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AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee 'tokenmaxxing' backfires
By Jowi Morales published
Agentic AI is consuming so many tokens that it's draining AI budgets way faster than expected. Jevons Paradox rings true 161 years after it was coined.
Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs
By Hassam Nasir published
Only available with games downloaded via the Xbox PC app.

Microsoft launches Cloud‑Initiated Driver Recovery for remote rollback of faulty updates
By Mark Tyson published
Microsoft introduces Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, an important Windows reliability change designed to minimize buggy driver mayhem.

Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores
By Luke James published
Amazon is the latest hyperscaler where employees have been caught inflating AI token consumption to hit internal usage targets.

Compromised Mistral AI and TanStack packages may have exposed GitHub, cloud and CI/CD credentials in 'mini Shai Hulud' malware infection
By Etiido Uko published
The malware reportedly refused to run on Russian-language systems but could execute a destructive payload under certain geographic conditions.

Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says
By Luke James published
The project was supposed to bring a geothermal-powered data center to the Olkaria region in Kenya's Rift Valley.

Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11
By Mark Tyson published
A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans
By Luke James published
Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft.

Microsoft says 'Transformation Paradox' holding back AI adoption in the workplace
By Jowi Morales published
“Employees are ready to reinvent how they work, but the system around them continues to reinforce the old way.”

Google, Microsoft, and xAI agree to let US government test AI models before public release
By Luke James published
OpenAI and Anthropic, which had existing evaluation partnerships with the center dating to 2024, renegotiated their deals to align with priorities in Trump's AI Action Plan.
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