A 50-year-old economics law explains why AI tokenmaxxing was always going to fail Quartz By: Anthony Lopopolo 12 June 2026 at 16:51 Every productivity metric eventually gets gamed. Tokenmaxxing is just the latest example of a decades-old organizational trap
What comes after the AI spending binge: Caps, dashboards, and the search for ROI Quartz By: Anthony Lopopolo 12 June 2026 at 16:51 Uber, Microsoft, and Meta are taming runaway AI budgets. The harder question is how to measure what AI spending actually produces
Every AI trend follows the same arc. Here's what comes next Quartz By: Anthony Lopopolo 12 June 2026 at 16:51 Every AI trend peaks fast and burns out faster. The pattern behind four years of hype explains what comes next
AI is making software developers faster — just not at actually shipping software Quartz By: Anthony Lopopolo 12 June 2026 at 16:51 A study of more than 100,000 developers finds a vast gap between writing code and shipping software. The reason is human bottlenecks
Meta is unwinding its $2 billion AI acquisition as China forces the deal apart Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 12 June 2026 at 15:00 Meta has cut Manus off from its internal data systems and told staff to stop using the platform, taking the most concrete steps yet toward reversing the deal
U.S. bank regulators are making AI a core focus of every routine bank examination Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 12 June 2026 at 14:10 The OCC and Federal Reserve are asking banks detailed questions about AI governance, vendor risk, and kill switches during standard exams
ChatGPT became the fastest app ever to reach 1 billion monthly users — but rivals are closing in Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 12 June 2026 at 13:10 OpenAI's ChatGPT became the fastest app ever to reach the milestone, but Claude and Meta AI are growing their userbases far more quickly
Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei are heading to the G7 summit in France Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 12 June 2026 at 13:00 The leaders of several major AI companies will join G7 heads of state for a working lunch in Evian-les-Bains on June 15–17
With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech NYT - Top Stories By: Alex Marshall 12 June 2026 at 11:19 Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings. © David Hockney; Photo credit: Richard Schmidt“Mulholland Drive, June 1986,” a homemade print from a photocopier.