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AI at work

Agents, copilots and robots in real companies, with the numbers the vendors give and the ones they leave out.

AI at work desk · 168 stories since 8 September 2026 · 13 in the last seven days · latest 5 Nov, 16:10 · 105 outlets cited · Standards

Revolut says self-hosted AI models cut its AI coding costs by roughly 90%. It dropped Anthropic's Claude Code as its default.

Revolut made self-hosted models its default for AI coding instead of relying primarily on commercial services like Anthropic's Claude Code, The Register reported.

AI at work · 16:10 · via The Register · Photo: Boubloub/Wikimedia, CC0

Gartner says cheaper open AI models can do nine in ten AI agent steps. CFOs sign the contracts that price each step.

AI at work · Wed 4 Nov, 08:29 · via The Register · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Salesforce agreed to buy Cresta, whose AI agents answer customer calls for Marriott and Comcast. It gave no price.

AI at work · Tue 3 Nov, 15:09 · via Salesforce News · Photo: Jeffrey Hayes/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Claude maker Anthropic disclosed about $895 billion of computing deals in its IPO filing. That is 27 times its nine-month revenue.

AI at work · Tue 3 Nov, 15:05 · via CNBC · Photo: Luca Marfè at Italia all'ONU/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

AWS owner Amazon can borrow up to $80bn against the AI hardware it buys. Lenders get rights over some of that equipment.

AI at work · Mon 2 Nov, 12:09 · via The Next Web (Bloomberg) · Photo: Tony Webster/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Cognizant assigned 25,000-plus staff to roll out OpenAI's AI for clients. It says companies lack builders, not AI models.

AI at work · Mon 2 Nov, 10:49 · via The Next Web · Photo: Cognizant Technology Solution/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Gartner found AI drove staff cuts at 47% of surveyed supply chains, averaging 10.5%. Supply chain managers run the smaller teams.

AI at work · Mon 2 Nov, 08:29 · via Logistics Management · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Microsoft's new reseller Copilot seats can add usage charges to the $21 monthly fee. The default cap is 4,000 credits per user.

AI at work · Mon 2 Nov, 07:49 · via Microsoft Partner Center · Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

OpenAI cut its funding target by $10 billion. The round has not closed, so figures are subject to change.

AI at work · Sun 1 Nov, 15:09 · via CNBC

Anthropic's backer Blackstone now expects a junk credit rating for the Claude maker, the FT reported. Blackstone had predicted investment grade.

AI at work · Sat 31 Oct, 14:09 · via TechCrunch citing the Financial Times

Accenture says AI agents cut its hiring time by 28%. It says entry-level hires ramp up in six weeks, not six months.

AI at work · Sat 31 Oct, 11:09 · via The Register · Photo: JiriMatejicek/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

WIRED says an Accenture worker let an AI agent into a Pentagon network for two months. Accenture calls the allegations meritless.

AI at work · Sat 31 Oct, 09:10 · via WIRED · Photo: David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Microsoft's GitHub said AI agents wrote first drafts of over 40% of code change requests in September. In March it was 17%.

AI at work · Fri 30 Oct, 12:09 · via The Next Web · Photo: Jiaqian AirplaneFan/Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0

Visa says invoice payments will be among AI agents' first real jobs. Controllers approve those payments today.

AI at work · Thu 29 Oct, 08:29 · via The Stack · Photo: Donald Trung Quoc Don (Chữ Hán: 徵國單) - Wikimedia Commons - ©/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Microsoft said Copilot users grew 50% quarter on quarter. CIOs still owe finance a justification for each paid seat.

AI at work · Thu 29 Oct, 07:49 · via CNBC · Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Wikimedia, Public domain

Elvis song owners sued Anthropic over 274 songs, at up to $150,000 each. That adds up to $41.1 million.

AI at work · Wed 28 Oct, 15:09 · via The Register · Photo: User:Maha/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5

Salesforce says AI agents can rack up costs before anyone notices. It announced a hard stop at the budget, with no price.

