Amazon deletes devs’ tokenmaxxing leaderboard to minimize costs

Enterprises everywhere have been urging employees to adopt AI, with internal leaderboards springing up to show who has used the most AI tokens. Such games can backfire, though, as Amazon recently discovered. Kirorank, an unofficial leaderboard tracking usage of Amazon’s Kiro AI tool, ranked workers according to their AI activity, but senior managers at Amazon…

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DNS-AID will make AI agents easier to discover, says Linux Foundation

As AI agents become more numerous and more communicative, keeping track of where to find them is becoming increasingly important. Numerous proprietary agent registries are on the market, but the Linux Foundation suggests we simply extend the distributed, open Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure we already have. The foundation is now inviting contributions to the…

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Snowflake’s $6B AWS Bet Signals Where Enterprise AI Spending Is Headed Next

Cloud data giant Snowflake has committed $6B to AWS through 2032, reflecting growing confidence in future demand for its platform. The deal is the latest example of how the biggest winners in the AI era may not be the companies building models, but the companies that enable enterprise data. The agreement extends the two companies’…

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