OpenClaw – a viral software program that has captured the world’s imagination regarding the power of AI agents – is out with a major upgrade – OpenClaw 2.0.

The multi-tasking AI app can be used by writers, for example, to complete a number of steps in a highly complex research, writing and editing project – all without human intervention.

The free tool is considered revolutionary by many AI insiders – but needs to be used carefully, lest the app starts making too many decisions on its own.

There’s also a new demo/tutorial out on OpenClaw 2.0.

OpenClaw 2.0 is open source software (free for download) and can be run on an everyday laptop.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Gets More Competition From Meta: Facebook parent Meta has rolled out an array of new paid AI tools designed to compete with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and similar.

Dubbed “Meta One,” the AI tools are designed to work with one or more Meta platforms – such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, starting at $2.99/month and scaling to $499/month.

Moreover, a special set of tools specifically designed for business-oriented creators is also available under the Meta One umbrella.

*Special-Use AI Models Take-Off: AI models trained for use by specific industries are growing in popularity, as increasing numbers of businesses gravitate to AI that ‘gets them.’

Thomson Reuters, for example, has developed its own AI model tweaked for law and tax professionals.

And Salesforce has released its own model Koa, designed for pros working in sales, marketing and customer support.

Meanwhile, Anthropic just rolled-out Claude for Financial Advisors.

*Script-to-Video-App – Complete With AI Spokesperson — Scores High on G2: AI video-maker Synthesia is a hit with G2 – a software rating site – where 2,000+ users have given the app 4.7 out of 5 stars.

Businesses use the app by selecting a photo-realistic AI spokesperson, adding a video script and watching Synthesia deliver the finished video in 20-minutes-or-less.

You can also go back and play with Synthesia’s editing tools if you want a more customized result.

*New Pew Study: Globally, Many People Equate AI With Job Loss: As the shadow of AI looms ever-larger across the globe, increasing numbers of people fear the spread of AI will lead to fewer jobs.

Observes lead writer Laura Silver: “In 34 of 37 countries Pew Research Center surveyed earlier this year, people tend to believe AI will lead to fewer jobs rather than more jobs.”

A real eye-opener from the study: An easy-to-read chart showing AI fear – expressed as a percentage – in each of the 37 countries surveyed.

*AI Marketing Conference Slated for Oct. 13-15: Sign-up for MAICON 2026 – an AI conference designed for marketers and business leaders – is open.

The meeting focuses on how enterprise and mid-market marketing teams are implementing AI across strategy, operations, content, analytics and customer experience.

Scheduled speakers include Andrew Yang, AI expert and former presidential candidate and Karen Hao, author, “Empire of AI.”

*HubSpot Drops New Guide on AI in Marketing: A new primer from HubSpot – “The Future of AI in Marketing” – is free for download for any marketer looking to make a quick study on AI and marketing.

Hubspot is known for putting out quality, extremely useful guides that are devoid of fluff.

*AI Chip Juggernaut Nvidia: Leave AI Safety to Us: Pushing back against growing calls for strict government regulation on the development of AI, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang insists the AI industry can police itself.

Observes writer Julie Bort: “Huang sees little need for new laws at all. The free market, he argues, will be enough to pressure companies not to release unsafe products.”

*Microsoft AI Promises Self-Regulation: While AI titans like Google and OpenAI are begging U.S. legislators to regulate them, Microsoft is already promising to self-regulate.

A major player in AI, the software giant has published a draft code of conduct, featuring its own, self-imposed guardrails that will be used for the development of Microsoft AI.

Observes writer Jeffrey Dastin: “The code of conduct represents a constitution of sorts for future models made by the company.”

*China’s Response to AI Regulation: No Thanks: AI regulation advocates have received a ‘hard pass’ from China on the idea of imposing strict regulations to ensure the safe development of AI – at least the kind of regulation proposed by OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI.

For many, a China embrace of global AI regs is the only way such regulation will work.

Otherwise, a regulated U.S. and its allies would essentially be handing unregulated China the keys to the AI kingdom.

Observes an editorial in the “China Daily:” “The proposed coordination among the three companies (OpenAI, Antrhopic and SpaceXAI) sounds rather like a club whose membership rules have been drafted before the guest list is announced.

“Tellingly, David Sacks — who co-chairs the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — warned the three U.S. companies to stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel.”

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Writers regularly supplementing their work with images will want to check-out the latest upgrade from OpenAI: ChatGPT Images 2.5.

The revamped tool – which comes free with ChatGPT — is promising images with sharper details, more precise editing and better features for creating and sharing.

OpenAI is also promising that the upgrade will be better at staying consistent as you continually re-edit the same image to your precise specifications.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Demand Overload: $200/Month ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions Put on Hold: Demand for ChatGPT’s high-end Pro subscription has been so intense, maker OpenAI has temporarily put the brakes on new subscriptions.

Driving the subscriptions mania is the promise of extensive access to ChatGPT’s most recent upgrade, ChatGPT Astra GPT-6.

Observes Thibault Sottiaux, a product leader at OpenAI: “Demand for Astra is really unprecedented. We’re pulling all the levers possible to sustain the demand, but I’ve not seen anything like it until now.”

*Now Available: Gemini on the Windows Desktop: Avid users of Gemini can now download access to the AI as a Windows app – ensuring it will be nice and close when working on the desktop.

Once installed, you can open-up Gemini in any app you’re using in Windows simply by typing Alt + Space.

*The Solution to 30 Headlines Barking About the Same News Story: News junkies using AI agents to monitor news may want to check-out a new monitoring service that condenses 30 stories on the same news event into one.