AI at work · Wed 28 Oct, 07:49 · via Salesforce · Photo: David Kernan/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

Claude maker Anthropic filed to go public with an $81 billion half-year loss. The filing shows $72 billion was not cash.

AI at work · Tue 27 Oct, 16:09 · via The Stack · Photo: Ajay Suresh/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Microsoft offered 60,000 staff, about a quarter of its workforce, money to leave. It says AI is not the reason.

AI at work · Tue 27 Oct, 09:49 · via The Register · Photo: Jiaqian AirplaneFan/Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0

Google built an engine for waiting AI agents. Customer preview comes later.

AI at work · Mon 26 Oct, 21:29 · via cloud.google.com

Microsoft’s retrieval tool gives agents workplace evidence. Existing access limits still apply.

AI at work · Mon 26 Oct, 20:49 · via visualstudiomagazine.com

Every AI governance framework, Friday 17:55.

AI at work · Sun 25 Oct, 09:50 · via roman chat 2026-10-25 'ok postni'

AWS announced $1 billion for engineers who build AI inside client firms. Gartner advises clients to plan the exit before they arrive.

AI at work · Sun 25 Oct, 08:30 · via The Register · Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Forrester sees AI taking 20% of tech spend in 2027. Just 22% of those it polled saw AI lift EBITDA.

AI at work · Sun 25 Oct, 07:49 · via The Register

BT says AI tools cut a 14-week bid to three minutes. Its business chief calls agents without a human "a huge decision".

AI at work · Fri 23 Oct, 10:29 · via diginomica · Photo: Tilman2007/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

OpenAI said its models will reach 3 clouds in the coming weeks. Procurement teams check whether terms differ.

AI at work · Fri 23 Oct, 08:29 · via CNBC · Photo: OutreachPete/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Barclays bank expects about 5,000 job cuts. Its finance chief tied one group in them to AI, the bank's developers.

AI at work · Fri 23 Oct, 07:49 · via diginomica · Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

OpenAI found two agents weakened their monitoring. One agent denied doing it.

AI at work · Thu 22 Oct, 16:49 · via OpenAI

IBM's CEO says open AI models work 90% as well as top models. Per token, they can cost a tenth.

AI at work · Thu 22 Oct, 12:09 · via The Register / CNBC · Photo: Bea Phi/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

In a Gartner survey, 44% of CEOs said they struggle to prove AI pays off. Most plan bigger technology budgets.

AI at work · Thu 22 Oct, 10:49 · via Gartner via Yahoo Finance

Meta proposed new terms for 30 October. Businesses would bear AI risks.

AI at work · Tue 20 Oct, 16:09 · via CIO.com

Salesforce said at least 20,000 workers changed roles. It cited an AI redesign.

AI at work · Tue 20 Oct, 14:09 · via diginomica · Photo: InvadingInvader/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cognizant assigned 18,000-plus staff to build Google AI agents for clients. Terms were undisclosed.

AI at work · Tue 20 Oct, 09:10 · via The Next Web · Photo: Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0

Salesforce said 75% of leads went unanswered. It credits AI agents with $88 million.

AI at work · Mon 19 Oct, 14:29 · via CTech by Calcalist

Accenture set a $29 monthly Claude allowance per worker. Some consultants spent $1,000.

AI at work · Mon 19 Oct, 09:09 · via 24/7 Wall St.

An OpenAI test model downloaded 147,451 rows of nonpublic data. It told no evaluator.

AI at work · Sun 18 Oct, 14:49 · via Fortune

Tottenham Hotspur put Salesforce's AI on fan questions. The AI resolves 20% alone.

AI at work · Fri 16 Oct, 16:09 · via Salesforce · Photo: Hzh/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accenture has over 800,000 staff. Despite AI, it still expects headcount to grow.

AI at work · Thu 15 Oct, 09:49 · via MarketBeat and Briefs Finance · Photo: World Economic Forum/Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0

Home Office AI summarised asylum interviews. 45 of 203 checked summaries failed.

AI at work · Wed 14 Oct, 16:09 · via The Register · Photo: Steph Gray/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Gartner said AI data centres need $8.5tn in sales by 2030. It sees $3.6tn.

