. A new culture of “tokenmaxxing” is sweeping through Silicon Valley, as tech workers compete to consume massive amounts of artificial intelligence data to prove their productivity. The trend involves engineers using “agentic” AI tools to process billions of tokens — the basic units of data used by AI models — often running automated systems … Read more
We already know why the Socratic method is important in the age of AI. But the book of the same name claims that Socrates himself means little to many readers. They mostly associate him, its author notes, with the saying that the unexamined life is not worth living. And they know that his rational inquiries … Read more
. Latitude, the startup behind the viral hit AI Dungeon, unveiled its new AI-native platform, Voyage. The platform allows users to act as game designers by creating and playing custom, text-based role-playing games (RPGs) featuring unscripted interactions and persistent digital worlds. The platform is powered by Latitude’s “World Engine,” a system developed over five years … Read more
. As newsrooms worldwide struggle to define the “human” element in an automated age, one Fortune editor has demonstrated how AI can actually help journalists increase the value of human-led reporting. By offloading aggregation to machines, journalists are freed to return to the field, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Sometime in … Read more