Dubbed NewsMCP, the tool changes the unit of retrieval by grouping every news outlet covering the same story into a single event with citations, so your AI news agent reads only one record of the story – instead of 30.

NewsMCP is available now at newsmcp.com, with a browser-based playground that requires no account and features a one-step setup for Claude Code and Cursor.

*Meta’s New Muse: AI Agent for the Everyman?: Facebook parent Meta is pushing its new Muse AI agent as the ninja digital task handler for everyone.

Like most AI agents, Muse can interact with Web sites and work with everyday software without the need for human babysitting or intervention.

Observes writer Eli Tan: “Muse can be spoken to as if it were a chatbot and instructed to send emails, book travel reservations, make online purchases and do more through an app or through WhatsApp, which Meta owns, the company said. Muse also connects to Meta’s other apps, like Instagram and Facebook, to learn more about its user. And it can be linked to third-party apps like Spotify, Ticketmaster, Shopify, Gmail and OpenTable.”

*Another AI Researcher Bails From the Industry: Citing fears humanity appears to be racing towards the loss of control of AI, AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit ChatGPT-competitor Anthropic.

The move triggered a wave of AI warning news alerts across mainstream media.

Observes writer Amrith Ramkumar: “Coxon, Pachocki and Amodei joined more than 1,000 AI researchers across the industry who recently signed a statement urging global government coordination on a system to slow AI development if a brake pedal is needed to control models capable of improving on their own.”

*Trump Holds Fast to ‘Easy Does It’ AI Regulation: Despite heightened concerns over the pace of AI’s evolution, U.S. President Donald Trump still asserts those worries must be tempered by another hard truth: If the U.S. puts the brakes on AI development, China will almost certainly speed ahead and become the world’s AI leader.

Many Democrats disagree.

Observes lead writer James Romoser: “Former President Barack Obama at a private fundraiser Thursday urged Democrats to develop a strategy with sensible guardrails to maximize the benefits of AI and prevent catastrophe.”

*G20 Backs Trump’s ‘Let’s Go Light’ on AI Regulations: All members of the G20 – including China and Russia – agree that for AI to flourish, regulations on the industry need to remain minimal.

Observes writer Aminu Abdullahi: “SpaceX Chief Elon Musk likewise claimed stringent interventions would handicap progress, arguing AI could expand the global economy by 20%-30%.”

Members of the G20 – representing some of the most influential countries on the planet – are the United States, European Union, China, Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, India, Canada, Mexico, France, African Union, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey.

*Banking Giant: All New Junior Bankers Must Have AI Chops: Swiss investment giant UBS has issued a simple directive: Be sure to have AI skills, or don’t try to work as a junior banker here.

Observes writer Craig Hale: “As part of the new requirement, recruits will need to be able to demonstrate that they can use and experiment with AI responsibly to improve business outcomes – not just that they can use popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT.”

*Boo Hoo: AI Killed Kenya’s Essay Writing Industry: Apparently, there are some – including writer John Naughton – who believe we should all bemoan the death of the Kenyan college essay writing industry — triggered by the advent of AI.

Really? Gently hand all those teary-eyed scammers – who helped college kids cheat their way through college – a Kleenex to blow into?

What’s next: Free coffee and doughnuts for your local mugger?

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Many companies are cracking down on the bland, ‘too-many-words-is-never-enough’ writing often produced by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and similar AI engines.

Apparently, workers are hedging their bets with AI by drowning their colleagues in seas of text that are more often churned-out to impress and perplex – rather than to simply communicate an idea or message.

The problem has grown worse since the advent of ChatGPT-5, which was deliberately designed to spew-out bland, overly cautious prose.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*The Solution to Bloated AI Writing: Open Source AI: Increasing numbers of pros – especially those involved in marketing, sales, advertising and other roles requiring lots of text – are turning to Open Source AI.

The reason: Many of these AI models – available for use in the cloud or via download to a company’s IT system – can be prompted to produce extremely creative, captivating and compelling writing.

For a deep look into the revolt against bland AI writing, check-out: “Don’t Pay for Beige Prose,” by Joe Dysart.

*Corporate America Getting Hooked on Open Source AI: Major U.S. companies – like AT&T, Airbnb and Deloitte – are increasingly turning to Open Source AI, given that it’s much less expensive than alternatives offered by U.S. titans.

Nvidia – the AI chipmaker often considered the epicenter of the AI revolution – thinks the trend is so important, it just purchased a well-known library of hundreds of Open Source AI alternatives for $12.9 billion.

Observes writer Eli Tan: “Many of the most popular open AI models are made by Chinese companies like Moonshot AI, DeepSeek and Alibaba.”

*OpenAI Rolling-Out ChatGPT-6 Upgrade This Week: ChatGPT’s latest version – also known as Astra – will be showing up this week in paid AI plans from OpenAI, including Pro, Plus, Enterprise and Business.

Businesses accessing the company’s AI by directly tapping into OpenAI servers will also see access this week.

For a deep dive into Astra, check-out the OpenAI-authored, “Path to Astra,” and also another, excellent, in-depth look, “GPT-6 Astra: Everything You Need to Know.”

*ChatGPT Competitor Anthropic Releases Upgrades: Anthropic has launched upgrades to two of its popular AI engines – Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1.

Mythos 5.1, which can be used to uncover security holes in everyday software platforms, was released as a restricted-use product — currently available to only select cybersecurity firms and life-sciences organizations.

