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OpenAI Cuts Its Cheapest AI Model Price by 80%
OpenAI cut the price of its cheapest AI model, Luna, by 80 percent and its mid-tier model, Terra, by 20 percent, showing how fast AI costs are dropping and how much pressure OpenAI faces from cheaper Chinese rivals and from Microsoft pushing its own models.
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Google Launches Gemini Robotics 2 for Humanoid Robots
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, an AI system that can control a full humanoid robot's body for tasks like tidying shelves and tying knots, its fourth robotics release in sixteen months as it races Tesla, Figure AI, and Boston Dynamics to become the default software brain for humanoid robots.
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Demand for AI Deployment Engineers Set to Jump 2,100%
A new executive search study finds that only about 2,000 engineers in the entire United States have the rare mix of skills needed to turn corporate AI spending into real profit, even as demand for these embedded implementation specialists is projected to jump more than 2,000 percent by the end of the year.
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FCC Bans New Chinese Robot Vacuums and Power Inverters
The FCC has banned imports of new Chinese made robots, including robot vacuums, lawn mowers, and delivery bots, plus Chinese power inverters used in solar and battery systems, a security rule that will narrow purchasing options for any business that buys these machines.
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Pangram Raises $9M, Launches Pangram 4 AI Detector
Pangram launched its fourth AI-text detector, Pangram 4, alongside a nine million dollar funding round, claiming a false positive rate of roughly one in 24,000 documents while also raising prices for heavy API users.
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AI Mistakes Erode Trust Faster Than Human Errors Do
Studies on soccer's VAR system and workplace algorithms show that AI decision tools lose trust fast after a single visible mistake, even when they outperform humans overall, which means businesses adding AI to hiring or approvals need to sort which decisions are simple checks and which need a human judgment call.
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1 in 5 Companies Have Mature Governance for AI Agents
Most companies are letting AI systems act on their own inside the business faster than they can write the rules to control them, and new surveys show the people in charge are often held responsible for tools they cannot fully see or stop.
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MIT Index Ranks S&P 500 Firms by Real AI Use
An MIT Sloan lecturer built a public data index that scores S&P 500 companies on real AI use instead of self-reported claims, and it shows most firms still talk about AI far more than they actually build it.
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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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