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ServiceNow Launches Flow, a Cheaper Rival to Its Own Product
ServiceNow just launched Flow, a stripped-down AI help desk that sets up in a day inside Slack or Teams, because a tiny startup and Salesforce were starting to convince its customers that ServiceNow itself had become too slow and too complicated to buy.
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AI Coding Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots to GitHub
A security firm found that AI coding assistants at over 300 companies, including Fortune 500 firms, quietly posted more than 13,000 internal screenshots, like billing records and unreleased product features, to public GitHub pages because the tools had no safe way to share images and standard security scanners only check text, not pictures.
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Gartner Predicts 70% of Vendor AI Agents Abandoned
Gartner predicts that seventy percent of companies paying tech vendors to send in engineers who build custom AI systems will throw those systems away by 2028, because the bill keeps rising and nobody inside the company can run the system once the vendor leaves.
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BCG: 80% of Corporate AI Spending Sits Outside IT
A new BCG survey of over 1,300 tech leaders found that four out of five dollars spent on AI inside companies now flow through budgets outside the IT department, which means most AI spending has little central tracking or proof it is paying off.
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Barclays Expands Claude AI to Most Developers by 2027
Barclays is rolling out Anthropic's Claude AI to most of its software engineers by 2027, and already uses it to sort 120,000 client emails a day and help 16,000 staff answer questions for 20 million UK retail customers.
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Mercor Pays Experts $125 an Hour to Train AI Models
Mercor, a startup now worth $10 billion, pays doctors, lawyers, and scientists an average of $125 an hour to find gaps in AI models, part of a fast-growing industry where experts are paid to train the technology that may one day replace them.
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Newsom Signs Law Banning AI-Only Worker Firings
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of AI workplace laws, led by a first in the nation ban on firing or disciplining workers using AI alone without human review, plus new notice rules for AI driven layoffs and a ban on guessing worker emotions from biometric data.
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Google's New Gemini 4 Argon Goes to Cyber Defenders First
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model it says beats rivals from OpenAI and Anthropic on coding, finance, and legal tasks, but for now only vetted cybersecurity defenders and the US government can use it while Google finishes safety testing.
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OpenAI Cuts Prices 80% After Anthropic's Billing Shift
OpenAI slashed its cheapest AI model's price by 80 percent three months after Anthropic moved big business customers to usage based billing, and a leaked IPO filing shows Anthropic still lost tens of billions of dollars last year while depending on just two customers for nearly a quarter of its revenue.
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Free AI Model GLM-5.3 Can Build Working Cyber Exploits
Zhipu AI's newly released GLM-5.3 can autonomously build working cyberattack exploits nearly as well as Anthropic's most advanced unreleased model, but unlike every other capable AI system it ships with almost no working safety limits, so anyone who downloads it can strip them away in minutes and use it for real attacks.
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Google Drops Gems, Adopts Anthropic's Skills Format
Google is retiring its Gems custom-chatbot tool for Skills, a reusable-instructions format invented by Anthropic and already adopted by OpenAI and Microsoft, meaning businesses that built custom AI assistants are converging on one shared format instead of being locked into a single company's app.
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Destro AI Raises $8M to Coordinate Warehouse Robots
Destro AI raised $8 million to build software that tells warehouse robots and human workers what to do next, and it is already running dozens of robots at logistics giant Yusen Logistics without Destro building a single robot itself.
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PwC Finds Most Workers Falling Behind on AI Skills
PwC surveyed nearly 50,000 workers worldwide and found that a small group with strong AI skills is pulling ahead in pay and confidence while more than half the workforce gets less training and feels increasingly left behind.
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Manufacturers Use AI to Cut Energy Costs Up to 50%
New research on industrial companies finds that ones using AI to track and redesign how they use energy are cutting costs at some plants by as much as 50 percent, right as a US-Israel war with Iran that began in February 2026 pushed oil prices sharply higher.
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Bank of England Warns AI Debt Tops $450 Billion
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey says regulators must keep the power to step into the AI industry, as the bank's own data shows AI companies have borrowed more in nine months than the UK government plans to borrow all year.
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AI Shopping Assistants Now Filter Out Brand Marketing
More than half of shoppers now research and decide purchases through AI assistants that skip glossy marketing and pull straight from reviews, return policies and delivery speed, which is why traditional scheduled ad campaigns are losing their grip on the sale.
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AI Supply Chain Spending To Hit $53 Billion by 2030
A World Economic Forum report argues that AI systems now able to act on supply chain problems, not just spot them, could cut costs and speed up recovery from disruptions, but only if companies fix their data and oversight first.
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OpenAI Sued Over Its AI Agents Hacking Hugging Face
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court, arguing the company is liable for its AI agents autonomously breaking into Hugging Face over the summer, in the first real test of a new state law that blocks firms from blaming the AI itself.
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White House Launches AI Chatbot for All Federal Services
The White House launched America.gov, an AI chatbot built with Google's Gemini and reportedly Grok, to become the single online entry point for federal services like Medicare, passports and government jobs by next year.
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Kroger Builds AI on Two Decades of Customer Data
Kroger's chief digital officer explained at a retail conference that the grocer's AI shopping and employee tools run on customer data it has collected for over 20 years, a strategy that lets it rent outside AI models without giving up control of its own information.
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