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Episode Monday · June 1, 2026 · 14 min

Ambient Advantage — June 1, 2026

Mon · Jun 1, 2026 14 min

Amazon killed its internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks, spotlighting the enterprise tokenmaxxing crisis burning through budgets with zero ROI. Plus: Karpathy joins Anthropic, Grok collapses a simulated town, and why outcome-based AI metrics are the real competitive advantage of 2026.

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