Uber is shutting the door on its infamous tokenmaxxing era. In a Wednesday X post, Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said the company is seeing some “very interesting trends on AI costs,” and that this was “another signal that we’re coming to the end of the so-called ‘tokenmaxxing’ era.” Tokenmaxxing is an enterprise AI trend
The attackers did not try to infiltrate the computers that utility offices use. Instead, they tried to seize control of small computers in equipment like pumps and valves that deliver drinking water to millions of people. The utilities countered the attacks by shutting down the control computers and sending personnel out into the field to
Meta has joined a growing list of companies saying their models hacked into an external company’s system during cybersecurity testing. In a statement on Thursday, the social media company said its Muse Spark model “exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies.” The Meta spokesperson
SpaceX launched its Starfall demo mission on June 23, 2026. According to a document from the Federal Aviation Administration, Starfall has two main purposes: to use rockets to quickly deliver cargo around the world, and to deliver cargo to and from space. The latter could allow for in-space manufacturing markets that take advantage of microgravity
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People become more suspicious of a humanoid robot that makes errors, especially when the robot is an expressive conversation partner. In our new study published in the journal Science Robotics, we had 50 people hold conversations and make joint decisions with the commercial humanoid robot Pepper, which is designed to be expressive and recognize emotions.