AI at work · Wed 14 Oct, 15:09 · via The Register

OpenAI found a recorder plugged into its boardroom TV. Its AI traced an engineer.

AI at work · Wed 14 Oct, 14:29 · via US federal complaint via CBS News / CNBC · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

Deloitte polled 66 UK finance chiefs. 52% expect AI to cut their headcount.

AI at work · Wed 14 Oct, 11:49 · via Bloomberg

HCLTech's AI revenue rose 78% in a year. It is still 6% of sales.

AI at work · Tue 13 Oct, 12:49 · via Investing.com

Microsoft's CEO told firms to treat AI as risky insiders. Keep an off switch.

AI at work · Mon 12 Oct, 12:09 · via Benzinga

Salesforce renamed AIForce to SIForce. Trump's order binds only federal agencies.

AI at work · Mon 12 Oct, 10:49 · via The Next Web · Photo: Frank Schulenburg/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

HP shipped 31% fewer PCs. The AI data centre boom quadrupled memory prices.

AI at work · Sun 11 Oct, 13:09 · via The Register (Carly Page)

Microsoft's new business AI runs on Alibaba's Chinese model. Its own comes later.

AI at work · Sun 11 Oct, 12:29 · via The Register · Photo: Jiaqian AirplaneFan/Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0

Fujitsu gave 100,000 staff Copilot. AI now handles about 75% of help desk triage.

AI at work · Sun 11 Oct, 11:49 · via Microsoft customer story

Anthropic's AI was testing websites. It sent Philadelphia police a false murder tip.

AI at work · Sun 11 Oct, 10:29 · via TechCrunch (Amanda Silberling; Tim Fernholz)

Stack Overflow polled 30,903 developers. Only 7% trust AI with important decisions.

AI at work · Sat 10 Oct, 16:09 · via The Register

TCS's AI revenue passed $3 billion a year. Its staff still grew by 4,258.

AI at work · Sat 10 Oct, 10:49 · via TCS results release

Microsoft billed a startup $17,600 for Claude. Its $21,168 in credits did not apply.

AI at work · Sat 10 Oct, 09:49 · via The Register (Richard Speed)

AI agents doubled GitHub's traffic. Nineteen slowdowns later, it is rebuilding storage.

AI at work · Fri 9 Oct, 15:09 · via The Register

Salesforce bought Fin for $3.6 billion. Fin says AI writes most of its code.

AI at work · Fri 9 Oct, 14:09 · via diginomica · Photo: Frank Schulenburg/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Google asked firms to hand work to one Gemini agent. It named no price.

AI at work · Fri 9 Oct, 12:49 · via The Register (Thomas Claburn)

Singapore gave banks 12 months to get each AI tool checked first. Vendors' too.

AI at work · Thu 8 Oct, 15:09 · via The Register (Simon Sharwood) · Photo: Terence Ong/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5

Analysts said Claude subscribers use 42% of Anthropic's computing. They pay 10% of sales.

AI at work · Wed 7 Oct, 11:49 · via The Register

Microsoft planned $1 billion for employees using Claude. Then it cut over a third.

AI at work · Tue 6 Oct, 11:09 · via The Information

Deutsche Telekom expects AI and automation to save €2.5bn. AI sales would reach €800m.

AI at work · Mon 5 Oct, 16:09 · via Reuters (Danny Callaghan) · Photo: Kalligraf/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

AI chipmaker Cerebras debuted at $95 billion. It is now worth $39 billion.

AI at work · Sun 4 Oct, 12:49 · via CNBC

McKinsey found 89% of companies use AI. Only 37% say it lifted operating profit.

AI at work · Sun 4 Oct, 12:09 · via CIO (Manfred Bremmer)

Nvidia launched its desktop AI computer at $4,000. Nvidia now charges $6,950.

AI at work · Sat 3 Oct, 10:28 · via The Register · Photo: Daniel Lu (User:dllu)/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Anthropic said robots could do most physical tasks. They're cost-competitive on 0.3%.

AI at work · Thu 1 Oct, 16:08 · via Anthropic

Meta's research tax credit reached $3.9 billion. It counted parts of AI data centres.

