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Temporal's 2026 survey found 80.8% of engineers use AI agents daily, but Ness Digital Engineering found only 9-14% of companies have agentic AI in production. Here's why both numbers are true at once.
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Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent report claims a win over GPT-5.6 and Claude Opus 4.8, but the full nine-benchmark table is a 4-4-1 split, and the 27B model behind the headline scores has no public weights, API, or release yet.
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Microsoft just told its own engineers to stop maxing out AI token usage, capped spending at the division level, and switched its default model to something cheaper. Here's what's behind the memo.
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A Ninth Circuit ruling on Perplexity's Comet shopping agent answers a narrow but important question: when an AI agent acts on a website at your direction, is that you accessing the site, or the software?
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The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI model providers under Article 53 took effect August 2, 2026. Here's what it actually requires, and who has signed on.
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The Rust project's new LLM policy doesn't ban AI tools outright, but it does ban letting an LLM stand in as the author of code, comments, or documentation. Here's what changed and why.
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Anthropic just hired a former California Supreme Court justice as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, two months after a US export control order forced it to shut down its own flagship models overnight.
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OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model solved ten decades-old open problems in math and theoretical CS for roughly $2,000. Mathematicians are impressed by the proofs and skeptical of the framing.
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Claude Cowork now runs on Anthropic's servers instead of your local machine, meaning tasks survive a closed laptop and expand to web and mobile access.
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Claude Sonnet 5's introductory API pricing expires August 31, rising 50% on both input and output tokens. Here's exactly what changes and what to do before the deadline.
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The EU's AI Act transparency rules took effect August 2, requiring chatbots to disclose they're AI and deepfakes to be labeled. Here's what Article 50 actually covers, who it applies to, and how it compares to California's SB 942.
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