The tokenmaxxing era is over. Now companies are ‘tokenminimizing’
The tokenmaxxing era is over. Now companies are ‘tokenminimizing’

A year ago, the smart move inside a big company was to use as much AI as humanly possible. Some firms even ranked employees on leaderboards by how many tokens they burned, a status game that earned its own name: tokenmaxxing. That era is ending. The sa…

Microsoft might put China’s DeepSeek inside Copilot to tame its AI bills
Microsoft might put China’s DeepSeek inside Copilot to tame its AI bills

Microsoft is considering putting a Chinese AI model inside its enterprise Copilot, and the reason is money. The company told Axios it is exploring a self-hosted, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4, or another open-source model, as a cheaper option to po…

Amazon could face billions in fines as the FTC eyes its ad business
Amazon could face billions in fines as the FTC eyes its ad business

Amazon’s advertising business has become its quiet money machine. It may also be its next big regulatory headache. The US Federal Trade Commission has drafted a potential complaint accusing Amazon of misleading advertisers, a case that could lead to bi…

Uber’s robotaxi service is heading to Houston to take another swing at Waymo
Uber’s robotaxi service is heading to Houston to take another swing at Waymo

Uber is taking its robotaxi service to Houston. The company said on 17 June that it will launch a premium driverless service in the city by mid-2027, the second US market for its partnership with EV maker Lucid and self-driving startup Nuro. It is also…

Mistral spent two years warning the US could switch off its rivals. A fat-cat meme just made the point for it.
Mistral spent two years warning the US could switch off its rivals. A fat-cat meme just made the point for it.

On Wednesday, Arthur Mensch took his seat at a G7 working lunch in Evian alongside Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei. Days earlier, the US government had ordered Amodei’s company to cut foreign nationals off from its most capable models, and…

Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.
Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.

For 25 years, Mobileye has been the arms dealer of self-driving, selling the cameras, chips, and software that now sit inside more than 230 million cars, while pointedly leaving the driving business to everyone else. On 16 June, it said it would start …

Three Xbox studios are trying to buy their way out of Microsoft’s gaming restructuring
Three Xbox studios are trying to buy their way out of Microsoft’s gaming restructuring

Three Xbox-owned studios are in active negotiations to buy themselves back from Microsoft rather than face closure, according to Bloomberg. Compulsion Games in Montreal, Double Fine Productions in San Francisco, and Ninja Theory in Cambridge, England, …

Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.
Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement Proposal 401, which introduces value classes and objects to the language, will be integrated into the OpenJDK mainline early next month targeting JDK 28. The change is part of Pro…

EA just built a full advertising platform inside its games, and 120 million players are the audience
EA just built a full advertising platform inside its games, and 120 million players are the audience

Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a platform that lets brands buy dynamic, real-time ad placements inside the company’s sports games. The system delivers ads through stadium signage, digital ad boards, scoreboards, and broadcast-style overla…

Adani and Jabil plan to build AI data-centre hardware in India
Adani and Jabil plan to build AI data-centre hardware in India

Adani and Jabil are teaming up to make AI hardware in India. The Adani Group, India’s infrastructure-and-energy conglomerate, and Jabil, the US contract manufacturer, said on Monday they intend to form a strategic alliance to build a vertically integra…