Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

The era of tokenmaxxing is over. After the AI industry encouraged companies to max out their AI budgets earlier this year, and some companies even built employee leaderboards to encourage internal AI usage — they are now realizing just how easy it is to spend huge...

As Ebola spreads in war-torn eastern Congo, faith leaders adapt  

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Religion

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — For nearly two years, evangelical preacher Francis Mbombo traveled from house to house and through displacement camps in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, praying with families uprooted by conflict and comforting those grieving loved...

Oil nears pre-war levels, but a top economist warns lower prices could mean higher inflation – Business Insider

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Business

Oil nears pre-war levels, but a top economist warns lower prices could mean higher inflation  Business Insider Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

Slate, maker of the stripped-down EV pickup truck, found another way to simplify its product: the battery. When the startup revealed its starting price on Wednesday — $24,950 before destination, taxes, and other fees — it also said it had changed its battery strategy,...

Alibaba’s model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-AgentWorld on Tuesday — two models trained not to act inside agent environments, but to predict what those environments return. The release covers seven domains under a single architecture: MCP, Search, Terminal, Software...

Vatican blocks women’s homilies, testing Leo’s view of women in church

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Religion

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Early on, Pope Leo XIV signaled support for women’s leadership in the Catholic Church, but a new Vatican decision released on Tuesday (June 23) barring laypeople, including women, from preaching the homily at Mass is testing how far that openness...

Gas prices aren’t falling fast enough for Trump. Here’s when drivers can expect more relief.

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Stock Market

President Trump is demanding the DOJ look into why gas prices aren’t falling faster at the pump. Here are four practical factors at play. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

Xiaomi’s HarnessX rewrites its own AI scaffolding mid-task — and smaller models gain the most

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

As enterprise AI agents take on increasingly complex, long-horizon tasks, their performance is often restricted by their harness, the software scaffolding that connects the backbone LLM to its environment. Currently, harnesses are largely static and hand-crafted....

Stanford researchers will discuss their agentic ‘scientists’ that are on course to reshape drug discovery at VB Transform 2026

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | Technology

Drug discovery is notoriously inefficient. Pharmaceutical projects span years, moving from one specialized human team to the next through disconnected workflows that result in knowledge loss during each handoff. A shocking 90% to 95% of drug discovery projects...

Our life stops’: West Bank childhood shattered by Israeli military raids

by News Feed Editor | Jun 24, 2026 | World

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – In the narrow alleyways of the Dheisheh refugee camp, three children debate which of their encounters with the Israeli military is worth telling, and who gets to tell it.Yanal, 14, wins the opening round on language skills alone. He...