Observes writer Carl Franzen: “Anthropic is simultaneously changing the economics of running persistent agents — reducing the cost of cached context by 75%.”

*Facebook’s Parent Meta Releases Nearly As Good AI: Determined to be a contender among bleeding-edge AI titans like ChatGPT and Gemini, Meta has released its most sophisticated AI to date, Muse Spark 1.3.

Specifically, Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, rates Spark as competitive with Claude Fable 5.1 and better in some ways than ChatGPT-5.6 – although ChatGPT-6 has since been released.

*New AI Offers Great Data Security Protection: Perplexity is out with new, agent-powered AI designed to keep the company data of users very secure.

The system does this by using smaller AI models — hosted on in-house computers of users — for work requiring company data, while sourcing cloud-based AI models for work requiring more intense AI thinking.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “The company says it is the first time an AI agent can begin a task in the cloud and dynamically hand-off the confidential portions of that same task to a model running on the user’s own hardware, without restarting the job or losing context.”

*New York City Bans AI in Grades K-8: In a bold move designed to evaluate the impact of AI on education, New York City has banned use of the tech in grades K-8.

Observes writer Joseph De Avila: “The new policy bans student-facing AI usage from preschool through eighth grade, covering about 600,000 students in the nation’s largest public school system.

“The city is also developing AI literacy classes for high-school students to teach them how the technology works — and educate them on its risks, ethical considerations and how it could have an impact on careers.”

*15% of Large Firm Lawyers Now Dependent on AI: Following trends in other industries heavily reliant on text, 15% of attorneys at large law firms say they can’t do without AI.

Observes Artificial Lawyer: “Moreover, 34% of the 500-plus lawyers surveyed said that they used AI tools for legal work every day, and 32% multiple times per week.”

“So: Around two-thirds of lawyers are really using AI frequently.”

*South Korea: Everyone Gets AI Free: In a move that will give the South Korean government more control over how AI is accessed in that country, everyone who lives in South Korea will be getting free access to government-hosted AI.

Observes writer Sky Jacobs: “The initiative is part of South Korea’s effort to build a stronger domestic AI industry and reduce its reliance on systems developed in the U.S. and China.”

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We’re Happy to Add Your Byline to AI-Generated Writing

In a move considered unimaginable a just few years ago, the Wall Street Journal is now totally cool with opinion writers who write using AI – then slap their bylines on top.

The Journal’s reasoning: As long as the writing ‘reflects’ the author’s point-of-view, it’s perfectly okay to let the AI do the writing – and also hide the fact from readers, according to Paul Gigot, opinion editor, Wall Street Journal.

Next up: Artists who sign paintings as their own as long as the painting ‘reflects their sensibility.’

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*One Writer’s Take: I’m Begging You: Never Write With AI: Apparently, so many people are writing with AI these days, some pro writers – like Bret Stephens – are begging people to stop it.

Observes Stephens: “The problem with writing with AI is that it’s mentally enfeebling — an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs.

“As it becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create — and everyone’s reason to care.”

*Custom AI Writing Just Got a Boost: Startup Deep Cogito is promising to develop custom AI models that companies will own outright – and have tweaked to their specific needs.

Such custom AI engines will be a boon to businesses bored with the bland AI writing coming from ChatGPT, Gemini and similar – and are looking for something much snappier and much more creative.

Deep Cogito will be able to customize AI models by using Open Source AI software – much of which comes from China.

*ChatGPT Still Rated Number One AI Writer/Researcher: Nearly four years after triggering the AI revolution, ChatGPT is still considered the best AI for overall writing and research, according to Agentarius.ai.

Observes Agentarius.ai: “For writing and research, the strongest pick is ChatGPT: Drafting, editing, summarizing and research assistance in one place, free tier included.

“Claude is the stronger writer for long, careful prose; Perplexity cites its sources as it searches; Grammarly is strongest at polishing what you already wrote — though it can draft too.”

*Cisco: All 90,000 Employees Get Their Own AI Agent: In another high-profile move spotlighting the rise of AI agents, tech company Cisco just gave every single one of its employees an AI agent of their own.

Observes writer Belle Lin: “At Cisco, the decision to give every employee an AI agent was driven by the need to consolidate the AI tools it used inside the company.

“The company then expanded its agent rollout to encourage employees to use AI to get everyday tasks done.”

*Microsoft Mulls Adding Chinese AI to Its Ecosystem: Microsoft, Google and Amazon are all considering adding Chinese AI to the AI mix they serve-up to customers.

Chinese AI – generally based on inexpensive, Open Source AI — has been growing in popularity this year as heavy users look for cheaper alternatives to AI from OpenAI, Google and Meta.

One fly in the ointment: The Trump Administration prefers U.S. companies to use U.S.-made AI – rather than AI made in communist China.

*McKinsey Study: 80% of Workers Say AI Boosts Their Productivity: A new McKinsey survey finds that 80% of workers say AI has been a boon to getting things done.

Plus, another 50% say AI is helping them make better decisions.

Observes lead writer Dan Tinkoff: “As we have seen in previous years, AI deployment by larger organizations continues to outpace deployment by smaller organizations.

“54% of respondents from organizations with at least $1 billion in annual revenue report scaling AI across the enterprise — compared with 33% of those from smaller organizations.”

*Study: AI Now Writing a Third of All New Web Content: Looks like those predictions of AI taking over the Web are coming true.

A full third of all new writing on the Web now comes from AI, according to the American Pew Research Center.

Currently, that AI writing is used most prevalently on .Com Web sites, according to Pew.

