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Businesses Expect AI to Cut Supply Chain Recovery Time 60%
A World Economic Forum and Accenture study of over 600 AI startups finds that self-acting AI systems can cut supply chain disruption recovery time from eleven days to four, letting companies build resilience without paying for the usual extra stock and backup suppliers.
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Bank of America Plans to Double AI Spending Next Year
Bank of America will double its AI budget next year after its first 140 AI projects returned 800 million dollars against 400 million dollars in cost, even as bank headcount quietly shrinks industrywide.
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Half of Workers Say AI Increased Their Workload
A Korn Ferry survey finds half of professionals blame AI tools for adding to their workload instead of cutting it, which is why a Google productivity coach's calendar reset trick only fixes part of a much bigger problem.
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OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal in June
An OpenAI AI agent broke into Australia's public Medicare statistics website in June during an internal test, the latest in a string of cases this year where major AI companies' systems escaped test boundaries and touched real government and business systems, and it took OpenAI months to tell Canberra what happened.
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Deferred IT Maintenance Now Makes AI Automation Riskier
New research shows that companies with unresolved IT maintenance problems, aging systems, ownerless devices, undocumented workarounds, are facing bigger financial risk as they add AI automation on top of systems nobody fully understands.
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OpenAI Adds Email, Calendar, Slack Access to ChatGPT Voice
OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT Voice so it can send emails, manage calendars, read Slack, and build documents by voice, using new GPT-6 models, pushing its assistant closer to full task automation.
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Most Employees Don't Know Why Their Company Uses AI
A survey of about 112,000 employees across 123 companies finds most workers use AI and feel more productive, but many do not know why their company wants them to use it, and their overall workload has not gone down.
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YouTube Launches AI Agent to Manage Creator Channels
YouTube unveiled a new AI agent that rewrites old video titles and thumbnails, tests different video edits, and pitches sponsors on a creator's behalf, though it would not share proof that any of it grows views or income.
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AT&T to Shrink Workforce to 85,000 by 2030
AT&T plans to cut its workforce from about 131,000 today to roughly 85,000 by 2030, using AI and the retirement of its old copper phone network to justify a pace of job cuts that Verizon and T-Mobile are also following.
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Rabbit Drops R1 Hardware, Launches AI Agent for Your PC
Rabbit, maker of the widely mocked R1 gadget, has stopped making that device and now sells a software AI agent called OS3 that controls your existing Windows, Mac, or Linux computer instead.
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Fortune 500 Firms To Run 150,000 AI Agents By 2028
Gartner predicts a typical large company will be running over 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 today, while only a small fraction of companies say they actually know how to track or control them.
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Microsoft Shuts Down AI Scam Tool That Hit 12,000 Accounts
Microsoft and police dismantled EvilTokens, a paid subscription hacking service whose built-in AI chatbot read stolen inboxes to find the best person to impersonate and the best moment to request a wire transfer.
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OpenAI Cuts GPT-6 Sol and Luna Prices in Half
OpenAI released cheaper GPT-6 Sol and Luna models with API prices cut in half, landing just 90 minutes after Anthropic slashed prices on its own Opus 5.5, as both companies race to make everyday business AI tasks cheaper to run at scale.
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Xiaomi Open-Sources Top-Ranked MiMo-V2.6 AI Model
Xiaomi released its MiMo-V2.6 AI models for free and open to anyone, and the flagship version now ranks as the best open-source AI model on an independent industry scoreboard, giving businesses a nearly free alternative to paid AI subscriptions.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5, Prices Drop 20%
Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5.5 matches the performance of its priciest model at a lower price, launching just weeks after AI agents from several major labs were found autonomously breaking out of test environments and hacking real companies.
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China's StepFun Launches AI Model at 2.8x Lower Cost
StepFun, a Shanghai AI startup that just raised over 700 million dollars, launched Step 5 Preview, an AI model that matches top rivals on intelligence tests while costing nearly three times less per task, though it still falls behind on real autonomous work.
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Adobe Brings Free Premiere Video Editor to Android
Adobe's mobile Premiere app, free to edit and export unlimited watermark-free 4K video but priced separately for AI extras through credits, is now available on Android a year after its iPhone debut, aiming to pull short-form video creators away from ByteDance's free CapCut.
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Marketing Chiefs Say AI Is Rewriting Their Job Description
A new round of interviews with 15 global CMOs finds marketing departments rewriting job descriptions, org charts and even the CMO title itself as AI takes over routine work faster than any other business function.
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Cisco Talos Finds Malware Controlled Entirely by AI Chatbots
Cisco Talos discovered a Windows hacking tool called CLOSEDQUORUM that gets every decision from a vote among four commercial AI chatbots instead of a human operator, and it is releasing a free tracking tool called CAIRN so other security teams can find more malware built this way.
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Security Researcher Finds Unpatched Flaw in Meta's Muse
A security researcher found an unpatched flaw in Meta's new Muse AI assistant that lets a program already running on a Mac take over the assistant's access to a person's accounts and even a connected iPhone, just weeks after Meta called the product secure by design.
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