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OpenAI Weighs Price Cuts as Enterprise AI Costs Spiral
Business customers are exhausting annual AI budgets in months, prompting the ChatGPT maker to consider significant reductions in token pricing.
AI Now Reads Mammograms Alongside Radiologists at Yale
Digital breast imaging chief John Lewin explains how artificial intelligence is detecting more cancers and predicting future risk—but won't replace human doctors yet.
Telstra: AI Workloads Expose Data Gaps in Telecom Automation
Operator keeps humans in high-risk decisions while scaling autonomous systems for repeatable tasks.
Retailers Deploy Automation to Augment Staff, Not Replace Them
Computer vision and AI at checkout and across stores let associates focus on customer service instead of monitoring tasks.
xAI's Grok Still Hosts Explicit Deepfakes Despite Safeguards
Investigation reveals dozens of nonconsensual sexualized AI images remain accessible on Grok.com months after promised restrictions.
IKEA Retrained 8,500 Call Center Workers as AI Advisors
The furniture giant turned chatbot automation into a $1.5 billion remote design business instead of cutting jobs.
FDA AI Use Cases Surge 148% as HHS Agencies Accelerate Adoption
All four major health agencies expanded artificial intelligence deployments in fiscal 2025, with most projects still in pre-deployment stages.
Apple Built New Siri Using Google's Gemini AI as Training Data
The tech giant trained its proprietary models by refining outputs from Google's frontier AI, not by licensing Gemini directly.
Google, Meta invest $300M in skilled trades to build AI data centers
Tech giants partner with labor unions to address critical shortage of construction workers needed for infrastructure boom.
Thomson Reuters Embeds Crunchafi Automation Into Audit Platform
The integration makes Crunchafi the official methodology automation partner for lease accounting within Guided Assurance, used by thousands of CPA firms.
Quore and VSR Integrate Voice AI for Hotel Operations Management
New partnership routes guest and staff requests through conversational AI directly into hotel workflow systems, with Holiday Inn Orlando property as first deployment.
Nvidia Launches $10B Infrastructure Venture, Expands Partnerships
The chipmaker is embedding its technology deeper into data centers, healthcare AI, and semiconductor supply chains through three new strategic deals.
Coinbase Lets AI Agents Trade Crypto and Pay for Services
The exchange's new platform enables autonomous financial transactions as the company bets on agents becoming primary economic actors online.
OpenAI Acquires Cloud Infrastructure Startup Ona for Codex
The deal positions OpenAI's coding assistant to handle extended, multi-step enterprise tasks as competition with Anthropic intensifies.
Finance Firms Deploy Agentic AI to Automate Payments and Trading
Banks and fintechs are rolling out AI agents that complete transactions autonomously, but adoption faces governance hurdles and job displacement concerns.
Base10 Partners Raises $850M for Real Economy Automation
The San Francisco firm will deploy capital across seed through Series B rounds targeting logistics, construction, manufacturing intelligence, and vision-based AI for physical industries.
AI pricing models shift from software access to work performed
As autonomous AI systems handle customer service tasks, enterprises and vendors grapple with who captures the economic value when software replaces human labor.
Vonage AI Agents Target Healthcare, Finance, Retail Workflows
The contact center vendor's vertical approach highlights a market shift from generic chatbots to compliance-aware, task-completing automation.
Time-Shift Flaw in AI Sepsis Models Masks Treatment Failures
Emory researchers expose a subtle data-indexing error that has compromised a decade of reinforcement learning studies in critical care.
Cannabis club software exposed 985,000 passports online
Irish company Nefos Solutions left identity documents accessible at public URLs without password protection for months.
Music Publishers Sign First Industry-Wide AI Licensing Deal
The National Music Publishers Association announced agreements with Udio and Klay, marking a shift from litigation to collaboration.
Verizon deploys AI agents to automate vRAN operations at scale
The carrier is using agentic AI for network deployments, service assurance, and optimization across 22,900 virtualized radio sites.
Google Director Resigns Over Pentagon AI Deal, Cites Moral Concerns
René Mayrhofer left his Android security role after the company agreed to provide AI models for classified military work.
DoorDash Launches AI Chatbot for Photo-Based Food Ordering
The delivery platform introduces Ask DoorDash to compete with Uber and Instacart as gig economy apps race to deploy agentic AI tools.