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Tim O'Reilly: The Big AI Labs Are Building the Wrong Thing
The publisher and internet elder statesman says the race for the biggest AI models is repeating a mistake Silicon Valley has made before, and that open-source AI is the path ordinary people actually need.

xAI Launches Grok Bot: AI Agents That Log Into Your Apps and Do Your Work
Elon Musk's AI company is rolling out always-on software agents that can handle workplace tasks inside the tools you already use, from sales outreach to bug fixes, without you having to watch over them.

OpenAI Wants Business Customers to Pay $125 a Month for More ChatGPT Access
A new 'Business Premium' seat tier costs up to five times the price of a standard seat. Here is what you actually get, and whether it is worth it.

Free App Meetily Transcribes and Summarises Your Meetings Without Sending Data to the Cloud
Most AI meeting tools cost $10 to $20 a month and upload your conversations to someone else's servers. Meetily runs entirely on your own computer, for free, using open-source AI models.

Rippling Was Burning Millions on AI. So It Built a Tool to Stop It.
The HR software company discovered one engineer was spending $50,000 a month on AI tokens. Its new AI Spend Console is designed to make sure that never happens to you.

Suno Is Adding Watermarks to AI Music and Cutting Back on Free Downloads
The AI music platform wants to prove it can be a responsible player in the industry. Here is what is actually changing, and what it means if you use the service.

Elon Musk's AI Wikipedia Rival Grokipedia Hasn't Updated in Three Months
xAI launched Grokipedia with six million articles and big promises. Now it appears frozen, with no accepted edits since late April.

Reddit Is Replacing Its Old Moderation Bot With AI That Reads Intent, Not Just Keywords
A new tool called Rules Hub uses large language models to judge whether a post actually breaks a rule. Reddit plans to roll it out site-wide later this year.

Spotify's AI Remix Tool Just Got a Lot Bigger
Merlin, which speaks for more than 30,000 independent labels, has signed on to let fans make AI-generated covers and remixes of their artists' music, with pay and credit built in.

Hollywood Is Already Using AI. The Question Is Who Admits It.
From a showrunner ordering her writers to use ChatGPT to Netflix paying $587 million for Ben Affleck's AI startup, the entertainment industry's relationship with artificial intelligence is more complicated than the public debate suggests.

AWS Signs On With Vibe-Coding Startup Superblocks, and the Message to Big Tech Is Clear
Amazon Web Services is helping Superblocks bring 'vibe coding', the art of building apps by describing them in plain English, into the locked-down private clouds of major companies. It's a small deal with a loud signal.

Dili raises $21.7 million to use AI for the paperwork nightmare of America's construction boom
A startup called Dili has secured fresh funding to help infrastructure projects, think data centres and factories, stay on the right side of the overlapping federal rules that govern wages, safety and the environment.

Pangram raises $9 million to catch AI-written text and images before they fool you
A New York startup says its new detector is over 99% accurate at spotting AI-generated writing. Substack already uses it. Here is what that means for everyday readers.

Perplexity Lets You Build a Panel of AI Models to Debate Your Hardest Questions
The search company's Model Council feature now lets paying users pick up to eight AI models, have them tackle a question independently, then read a synthesis of where they agree and where they split.

Liquid AI releases two lean encoder models that read long documents fast, even on a laptop
LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M can scan an entire contract in under 30 seconds on ordinary computer hardware, no specialist chip required.