Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald has warned that there is not yet a link between higher AI token usage and an increase in useful consumer features, seemingly pumping the brakes on 'AI tokenmaxxing.' Speaking on the Rapid Response Podcast via Business Insider , Macdonald said, "That link is n… …
… That makes many of the layoffs laid at the feet of AI efficiency and productivity increasingly shaky, unless these companies are simply racing to the bottom. Or at least racing to new hardware. …
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… Google has not publicly responded in detail to Hanff's findings at the time of writing, and the company may argue that these downloads are tied to legitimate product features and improve privacy by keeping AI processing local. Even so, the core question remains unresolved. …
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Big Tech Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill. The company announced it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and has increased its usage of AI sixfold over the past few months. …
… Calif published the vulnerability overview as part of a series of blog posts called the Month of AI-Discovered Bugs, since this new Apple vulnerability falls within a set of security findings aided by AI tools — in this case, Anthropic's Mythos Preview. …
… Search Engines Microsoft is bringing the Bing AI chatbot preview to mobile in iOS and Android apps, Edge and with new functionality in Skype. Search Engines The new AI chatbots learned from human-written content, but now seek to outrank and replace that content. …
… Linux After months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code. Linux The Linux 7.0 kernel has merged support for three new keycodes intended for a coming wave of laptops with dedicated AI agent keys. …
… CPUs The SPEC CPU 2026 features more tests and an emphasis on portability, running on everything from fleets of servers down to a Raspberry Pi. CPUs The Ryzen AI 5 435G shows similar performance to the existing Ryzen 5 8600G in new Geekbench 6 benchmarks. …
