Tokenmaxxing is retarded. I literally aimed for high token usage for one month like a year ago before I realized it’s just a waste of time
Goodharts law will always hold true. Can’t believe a CEO openly admits to it this late in the game
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says using AI too much can become expensive and is urging employees to use it more wisely.
Nadella admitted heavy AI use is common at Microsoft. When asked how much “tokenmaxxing” is happening inside the company:
“A lot, I’m a tokenmaxxer too, it’s addictive.”
Nadella said people should think about their goals instead of always using the most powerful models. “You have to step back when the novelty wears off to say, ‘What is it that I’m trying to create?’”
Nadella said the goal is to match the right AI model to the right task. He pointed to Copilot’s Auto Mode, which automatically chooses the most suitable model.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ
Players of Pokémon Go have been quietly helping build navigation tech that's now heading into military drones, and most of them had no idea.
Since 2021, players scanning locations in the game for rewards created around 30 billion photos and videos of real streets, Niantic used all that player data to train a camera system that can figure out exactly where something is just by looking at its surroundings.
In December 2025, Niantic's mapping spin-off teamed up with a U.S. defense company called Vantor. They're combining this ground camera tech with drone systems so military drones and robots can navigate in places where GPS gets blocked
Players gave Niantic permission to use their scans through the game's rules, but almost nobody knew it could lead to military drone navigation.
@theo About to find out, I conveniently have a hackathon ending tomorrow and I’m going to let it rip on my teams project. I gave it minimal prompting and it came to the same conclusion we did with our next move so that’s promising
@Apple “Oooh look at our newest platform lock in feature!” “Check out our earphones that could easily be $30 but we block the protocols to other manufacturers so ours are BEttEr” 🥴
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx