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Tools & Applications

GPT-6.1 Terra Explained: OpenAI's $1 Model That Claims to Match Its Flagship

OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 per million input tokens and claims to match its flagship on one benchmark at a tenth of the price. Here are the claims, the pricing and a reality check.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Reportedly Discounting Hard to Win Anthropic's Biggest Customers: What Is Verified

Reports say OpenAI is discounting heavily to win Anthropic's biggest customers. The 90% headline is one customer's cost cut, not a price list. Here is what is verified and what developers should do.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Models Are Coming to Google Cloud: What Is Confirmed and What Is Not

OpenAI's frontier models and Codex workflows are heading to Google Cloud's Model Garden, bought through Marketplace. It is a private preview for now, with general availability promised in the coming weeks.

27 Oct 2026 2 min read

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AI & Business

ChatGPT Ads Reach 89 Countries as OpenAI Adds Nigeria and South Africa

OpenAI has added 26 countries to ChatGPT Ads, including Nigeria and South Africa, and says more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns. Only 11 of the new markets are named.

27 Oct 2026 2 min read

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Tools & Applications

Canva Craft Explained: What Canva's First Image Model Does, Where to Find It and What It Means for Designers

Canva Craft is Canva's first in-house image model: 2K images, 30 aspect ratios, readable text and layered edits, free in Dream Lab and via the Canva API.

23 Oct 2026 5 min read

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AI & Business

Uber ChatGPT Work Rollout: All 30,000 Staff Get OpenAI's Agent After a 1,000-Person Pilot

Uber ChatGPT Work rollout: all 30,000 Uber staff now get OpenAI's workplace agent after a 1,000-person pilot in which 80% of early users were not engineers.

22 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI News

AI Shopping Agents Get a Front Door at Walmart While Amazon Keeps Them Out

Walmart's Agent Gateway lets approved AI shopping agents search and buy for you, with spending limits and separate profiles, while Amazon keeps agents blocked.

22 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Models on Google Cloud: What Changes for Developers and Businesses

OpenAI models on Google Cloud arrive in Model Garden within weeks, with Codex and existing spend commitments. Here is what builders and IT buyers should know.

21 Oct 2026 5 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Buys Orchestra Bio to Put AI Agents Inside Drug Development

OpenAI has bought Orchestra Bio, whose AI agents manage drug development programmes, and is folding the team into GPT-Rosalind and Rosalind Workbench.

21 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

Microsoft 365 E7 Gets Tools to Score, Restrict and Shut Down Rogue AI Agents

Microsoft 365 E7 is adding agent risk scores, approval gates and a kill switch for AI agents like Claude Code and Codex. Here is what IT teams get and when.

19 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI & Business

Anthropic Public Benefit Fund Gets 5% of the Company's Shares, With More Tied to Valuation

The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will hold 5% of the Claude maker's shares, pending stockholder approval, and can grow by 2% for every 50% rise in valuation.

19 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI & Business

Replit Makes OpenAI the Default for Replit Agent, Pushing Claude to an Option

Replit Agent now runs on OpenAI models by default. CEO Amjad Masad cites cost and performance, while Claude stays available as an option for users.

18 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI & Business

Anthropic Data Center Deal in Nova Scotia Is Its First in Canada

Anthropic has leased data center capacity from EverWind at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, its first Canadian deal, as its compute bill and IPO plans keep growing.

18 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

How Itaú Unibanco Is Building Customer-Facing Generative AI at Scale

Latin America’s largest private bank, Itaú Unibanco, is deploying a unified generative AI platform to serve its 70 million customers. By pairing AWS cloud architecture with strict internal governance, the institution is scaling digital-agent services while maintaining enterprise compliance and client trust.

17 Oct 2026 2 min read

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Tools & Applications

When AI Agents Negotiate: The Structural Vulnerabilities of Autonomous Delegation

A satirical experiment by creator Graham Dot Zip exposing the breakdown between an AI job candidate and an AI recruiter reveals deep risks in delegation. When autonomous bots hallucinate qualifications, undercut reservation prices, and commit without human approval, simple agentic workflows quickly become financial liabilities.

17 Oct 2026 2 min read

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