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Engineers burn 10x more AI tokens for just 2x more output. Welcome to the backlash against tokenmaxxing.

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Engineers burn 10x more AI tokens for just 2x more output. Welcome to the backlash against tokenmaxxing.

Jellyfish data shows that while AI "tokenmaxxing" boosts coding output, extreme token use delivers diminishing returns for companies.

4 months ago

Oracle Ditches Its Project Jupiter Gas Plant After a Wave of Data Center Backlash

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Oracle Ditches Its Project Jupiter Gas Plant After a Wave of Data Center Backlash

Oracle cancels a New Mexico natural gas plant for its Project Jupiter data center site amid community concerns.

4 months ago

Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous deal

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Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous deal

The agreement was signed with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-network deals the same week.

4 months ago

Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.

4 months ago

DoorDash's CEO: AI is helping engineers, but that isn't the only priority

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DoorDash's CEO: AI is helping engineers, but that isn't the only priority

DoorDash's CEO said close to two-thirds of the company's code is written by AI.

4 months ago

Mark Cuban says you should ask 5 questions about your company and its leadership

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Mark Cuban says you should ask 5 questions about your company and its leadership

Cuban said that if your CEO "has no clue" what AI is, it's time to think about finding a different job.

4 months ago

Personal Computer is Available to All Mac Users

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Personal Computer is Available to All Mac Users

Personal Computer is now available in the new Perplexity Mac app.

4 months ago

Inside Anthropic’s 2026 Developer Conference

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Inside Anthropic’s 2026 Developer Conference

What it was like in the room, plus what the new Managed Agents features look like in production

4 months ago

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding'

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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding'

The creator of Claude Code spoke with Business Insider at Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.

4 months ago

Musk’s Biggest Loyalist Became His Biggest Liability

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Musk’s Biggest Loyalist Became His Biggest Liability

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4 months ago

SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket

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SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket

Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is set to become SpaceX’s busiest launch site—for now.

4 months ago

Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

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Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.

4 months ago