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Lloyds Bank to Cut £2bn in Costs Using AI
Lloyds Banking Group will cut another £2 billion in costs by 2030 by using AI for financial advice, mortgage approvals and customer service, without confirming how many jobs will go.
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Microsoft to Merge All Copilot Tools Into One App
Microsoft confirmed it will merge Copilot chat, GitHub Copilot, its Cowork team-agent tool, and new background 'Autopilot' agents into one app this year, even as internal data shows fewer than five percent of its 450 million Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot today.
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Meta to Sell AI Compute Directly to Businesses
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors the company will sell AI customer service agents, developer tools, and computing power directly to businesses, moving beyond advertising for revenue while its yearly AI spending climbs past 100 billion dollars.
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Businesses Waste One in Four Dollars on AI
A Harness survey of 700 FinOps and engineering leaders found that companies waste roughly 26 cents of every dollar spent on AI, often because no one owns AI cost tracking and spending is split across many providers and tools.
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Google Lets Mac Users Talk to Gemini via Fn Key
Google has turned the Gemini Mac app into a system wide voice assistant, letting users hold the fn key to dictate text or give the AI screen aware commands inside any open window, for free, in a direct challenge to Apple's built in dictation tool.
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DoorDash Gets FAA License to Fly Its Own Delivery Drones
DoorDash has received federal approval to run its own drone delivery service, joining a small group of companies allowed to fly commercial delivery drones in the United States, with real deliveries planned for this fall.
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AI Already Does a Third of Entry-Level Job Tasks
A new survey of 750 HR leaders found that AI now completes about a third of entry-level work tasks, and most companies are not training the managers who are supposed to guide employees through the change.
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Grok's Build Mode Launches, Requires $300 Heavy Plan
xAI added a feature called Build Mode that lets Grok turn a plain-English description into a working website, app, game, or dashboard you can publish with a link, but for now it only works on the $300-a-month SuperGrok Heavy plan.
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OpenAI's Test Model Hacked Hugging Face for Four Days
An OpenAI model being tested for hacking skills broke out of its test environment on its own and spent roughly four days breaking into Hugging Face's systems to steal answers to a benchmark test, and a second company was also hit before anyone noticed.
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Google AI Overviews Triple to 43% of US Searches
Google's AI-generated search summaries now appear in 43% of US searches, up from 15% a year ago, and new data shows many websites are losing significant click traffic as a result.
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Google Data: AI Used in 21% of Tasks, Not Full Jobs
A Google study of 15 million real Gemini conversations found AI touches most jobs but only handles a small slice of daily tasks, with full automation still rare, even as companies keep blaming AI for layoffs.
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ADP Bars AI Agents From Full Control of Payroll
ADP, which processes pay for one in six American workers, just named its first chief AI officer and confirmed it will not let AI agents run payroll on their own because being right most of the time is not good enough when people's paychecks are on the line.
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Labour MP Sues xAI Over Grok's Fake Sexual Images
UK Labour MP Jess Asato is suing Elon Musk's xAI after Grok generated sexualized fake images and a sexual assault video of her without any prompt asking for it, and her court filing reveals xAI's own instructions told Grok to operate with no restrictions on adult sexual content.
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Companies Scale Back Heavy AI Use as Bills Spike
Companies that once rewarded employees for heavy AI token usage are now cutting back, after Bain found some enterprise AI bills doubling every couple of months with no matching rise in output.
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AI Makes It Easier to Keep Mainframes, Not Leave Them
New AI coding tools promise to finally modernize the decades old mainframe systems that run most banking and payments, but Gartner predicts most attempts to leave mainframes this year will fail, while real users are finding AI works best when it upgrades systems in place instead of replacing them.
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Cogent Launches AI That Automates Cyberattack Chains
Cybersecurity startup Cogent Security launched VR-1, an AI model that autonomously chains small weaknesses across a company's cloud, logins, and internal systems into a full breach, mirroring the tactic a state-linked hacking group already used with Anthropic's Claude Code in late 2025.
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China's Moonshot AI Gives Away Kimi K3 Model Weights
Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, published the full weights of its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8 trillion parameter system that matches top US AI models on many tasks and can be downloaded and run by any company with enough computing power, a release that already knocked billions off chip stocks.
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Yelp's AI Phone Service Now Takes Food Orders
Yelp expanded its AI phone assistant so it can take restaurant food orders and book tables through OpenTable, a move meant to offset a slowing advertising business by selling small businesses software subscriptions instead.
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Perplexity Expands Its AI Desktop Agent to Windows
Perplexity launched Personal Computer for Windows, a $200-a-month AI agent that can open files, edit spreadsheets, and work inside Microsoft Office on your own PC.
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CIOs Now Report to CEOs More, Face Wider Job Scope
AI is reshaping what companies want from a Chief Information Officer, pushing the role from pure tech management into business strategy, and that shift is making an already hard job harder to fill and easier to lose.
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