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A joint OpenAI-Upwork study found that AI-related projects on Upwork combined more kinds of tasks and were associated with larger fixed-price budgets and longer hourly workloads, while the researchers cautioned that the results do not represent the wider labor market.

United Airlines is restricting unauthorized personal AI agents from booking and managing trips across its platforms, travel agencies and aggregators.

Apple researchers derived an exact reward-gain expression for an optimal KL-regularized alignment policy and found best-of-N closer to their estimated frontier than PPO or GRPO in two tested configurations.

Databricks plans three additional European cloud regions and more sovereign controls for Azure Databricks, but has set no firm delivery dates.

Aina opened preorders for a display-equipped smart ring that lets wearers review and approve AI-agent actions. Prices start at $399, with shipping targeted for early 2027.

Larridin raised a $30 million Series A led by Pelion Ventures to expand a platform that ties enterprise AI spending and adoption to workflow output.

Anthropic is rolling out Claude Meetings to Team and Enterprise customers, adding a visible AI participant to Google Meet calls with plan-specific controls.

Cohere completed its AISLE acquisition, making the security company the foundation of Cohere Cyber, and assigned the cubic team to build a secure-coding vertical.