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Walmart put a token allowance on its in-house coding AI News
Walmart replaced unlimited access to its in-house AI coding tool with a fixed per-employee token allotment, and its CTO says the reason is duplicated requests rather than the bill.
Amazon found cases of AI driving runaway spending on its own internal projects News
The Financial Times reports that Amazon engineers identified instances where AI tooling ran up unexpected bills on internal work, including a data-matching task that reached $1.8 million and went roughly 860% over budget before anyone noticed.
A $500 fine-tune of a 9B open model beat all five frontier models it was tested against News
A consultancy reinforcement-trained a 9-billion-parameter open model on a simulated product-catalog review workflow for about $500 of GPU time, and it outscored the best of five frontier configurations while costing $0.50 per thousand listings against $34.
OpenAI Launches Presence, an Enterprise Product for Voice and Chat Agents News
OpenAI released Presence, a high-touch enterprise product for deploying voice and chat agents, and said its own phone-support channel now resolves 75% of issues without a human.
IBM blames a rival AI model for its earnings miss News
IBM missed Q2 expectations and CEO Arvind Krishna named a competitor's frontier model as a cause, saying buyers are pausing cybersecurity deals until they know how much AI changes what security is worth.
Chinese open models now handle a third of US enterprise AI traffic News
US companies now route more than 30% of their AI tokens through Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek and GLM-5.2 every week since February, peaking near 46%, up from an 11% average the year before, according to CNBC's analysis of OpenRouter data.
Microsoft Starts a 2.5 Billion Dollar Company Just to Get Businesses Using AI News
Microsoft launched a new business called Frontier Company, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and staffed by roughly 6,000 people, whose sole job is deploying AI inside client organizations rather than just selling software or consulting on it.
OpenAI launches Daybreak, an AI that finds and patches security holes for you News
OpenAI's new cyber-defense program turns its models into an automated security team that prioritizes real threats, writes patches, and tests them, going head to head with Anthropic.
Uber reportedly burned through its whole 2026 AI coding budget in four months News
The clearest enterprise cost figure yet for AI coding agents: Uber's CTO is reported to have said the company exhausted its Claude Code budget in a third of the year.
Samsung Banned ChatGPT in 2023. Now It's Giving It to 125,000 Workers. News
After barring ChatGPT over a data leak three years ago, Samsung has reversed course and rolled OpenAI's enterprise tools out across its workforce -- a vivid sign that the corporate holdouts are capitulating.
Anthropic gives AI agents their own work accounts, not yours News
Anthropic's new 'agent identity' model lets Claude agents hold their own scoped accounts for tools like GitHub and Slack, tied to channels -- instead of borrowing a human employee's login.
Anthropic Gives Its AI Agents Their Own Logins, Not Yours News
As AI agents start working in teams alongside people, the old 'the bot acts as you' model breaks down. Anthropic's answer: give each agent its own scoped account in every system it touches.
A Coding AI Ran Through Uber's Yearly Budget in Four Months News
Uber gave Claude Code to about 5,000 engineers, who loved it. By April the company had burned through its entire 2026 AI budget, exposing how badly old software pricing fits new agent tools.
Claude Tag (agent identity access model) Tool
Anthropic's product for putting Claude to work in shared team channels, now with an access model that gives each agent its own scoped accounts in the systems it touches -- GitHub, Slack, a data warehouse -- instead of borrowing an individual user's permissions, so every action is bounded and audited.