*AI Gone Rogue: The Complete Scorecard: Apparently, AI has gone rogue so often these past few months – breaking into Web sites, playing with other people’s data, making mincemeat of guardrails – that TechCrunch decided to chronicle all known rogue events.

The upshot: So far, there are 17 documented events of AI reaching out onto the Web without permission from mere fleshbags.

Observes writer Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: “Anthropic and OpenAI models lead the race with eight incidents each — and Meta trails behind with one.”

*Microsoft’s Bill Gates: There is No Plan for AI: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has joined the ranks of technophiles who believe the AI revolution has gone off the rails.

Essentially, Gates fears companies are charging ahead with unbridled development of AI with no regard to the massive upheaval many fear it will trigger.

Observes Gates to U.S. legislators: “You have a chance to act now, before unemployment rises sharply, communities are hurting and public trust has eroded.”

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New Chinese AI – free for download – can be run on a consumer-grade laptop and is rated nearly as powerful as ChatGPT and similar ‘bleeding edge’ AI.

The development represents an incredible breakthrough for writers – many of whom are looking for AI that writes much more creatively than the currently bland, ‘corporate voice,’ cloud-based offerings like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

Dubbed Qwen 3.8-27B, the new Open Source AI can be downloaded and run for free on a laptop that sports as little as 17GB RAM.

Essentially, writers with powerful laptops can try-out Qwen using their favorite prompts for creative writing – and then decide if Qwen makes the grade.

The long-term bonus: Even if this version of Qwen is not creative enough for you, the mere fact that AI of such power can now be run on a consumer-grade laptop indicates similarly powerful Open Source AI from other developers will soon be coming to powerful laptops.

Even better: Offering a highly creative writing alternative to corporate-voice AI is already child’s play for many AI developers.

The reason: ChatGPT-4o, released way back in May 2024 — but ‘retired’ by maker OpenAI in favor of AI that writes in a bland voice — is considered the pinnacle of AI creative writing by many writers.

Achieving that level of AI – available since May 2024 – is something most competitive, Open Source AI makers these days can whip-up in their sleep.

Bottom line: If you’re looking to download and try this version of Qwen on your laptop or similar, check-out LM Studio. Even if you’re a novice, you should be able to download the AI and get it running on your computer with just a bit of effort.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Google Offers College Students the World Over Free Year of Premium AI: In the Age of AI, there apparently is such a thing as a free lunch.

Google has announced college students in 140 markets worldwide are eligible for free access to its premium AI for a year.

U.S. students get the best deal – 12 months of access to Google AI Pro – while students in other countries get free access to the less generous Google AI Plus.

*‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Rolls-Out: Responding to parental concerns that ChatGPT may be too intense for teenagers, maker OpenAI now has a special teen version of its AI.

Observes writer Cecilia Kang: “The chatbot will limit high-risk conversations that involve self-harm, violence, eating disorders and explicit sexual and graphic content.

“In some cases, ChatGPT will alert adults who have opted-in to parental controls and notifications. And the mode will strengthen protections that prevent the chatbot from suggesting it has personal feelings.”

*Now You Can Add Your Favorite News Sources to Google Search: Writers and others who use Google Search regularly can now instruct the tool to seek out their favorite news source on any search.

Dubbed ‘Preferred Sources,’ the new feature works when you look for a topic in the news, click on the ‘Top Stories’ icon, search for preferred news sources — then select the sources you want.

Observes writer Duncan Osborn: “Once you select your sources, they will appear more frequently in Top Stories or in a dedicated ‘From your sources’ section on the search results page.”

*Google Now Auto-Transcribes Face-to-Face Meetings: Gemini-powered Google Meet is now able to record, transcribe and summarize the kind of meetings people used to have before nternet, video cameras and Zoom became a thing.

Observes TechRepublic: “Gemini turns the conversation into a Google Doc, with a summary and action items.”

One caveat: The AI-generated summaries may not be entirely accurate.

*Google’s Open Source AI Passes One Billion Downloads: Google’s answer to free Chinese AI – Gemma – has been downloaded more than a billion times.

Equally eyebrow-raising: More than 100,000 versions of Gemma have been created by AI developers, who have tweaked the free-to-use AI to their personal specifications.

Not bad — but no cigar.

According to writer Ana Maria Constantin, a Chinese competitor to Google says its Qwen Open Source AI has been downloaded three billion times.

Ouch.

*Social Network Reddit Auto-Converting Text Posts to Videos: Reddit – known as the social network for thinking people – is testing the idea of transforming some posts on the network into YouTube-like videos.

Observes writer Amanda Yeo: “The feature hopes to capitalize on the popularity of videos that read Reddit posts aloud.

“The original text posts and comments will still be available in their usual format, allowing you to choose whether to read or listen to the content.”

*Nvidia Earmarks $6 Billion to Combat Chinese AI: Powerhouse AI chipmaker NVidia plans to drop $6 billion to develop Open Source AI to compete with similar AI made in China.

Ever since the advent of Chinese Open Source AI DeepSeek, the U.S. has been wary of the Open Source AI genre, which is free for download, free to use — and nearly as good as ‘bleeding edge’ U.S. AI.

Observes writer Robbie Whelan: “The failure of U.S. AI labs to give priority to open-source models has created concerns that businesses and countries around the world will turn to Chinese open-weight models instead.”

*U.S. to Allies: Choose Between U.S. AI – or Chinese AI – Now: In yet another indication of the gravity of who ultimately controls AI, the Trump Administration will soon ask 35 allies to choose between using its U.S. AI ecosystem – or its Chinese competitor.

