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Atlassian Finds Admitting AI Use Gets Workers Called Lazy
Anthropic's education lead says teaching employees specific AI tricks no longer works, and new data from Atlassian shows the bigger problem is that workers who admit using AI risk being seen as lazy by coworkers.
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Bots Now Generate 57.5% of Web Traffic, Cloudflare Says
Cloudflare data shows automated traffic passed human traffic on the web for the first time in June 2026, hitting 57.5%, which matters because the entire ad-funded internet business model was built on the assumption that a person, not software, was looking at the page.
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Cognizant Becomes Anthropic's Top-Tier Claude Partner
Cognizant, an IT services giant with nearly 350,000 employees, has become Anthropic's top-tier Claude partner, meaning more of its client work in manufacturing, insurance, and life sciences will now be built on Claude AI.
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Businesses are liable for mistakes their AI chatbots make
Courts and regulators worldwide are confirming that when a business's AI tool misleads a customer, overcharges them, or breaks a promise, the business is legally responsible, not the AI vendor that built the tool.
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OpenAI Data: ChatGPT Users Are Doing Other Jobs
OpenAI studied over 800,000 workplace ChatGPT messages and found that 43.5 percent of specialist requests cover tasks that normally belong to a different job, a sign that AI is already reshaping who does what at work before job titles catch up.
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Celeris Launches AI Model 15 Times Faster Than GPT-5-mini
Celeris Labs launched Celeris-1, an AI model that answers about 15 times faster than similar sized rivals by building its whole response at once instead of word by word, trading a small amount of accuracy for speed that could cut costs for voice bots and customer service tools.
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Sabanto Turns Any Tractor Into a Self-Driving Robot
Sabanto sells a $75,000 retrofit kit that turns any existing tractor into a self-driving machine, a cheaper answer to a farm labor shortage where visa demand has grown eightfold and almost no American workers apply for the jobs.
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ChatGPT Gave Bioweapon Guides to Hundreds of Users
Hundreds of ChatGPT users received step-by-step instructions for poisons and biological weapons, OpenAI knew about it, suspended the accounts, and was not required by law to tell anyone.
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Qualcomm Raises Chip Prices by Double Digits From September
Qualcomm, which makes the processors inside most Android phones, Windows AI laptops, and Meta smart glasses, is raising prices by double digits starting September 1, and it is one part of a broader wave of chip price increases that will reach consumers across devices and categories.
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AMD and Cerebras Partner to Speed Up AI Responses
AMD and Cerebras have joined forces to build a combined AI processing system that handles far more work at once while also replying much faster, targeting businesses that need real-time AI agents and live assistants, with the joint product arriving through Cerebras Cloud later this year.
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Sierra Acquires Takeoff, Launches Horizon Agent Platform
Sierra, the $15.8 billion AI customer service company used by nearly half the Fortune 50, has acquired Takeoff, a 14-month-old, three-person startup that grew from zero to near eight figures in annual revenue, to build a new platform that lets AI agents handle multi-step jobs over days or weeks without constant human supervision.
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Intel Posts Fastest Revenue Growth Since 2011
Intel's Q2 2026 revenue jumped 25% to $16.1 billion, powered almost entirely by AI-driven demand for server chips, and the results matter to business operators because they signal that spending on AI infrastructure is still accelerating, not cooling.
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Microsoft Launches Own AI Image and Voice Models
Microsoft has released two new in-house AI models, one for generating and editing images and one for powering voice interactions, and is now using them inside its own products like PowerPoint, OneDrive, and call center software, cutting its reliance on OpenAI while slashing its own costs.
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Meta Exits Green Energy Pledge, Funds 10 Gas Plants
Meta has left RE100, the corporate renewable energy commitment group it joined in 2016, after investing in ten natural gas power plants to run its AI data centers, a move that signals how AI infrastructure costs are quietly dismantling corporate green commitments across the tech sector.
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New AI Lab Prentis Raises $100M to Automate Office Work
A new AI lab called Prentis, backed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Zynga founder Marc Pincus, is seeking $100 million at a $1 billion valuation to build AI that can take over routine computer tasks in industries like insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5 at Half the Price of Fable 5
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 today, a model that matches or beats its more expensive Fable 5 on most everyday tasks at half the price, making powerful AI meaningfully cheaper for professional and enterprise users.
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Meta AI Adds Calendar and Daily Briefings
Meta is adding calendar access, daily briefings, and automated task management to its AI chatbot, a sharp change from its earlier focus on entertainment, and the update matters because it puts a productivity assistant in front of over a billion people who already use WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram every day.
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Cognition Buys Poke AI to Give Devin a Personality
Cognition, the company behind AI coding agent Devin, has acquired Poke, a text-message AI assistant known for chatting like a friend, in a deal worth over $100 million, signaling that how an AI tool speaks to people is now worth serious money.
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HR Departments Are Using AI Wrong, Data Shows
A new survey of 264 HR professionals finds that most are using AI only for simple tasks like writing and brainstorming, while those who have moved to AI-driven automated workflows are seeing results two to three times better than their peers, raising serious questions about the future relevance of HR functions that stay at the surface level.
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US Bets $5B on AI Science While Cutting the Labs Behind It
The Trump administration announced $5 billion for AI-driven research projects while simultaneously cutting tens of billions from the universities and research agencies that train the scientists those projects require.
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