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Daniela Amodei has entered the tokenmaxxing discourse in Silicon Valley — and no, Anthropic does not have an AI leaderboard.At Thursday’s Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, the Anthropic president and co-founder took a question about tokenmaxxing, where developers use as much AI as possible and rack up huge bills with unclear business payoffs.Amodei was diplomatic, but offered a bullish vision.She said that though AI models have dramatically improved over the last two years, this isn’t the end state of their progress.”I actually think there’s a lot more distance to go still for what the models will be able to…
OpenAI’s new ad that ran during Game 1 of the Knicks vs Spurs NBA Finals included a hidden game of its own.The company debuted an advertisement for Codex, its AI coding tool, titled “Time to Fly.” The ad shows a variety of users vibe coding a product idea. One asks for a companion app; another puts their request on “Extra High” mode. A third seems to be developing a video game.The name of that game echoes the title of the ad: “Time to Fly.” Eagle-eyed viewers found and played the game online — and won some free AI tokens.The “Time…
Primatologist Jane Goodall and a team of researchers have spent more than six decades quietly observing chimpanzees in East Africa with binoculars.The field researchers take handwritten notes every 15 minutes when observing a single chimpanzee, and every minute when observing mothers and infants. Then, they must digitize their notes, which come in multiple languages, including English and Swahili. It typically takes up to two days to manually enter all field data into web-based systems, said Lilian Pintea, the vice president of conservation science at the Jane Goodall Institute. He added that the organization has operated with a multi-year backlog of…
Meta announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new AI creator assistant on Facebook that will give creators personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, community, and goals. Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like “When should I post?” and “What are people saying in my comments?” Since the AI assistant is conversational, they can ask follow-up questions and dig deeper on a topic, like how their audience has shifted over time. The answers they receive will be based…
As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, approaches, the excitement is building around what Apple has in store for us this year. From Siri’s overhaul to new Apple Intelligence updates, there’s a lot to look forward to. The annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. For those eager to tune in, the event will be streamed live via the Apple Developer app, Apple’s website, and the Apple Developer YouTube channel. Siri’s big AI makeover The most anticipated announcement is a major AI upgrade to Siri, transforming it into a more conversational assistant capable of…
After nearly 12 years of courtroom warfare, mounting legal bills, and family office intrigue, the world’s second-richest person has hit another snag in his quest to own paradise.Google cofounder Larry Page and his wife, Lucinda Southworth, purchased two islands in the US Virgin Islands — Hans Lollik and the smaller neighboring Little Hans Lollik — for $23 million in 2014, Business Insider previously reported. A developer named James Eckel claimed he already had a contract to purchase the Caribbean islands, kicking off a fierce legal battle between Eckel, the seller, and Page’s holding company.The case was dragged through the Texas…
Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perched on the northeast edge of the bay, the small city is home to Hello Robot, a startup that itself is about as far as one can get from the maximalist promises of its robotics rivals 45 miles south. Hello Robot released the fourth iteration of its home assistance robot, Stretch, last month. And you might stretch to call it a humanoid robot. While Stretch boasts a vaguely human torso and sensor-studded head, its telescoping arm has a…
Apple on Thursday offered its annual update on the state of the App Store ecosystem ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that begins next week. The technology giant said that its App Store facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025, a figure up from the $1.3 trillion it announced last year around this time. The figure, which includes all business taking place through apps on its platform, is meant to represent how the App Store creates financial opportunities for mobile developers that extend beyond sales from in-app purchases. It also helps to frame Apple’s portion…
Software stocks soared after Snowflake’s blowout earnings report sent the stock up 36% on May 28.Days later, Huang’s comment fueled a fresh rally in the space, piling on to the bullish sentiment that helped lift many beaten-down stocks out of their rut.”This is actually an incredible time to be a software company,” Huang said, dismissing the fears about an AI-driven wipeout that sent the sector spiraling in the first quarter of the year.The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF saw nearly 6% gains on Monday, adding to the more than 6% rally the Friday before.”A lot of people have said, ‘Jensen,…
I recently asked a startup CEO for his take on the best AI coding tools. He mentioned the usual suspects: OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code.Then he brought up a less familiar name.”There’s another coding agent, Code Puppy, built by an amazing guy called Mike Pfaffenberger at Walmart, ” this CEO told me. “It’s got masses of usage in Walmart.”The tip sent me down a rabbit hole that revealed something much bigger than another AI coding assistant. Code Puppy is part of Walmart’s effort to avoid what many technology executives fear could become one of the defining business problems of…