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C.H. Robinson Cuts a Third of Jobs Using AI Agents
Freight brokers are rolling out AI that reads and answers shipping quote emails in seconds, and at the industry's biggest player this has come with a real, measurable cut to staff.
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Black Forest Labs Launches Flux 3 Video Generator
Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a free AI video generator that turns text or photos into clips up to 20 seconds long with sound, giving any business a cheap way to make marketing visuals.
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Most AI Companies Lack Plans to Stop Rogue Models
A new independent report grading OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and xAI on their readiness to shut down a misbehaving AI model found that most labs, including safety-focused Anthropic, have not published clear rules for when and how they would pull the plug.
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Replit Now Offers 30 Times More AI Coding for $20
Replit's new Free Mode, built on OpenAI's low-cost GPT-5.6 Luna model, lets subscribers do up to 30 times more everyday coding and chat work without extra charges, making it easier for non-technical people to build software on their own.
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Screenwriters Are Being Paid to Train Their AI Replacements
Award winning Hollywood writers and producers are taking $12 to $200 an hour gig jobs from AI training firms like Mercor and Micro1 to teach chatbots how to write scripts and schedule shoots, work that pays the bills while production in Los Angeles keeps shrinking.
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Only 26% of Firms Know What Their AI Actually Costs
A new KPMG survey finds that companies who can clearly track their AI spending are five times more likely to see real returns than those flying blind, yet most enterprises still cannot see where their AI money is going.
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Google Pays $10 Million for Spirit Airlines' Internal Data
Google won a bankruptcy auction to buy Spirit Airlines' internal emails, spreadsheets, and business records for $10 million to train its AI, showing that any company's ordinary office files can become a paid asset, or a privacy risk, the moment that company shuts down.
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The AI Model You Choose Matters Less Than Your Data
AI model prices have collapsed by more than two hundred times in under two years, which means the real business advantage no longer comes from picking GPT, Claude, or Gemini, but from the company data and feedback history you build around whichever model you use.
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Companies With Concrete AI Use Cases Grow Revenue Faster
A Carnegie Mellon and Larridin study of over 500 public companies found that firms reporting specific, measurable AI use cases grow revenue faster than those speaking about AI in vague terms, though the same specificity showed no clear link to profit margins or stock returns.
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Deloitte: Just 1 in 5 Firms Ready for AI Agents
Deloitte surveyed more than 500 US business and IT leaders and found that only 1 in 5 say their company is ready to redesign how work gets done for autonomous AI agents, even though most expect big changes to jobs within 18 months.
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OpenAI Adds iMessage Access to ChatGPT on Mac
OpenAI's new Mac plugin lets ChatGPT read, search, and send your iMessages and texts, a feature that needs deep access to your Mac's files right as Apple is suing OpenAI over an unrelated trade secret dispute.
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Nevada Approves Paid Robotaxis From Tesla, Uber, Waymo
Nevada regulators cleared Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to charge for driverless rides in Las Vegas, but Tesla's real fleet is starting far smaller than its 5,000 vehicle ceiling due to safety-related restrictions.
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UK Government May Cancel $445 Million Palantir Deal
The UK government can walk away from its $445 million Palantir health data contract next February, and the one health region that already refused to use it says its own homemade system works better and is trusted more by patients.
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OpenAI Narrows Anthropic's Lead in Business AI Spending
New Ramp data on over 70,000 US businesses shows Anthropic still leads OpenAI in paid AI subscriptions, but OpenAI has been closing the gap since a data privacy dispute slowed adoption of Anthropic's priciest model.
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OpenAI Pauses Advanced Model Work Over Hacking Risk
OpenAI paused training on its next major model after it could not rule out that the system might be capable of serious cyberattacks, a reminder that any business betting its plans on a specific AI model's arrival date is building on sand.
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Adobe Firefly Adds AI Music, Voice, and Sound Effect Tools
Adobe made three AI audio tools free to use inside Firefly, letting anyone generate royalty free music, voiceovers, and sound effects for video, while also adding Google's newest video model to its lineup of outside AI tools.
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OpenAI Halves GPT-5.6 Sol Price on Two Tracking Platforms
OpenAI cut the price of its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model by half, but only on OpenRouter and Vercel, the two outside platforms that analysts use to estimate who is winning the AI race.
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AI Search Tools Push Employees Toward Similar Ideas
A new academic study finds that everyday AI search tools push employees toward the same familiar ideas, but tweaking those tools to surface unusual information lets experts think far more broadly than novices.
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Hackers Can Hijack AI Browsers With No Click Needed
Security researchers showed that AI browsers from Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, OpenAI, and Microsoft can be hijacked by hidden instructions in emails or calendar invites, letting attackers steal data and take over accounts without the user clicking anything.
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AI Pricing Tools Set Airline Fares, Draw Congress Scrutiny
An MIT Technology Review piece on Virgin Atlantic's AI pricing tool traces back to Fetcherr, a startup whose real-time 'market model' technology is spreading across airlines just as US lawmakers investigate whether such systems amount to unfair surveillance pricing.
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