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OpenAI says human attention is the bottleneck, so it built a system to let agents manage themselves

OpenAI has released Symphony, an open-source specification that transforms task trackers like Linear into a control center for AI agents, allowing them to autonomously process open tickets while ...
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Building AI data centers is becoming a stress test for banks

Major banks are reaching their internal risk limits with multi-billion dollar AI data center loans and are trying to pass on default risks to other investors. A $38 billion loan package for Oracle ...
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China is falling behind in the AI race, according to a US government benchmark

A new report from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) claims Chinese AI models are losing ground to their US counterparts. The agency recently put the new Chinese open-weight model ...
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Mistral AI takes on enterprise AI orchestration with Workflows

Mistral AI has rolled out Workflows, an orchestration layer that helps companies turn AI-powered processes into production-ready systems. The tool is now in public preview, with ASML, ABANCA, CMA-CGM, ...
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Big tech's AI spending balloons to $725 billion this year

Google posted standout numbers in its latest quarterly report, with cloud revenue growing 63 percent. Rising prices for memory chips and other components are pushing costs even higher. Even with these ...
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Anthropic reviewing investor offers that would value the company at over $900 billion

Anthropic is reviewing investor offers for a new funding round that would value the AI company at over $900 billion, Bloomberg reports. That would let Anthropic overtake rival OpenAI as the world's ...
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Google rolls out Gemini memory in Europe and wants you to bring your ChatGPT data along

Google is rolling out personalization features for Gemini in Europe. The main one, "Memories," lets Gemini learn from past chats to tailor future responses. It's on by default and can be turned off in ...
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OpenAI misses revenue targets as Anthropic and Google close in

OpenAI missed internal revenue and user targets for the first quarter of 2026, with fast-growing competition from Google and Anthropic as a key factor. Massive future spending commitments of around ...
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OpenAI says old prompts are holding GPT-5.5 back and developers need a fresh baseline

OpenAI has released a prompting guide for GPT-5.5 with one major takeaway: don't reuse your old prompts. Start fresh with minimal, result-focused instructions. And role definitions, once dismissed as ...
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The UAE wants half its government run by autonomous AI agents within two years

The United Arab Emirates is rolling out what may be the world's most ambitious government AI overhaul. Within two years, the country wants 50 percent of all government sectors, services, and processes ...
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Anthropic says stronger AI models cut better deals, and the losers don't even notice

In a week-long experiment, Anthropic let Claude agents buy and sell goods for employees. The result: stronger models negotiated better prices. The catch: the people stuck with weaker agents had no ...
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Survey finds Claude's weekly active users in the US skew far wealthier than any rival AI assistant

Claude's user base is notably more affluent than other AI assistants. A survey by Epoch AI and Ipsos found that 80 percent of US adults who use Claude live in households earning more than $100,000 a ...