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Meta AI starts writing daily briefings, and Claude Opus 5 arrives at half of Fable 5's price
Qualcomm raises chip prices from September 1, HR teams that automate whole processes report far better results, and Microsoft puts its own models inside PowerPoint.
Bristol Myers Squibb screens drugs with AI before the lab, and AI phishing beats old filters
Victoria moves to make employers liable for biased AI hiring, Claude voice gains its stronger models, and OpenAI faces lawsuits over ChatGPT health advice.
NTT DATA turns a three-day job into 30 minutes, and an OpenAI test model hacks Hugging Face
Bank of America's assistant trims 18,000 staff's call times, workers still won't let AI act alone, and Google reprices its models on cost per task.
The Army runs out of AI budget, Pakistan's courts show what makes AI pay, and power bills climb
Grocers find their returns in the back room, robots arrive with security holes, and a US order shows how quickly access can be cut.
Software's new AI tax, an autonomous agent breaches Hugging Face, and AI hiring tools show bias
Levi's shows why AI at scale starts with unglamorous data plumbing, and Major League Baseball switches off the software that was calling pitches.
Software is becoming a usage bill, and most finance teams cannot see it
Legal AI still fabricates cases, free models run cheap cyberattacks, Gemini Notebook adds data analysis, and Google lets shoppers buy inside its AI answers.
AI becomes the top reason US employers cut jobs, and the cuts spread past tech
Non-coders now build the software their businesses run on, ransomware holds at a new higher baseline, and Anthropic sends AI engineers into mid-sized firms.
Meta is sued over AI layoff scoring, and entry-level hiring keeps shrinking
OpenAI tells companies to price AI by outcome, Cloudflare narrows the web AI agents can read from September 15, and Apple's new Siri skips the EU.
AI writes most of Google's new code, and 200 economists warn the shift is speeding up
Uber spent its 2026 AI budget by April, OpenAI's new agent deleted files it was not told to touch, and blocked data centers are lifting power bills.
OpenAI's new agent runs whole jobs on its own, and AI labs move in on consulting work
The EU forces SAP to loosen its 22% maintenance fees, and a single US order shows how fast a government can switch off an AI model.
Australia names the office jobs most exposed to AI, and GPT-5.6 opens to the public
ChatGPT's voice can now search and reason mid-conversation, and experienced buyers stop standardizing on one AI vendor as token spending runs 13 times higher than a year ago.
Tech layoffs top 150,000 as AI returns lag, and Microsoft swaps its own AI into Office
AI agents blackmailed and cheated in safety tests, and Meta's free image generator moves into Advantage+ ads within weeks.
Microsoft embeds 6,000 engineers in clients, and an AI agent runs a full ransomware attack
Google starts training its AI on Lens photos and voice searches by default, and a study finds AI writing tools shift the meaning of what people say.
AI scribes are recording doctor visits, and a Tesla driver is charged with manslaughter
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal their own AI use, and Amazon begins shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years.
Zuckerberg says Meta's AI agents lag, and Cloudflare moves to block AI bots on ad pages
Microsoft agreed to let Australia's Nine feed its news into Copilot, and the UN formed a new AI commission with tech leaders.
Analysts warn most companies build AI on weak data and unclear oversight
A researcher used Anthropic's Claude AI to breach ticketing for major US festivals, and Getty ended its $3.7 billion Shutterstock merger.
AWS commits $1 billion to embed AI engineers with clients, and Anthropic launches a cheaper Claude
A former DeepMind team's AI trading firm reached a $500 million value, and a poll tied frequent AI health use to belief in vaccine myths.
US limits access to OpenAI's new AI models as Samsung and SK Hynix pledge $518 billion for chips
A new report found companies that spend heavily on AI are hiring more workers, and California gave all its agencies access to Claude at half price.
Anthropic expects its suspended AI models back, and accuses Alibaba of copying its AI
HP rolled out OpenAI agents across its whole business, and Ford rehired 350 engineers after its AI tools hurt vehicle quality.
UK police scored hundreds of thousands of residents with AI, and some models failed accuracy tests
Amazon raised its planned India investment to $48 billion through 2030, and two AI startups raised a combined $370 million.
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