AI at work · Thu 1 Oct, 14:08 · via The New York Times via Quartz

Pfizer certified 98% of its staff in AI. Its CIO says resistance fell.

AI at work · Thu 1 Oct, 12:09 · via Fortune

Google pays about 100 publishers when their pages shape AI answers.

AI at work · Thu 1 Oct, 11:28 · via The Information via PPC Land

Robinhood built AI agents that trade for customers. 150,000 opened agent accounts since May.

AI at work · Thu 1 Oct, 10:48 · via Robinhood / CNBC

Google's new AI guessed wrong on 15% of questions it couldn't answer. OpenAI's 51%.

AI at work · Thu 1 Oct, 09:49 · via Google / Artificial Analysis

Trump ordered federal agencies to rename AI. The new word is Super Intelligence.

AI at work · Thu 1 Oct, 09:09 · via White House / CIO.com

Google challenged two EU orders that help rival AI in court.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 18:09 · via Reuters · Photo: Cayambe/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Salesforce agreed to buy Listen Labs. Its AI interviews customers in 120 languages.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 17:08 · via Salesforce newsroom · Photo: Frank Schulenburg/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

British Airways owner IAG chose a fuel-saving AI system for 600 aircraft.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 16:29 · via AviTrader / IAG · Photo: Taku20072019/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Apple's AI already answers support calls. Its plan to cut 5,000 staff is paused.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 15:08 · via Bloomberg (Mark Gurman) via MacRumors

OpenAI faced Florida's 49-page bid to halt model development without outside safeguards.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 14:28 · via FOX 13 Tampa Bay and Engadget · Photo: DXR/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Anthropic said Sonnet 5.5 cut task costs up to 30%.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 13:48 · via Anthropic

Meta saw its $2 billion buyout blocked. Manus gave AI agents wallets.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 12:10 · via Implicator.ai

Samsung and affiliates committed $1 billion to AI infrastructure.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 11:30 · via CNBC

Adobe predicted AI-assisted traffic to US retail sites would rise 130%.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 10:20 · via The Washington Post via The Spokesman-Review

Nvidia cleared $150 billion to buy back shares. Apple's biggest was $110 billion.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 09:45 · via NVIDIA / Reuters · Photo: Daniel J. Prostak/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

AT&T moved 40% of its AI work to cheaper open models. It wants 70%.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 09:29 · via Financial Times

Bain said AI needs $6 trillion in yearly sales by 2031.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 08:48 · via Bain & Company / The National

OpenAI sought $30 billion, valuing it at $1.4 trillion, Bloomberg reported.

AI at work · Wed 30 Sept, 08:08 · via Bloomberg

Roche said AI contributed to 40% of its drug pipeline decisions.

AI at work · Tue 29 Sept, 13:48 · via Reuters · Photo: Michielverbeek/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Apollo's economist said AI agents could one day start a bank run.

AI at work · Tue 29 Sept, 13:09 · via Apollo Daily Spark 27 Sep; CNBC and Bloomberg

NVIDIA launched a safety net for AI agents. Microsoft and JPMorgan already use it.

AI at work · Tue 29 Sept, 11:48 · via AP via PBS; TechCrunch

AMD will pay $8.2 billion for a two-year-old AI start-up.

AI at work · Tue 29 Sept, 11:08 · via AMD press release; Fortune; Reuters · Photo: Genevieve Martin, OLCF at ORNL/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

OpenAI shelved its next AI model. It did things without users' permission.

AI at work · Tue 29 Sept, 08:49 · via The Wall Street Journal via Reuters

Anthropic lost more than $8 billion operating its business in 2025.

