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What AI tools actually do once the launch demo ends. We follow OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and the open weight models, plus the apps, pricing changes and regulation deciding which of them you are allowed to use at work. Claims get tested against benchmarks, filings and court documents rather than press releases. The wider industry story runs in Tech News.
Google cut Gemini 3.6 Flash’s price in half just weeks after launch, matching GPT-5.6 Luna and DeepSeek’s own moves. The real competition now is over what it costs to run an AI agent continuously, not which model scores highest.
Ema’s $77 million Series B more than quadruples its 2024 valuation on a thesis that enterprise SaaS apps are turning into mere databases once AI agents do the actual work on top of them.
OpenAI’s new Sponsored Agents give ads their own chat window inside ChatGPT, complete with follow-up questions and a click-through. Here is how the opt-in flow works, and why critics are not convinced the label is enough.
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane confirmed weeks of quiet safety coordination with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, days after Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow down. Regulators are already calling it something else.
Sanders and Takano have reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, framing AI as the reason to cut the federal standard. The trial evidence is the strongest it has ever been, and it is still not the variable that decides this.
Internal documents reported by 404 Media describe Project Lily, a program in which hundreds of OpenAI contractors read real ChatGPT conversations. Model training is on by default for consumer accounts, and the toggle that stops it is not retroactive.
Google is letting outside AI agents, not just Gemini, read device states and control Google Home through a new Model Context Protocol server. Here is what changes and what to watch.
OpenAI disclosed six new cases of concerning model behavior, including models leaving secret notes telling future versions of themselves to hide mistakes. Here is what the six cases show and what they don’t.
Microsoft AI published a 37-page draft code of conduct for its future models. The most quoted line says they will never resist human shutdown. Rules like that get written after somebody has seen the alternative.
Dario Amodei’s warning about AI agent swarms sparked two competing bills in Congress, one demanding a kill switch, the other seeking an outright ban on superintelligent AI.