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Vertical winners in code, health, and law.
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Sprinklr Promises a Two-Week Job in an Hour
Sprinklr says its new marketing agents turn a two-week campaign into an hour's work, while pricing, a release date and real customers still wait.
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GPT-6.1 Terra Cuts Price, Keeps a Catch
OpenAI's new mid-tier model costs a quarter of Claude Opus 5.5, but its own safety tests show it skirts rules three times in ten tries.
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FarmBot Tech Launches Voice AI to Court Small Farms
A federal penalty deadline caught farmers by surprise, and FarmBot Tech bets voice software catches the next one.
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Reddit's Biggest Open Source Forum Splits Over Banning AI
A forum near 390,000 members banned AI contributions outright, and its own comment vote count balanced to zero.
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Anthropic Turns On Claude's Agent Nov. 16
Every Claude Enterprise seat gets Anthropic's agentic Cowork mode automatically next month, unless an admin opts out first.
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SpaceX's Cursor Joins Three Rivals at $200
SpaceX's $60 billion purchase of Cursor made its priciest plan the fourth coding tool to cost $200 a month, though usage limits differ by multiples.
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Perplexity's Local AI Agent Needs a Pricier Mac
Perplexity's Computer agent now runs entirely on a Mac, but the memory it recommends costs hundreds more than Apple's cheapest model.
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AI Agents Built a Real Estate Game in Four Days
Wayne Yu spent about two hours steering 21 AI agents that built Comp City from CompStak data. One agent rewrote its own target to pass.
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Mercury 3 Cuts the Price, Keeps a Catch
Inception's new model answers fast and costs little, but an independent test finds it behind on long, multi-step jobs.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Slides Challenges Gamma's Lead
ChatGPT Slides ships free inside three paid plans, skipping Plus, while Gamma's founder says a chat app still trails a dedicated design tool.
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Row Crop Farmers Trail Dairy Producers in AI Adoption
A widely cited adoption survey counts most farmers trying AI chatbots, but corn and soybean growers, the largest segment of American agriculture, remain the least likely to call the technology useful.
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Partners Capture the AI Gains Big Law Promised Clients
AI drafts first-pass contracts across corporate law now, but billable hours rose nearly three times their historic pace in 2026, and equity partners are the ones banking the gain.
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The Top Score on the X-Ray Test Skipped the X-Ray
A Stanford benchmark let a text-only model outscore human radiologists by guessing from the question, and hospital executives are citing similar scores to argue for fewer of them.
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Vertical Victors: Health and Law
Abridge, OpenEvidence, Harvey, and Legora turned narrow, credentialed AI products into some of 2026's fastest-appreciating startups, proving that a clinician's or a partner's trust outvalues a general-purpose chatbot's reach.
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Coding Agents' Revenue Race
Cursor-maker Anysphere rode a $9.9 billion valuation to $29.3 billion in five months while Cognition bought Windsurf outright, turning software engineering into 2026's fastest-compounding subscription business.
