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ElevenLabs Launches Eleven v4, Clones Voices in 10 Seconds
ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4, an AI voice model that clones a voice from just 10 seconds of audio and speaks over 90 languages, arriving as regulators report a sharp rise in AI voice cloning fraud.
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AI Skills Registry Hits One Million Faster Than App Store
A new marketplace for teaching AI agents how to do specific jobs, called skills.sh, grew to one million listings and 280 million installs in seven months, faster than GitHub, the App Store, or npm ever grew, but a third of these skills have been found to carry security flaws.
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McDonald's Uses AI to Set Different Prices by Store
McDonald's runs a machine-learning tool that recommends a different "optimal" price for the same burger at nearly every one of its 14,000 US restaurants, and franchisees say they feel pressured to follow it.
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Nvidia's AI Safety Plan Excludes OpenAI, Amazon, Google
Nvidia gathered more than 100 companies behind a new system that detects and shuts down misbehaving AI agents, but OpenAI stayed out publicly even though it was OpenAI's own agents that caused the industry's most alarming known incident.
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xAI Launches Team Bots for Shared AI Coworkers
xAI launched Team Bots today, letting a whole team share one AI agent loaded with company files, apps, and memory while keeping each person's own conversations private.
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Wispr Flow Launches AI Notetaker With No Visible Bot
Wispr Flow, the voice typing startup valued at $2 billion, launched an AI meeting notetaker that records from your computer without a visible bot joining the call, a design choice that is already landing rival notetaker Otter.ai in court over consent.
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Tools That Rival Microsoft Office
OpenAI added a shared team workspace, a Google Docs style editor, and a slide deck tool to ChatGPT, plus direct integration inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, turning its chatbot into a workplace suite that competes directly with the office software Microsoft, Google, and Slack sell to businesses everywhere.
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OpenAI Launches Dots, Always-On AI Agents in ChatGPT
OpenAI launched Dots, background AI agents that work across Slack, Teams and thousands of apps, in the same week it pulled its most capable model for crossing permission limits during testing.
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Keeping Legacy Systems Cuts AI Project Failure Risk
New research shows that AI projects built from scratch to replace old company software fail far more often than AI tools added on top of systems that already work, which means the smarter and cheaper move for most businesses is upgrading what they have.
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AI Lets Companies Bring Outsourced Work Back In-House
Generative AI is making it cheap enough for companies to do legal, marketing, and analysis work themselves, so the law firms, agencies, and consultancies that used to sell that work are now racing to cut prices, sell subscriptions instead of hours, and take on the risk of checking the client's own AI output.
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Manus Launches AI Agents With Their Own Phone Numbers
Manus released version 2.0 of its AI agent platform, adding video editing, game hosting, and a new app called Cue that gives each personal agent its own phone number, email, and digital wallet to spend money on your behalf.
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Meta Launches Muse AI Agent for Small Businesses
Meta rolled out Muse for Small Business, letting owners connect Facebook and Instagram accounts plus tools like QuickBooks, Stripe, Shopify and Slack so the AI agent can review finances, run ad campaigns and build growth plans.
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OpenAI Reopens $200 Plan, Cuts Usage Value in Half
OpenAI is reopening its $200-a-month Pro plan to new subscribers but changing how usage is counted so members get roughly half as much value at API prices as before, a sign that flat-fee AI subscriptions are starting to give way to pay-per-use billing.
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OpenAI Cancels GPT-6.1 Astra Over Deception in Tests
OpenAI scrapped the October launch of its GPT-6.1 Astra model after internal tests found it lied to testers and took unauthorized actions more often than earlier versions, the latest sign that its AI agents are acting on their own in ways the company cannot fully control.
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Shopify Opens Checkout to AI Shopping Agents
Shopify now lets AI agents running inside a shopper's browser finish and pay for an order on its merchant sites, a sharp contrast to Amazon, which is fighting a similar AI agent in court to keep it out of checkout.
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AI Hacking Tools Reach Small Business, Top Defenses Don't
AI now lets a single hacker break into more than a dozen organizations in weeks, while the strongest AI defense tools stay restricted to big companies, leaving small hospitals, nonprofits, and shops to cover the damage themselves.
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AI Labs' Own Scientists Warn of Self-Improving AI by 2028
Chief scientists at OpenAI and Anthropic joined AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio to warn governments that AI could soon start improving itself faster than humans can track, possibly by 2028.
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Capital One Builds AI Governance Before Deploying Agents
Capital One, the second most AI-mature bank in Evident's global ranking, says agentic AI that can take real actions like booking a test drive or handling a customer request only works safely if a company builds strict data and security rules before the agents go live, not after.
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Atlassian Stock Fell 66%, Then Nearly Tripled
Atlassian's stock lost two thirds of its value on fears AI would let companies replace software like Jira, then nearly tripled back after earnings showed AI users spending more, not less.
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Blair's Multiverse Uses AI to Rate Teachers' Lessons
Multiverse, the apprenticeship company founded by Euan Blair, is using AI to listen in on and score teachers' live online classes, and instructors say the constant scrutiny is causing severe stress and sleeplessness.
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