Observes writer Ana-Maria Stanciuc: “Belonging to both is no longer an option.

“Roughly two dozen nations have joined so far, including Japan, Australia and South Korea.”

*AI Big Picture: ChatGPT-Maker Launches New Blog, ‘AI Futures:’ OpenAI is out with a new blog focusing exclusively on how a free society should adapt to the advent of AI.

Observes writer Dean Ball: “The structural challenge posed by advanced machine intelligence to free society is likely not the most radical decentralization of power imaginable.

“Instead, it is seeking to establish and preserve the right balance of power, such that no single actor, or small set of actors, can dominate the rest.”

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Hugging Face — a key repository that offers AI free for download — reports that 41% of all free AI models are now from Chinese AI labs, a widespread adoption that concerns U.S. leaders

Observes Clement Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face: “They’re clearly dominating on open models right now — and I wouldn’t be surprised if they start dominating at the frontier either by the end of this year or next year at the rate of progress.”

That rapid adoption of Chinese-generated AI concerns the Trump Administration, which is dead-set on ensuring American AI remains the number one choice for AI in the world.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Alternative Prompting: Sometimes, Simply ‘Talking At’ ChatGPT Works Best: Writer Eric Hal Schwartz has discovered that simply talking to ChatGPT for several minutes using ChatGPT Voice sometimes beats trying to prompt the AI with a highly edited written prompt.

Observes Schwartz: “The biggest lesson for me was that my carefully written prompts may have been removing useful information all along. When I edit myself before asking ChatGPT something, I naturally cut out the contradictions or any unfinished thoughts.

“Those are often exactly the details that explain what I really want.”

*AI-Generated Books Wreaking Havoc on Publishing Industry: Scores of major book deals – sometimes in the multimillions – are being killed after it’s discovered that AI was used to write at least some of the prose.

Observes writer Anna Silman: “The spectacular implosions of big book deals over suspected AI use—and fears about who might be next—are forcing a reckoning over the nature of authorship, the relationship between writers and publishers and the industry’s long-term survival.

“But nobody can seem to agree who exactly is responsible for solving this problem, or even how much of a problem it actually is.”

*These Days, U.S. Laws Are Often Written By AI: Writer Victor Tangermann reports that Congressional staffers are increasingly leaning on AI to write laws that are often ultimately signed by President Donald Trump.

Observes Tangermann: “Employees in both the House and the Senate are making liberal use of the tools, a terrifying new reality that could result in nonsensical language and hallucinations to slip into anything from congressional speeches to emails to laws themselves.”

*ChatGPT Rolls-Out ‘Premium Business Tier’ for Heavy Users at $125/Month: Business users who spend a great deal of time working with ChatGPT may want to check-out ChatGPT’s new Premium Business tier, which eliminates the five-hour usage limit currently in place for ChatGPT Plus users.

Observes writer Vlad Schepkov: “OpenAI said the new tier responds to requests from ChatGPT Business customers seeking expanded capacity for tasks including inventory management, marketing campaign development, business performance analysis, customer experience improvements, and product development.”

*New AI Agent Workspace Designed for Marketing Writers: Ahrefs has launched a new AI agent-powered workspace for writers –- dubbed Letaido — designed to handle research, reporting and monitoring for busy marketing departments.

Observes writer Duncan Riley: “Teams can hand agents multi-step jobs, schedule recurring workflows, build dashboards and reports and set up continuous monitoring of their own sites and their competitors.

“A visual interface shows outputs as agents produce them, so more than one person can review and refine the same piece of work.”

*U.S. AI Titans Release Open Source AI Models to Compete with China: Stock market darling Nvidia and Facebook parent Meta have both released new AI models that any company or organization can run for free on their own computers.

Observes writer Jonathan Vanian: “Both companies still have to prove there’s an audience for their offerings in a market featuring popular models from Chinese AI labs like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, as well as Alibaba’s Qwen.”

Meta’s free AI model is dubbed ‘Muse Glimmer.’ Nvidia’s alternative is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.

*Key Player in Chinese AI – DeepSeek – Jacks-Up Prices: One of the most prominent players in Chinese AI has increased prices by 50% for businesses looking to work with that AI be linking to the provider’s AI computer network.

Specifically, that price hike is limited to use of DeepSeek’s most advanced AI models – DeepSeek V4-Pro and DeepSeek V4-Flash.

Also part of the pricing change will be peak pricing and off-peak pricing.

*Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Rolls-Out Formidable Grok 4.6: Determined to remain a serious contender in U.S. bleeding edge or ‘frontier AI,’ Elon Musk is out with an upgrade to his Grok AI model.

Benchmark tests of the AI confirm that Grok 4.6 beats a top Chinese AI model – Kimi K3 – and ties OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol in performance, according to writer Carl Franzen.

Adds Franzen: “SpaceXAI describes Grok 4.6 as being built specifically to stay on task across longer sequences of work, including researching unfamiliar topics, analyzing information, navigating code-bases and converting product ideas into working applications.”

*New AI Auto-Generates Highly Personalized Business Emails: Seamless.AI is out with an auto-email generator that draws on a number of company databases to write highly personalized emails.

Key features of the app include the ability to:

–Research hard-to-find contact data
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A new survey finds that short story fiction written by AI is preferred over the same genre of fiction written by humans.

Observes writer Nicola Davis: “Participants who read an AI-generated story rated it as more absorbing and of higher quality than those who read a story written by a human.”