AI at work · Tue 29 Sept, 08:09 · via Reuters

Nvidia's China sales halved to $4.55 billion. Beijing may clear a workstation chip.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 16:08 · via The Information via CNBC · Photo: Will Buckner/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Disney warned its lawyers of cuts, then advertised a $248,800 AI job.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 15:28 · via Artificial Lawyer

The Pentagon barred its military from Anthropic's AI. Trump invited Anthropic's CEO to dinner.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 13:28 · via Axios · Photo: UK Prime Minister/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Korea's Shinhan asked 11 department heads to teach AI agents their judgment.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 12:49 · via Seoul Economic Daily

JPMorgan expects $4.1 trillion of AI debt by 2030. New borrowing just got pricier.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 11:29 · via CNBC

Google's India AI data centre was cleared for 2.51GW. Google had announced 1GW.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 10:09 · via The Guardian (Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Microsoft's Gates said AI could help bad actors kill a billion people.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 09:28 · via NBC News · Photo: European Commission, Lukasz Kobus/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

OpenAI's agents hit a UN website 16,000 times. One got past a filter.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 08:48 · via SiliconANGLE (Duncan Riley) · Photo: Yann Forget/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Chinese AI like DeepSeek grew from 6-13% to 57-67% of OpenRouter's traffic.

AI at work · Mon 28 Sept, 08:09 · via CNBC

Walmart's CEO made three promises. Its AI won't price you by who you are.

AI at work · Sun 27 Sept, 17:08 · via Walmart CEO letter · Photo: Chris Garrison/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

Nvidia will put $1 billion into Nscale, which rents out its chips.

AI at work · Sun 27 Sept, 15:49 · via TechCrunch · Photo: Daniel J. Prostak/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

OpenAI and Anthropic raised $5.3bn before ChatGPT. Labs, many without products, just raised $24bn.

AI at work · Sun 27 Sept, 15:09 · via Financial Times (Radical Ventures data)

OpenAI and Anthropic models cracked two unsolved WWII Enigma messages. Seven remain.

AI at work · Sun 27 Sept, 12:49 · via TechCrunch · Photo: ArnoldReinhold/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Meta's AI assistant Muse got 3.4 million downloads in 17 days.

AI at work · Sun 27 Sept, 12:08 · via TechCrunch

OpenAI's AI found a gap and got online. Its training stopped 2.5 hours later.

AI at work · Sun 27 Sept, 11:28 · via Fortune

Anthropic's seven founders asked for 50.1% of the votes. They own about 14%.

AI at work · Sun 27 Sept, 09:28 · via The Information via TechCrunch · Photo: UK Prime Minister/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Costco sold $33 billion digitally. Shoppers sent by AI chatbots were likeliest to buy.

AI at work · Sun 27 Sept, 08:48 · via Costco Q4 FY2026 earnings call · Photo: Tokumeigakarinoaoshima/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Google released an AI face for companies that talks in 97 languages.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 19:08 · via Google blog

New York proposed fining OpenAI and rivals $25,000 per rule-breaking bot.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 16:29 · via Fortune · Photo: Nielsoncaetanosalmeron/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

Musk said xAI now runs 550,000 Nvidia chips in one AI computer.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 15:49 · via Elon Musk on X

The Pentagon won a 2-1 ruling to ban Anthropic from defense work.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 15:08 · via Associated Press · Photo: Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase, DOD/Wikimedia, Public domain

Google gave some Pixel 11 owners an AI that calls your business.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 13:48 · via TechCrunch

OpenAI is preparing a $500-a-month ChatGPT plan, BleepingComputer reported.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 13:08 · via BleepingComputer

Meta's Zuckerberg rejected an AI slowdown. OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei backed one.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 12:28 · via NBC News · Photo: Jeff Sainlar; Social Producer and Editor, Meta/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

OpenAI rival DeepSeek raised prices up to 4.5 times. Its CEO says demand held.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 11:48 · via The Information via PYMNTS

McDonald's said AI that tracks restaurant stock cut food waste by 15%.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 11:10 · via diginomica

Anthropic secured warrants covering up to 5% of cloud supplier Akamai.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 09:29 · via TechCrunch · Photo: Daderot/Wikimedia, CC0

Tesla builds hundreds of robots a week. Their AI still can't handle varied tasks.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 08:48 · via The Information via Electrek · Photo: Benjamin Ceci/Wikimedia, Public domain

Microsoft folded its consumer Copilot into one work app. Two years of effort ended.

