streaming cloud service Luna, giving just two months' notice that games and third-party subscriptions purchased before 10th April will be removed from players' libraries by 10th June, 2026. Read more Read more ›
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The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces - creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe. Some barely look like Altman. One final face rests […] Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A familiar Silicon Valley foe is the mastermind behind those explosive chatbot lawsuits• Tech Culture: San Francisco’s mecca for mad scientists eyes global expansion • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Idiot,” “Dune Messiah” and “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”Many, many, many people have had much to say in the last several days about OpenAI buying TBPN,... Read more ›
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For much of the last decade, the number of new apps launching in Apple’s App Store each year went into a tailspin, falling a whopping 48% between 2016 and 2024, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower. At least that was the case until last year. In 2025, the number of new apps that showed up in the App Store globally suddenly exploded, growing 30% to nearly 600,000 compared... Read more ›
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Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon as the fourth quarter despite expectations his company will burn more than $200 billion before it starts generating cash. Behind the scenes, Sarah Friar, his chief financial officer, has voiced concerns that reflect the tensions and risks inherent in the CEO’s extraordinarily ambitious plans. Read more ›
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The first quarter is over, and tech earnings season is only a couple of weeks away. Here’s something worth thinking about: Big tech stocks out of favor with investors—particularly Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms—need to show something striking when they report for the quarter if they want to get out of the doghouse they’re in.If they don’t, sentiment is likely to become even more negative. In the next few months,... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar are diverging over the company’s timeline for an initial public offering as Altman pushes for a public debut as early as the fourth quarter, The Information reported. Friar has privately expressed concerns that the AI startup will not be ... Read more ›
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Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a “Session Immortal”—or, even better, “Token Legend.” The rankings, set up by a Meta employee on its intranet using company data, measure how many tokens—the units of data processed by AI models—employees are burning through. Dubbed “Claudeonomics” after the flagship product of AI startup Anthropic, the leaderboard aggregates... Read more ›
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Forget all the chatter about which AI coding tool is winning the race. The companies behind the leading AI coding tools are learning the benefits of peaceful co-existence. On Thursday, for instance, Cursor announced a new version of its app designed for coding with AI agents from different coding providers simultaneously, including Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. OpenAI, meanwhile, last week released a software “plugin” that gives Claude Code... Read more ›
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SpaceX executives say its Starlink Mobile direct-to-cell service offered through mobile carriers will eventually reach hundreds of millions of customers around the globe, which would help justify SpaceX’s valuation. But right now, the service’s revenue is tiny. T-Mobile, for instance, SpaceX’s only mobile partner in the U.S., is offering its customers access to Starlink Mobile in exchange for paying SpaceX a total of around $100 million as it hits service... Read more ›
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Oracle named Schneider Electric’s former chief financial officer Hilary Maxson to be CFO, the first time in years the software-and-cloud giant has had a CFO. Maxson’s appointment comes as Oracle has borrowed heavily to fund a huge investment in AI data centers. Maxson, who had announced her ... Read more ›
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Hello! Anissa here. Is Nvidia’s CUDA Vulnerable?Tatarchuk likes to poke the bear. The bear, in this case, is Nvidia. Tatarchuk has every incentive to challenge the chip company’s dominance. He runs startup TensorWave, which rents out AI chips from Nvidia rival Advanced Micro Devices.Last year, during Nvidia’s GTC conference, Tatarchuk hosted an event in San Jose, Calif., Beyond CUDA, drawing hundreds of attendees eager to talk about alternatives to Nvidia’s... Read more ›
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