Amazon warns engineers against "tokenmaxxing" as it shifts focus from AI usage to actual productivity
New guidelines warn against token consumption as a performance target
Americans are losing enthusiasm for their jobs, with AI and remote workers at the centre of the decline
Employee engagement has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years
DoorDash reportedly in talks to acquire Instacart in $17 billion deal
DoorDash could make a move to buy Instacart as early as this week
Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia, team up to make Muse AI faster and cheaper to run
Nvidia is investing in a major customer that plans to buy more of its hardware, adding to concerns about circular AI financing
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, a quarter of the company
AI helped push company-wide spending to $50 billion this quarter
The AI boom is happening at seven companies, the rest of the S&P 500 isn't seeing it
Apollo's chief economist sees no sign that AI is boosting productivity growth anywhere
Anthropic files to go public, and it could be the biggest IPO ever
The company says AI is "one of the most consequential technologies in human history"
Meta plans $95 billion stock offering to fuel AI spending despite growing bubble fears
Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom are among the companies interested in buying billions of dollars' worth of shares
Nvidia's AI chips already make billions, now Jensen Huang wants $2,000 per GPU in annual software fees
Selling the chips is only the beginning of Nvidia's plans to cash in on AI
Peter Thiel slams Apple for doing "nothing new" since Steve Jobs died, praises controversial CEOs like Elon Musk
Apple has launched plenty of products under Tim Cook, but Thiel doesn't seem to think any of them count as genuine innovation
Elon Musk predicts a neocloud bloodbath as SpaceX seeks $40 billion to buy more GPUs
Musk warns that few of the 200-plus neocloud providers will survive the coming industry shakeout
Comcast lost 144,000 broadband customers last quarter, is planning layoffs so AI agents can take over customer service
Broadband losses show what happens when fiber and wireless undercut cable
SK hynix will build a US fab for Solidigm, but scraps IPO plans
Solidigm and SK hynix hold 21% of the booming enterprise SSD market
"Dark GPUs" at Amazon show the limits of the AI buildout: chips are easy to buy, power is not
AWS is reportedly buying billions in Nvidia GB300 racks every month and storing them in warehouses
Micron's 2027 roadmap: DDR6 with 2x DDR5 bandwidth, 1TB RDIMMs, and 400+ layer NAND
Micron's DDR6 is coming, but it's built for AI servers, not your PC
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's AI chips carry "the lowest" risk of any asset and could serve as collateral for debt
Huang says AI chips stay useful for at least eight years, Elon Musk is making a similar case
Cambridge Analytica's fallout is still costing Meta, this time $25 billion in New Mexico
Well below the $219 billion maximum the judge said was possible, Meta says it will appeal
Bose acquires Skullcandy in surprise deal, looks to attract younger buyers
Skullcandy will remain a separate brand while benefiting from Bose's technology and global reach
PEGI is giving games with paid loot boxes a PEGI 16 rating, and EA FC 27 is the first big example
Europe puts an age limit on loot boxes
EA closes legendary RPG studio BioWare following its $55 billion buyout
Mass Effect 5 canceled as EA focuses on new shooters, sports games, and The Sims
Ripple effect: BioWare fans have repeatedly feared for the studio's future ever since EA acquired the company nearly 20 years ago, and those fears intensified after last year's announcement of a Saudi-led leveraged buyout. Although BioWare hadn't released a hit title in 12 years, its early successes helped define the RPG genre, and fans likely still held high hopes for the next Mass Effect entry.
Nvidia reportedly refused some neoclouds access to GTC Berlin for adding AMD and TPU chips
SemiAnalysis says Nvidia pressure is real, but the evidence so far is unnamed neoclouds
Citadel's Ken Griffin says investors are "almost certainly" in an AI bubble
Businesses are paying for AI without consistently getting enough value from it
Elon Musk confirms Tesla and SpaceX merger talks
It could create the largest corporate merger in history
Trump tells data center companies to make financial deals with local communities
Previous attempts to win over residents with cash and discounts haven't always been successful
A hot potato: President Trump has said that data center companies should "make deals" with local communities to ensure the facilities aren't loathed by the people who live near them. He added that paying a "dividend" would help make the sites popular, though similar incentives haven't always worked in the past.
Staples hackers created more than 15,000 gift cards, then went on a shopping spree
Investigators tie the breach to Chinese crime, with much of the merchandise shipped to China