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Amazon is looking to minimize “tokenmaxxing.”The company is shutting down an employee-made leaderboard that tracked AI token use because it encouraged some staff to perform tasks that didn’t necessarily solve problems, just so they could climb the ranks.”Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,” Dave Treadwell, an Amazon…
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A politician wants to cut bureaucratic red tape and reduce spending in the name of efficiency.No, Elon Musk’s DOGE isn’t back from the dead. This time it’s NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and it’s called COGE: Commission on Government Efficiency.Despite the obvious similarities in…
At 22, heartbroken, depressed, and unsure about my future, I craved novelty and adventure, so I packed up my life in England and moved to Japan.Now, 31, living in Tokyo, and more secure than I’ve ever felt in my adult life, I can’t help but feel that creeping depression, pushing…
Dear founders: your emails read different. Is it AI?Paul Graham is a titan of the startup space. He cofounded Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s hottest startup accelerator. He also coined “founder mode,” the management philosophy that’s swept tech in recent years.He’s noticed a trend that worries him: people using AI to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Raymond Zeng, 24, a Meta software engineer living in the San Francisco Bay area. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been told by many of my friends that my living situation is very “Spartan.” I don’t own a car,…
Gregg Bayes-Brown helped develop the AI policies at a former job in biotech research, but even as a rule maker, he says he couldn’t afford to not be a rule breaker. Though he understood the technology and its risks, he used an unapproved personal enterprise Google account for work, to…
When I worked a typical, corporate 9-5 job, I dreamed of the day I could freelance. I so badly wanted to be my own boss and feel a sense of autonomy and ownership around something I had built from the ground up. Loading audio narration… Now that I’m living the…
It’s been well over two decades since I’ve seen my brother. Although he’s five years older, we were close growing up. Loading audio narration… When he left for college, he rarely returned home, choosing to live in his college town year-round, but we kept in touch. When I was 19,…
Crude futures are tumbling thanks to the US-Iran ceasefire, but don’t expect the price of a tank of gas to plunge overnight. Loading audio narration… West Texas Intermediate futures for May fell about 16% to below $95 a barrel early Wednesday, as investors cheered President Trump’s two-week truce with Iran.Wholesale…
Just three weeks before moving day, I looked around my house — at the furniture, the decor, my kids’ plastic dolls and play sets. I didn’t know how I was going to pack it all. And in fact, I didn’t want to pack or keep a lot of it. Loading…
