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Developers are burning through massive AI token budgets and calling it productivity. New data from Waydev, GitClear, and Faros AI tells a different story. Here's what the numbers show.

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Tokenmaxxing Is Making Developers Feel Productive — The Data Says Otherwise

There is a status symbol spreading through Silicon Valley engineering culture, and it has nothing to do with what ships. It is the size of your AI token budget — the amount of AI processing power you are authorized to consume. Enormous token budgets...

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Meta is cutting roughly 10% of its workforce — about 8,000 jobs — to fund AI infrastructure, while launching a new frontier model it won't release as open source. Here's what the data shows.

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Meta Is Cutting 10 Percent of Its Workforce to Fund AI Infrastructure

Meta is preparing to lay off approximately 8,000 employees on May 20 — roughly 10 percent of its global workforce — according to Reuters sources. A...

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New research from MIT and University of Pennsylvania suggests heavy AI chatbot use may reduce brain activity, impair memory, and accelerate cognitive decline.

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Research Suggests AI Chatbots May Be Reducing Brain Activity

A growing body of research is raising a question that cuts against the prevailing enthusiasm for AI productivity tools: what does regular reliance on...

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 A critical vulnerability in Anthropic's MCP SDK enables remote code execution across 7,000+ servers and 150 million downloads.

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Security Flaw in Anthropic's MCP Protocol Affects 150 Million Downloads

Cybersecurity researchers at OX Security have identified a critical architectural vulnerability in Anthropic's Model Context Protocol that enables...

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 Salesforce stock is down 30% this year amid AI disruption fears. CEO Marc Benioff says the opportunity has never been greater.

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Salesforce CEO Says SaaS Isn't Dead — Here's What the Numbers Show

Salesforce stock is down 30% year-to-date. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF is down 20% over the same period. The market has spent much...

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Amazon reports earnings April 29. Analysts expect strong AWS numbers driven by Anthropic's explosive growth, AI demand, and a $60.6 billion stake that may boost the balance sheet significantly.

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Amazon's Q1 Earnings Could Get a Major Lift From Anthropic

Amazon reports first quarter earnings on April 29, and analysts are watching one relationship closely: the deepening financial and operational ties...

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Google's A2UI v0.9 is a framework-agnostic standard that lets AI agents generate real-time UI using your existing components.

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Google Released A2UI v0.9 — A Standard for AI-Generated Interfaces

Google's A2UI team shipped version 0.9 of A2UI this week — a framework-agnostic standard that allows AI agents to generate user interface components...

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Starbucks launched a beta app inside ChatGPT to help customers discover new drinks. Here's what it does, why it matters, and what it signals about AI as a retail channel.

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Starbucks Launches a ChatGPT App for Drink Discovery

Starbucks is now inside ChatGPT. The company launched a beta app in OpenAI's interface on April 15 that lets customers describe a mood, craving, or...

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LinkedIn's economic graph of over a billion members shows hiring is down 20% since 2022 — but the data doesn't point to AI as the cause. Yet. Here's what the numbers actually show.

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Hiring Is Down 20% Since 2022 — But AI Isn't the Culprit

LinkedIn has a billion-member economic graph covering companies, jobs, and skills in real time. It is among the most comprehensive labor market...

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AI agents can connect, but they can't think together. Cisco's Outshift division is building the protocols to change that — here's what shared cognition actually means and how it works.

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AI Agents Can Connect But They Can't Think Together

AI agents can be stitched into workflows. They can plug into supervisor models. They can pass outputs to one another in sequence. What they cannot do...

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UBS upgraded Tesla to Neutral and raised its price target to $352, citing the company's physical AI potential. Here's what the numbers actually show and what the pivot means.

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Tesla's Physical AI Pivot: What the UBS Numbers Tell Us

UBS upgraded Tesla from Sell to Neutral on April 14, raising its price target to $352 and pushing shares roughly 3.3% higher in a single session. The...

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration is planning a mandatory survey of data center energy use — the first of its kind. Here's what it means and why it's overdue.

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US Government Will Ask Data Centers About Power Use

For years, one of the most energy-intensive industries in the American economy has operated without any mandatory public accounting of how much...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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