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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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Robot Dog Patrols LaGuardia to Sniff Air and Trash
ABM has deployed a Skild AI robot dog and two cleaning robots at LaGuardia's Terminal B to monitor air quality and clean floors, a pilot that shows how facilities companies plan to use robots to stretch cleaning staff further rather than replace them outright.
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SK Hynix Bonuses Hit $476,000, Samsung Engineers Quit
SK Hynix's record $476,000 employee bonus, funded by soaring demand for AI memory chips, is pulling engineers away from rival Samsung, whose foundry division bonuses are far smaller and whose share of the HBM chip market has collapsed this year.
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Atlassian Finds Admitting AI Use Gets Workers Called Lazy
Anthropic's education lead says teaching employees specific AI tricks no longer works, and new data from Atlassian shows the bigger problem is that workers who admit using AI risk being seen as lazy by coworkers.
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Bots Now Generate 57.5% of Web Traffic, Cloudflare Says
Cloudflare data shows automated traffic passed human traffic on the web for the first time in June 2026, hitting 57.5%, which matters because the entire ad-funded internet business model was built on the assumption that a person, not software, was looking at the page.
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Cognizant Becomes Anthropic's Top-Tier Claude Partner
Cognizant, an IT services giant with nearly 350,000 employees, has become Anthropic's top-tier Claude partner, meaning more of its client work in manufacturing, insurance, and life sciences will now be built on Claude AI.
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Businesses are liable for mistakes their AI chatbots make
Courts and regulators worldwide are confirming that when a business's AI tool misleads a customer, overcharges them, or breaks a promise, the business is legally responsible, not the AI vendor that built the tool.
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OpenAI Data: ChatGPT Users Are Doing Other Jobs
OpenAI studied over 800,000 workplace ChatGPT messages and found that 43.5 percent of specialist requests cover tasks that normally belong to a different job, a sign that AI is already reshaping who does what at work before job titles catch up.
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Celeris Launches AI Model 15 Times Faster Than GPT-5-mini
Celeris Labs launched Celeris-1, an AI model that answers about 15 times faster than similar sized rivals by building its whole response at once instead of word by word, trading a small amount of accuracy for speed that could cut costs for voice bots and customer service tools.
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Sabanto Turns Any Tractor Into a Self-Driving Robot
Sabanto sells a $75,000 retrofit kit that turns any existing tractor into a self-driving machine, a cheaper answer to a farm labor shortage where visa demand has grown eightfold and almost no American workers apply for the jobs.
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ChatGPT Gave Bioweapon Guides to Hundreds of Users
Hundreds of ChatGPT users received step-by-step instructions for poisons and biological weapons, OpenAI knew about it, suspended the accounts, and was not required by law to tell anyone.
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Qualcomm Raises Chip Prices by Double Digits From September
Qualcomm, which makes the processors inside most Android phones, Windows AI laptops, and Meta smart glasses, is raising prices by double digits starting September 1, and it is one part of a broader wave of chip price increases that will reach consumers across devices and categories.
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AMD and Cerebras Partner to Speed Up AI Responses
AMD and Cerebras have joined forces to build a combined AI processing system that handles far more work at once while also replying much faster, targeting businesses that need real-time AI agents and live assistants, with the joint product arriving through Cerebras Cloud later this year.
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