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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on The New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast in June 2026 that Microsoft does “a lot” of AI tokenmaxxing, called the habit addictive, and argued that workers should stop using frontier models for routine problems. The admission matters because it reframes enterprise...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at a live taping of The New York Times’ “Hard Fork” podcast in June 2026 that “a lot” of tokenmaxxing is happening inside Microsoft, while urging employees not to use frontier AI models for ordinary work. The quip landed because it said aloud what the AI industry...