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See allPerplexity's AI Teammates Turn Recurring Work Into Job Briefs
Perplexity's new Teammates agents keep a standing job and start work on their own, so the skill that matters is describing your recurring work well, as you would to a new colleague.
Nov 5, 2026 · 3 min read
A Downloadable AI Model Is Pulling Agent Prices Down
Kimi K3.1 Pro, a downloadable model from China's Moonshot AI, does long agent jobs close to Claude Opus 5.5 at half the price, which pulls down what everyone pays.
Nov 5, 2026 · 2 min read
An AI Assistant That Watches a Whole Workday Now Costs Cents
Reading a person's whole workday every few minutes costs about 23 cents with Tencent's new Hy4 model, which makes an always-on office assistant cheap enough to leave running.
Nov 5, 2026 · 2 min read
McDonald's Second Try at Drive-Thru AI Will Be Judged on Payroll
McDonald's first drive-thru AI failed in public in 2024, and its second will succeed or fail on whether owners can take a full shift of hours off the schedule.
Nov 5, 2026 · 2 min read
A 15-Second AI Video Ad Now Costs About $1
A 15-second AI video clip now costs about $1, under a tenth of what Google charged for the same length in 2025, so choosing the best version becomes the real work.
Nov 5, 2026 · 2 min read
AI Answers About Your Files Are Only as Good as the Search
Box is rebuilding how its AI agents find passages in company files, and a 1985 lawsuit review shows why that finding step, not the AI model, decides whether the answers can be trusted.
Nov 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Customers Ask ChatGPT Who to Call, and Few Click Through
ChatGPT now gets about a fifth of Google's search-like questions but sends websites very few visitors, so local businesses should check what it says about them instead of counting clicks.
Nov 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Choosing the Model for Each Task Is How AI Bills Come Down
Uber spent a full year's AI coding budget in four months, and sending routine requests to cheaper models is how companies will stop that from happening.
Nov 4, 2026 · 2 min read
ChatGPT Turns Small Animations Into a Chat Request
ChatGPT now makes a looping GIF from a sentence or a photo, so a small animation that once needed a designer is something a shop owner can ask for and fix frame by frame.
Nov 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Synthetic Data Copies the Ordinary and Loses the Rare Cases
Companies now fill about a quarter of their software test data with generated records, but generated data keeps the common cases and loses the rare ones, which are the ones that break systems.
Nov 4, 2026 · 2 min read