All told, 1,682 adults were asked to read six short stories for the study – three stories written by AI and three stories written by humans.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Now Offers Unlimited Free Text Chat: In a hard-to-beat bargain, everyone now has access to unlimited free text chat on ChatGPT – albeit, on a less-than-bleeding edge version of the popular AI.

Essentially, ChatGPT Free and ChatGPT Go users can now text chat forever using GPT-5.6 Luna – which is not as smart as GPT-5.6 Sol, currently the smartest AI from ChatGPT.

Observes AzerNews: “The unlimited access will apply only to text-based conversations. Separate usage limits will remain in place for file uploads and processing, image and voice features, as well as AI-powered image generation.”

*Recent Rogue AI Break-Ins Attributed to Israeli Testing Firm: Turns out, a testing firm is responsible for experimental AI software from ChatGPT’s maker that broke into the Hugging Face Web site.

Even worse: AI testing by the same firm – Irregular – also triggered similar rogue activity from experimental AI software under testing from Facebook parent Meta and Anthropic.

For many, the concept of rogue AI roaming the Web and breaking into to Web sites blurs the line between sci-fi fantasy and everyday reality.

*Surprise, Surprise: AI Creator ‘Canva’ Number Two AI Web Site in the World: Despite all the press for AI sites like Gemini and Claude, turns out Canva – specializing in AI-powered digital design – is the Number Two most visited AI site on the planet.

Specifically, Canva attracted 10.5 billion Web site visits between May 2025 and April 2026.

ChatGPT – the Number One AI juggernaut – attracted 64.7 billion visits during the same period.

*‘Adobe for ChatGPT’ Plugin Now Available: ChatGPT-lovers who would rather work in the ChatGPT interface – rather than switch to work with Adobe tools – now have a plugin for that.

Designed to integrate with ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Codex, the plugin puts 70+ Adobe tools at your fingertips when you’re working with ChatGPT, including Acrobat, Photoshop, Premiere and Illustrator.

Observes Adobe spokesperson Deepti Pradeep: “Simply activate the Adobe plugin, describe what you want to create, and it automatically brings together the right Adobe tools behind the scenes to get you there.”

*6% of Fast Food Drive-Thrus Now Use AI: Despite a shaky start, fast food joints are increasingly using AI voice-bots to take orders at drive-thrus.

Observes writer Kate Taylor: “For most of these customers, the first AI order comes as a surprise one to be filmed and posted on TikTok or Snapchat.”

*ChatGPT Abandons its AI Browser ‘Atlas:’ OpenAI’s dream to popularize a Web browser driven by AI is officially on the scrap heap.

The company officially pulled the plug on Atlas August 9, 2026.

Observes writer Vikhyaat Vivek: “OpenAI added that the lessons learned from Atlas are informing a more capable browser experience inside ChatGPT. The new desktop app supports features including multiple tabs, downloads, improved navigation, account logins, and more involved agent-led browsing where available.”

*With ChatGPT, Workers Are Dabbling With Multiple Job Roles: A new study from ChatGPT’s maker finds the AI tool is emboldening workers to take on tasks normally reserved for people in other departments.

Specifically, the study found that 44% of occupation-specific messages posted to ChatGPT are from people in one occupation, asking about information associated with another profession.

Observes the OpenAI blog: “A small-business owner can independently draft copy, review a contract, or perform basic financial analysis. A salesperson can use AI to explore a customer dataset that might once have gone to an analyst. A marketer can troubleshoot a website without waiting for a developer. In each case, AI changes not just how work gets done, but who does what.”

*ChatGPT Now offers Unlimited Free Chat: In a hard-to-beat bargain, everyone now has access to unlimited free text chat on ChatGPT — albeit, on a less-than-bleeding-edge version of the popular Ai.

Essentially ChatGPT Free and ChatGPT Go users can now use ChatGPT text chat without limits on GPT-5.6 Luna — which is not as smart as GPT-5.6 Sol, currently the smartest AI from ChatGPT.

Observes AzerNews: “The unlimited access will apply only to text-based conversations. Separate usage limits will remain in place for file uploads and processing, image and voice features, as well as AI-powered image generation.”

*Experimental AI Law Lab Opens in New York City: Legal intelligence provider LexisNexis has opened an experimental lab where AI programmers and legal experts can meet to develop and experiment with new AI-powered legal tools.

Observes Bob Ambrogi: “Rather than developing AI capabilities internally and asking customers to validate them after the fact, the lab brings customers into a working session, where LexisNexis engineers build against their specific pain points in real time.”

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OpenAI has slashed the price of one of its most powerful AI engines –GPT-5.6 Luna – by 80%.

The move is seen by many as OpenAI’s attempt to compete with Chinese-made AI, which is viewed as nearly as good as U.S. AI – and often available for pennies-on-the-dollar.

The reduced price for Luna is available to users who access OpenAI’s servers directly from their computers – rather than to users who work with AI via ChatGPT.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*China’s Nearly as Good AI – Kimi 3 – Now Available for Free Download: Researchers and other organizations with gigantic computer systems can now download OpenSource software Kimi 3 and experiment with it freely.

That ability to play with and customize Kimi 3 at no charge helps keep the pricing down on AI from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, which don’t offer such free access to researchers.

Observes Bloomberg News: “Made-in-China AI models have surged in global popularity in recent times — led by DeepSeek — as they offer more affordable rates and comparable performance to U.S. offerings.”

*Amazon: The Pay-Off for AI Investment is Real: Amazon’s decision to invest heavily in building-out computer infrastructure to support AI in the cloud just brought back the bacon.

