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The companies, markets and infrastructure turning AI into an industry.

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Business10 October 20263 min

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts token prices, but workload costs still need checking

Anthropic's October 7 release lowers listed API rates. A new tokenizer, default reasoning and migration limits complicate a straight comparison with Haiku 4.5.

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Business8 October 20263 min

OpenAI starts wider ChatGPT rollout of GPT-6 and interactive answers

Free and Go users are next in the rollout announced on October 7. The new Chat experience can build interactive answers, but it is separate from Work and Codex and still needs factual checks.

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Business7 October 20263 min

Anthropic expands cyber access with three tiers and stricter identity controls

Security teams can seek different levels of Claude access for defence, authorised testing and sensitive infrastructure. Fewer blocks come with verification, monitoring and credential requirements.

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Business6 October 20263 min

What Googlebook's built-in AI can do without the internet

Google's new laptops put Gemini close to everyday work. Its documentation shows a mixed picture: Magic Pointer needs a connection, while Rambler keeps basic voice cleanup offline.

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Business5 October 20264 min

Google gives cyber defenders first access to Gemini 4 Argon

Google's announced rollout starts with selected security partners. Introductory API prices are public, but its primary pages still do not date broad developer or consumer access.

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Business30 September 20264 min

GPT-6.1 Sol keeps Sol's API rates, but changes cache pricing and tool use

OpenAI's new model holds the $2 input and $10 output rates. Cached input is cheaper; tool-using applications need to check their endpoint and reasoning settings.

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Business29 September 20264 min

Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5. Its cheaper-work claim is not a token-price cut

The new model keeps Sonnet 5's API rates. Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens, while the migration guide flags changes that can break existing requests.

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Business28 September 20264 min

One Danish region passes 50% business AI use. The EU average is 20%

Eurostat's 2026 regional yearbook shows a wide adoption gap. The figures describe 2025, exclude the smallest firms and mix regional and national observations.

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Business26 September 20265 min

Microsoft puts chat, app-building and a persistent agent in one Copilot

Home, Code and Autopilot are meant to turn Copilot into a place to ask, make and delegate. Most of the new pieces are still rolling out or in preview.

Business25 September 20264 min

Google gives Gemini Live a face for enterprise agents

Live Avatar adds generated video to real-time Gemini conversations. It can switch languages and keep talking during tool calls, but sessions are measured in minutes, not hours.

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Business23 September 20265 min

Anthropic cuts Opus pricing as it launches Claude Opus 5.5

The new model costs less per token and Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens per task. Its own release also warns that narrow benchmark margins are becoming less useful guides to real work.

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Business19 September 20264 min

Anthropic chooses Accenture for AI safety checks inside its labs

The companies plan a team of embedded evaluators, with Faculty leading the work. Closer access could make safety promises easier to check. Funding and freedom to report will matter just as much.

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Business16 September 20264 min

Google's Gemini 3.8 Live keeps talking while tools work

Google has introduced two voice models, including an Extended Thinking version for more involved tasks. Keeping a conversation moving is useful. Knowing whether the task actually finished is a separate problem.

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Business14 September 20266 min

OpenAI puts financial data inside ChatGPT. A citation is not an audit trail

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored work product that combines its models with built-in datasets and source-level citations. That can make research easier to inspect. It does not turn a generated analysis into approved advice, settle a firm's recordkeeping duties or replace the human checks that regulated financial work requires.

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Business12 September 20265 min

OpenAI says its storage layer serves 70 million requests a second. The key choice is restraint

OpenAI says the internal storage layer behind ChatGPT, Codex and other products now handles more than 70 million requests per second across almost 40 regions. Its engineering account is not a benchmark. It is a useful reminder that systems at this scale often get safer and easier to operate by doing less, not by accepting every possible request.

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Business11 September 20265 min

OpenAI puts the Codex agent harness behind a new public API

OpenAI has opened a public beta for an Agents API that hosts the long-running infrastructure behind Codex: sessions, tool use, sandboxes and context handling. It may remove a lot of setup work for developers. It does not remove the harder work of deciding what an agent may access, when it should stop and how its output is checked.

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Business6 September 20266 min

Microsoft says AI infrastructure needs a metric beyond chip count

Microsoft is arguing for “useful yield”: a way of judging AI infrastructure by the useful output it produces, not just the chips, tokens, memory or megawatts it consumes. It is a company framing, not an industry standard. But it puts a sharp question to a sector building at extraordinary scale: what is all that capacity actually for?

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Business5 September 20266 min

Anthropic wants AI safety monitoring to live inside the customer’s cloud

Anthropic says its new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards will let eligible companies keep activity data under their own cloud controls while automated systems look for serious misuse across a rolling window. The service is not broadly available yet. Its real test will be whether customers can verify the privacy, monitoring and governance promises in practice.

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Business4 September 20266 min

Google gives Gemini 3.8 Flash a choice: answer fast or keep working

Google says Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps the introductory price of its predecessor while doing more multi-step reasoning and tool use on difficult tasks. Its new Cyber variant is more tightly restricted, which is the more important part of the release for anyone thinking about capable AI agents.

