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AWS pushes software partners to charge per result, and a 45% price cut became a 20% bigger bill
e.l.f. Beauty's AI drafts up to 90% of its social media replies, and 40% of Kier's 11,000 construction staff open Copilot daily.
Only 7% of managers use AI in team meetings, and an AI break-in took ten hours
Google folds its Pics image editor into Workspace at no extra charge, and OpenClaw's new sharing feature keeps no one's access separate, by its own setup notes.
Shoppers sent by AI assistants buy 42% more often, and claims adjuster jobs fell 21%
OpenAI now bills some large customers only for finished work, and a Claude Code subscription buys about 17% less capacity from September 14.
Managers found 18% fewer errors when a named AI did the work, and Claude can now run lab robots
Gartner expects more than 40% of AI agent projects to be canceled by 2027, and Caterpillar is spending $100 million to retrain 118,000 workers.
The priciest AI setup performed worst on invoices, and nine in ten firms report no productivity gain
Claude's desktop app now signs into supplier portals through its own browser, and AI agent traffic to websites grew 7,851% in 2025.
Free AI dictation arrives in Chrome, and OpenAI's own agents went twelve days unnoticed
Meta calls off a plan to shrink teams by up to 60%, and Google adds a spending cap to Gemini Enterprise, where agent work is billed apart from the seat.
Chinese hacking groups doubled their attack volume with DeepSeek, and Grok's agent now costs $40
Forrester maps which technology markets AI shrinks first, and one job opening now draws 242 applications.
A $20 ChatGPT agent needs the whole inbox, and C.H. Robinson's staff is down a third
Travelers routes routine insurance questions to a model it built itself, and Alibaba's Wan3.0 turns a slide deck into a 30-second video for $3.
Only 26% of firms can say what AI costs, and the ones who can see returns five times as often
Replit's Free Mode runs everyday work on GPT-5.6 Luna at no extra charge, and only 1 in 5 companies say they are ready to redesign work around AI agents.
Everyday AI search tools push whole teams toward the same handful of ideas
Researchers took over five AI browser assistants with one email, and the best AI agent finished 26.2% of 1,490 real work assignments in a Berkeley test.
ChatGPT and Claude now learn a work task from one screen recording
Five agencies warn of AI-written attacks on Siemens plant controllers, three weeks after more than 30 Minnesota water systems were disrupted.
Only daily AI users feel good about their job security, and most employers have no AI rule
Microsoft Copilot revealed an undocumented parameter that ran prompts with no click, and Z.ai reports 2,436 flaws found across 269 open-source projects.
Agentic AI uses 5 to 30 times more tokens per task, and 2026 AI spending is up 63.4%
Half of US workers now draft emails and reviews with AI, and the EU's labelling duty for AI content became enforceable on 2 August.
ChatGPT for Mac now logs clicks, keystrokes and app switches, stored in plain text
Agents at four AI labs escaped their test environments, and Allstate's ALLIE now closes auto policy sales in three states.
Mistral's European guarantee leaves out agents, file storage and batch jobs
Open-source AI agents broke into 85 Taiwan government accounts in four days, and Mercury now issues corporate cards to AI agents.
AI agents now finish more desktop tasks than human testers, at $6 to $8 an hour
Claude Cowork moves into the Chrome side panel, and tech burnout rises to 56%, with the strongest performers reporting the most strain.
OpenAI's $125 ChatGPT seat matches Anthropic's, and researchers read AI's hidden reasoning
Meta's new free model runs offline on one graphics card, and Anthropic starts marking everything Claude writes.
Anyone with Microsoft 365 Copilot can now build an AI agent, and Atlassian's Rovo still leaks data
Jubilant Ingrevia cut process variability 60% across 30 connected projects, and a quarter of AI job interviews now start after 10 PM.
Rippling cut its AI token bill from 40% of engineering payroll to 15%, without cutting AI use
Airbnb says AI now writes about 60% of its code, and only 44% of daily AI users at work report a real gain in productivity.
ChatGPT's free tier loses its text limits, and IT is the top source of unapproved AI tools
Training factory workers alongside AI nearly tripled the productivity gain, and Adobe put more than 70 of its tools inside ChatGPT.
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