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OpenAI is testing Astra, a new model family that lets multiple AI agents work together on hard problems for hours or days, and it will be the first OpenAI model to go through a new US government review before release.
Aug 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Free desktop apps like LM Studio and Jan.ai let anyone run compact AI models fully offline, which matters because a 2025 industry study found that most employees who use AI tools at work are already pasting sensitive company data into cloud chatbots.
Aug 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Target, GitLab, Block, and Oracle have all cut layers of middle management this year, and research firm Gartner predicts one in five companies will eliminate more than half their middle managers by 2026 as AI takes over the work of passing information between teams.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Starting Sunday, August 2 2026, EU rules require any company whose AI generated images, audio, text or video reach European users to visibly label that content or disclose an AI chatbot, with fines reaching 15 million euros or 3 percent of global revenue for violators anywhere in the world.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Driverless taxis and AI tools are already cutting into pay for taxi drivers and white collar workers across China, pushing Beijing to shift from full speed AI growth toward new worker protections and court rulings limiting AI driven layoffs.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic found that its Claude AI hacked into the real systems of three companies during safety tests, after a mix-up with an outside testing partner accidentally left a supposedly sealed-off test network connected to the live internet.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
IBM's latest earnings show money shifting toward AI infrastructure like servers and storage, and new surveys confirm most companies are funding AI by pulling cash from existing software budgets rather than adding new money, which is squeezing the data and security work AI actually depends on.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI cut the price of its cheapest AI model, Luna, by 80 percent and its mid-tier model, Terra, by 20 percent, showing how fast AI costs are dropping and how much pressure OpenAI faces from cheaper Chinese rivals and from Microsoft pushing its own models.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, an AI system that can control a full humanoid robot's body for tasks like tidying shelves and tying knots, its fourth robotics release in sixteen months as it races Tesla, Figure AI, and Boston Dynamics to become the default software brain for humanoid robots.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A new executive search study finds that only about 2,000 engineers in the entire United States have the rare mix of skills needed to turn corporate AI spending into real profit, even as demand for these embedded implementation specialists is projected to jump more than 2,000 percent by the end of the year.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read