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OpenAI set up a “warroom” to investigate a flurry of user reports that its coding agent is hitting usage limits faster than usual.An update on OpenAI’s status page said that some users’ Codex limits are “depleting faster than expected” and that it was related to its “abuse and fraud prevention…
Leonhard Soenke cofounded Throne, a creator economy startup, in 2021 to help influencers create wishlists where fans could buy and send them gifts.Five years later, Soenke and his cofounder Patrice Becker are setting out on a new venture. It’s not in the creator economy. Instead, it’s in the data center…
It’s all hands on deck at SpaceX as the company plays catch-up in the AI race.Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX had deployed “a few dozen” top Starlink and Starship engineers to help overhaul its Grok model.”The SpaceXAI cadence of model and harness improvement is speeding up tremendously, particularly…
This as-told-to essay is based on an in-person interview with Neil Stubley, head of courts and horticulture at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, home of the Wimbledon tennis championships. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been head of courts and horticulture at the All England Lawn…
The job market is looking brighter, but some places are a better bet if you’re looking for stability than others.It’s especially tough if you’re looking for work in the tech- and media-heavy information sector. Major tech companies have laid off workers due to AI and automation. Have you made a…
Token leaderboards have a right idea, wrong execution problem, says the CEO of one red-hot AI coding startup.On an episode of the “Founders” podcast released on Sunday, Cognition’s Scott Wu said there are better ways to incentivize employees to use AI.”It is directionally correct, but I think there are definitely…
Russia is more than doubling the amount of basic military training in a compulsory national defense class for 6th- to 11th-graders, its education minister said on Friday.Sergei Kravtsov said that 50% of the course, “Fundamentals of Homeland Security and Defense,” would be dedicated to military training by September 1.That’s up…
Coinbase’s CEO wants his engineers to keep tokenmaxxing — while keeping AI costs down.In an X post on Friday, CEO Brian Armstrong outlined five ways in which the crypto exchange is keeping AI costs low.The first of his five strategies was selecting better default LLMs — the models most engineers…
Olivia Wilde, 42, says becoming a director changed the way she viewed Hollywood’s beauty standards.On Friday’s episode of “The Run-Through with Vogue,” Wilde spoke about aging and the pressures female actors face in the entertainment industry.”It’s interesting because as a director, I now am constantly searching for actresses who can…
In the show: After he’s unceremoniously removed as Hand of the King by his grandson, King Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney), viewers barely see Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) until his death.Otto tells his daughter, Alicent, that he’s returning to House Hightower’s seat in Oldtown, though she finds it odd that…