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Business29 August 20266 min

OpenAI plans to end Cursor’s model access after the SpaceX deal

OpenAI says it has told SpaceX it intends to wind down the contract that supplies OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed 12 November cut-off. Cursor has confirmed that it is now part of SpaceX. For developers, the immediate question is less about the corporate dispute than which tools will still be available in the editor they use.

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Business26 August 20267 min

OpenAI says its first custom inference chip changes the usual speed trade-off

OpenAI has published the first performance results for Jalapeño, its custom inference chip. The company says it can improve throughput, latency and energy efficiency at once. The figures are detailed, but they are still OpenAI’s measurements ahead of deployment.

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Business26 August 20266 min

OpenAI brings workspace administration into ChatGPT Work and Codex

OpenAI has introduced an Admin plugin that lets authorised workspace administrators inspect activity, manage access and carry out supported changes from ChatGPT Work or Codex. The practical question is not whether it can act, but how clearly permissions and approvals hold up when it does.

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Business25 August 20267 min

Hugging Face data draws a line between model excitement and model use

A new Hugging Face analysis finds that attention around frontier open models and practical adoption are different things. Its data suggests smaller, older models still do much of the routine work, with one important limit: it describes activity on the Hub, not all AI use.

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Business24 August 20266 min

ChatGPT ads are coming to 31 European markets

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads will start expanding to 31 European markets from the week of 24 August. The company says the ads are for Free and Go users, while paid plans remain ad-free. The real test is whether its stated boundaries around answers and privacy stay clear at a wider scale.

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Business18 August 20267 min

Giving an AI coding team a coordinator did not make it coordinate

In 1,902 controlled coding runs, the agent labelled coordinator did not become a communication hub or reliably improve success. The shape of the task mattered more.

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Business17 August 20267 min

A better AI model can still lose answers the old one got right

Across six open-model update pairs and six benchmarks, no single inference-time signal reliably found the regressions hidden inside a higher average score.

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Business14 August 20267 min

Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6

The new workhorse targets coding and agents. Its launch price is half the permanent rate, and Google is already putting it inside a 24/7 personal agent.

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Business12 August 20268 min

AI agents closed 98.9% of deals. Weaker models still accepted losses

In 9,840 simulated supply-chain negotiations, most agents found efficient agreements. The weaker models were far more likely to accept terms that broke their own profit rule.

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Business2 August 20266 min

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna API pricing by 80%

Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens, while a new Fast mode charges twice as much to run Sol sooner. OpenAI's own documentation has not fully caught up.

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Business2 August 20266 min

NVIDIA's new AI security alliance starts with open agent tooling

Dozens of companies have joined a push for shared AI security infrastructure. Its first concrete release is NOOA, a framework whose own warning explains why open tooling is only part of the answer.

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Business31 July 20266 min

Europe opens a €30 billion plan for seven AI gigafactories

The EU may provide up to €10 billion and hopes to draw more than €20 billion from private investors. The tender is real; much of the money and the energy are not yet in place.

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Business29 July 20266 min

Microsoft puts red, blue and green AI agents in one security loop

Project Perception enters public preview on 3 August, starting with software vulnerability management. Microsoft has shared strong benchmark and cost numbers. Real-world performance and the exact limits on automated action are still open.

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Business28 July 20266 min

Workers are using ChatGPT beyond the edges of their jobs

OpenAI found that 43.5% of occupation-specific messages in its sample matched tasks linked to another occupation. The pattern is revealing. It does not tell us whether the work was good, used or reviewed.

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Business25 July 20266 min

OpenAI’s new enterprise agents come with engineers attached

Presence is not a do-it-yourself chatbot kit. OpenAI is selling a managed deployment with scoped access, testing, approvals and human handoffs for voice and chat workflows.

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Business22 July 20266 min

Google splits its new Gemini Flash line by cost, speed and access

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the workhorse, Flash-Lite is built for cheap high-volume tasks, and a cyber specialist will stay limited to governments and trusted partners.

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Business18 July 20265 min

OpenAI and Nvidia want AI buyers to measure ‘intelligence per dollar’

Both companies made the case on the same day. One starts with work completed, the other with compute used. Neither has produced a shared standard.

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Business17 July 20266 min

Hugging Face says an AI agent broke into its production systems

The AI platform says an autonomous agent ran a multi-stage intrusion through a malicious dataset. Public models appear untouched, but the company is still checking whether customer or partner data was affected.

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Business16 July 20266 min

Europe’s frontier AI gap is now a power-and-capital problem

A new AI Office report says Europe’s research base is not the main weakness. The urgent gaps are compute, energy and growth capital. The report is expert advice, not Commission policy.

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Business13 July 20266 min

The coding-agent race has moved to the usage meter

Anthropic is giving Claude Code users more weekly capacity, while OpenAI has temporarily removed Codex's five-hour restriction for several paid plans. The offers are short-lived, but the signal is durable: access is becoming as competitive as capability.

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Business13 July 20266 min