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Even Microsoft Can't Afford Microsoft's AI -- AI Brief August 5
Good day, humans. Microsoft just told its own engineers to stop burning tokens, which is a strange thing to hear from the company selling you the tokens. Anthropic, meanwhile, has been slicing the spines off library books. Let's get into it.Microsoft Says Stop TokenmaxxingSource: 404 MediaWhat happened: Microsoft EVP Jay Parikh emailed staff that every division now has an AI "token budget," after internal dashboards showed engineers running up hundreds to a few thousand dollars a month on GitHub Copilot. "Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for," he wrote. The company also switched its…
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