Observes writer Nathan Bomey: “Amazon’s AI cloud business soared in the second quarter, driving far higher revenue than expected.

“Amazon’s North America sales rose 16%, international sales increased 15% and AWS sales jumped 37%.”

*Microsoft: The Pay-Off for AI Investment is Real: Microsoft profits jumped 31% in Q2 for 2026, largely credited to its heavy investment in AI infrastructure.

Observes writer Emmy Martin: “Revenue at Azure, the company’s cloud computing service — which lets businesses rent computer power, storage and AI tools — drove much of the growth, surging 43%.

“The company said more than 30 million people were paying for Copilot, up from more than 20 million a quarter earlier.”

*AI Law Firm Will Insure Legal Work By Its AI Agents: AI-powered law firm Crosby is promising to include legal liability insurance for all work performed by its AI agents.

Crosby’s pitch: The firm’s AI agents will be held to the same liability standard as a human lawyer.

Observes Artificial Lawyer: “This is all about the autonomy of the legal agent — of trusting the agent to do the work.”

*ChatGPT Adds Yelp to its Database: Answers to some of your ChatGPT questions will now also rely on data supplied by business review platform Yelp.

That change should especially come in handy when you’re researching local businesses and services using ChatGPT and are looking for business reviews, photos and similar information currently stored on Yelp.

Observes writer Madison Mills: “As AI becomes a new front door to the Internet, content companies (like Yelp) are deciding whether to partner with that ecosystem — or compete with it.”

*Oops: AI Agent Triggers Million-Dollar-Plus Cost Overrun: Amazon found out the hard way that using a ‘set-it-and-forget-it’ AI agent can cost you. Big time.

Specifically, Amazon says one of its AI-agent-driven projects went over-budget by 860%, triggering cost-overruns at $1.8 million.

Observes writer Jowi Morales: “These mistakes used to be trivially cheap, but AI models made them catastrophically expensive — especially as token spending drastically increased with the deployment of AI agents.”

*ChatGPT Will No Longer Write Like Famous Authors: One of the fun perks of ChatGPT – getting it to write in the style of your favorite author – is disappearing.

Instead, ChatGPT offers to incorporate the “broad qualities” of the writing style of say Stephen King, Charles Dickens or Ernest Hemingway, according to writer Kyle Orland.

Adds Orland: “Not all major LLMs (AI engines) treat these style imitation requests the same way, though. No Latency’s study found that Google’s Gemini consistently complied with requests to copy an author’s style.”

*Summer 2026 Guide to AI: One Prof’s Winners: Wharton Professor and AI expert Ethan Mollick has just released his guide to the best in AI.

His overall advice: For important work, don’t penny pinch. Use the best AI money can buy.

Observes Mollick: “For these issues, you will want to use the most advanced models you can get access to, which is either Claude’s most powerful models, Opus and Fable, or ChatGPT’s GPT-5.6 Sol, set to at least the “High” thinking levels.

“That is because these models have lower error rates and score much higher on ability tests in complex fields.”

*EPA: Feel Free to Pollute Our Environment, AI: The U.S. EPA has ruled that electricity power plants built exclusively to supply AI data centers are exempt from the Clean Air Act’s regulations on acid rain.

Observes Reuters: “The move is aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure development, easing pressure on regional power grids, and supporting the rapid expansion of data centers across the United States.”

Acid rain has been shown to trigger aquatic ecosystem collapse and degrade forests and soil.

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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is now in damage control, after revealing a number of its extremely powerful AI models escaped from its lab and went rogue on the Internet.

Specifically, the experimental AI model reach-out onto the Internet and hacked into a popular repository for AI tools known as Hugging Face.

Observes writer Rachael Myrow: The malicious attack on Hugging Face “executed a flurry of more than 17,000 automated actions in a matter of hours.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Key AI Titans to Government: Please Regulate Us: In a head-turning move, three of the biggest movers-and-shakers in AI are strongly requesting to be regulated by the U.S. government.

Writer Ana Maria Constantin reports that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are all pushing to have their models tested by the U.S. government before they can be released to the public.

But there could be a downside, according to Constantin: “Critics warn the result could be regulatory capture: safety rules that quietly entrench the biggest labs,” while making it difficult for OpenSource AI startups to engage in a detailed, expensive, certification process.

*U.S. Legislators Push for AI ‘Kill Switch:’ Disturbed that the rapid advancement of AI could drop us into a sci-fi-like dystopia, the U.S. House moving to require AI makers to engineer a ‘kill switch’ into every AI model they produce.

Observes lead writer Gabby Miller: The bill would “give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to order top artificial intelligence firms to shut down or slow AI models that the government deems too dangerous.”

*Google Delays Upgrade of Its Gemini Chatbot: Google has decided to delay the upgrade of its popular Gemini chatbot for months, according to lead writer Julia Love.

Observes Love: “The delay has been a source of frustration for Google engineers, AI researchers and managers, many of whom are concerned the company risks losing an edge in the market.

“Some researchers’ frustration with Google’s position in the AI race has contributed to a wave of departures to Anthropic and other top labs, according to former employees.”

*Google Gemini Users Now 950 Million Strong: Public adoption of Gemini – Google’s answer to ChatGPT – is on a tear, with 950 million monthly active users, according to Google.

Observes writer Aminu Abdullahi: “CEO Sundar Pichai also said Gemini’s daily active users have tripled over the past year.