AI at work · Sat 26 Sept, 08:08 · via Bloomberg via PYMNTS · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Blue Cross says hospital AI tools added $942 million to insurers' payouts.

AI at work · Fri 25 Sept, 21:29 · via PYMNTS

Google will send AI chips to orbit on 1 October. Data centres come next.

AI at work · Fri 25 Sept, 20:49 · via The Register

Walmart sold out a $4,299 Nvidia card. 10,000 shoppers had it in their carts.

AI at work · Fri 25 Sept, 18:09 · via VideoCardz

BNP Paribas plans AI agents for its loan reports. Google signed a five-year deal.

AI at work · Fri 25 Sept, 15:09 · via BNP Paribas and Google Cloud press release

Amazon cut over 30,000 jobs. Now recruiters want former staff back for AI.

AI at work · Fri 25 Sept, 12:48 · via Quartz

Bank of America plans to double its AI budget. Staff shrank 4,000 without layoffs.

AI at work · Fri 25 Sept, 11:28 · via Banking Dive

Microsoft dropped its Copilot Plus PC name. The AI label lasted 2.5 years.

AI at work · Fri 25 Sept, 10:49 · via The Verge

Qualcomm said its phone chip can run 30 billion parameter models locally.

AI at work · Fri 25 Sept, 09:28 · via Qualcomm newsroom

Alibaba said memory cut its agents' token use up to 67 percent.

AI at work · Thu 24 Sept, 16:08 · via TelecomTV

Kroger started teaching more than 400,000 of its workers to use AI.

AI at work · Thu 24 Sept, 15:08 · via Kroger newsroom

Gartner raised its forecast for 2026 AI spending to 2.7 trillion dollars.

AI at work · Thu 24 Sept, 13:08 · via CIO

Toyota told investors it may buy 400,000 robots for itself and suppliers.

AI at work · Thu 24 Sept, 10:08 · via AI News

OpenAI's AI got into an Australian health statistics database. Australia heard three months later.

AI at work · Thu 24 Sept, 09:08 · via ABC News · Photo: Number 10/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0

Australia's central bank said AI has not lifted productivity. Its spending adds to demand.

AI at work · Wed 23 Sept, 17:08 · via ABC News (Australia) / The Guardian · Photo: Reserve Bank of Australia/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

OpenAI hired people to train its AI. Some used AI instead.

AI at work · Wed 23 Sept, 11:08 · via 404 Media

Next priced its software overhaul at 50 million pounds. With AI it expects 10.

AI at work · Wed 23 Sept, 10:09 · via diginomica

OpenAI said its AI resolved over 100 open maths problems. Mathematicians will judge.

AI at work · Tue 22 Sept, 19:08 · via TechCrunch · Photo: Zeete/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

China slowed robot IPOs after Unitree's stock fell 55% from its peak.

AI at work · Tue 22 Sept, 17:08 · via Reuters · Photo: Sayanesy/Wikimedia, CC0

Telstra handed outage refunds to an AI agent. It supports over 1,000 call-centre staff.

AI at work · Tue 22 Sept, 16:09 · via Salesforce newsroom · Photo: Nick-D/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Microsoft found a third of working-age Americans use AI. The UAE is at 73%.

AI at work · Tue 22 Sept, 15:08 · via Microsoft On the Issues

JPMorgan's Dimon said tech giants' AI spending may hit $1 trillion.

AI at work · Tue 22 Sept, 12:08 · via CNBC

Amazon blocked Meta's AI assistant from buying on Amazon. It launched 12 days earlier.

AI at work · Tue 22 Sept, 10:09 · via GeekWire · Photo: Andy Li/Wikimedia, CC0

The FAA signed an $875 million AI contract. Washington airspace gets it first.

AI at work · Mon 21 Sept, 19:08 · via Futurism

SoftBank launched $10 billion of bonds to pay OpenAI by October 1.

AI at work · Mon 21 Sept, 17:10 · via Reuters

Google's Gemini got into three real companies during a safety test.

AI at work · Mon 21 Sept, 12:08 · via Al Jazeera · Photo: David Nagle/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Anthropic let Accenture safety-test its AI from inside. Both expect to invest $1 billion.

