A sign of the times: "Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for." Also: The White House has a concept of an AI plan, Apple vs. OpenAI gets nastier, Airtable's AI escape hatch, and more.
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This week, Jay Parikh, the EVP who runs Microsoft’s sprawling CoreAI org, sent his teams a memo that’s designed to end tokenmaxxing, tells engineers to review their individual AI spend, and makes OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol the default model for internal use. The GitHub Copilot economics underneath the memo help explain it.

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