CIOs and CTOs spent years lauding AI. Now, with costs rising, they’re putting limits on how it’s used | Flipboard

Flipboard · Aug 12, 2026 · 279 words · By Fortune

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Now, with costs rising, they’re putting limits on how it’s used Chief Information Officer Stephen Franchetti has enthusiastically embraced a wide array of artificial intelligence tools to bolster workflow …

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Claim 1: “Codenamed Positron, Xbox's disc-to-digital …”

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Multiple independent sources (a news report, a YouTube report, and Google News) refer to the disc-to-digital program as being codenamed 'Positron'.

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web search NEUTRAL — How Xbox Positron could work. The reported Positron system is expected to support compatible Xbox One and Xbox Series game discs. Once a qualifying disc is registered, players may be able to enjoy sev…
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/glob…

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web search NEUTRAL — What if your Xbox discs could become permanent digital games? New reports suggest Microsoft is working on a new feature, codenamed Positron, that could allow players to convert supported physical Xbox…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsKVNnb5guA

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web search NEUTRAL — Rumor: Xbox Planning a Disc-To-Digital Program Codenamed Positron (For Backwards Compatibility?)Xbox Working on "Project Positron" For Physical-to-Digital Games License Conversion On Project Helix. 8 …
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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Claim 2: “This technique, also called “opaque recurrence,” will likely make the model’s …”

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Only one source (TechCrunch) explicitly links the term 'opaque recurrence' to the 'recurrent depth' technique. Other sources discuss recurrent depth but do not use the term 'opaque recurrence'.

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web search NEUTRAL — Latent Reasoning. Techniques that spend computation in hidden state rather than visible chain-of-thought tokens: pause tokens, continuous thought, recurrent depth, and what is empirical vs speculative…
https://theorempath.com/topics/latent-reasoning

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web search NEUTRAL — This technique, also called “opaque recurrence,” will likely make the model’s chain of thought more difficult to monitor — and that has AI safety experts rattled.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/openais-new-reasoning-tech…

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web search NEUTRAL — This makes their recurrence in depth an exciting additional axis for scaling model performance, separate from the established 'verbalized' chain-of-thought paradigm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hoDJcGnZW8

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Claim 3: “Apple's new CEO John Ternus has just revealed his vision for the company as he replaces Tim Cook”

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Multiple independent news sources (Flipboard, CNBC, France24) report that John Ternus is replacing Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Timothy Donald Cook (born November 1, 1960) is an American business executive who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. from 2011 to 2026, and has been the company's executive chai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniel J. Riccio is an American engineer and former executive. He served as Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, reporting to CEO Tim Cook, until 2021. Riccio led the Mac, iPhone, iP…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Riccio

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Patrick Ternus (; born May 1975) is an American engineer and business executive who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple since September 1, 2026. He has also served on the company'…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ternus

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Claim 4: “OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth””

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that OpenAI's Astra model uses a reasoning technique called 'recurrent depth'.

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web search NEUTRAL — Astra, OpenAI’s most capable reasoning model, uses a technique its researchers call recurrent depth — a process that loops computations internally before producing an output.
https://easternherald.com/2026/09/02/openai-astra-opaque-rea…

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI’s Astra AI uses a new reasoning approach called “recurrent depth.” Though it can help model costs and performance, researchers are concerned bc it obscures a model’s thinking process, making it…
https://digg.com/tech/b2j2g4rm

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach its “Critical” cyber threshold and warns safeguards may mistakenly flag legitimate activity as cyber misuse. World Labs
https://www.techmeme.com/260901/p61

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Claim 5: “Over 800 Xbox discs are supported by the disc-to-digital program”

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While evidence was gathered for Xbox in general, none of the provided web search or Wikipedia results mention a 'disc-to-digital program' or the specific number of supported discs (800).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1 vs. 100 was a massively multiplayer online game show video game developed and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox 360, and an adaptation of the trivia game show of the same name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_vs._100_(2009_video_game)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Terminator 2D: No Fate is an action video game developed by Bitmap Bureau and published by Reef Entertainment for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2D:_No_Fate

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Xbox Live Arcade (or XBLA) was a video game digital distribution service that was available for the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. It focused on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Live_Arcade

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Claim 6: “Tim Cook moving into the role of executive chairman”

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Multiple independent news sources (Flipboard, CNBC) confirm that Tim Cook is moving into the role of executive chairman.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Apple has officially entered a new era, with new CEO John Ternus taking over and Tim Cook moving into the role of executive chairman.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/cios-and-ctos-spent-years-l…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Cook will move to the role of executive chairman.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/5-things-to-know-before-the-…

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