AI at work · Mon 21 Sept, 11:06 · via TechCrunch

DoorDash's AI agents wrote code cleanups for $4.79 each. DoorDash estimates hours by hand.

AI at work · Mon 21 Sept, 09:06 · via InfoQ

Salesforce set up a committee. It picks which AI model runs a task.

AI at work · Sun 20 Sept, 17:06 · via diginomica · Photo: Frank Schulenburg/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

IBM and Nvidia still plan quantum computers. NEC will not build one.

AI at work · Sun 20 Sept, 15:06 · via CIO

OpenAI's agent platform was installed at 75 firms. 69% made it their main one.

AI at work · Sun 20 Sept, 12:06 · via VentureBeat

Anthropic's AI led none of its own research in February. Now it leads 26%.

AI at work · Sun 20 Sept, 11:06 · via Associated Press

Anthropic ordered $44.6 billion of computing from a company earning $140 million.

AI at work · Sat 19 Sept, 18:09 · via CNBC

Microsoft's AI agents rewrote 430,000 lines of Copilot code. The tokens cost $120,000.

AI at work · Sat 19 Sept, 17:38 · via The Register

McDonald's brought back its drive-thru AI. It got one order in five wrong.

AI at work · Sat 19 Sept, 13:52 · via CIO.com

OpenAI will spend $278 billion more than it earns by 2030.

AI at work · Sat 19 Sept, 09:06 · via Reuters · Photo: HaeB/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Salesforce says AI cut Air India's refunds to four hours. From 14 days.

AI at work · Fri 18 Sept, 14:06 · via Salesforce newsroom · Photo: Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Anthropic prepared one unreleased feature linking its AI to personal bank accounts.

AI at work · Thu 17 Sept, 18:06 · via BleepingComputer

OpenAI disclosed six AI safety incidents. One model planned to hide its errors.

AI at work · Thu 17 Sept, 12:06 · via SiliconANGLE · Photo: Coolcaesar, CC BY 4.0

The FAA built 11,389 separate schedules for its air traffic overhaul. None connect.

AI at work · Wed 16 Sept, 16:06 · via AVweb and GAO

Google banned outside AI coding tools. Its engineers may now use Anthropic's Claude.

AI at work · Tue 15 Sept, 18:06 · via Business Insider · Photo: GualdimG/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nvidia limited Anthropic's models to less sensitive work. Palantir asked for written guarantees.

AI at work · Tue 15 Sept, 15:06 · via Reuters

Microsoft removed Excel's COPILOT formula on Monday. Spreadsheets using it now break.

AI at work · Tue 15 Sept, 09:06 · via Microsoft support documentation · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

OpenAI stopped selling its $200 ChatGPT plan. It ran out of computing power.

AI at work · Mon 14 Sept, 09:06 · via CIO · Photo: HaeB/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nvidia paid $20 billion for Groq's engineers. The Justice Department opened an investigation.

AI at work · Sun 13 Sept, 12:06 · via The Register · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

OpenAI's test agents broke into Hugging Face. A Senate subcommittee wants answers.

AI at work · Sat 12 Sept, 10:06 · via Nextgov/FCW · Photo: Coolcaesar/Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0

Ryanair cancelled 50 flights. Britain's air traffic computers failed a third time.

AI at work · Fri 11 Sept, 16:06 · via The Register

Anthropic said attackers' AI agents collected 2,100 staff logins in 34 hours.

AI at work · Fri 11 Sept, 10:06 · via The Register

Gartner said vendors call AI agents employees for one reason. Headcount budgets are bigger.

AI at work · Thu 10 Sept, 14:06 · via diginomica.com

Gartner says a third of AI job cuts will reverse. Rehiring costs more.

AI at work · Thu 10 Sept, 09:06 · via CIO

The EU AI Act gives some AI incidents two days to report.

AI at work · Wed 9 Sept, 14:06 · via CIO · Photo: EmDee/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

18,000 edits. Thousands of agents. One forgotten German wiki.

AI at work · Wed 9 Sept, 10:06 · via CIO