. 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
. 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
. Consider this: If an AI can perfectly model your unique psychology over years to act as your infinitely patient therapist, your ideal friend, or your perfectly complimentary coworker, what happens to human society when talking to an imperfect, frustrating, messy human being starts to feel like a massive downgrade? It’s a frightening possibility, but … Read more