Author: News Room
First came tokenmaxxing. Now comes efficiency-maxxing.Silicon Valley has been encouraging workers to use AI, including through gamified internal leaderboards that measure how many tokens — the units of data processed by AI — they use.For some, playtime is over.The tech world is having a big debate about whether tokenmaxxing, the…
This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Morgan S., a 37-year-old strategy senior manager in Houston. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m from Houston, and I love it. My monthly take-home pay from my corporate job is just under $10,000 after taxes. I feel very financially secure…
Matthew Hall is trying to stretch his grocery budget and save up to replace his aging car amid rising food prices and overall inflation. Hall regularly uses an app called Too Good to Go to find steep discounts on food. Hall and other shoppers are using these services, which connect…
By the time DOGE quietly disbanded in late November, Elon Musk had returned his attention to his companies. President Donald Trump was focused on his immigration crackdown.For Alex Zhu, though, the impact of those months of frenzied job cuts lingered.Zhu’s friends and neighbors were among the more than 260,000 federal…
You’ve probably heard by now that this year’s World Cup is set to be the most expensive yet.But what does that actually mean for fans?Ahead of the tournament, Business Insider crunched the numbers to game out how much it would cost a fan to follow their home team through the…
In Dayton, Ohio, city workers recently climbed ladders and pulled trash bags over license plate readers installed years earlier.The security cameras weren’t broken. They weren’t being removed, either.The black plastic bags have become the latest symbol of a growing conflict with Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based company whose automated license plate…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made an attempt to dispel fears of a “Saaspocalypse,” saying it is an “incredible time” to be a software company.Speaking at a keynote presentation at Computex, a tech show in Taiwan, Huang said the rise of agentic AI has led to major breakthroughs, including in tool…
Move over, BeReal, a new app is winning the hearts of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.Setlog, a free South Korean app, went viral as most things do in the country — after K-pop stars posted about it. All the nine active members of the popular boy band Seventeen, and Karina,…
Steven Spielberg, 79, said he only agreed to start DreamWorks if it would be a 9-to-5 job.Speaking to Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson on the latest episode of the “IMO” podcast, Spielberg said that balancing family life with filmmaking was difficult.”One of the biggest challenges is just running out of…
I live in a three-generation household with my husband, our three children, and my in-laws.Like many women in multigenerational homes, I carry a lot — an endless array of responsibilities, or at least that’s how it often feels. Household chores, children’s schedules, routines, emotional needs, school concerns, and all the…
