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They’re not looking to make billions, but they’re still having fun building with AI.Conversations about AI these days have high stakes: valuations in the trillions, job cuts in the thousands. For vibe coders, or non-coders using AI programs to create apps, it’s often small potatoes. And that’s not a bad thing.BI’s Juliana Kaplan has a fun piece about these “normies” using AI to plan wedding seat charts or decide the best day to wash their hair. Juliana even gave it a shot, vibe coding an app to help her decide whether it was worth trekking up a hill to a…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered his hotly anticipated keynote speech at Computex on Monday.It was jam-packed with new releases, including a chip aimed at reinventing the personal computer as we know it. Huang also had some words of optimism for software engineers, who are seeing their industry transformed by AI.Computex, which is held annually in Taipei, Taiwan, is Asia’s largest tech trade show — and Huang is one of its main draws.The “Jensanity” around Huang has grown since last year’s Computex, when crowds flocked to see him in Taipei. At this year’s event, his onstage dance moves with colleagues went viral.Here…

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 idea of using lots of AI tokens to boost productivity, has gotten out of control. It has also got executives wondering when the return on investment will start to show.Last week, Amazon closed an internal dashboard that tracked AI use after some staff performed tasks just to climb the leaderboard,…

Nicole Diaz had never written code. Then she joined OpenAI’s legal team.A year later, the associate general counsel now uses OpenAI’s apps to simplify and speed her legal work. She has built tools with ChatGPT and Codex, the company’s coding agent, to help turn dense law-firm memos into plain-English policies, triage employee email, draft replies, and track the results.”My sense of what’s possible,” Diaz said, “has rapidly expanded in the last six months, even three months.”Diaz works in corporate compliance, a legal function focused not on the products OpenAI puts into the world, but on how the company conducts business,…

Foreign hiring has slowed across tech, with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown prompting some firms to reduce H-1B visa sponsorships.Nvidia, one of the most coveted employers in the field, appears largely undeterred. Federal filings suggest Nvidia is spending aggressively to maintain its lead in the AI race, hiring across both hardware and software roles while also staffing up on customer-facing positions to help deploy its systems widely.Nvidia obtained certification for roughly 1,200 H-1B roles during the first two quarters of fiscal 2026, according to federal data. That’s up from roughly 1,000 certifications over the same period last year.Meanwhile, other tech…

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 readers have spread rapidly across the US and sparked mounting backlash from some residents, local officials, and privacy advocates.The conflict in Dayton stemmed from an internal police department review that found, as City Manager Shelley Dickstein described in a May 1 press conference, “egregious violations” of city policy, including thousands of…

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 use.”A lot of people have said, ‘Jensen, AI is coming. Agentic AI is coming. Therefore, all of the software companies are going to go out of business.’ I said it’s exactly the opposite,” he said at the start of his speech on Monday.Agentic AI refers to AI systems that can…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was at the center of investors’ attention on Monday as markets looked for clues about the next phase of the AI boom.But while Huang commanded the spotlight at a major trade show in Taiwan, investors were piling into South Korean tech stocks.As Huang spoke, shares of LG Electronics surged 30% for a second straight session, taking their gains this year to more than 300%.Samsung Electronics rose 10%, pushing the tech giant’s gains this year to about 190%.South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index rose more than 4% and is up over 100% this year.The rally came as investors…

An Anthropic project is using feedback from about 1,000 human software engineers to improve the performance of Claude Code, the AI coding tool whose recent advancements have disrupted the vibe-coding industry.The project, known internally at Snorkel AI as “Marlin,” focuses on fine-tuning Claude Code’s answers so that it could mimic what a professional developer could do.AI companies like Anthropic often outsource data work to third parties like Snorkel, which hire contractors to teach AI a variety of specialist subjects and do other tasks to improve models. Contractor interviews and training material from these projects provide a look into how this…

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: Bringing more transparency to data center construction and the impact those data centers have on nearby communities. Brockovich — who was famously played by Julia Roberts in a film dramatizing her legal case against Pacific Gas & Electric — recently launched a website with a map of data centers across the United States. The website describes the map as “work in progress” that includes data centers reported by members of the surrounding community. In a Substack post, Brockovich said that after putting out a call for reports of data center-related issues in…