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Nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York on June 24, 2026, alleging that the companies copied millions of copyrighted articles to build and operate products including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or payment. The suit...

Americans are using AI chatbots at mainstream scale in 2026, with a new Pew Research Center survey finding that 49 percent of U.S. adults use tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Meta AI, Claude, Grok, or Character.ai. The striking part is not adoption alone; it is adoption without trust. The...

Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork, its enterprise agent for Microsoft 365 work, to usage-based billing as of its broader 2026 rollout, while reportedly considering an Azure-hosted, fine-tuned DeepSeek V4 option to lower model costs for customers. That is the immediate news, but the larger...

Microsoft’s blunt claim that Windows is “evolving into an agentic OS” is more than marketing puffery — it describes a deliberate platform redesign that elevates AI from an add‑on assistant to a first‑class system component that can reason, plan, and act across apps, files, and services on your...

Executives and institutional investors are betting big on AI’s near‑term payoff while large swathes of the public remain unconvinced — a widening trust gap that could determine whether corporate AI pilots turn into durable productivity gains or political and regulatory setbacks. Background Three...

Michael Parekh’s latest AI: Weekly Summary (RTZ #928) lands as quietly strategic reading: a short, observant roundup that stitches several converging threads — OpenAI’s expansion into search and memory, the rapid maturation of text‑to‑video engines, Google’s context‑window arms race, and the...

AI productivity tools have moved from novelty to necessity, and the OfficeChai roundup of the "21 Best Options" captures how these assistants now sit at the center of everyday workflows — drafting content, scheduling work, summarizing meetings, automating CRM updates, and even generating video...

A large-scale, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: mainstream AI assistants regularly misrepresent news in ways that matter, with roughly 45% of evaluated responses containing at least one...