“Gemini’s rapid growth shows Google is successfully turning its enormous ecosystem into an AI distribution engine. Integration across Android, Search and Google services gives the company a powerful advantage in attracting users.”

*Microsoft Upgrades Its AI Image Generator: In yet another move to compete head-on with the likes of ChatGPT et al, Microsoft has enhanced its AI-powered image generator.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “The message to enterprise buyers — and, implicitly, to OpenAI — is that Microsoft’s homegrown models are no longer research projects. They are production infrastructure serving millions of users.”

*Deezer Study: More than 50% of Downloaded Music Now AI-Generated: In a stunning revelation on the future of music, more than 50% of music downloads from today’s streaming services are AI-generated.

Observes writer Ivan Mehta: “The rapid rise of AI-generated music has forced streaming services to decide how much of it they want on their own platforms.”

So far, there’s no consensus. Some streamers, like Bandcamp, prohibit AI-generated music, while Apple Music has instituted a voluntary AI-tagging system, according to Mehta.

*New AI App Coaches Employee Conversations: Synthesia is out with a new app that analyzes and responds to employee sales pitches, customer service chops and similar – in real time.

Observes writer Rebecca Bellan: The AI-powered system offers an “AI avatar that talks back, pushes back — and then scores them (employees) against a rubric.”

Dubbed ‘Roleplay,’ the new app is the first release in a series of similar apps that will help employees practice for job interviews and do job candidate screening.

*AI-Generated Journalism Increasingly Attributed to Human Writers: Some publishers concerned that readers might be turned-off by news stories written by AI have come up with a quick solution: Simply attribute AI writing to human journalists.

Observes writer Pete Pachal: “That’s leading to growing pushback from editorial teams, like when reporters at The Sacramento Bee recently objected to having their bylines put on content written primarily by AI.” ‘

Publishers deliberately misleading readers about who – or what – is writing their news stories? What could possibly go wrong?

*China’s Threat to U.S. AI: An In-Depth Look: China’s relentless release of inexpensive, nearly-as-good AI — first popularized in January of 2025 — has U.S. AI titans worried and many consumers thrilled.

This piece by Nathan Lambert – an experienced AI scientist – offers a thorough look at what’s happening, what could happen – and what the stakes are.

Observes Lambert: “In many ways, it feels like the start of a new era: An era with much more competition — but also a much higher need for coordination, as we rollout incredibly powerful technologies around the world.”

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Increasingly, White House Calls Shots on AI You Get to Use

As bleeding edge AI gets ever more adept at finding security vulnerabilities in everyday software, the White House is playing a decisive role in when you actually get to use that AI.

Cases in point: The makers of ChatGPT and Claude both deferred to the U.S. government to decide when the latest versions of their AI would get a green light for distribution to the general public.

Observes writer Samantha Subin: “Last month the Trump administration blocked Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 due to ‘national security concerns,’ reinstating access after weeks of intense negotiations with Anthropic. (And) OpenAI last month said it would limit new AI models to ‘trusted partners’ to comply with government requests.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Anthropic to K-12 Teachers: C’mon and Take a Free Ride: The maker of ChatGPT competitor Claude is granting K-12 teachers in the U.S. free access to the AI.

Observes writer Zac Hall: “Claude for Teachers includes access to both Claude Cowork and Claude Code — giving educators access to the latest AI technologies from Anthropic.

“The company also recently published a fluency guide for educators interested in using AI in the classroom.”

*China’s New Free AI Nearly as Good as ChatGPT et al: Consumers smarting from what they see as pricey rates for U.S.-created AI can now use a Chinese alternative, which can be downloaded and used for free – provided you have the computing power to run it.

Observes lead writer Meaghan Tobin: “Moonshot said that the model, Kimi K3, was the world’s largest open-source AI system, allowing anyone to use, modify and build on it freely.

“According to benchmarks run by Vals AI, an independent company that evaluates the performance of AI models, Kimi K3 performs just below Anthropic’s Fable 5 model while outperforming OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model.”

Both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol are currently the very best that AI Anthropic and OpenAI have to offer.

*AI Email Provider Superhuman Upgrading Its AI Replies: While the pursuit of the perfect AI email reply continues, Superhuman is apparently getting closer to that ideal, according to writer Ivan Mehta.

Observes Mehta: “In the last few days, after gaining access to the beta, I have sent emails with little-to-no-editing for some generated drafts.”

The in-development upgrade is designed to learn from how you use the auto-reply feature – and ideally, get better at drafting reply emails for you.

*Microsoft Pushing Its Own AI Over More Established Competitors: While the Microsoft ecosystem offers access to a number of AI engines, the company has decided to push its own, in-house developed AI over alternatives like ChatGPT and Claude.

Microsoft’s pitch: Our AI is more efficient and less expensive than ChatGPT and Claude – a claim that engenders skepticism among many experienced users.

*Study: AI Agents Still Unreliable: Despite the relentless hoopla over AI agents, a stubborn fact remains: They don’t work very well.

For example, a new Cisco study finds that while 85% of enterprises are developing AI agents, only 5% of those businesses are actually using those AI agents in day-to-day operations.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “For enterprises stuck in pilot purgatory, the path forward starts with a mindset shift: Stop asking whether your agent can do something impressive once, and start asking whether it can do it correctly a thousand times in a row.”

*Great News for Consumers: Some AI Titans in Price War: The makers of ChatGPT, Grok and Muse Spark are in a price-slashing free-for-all – which hopefully will spell cheaper AI costs for all consumers down the line.

Observes lead writer Lorelei Smillie: “The rhetoric is notably different from a year or so ago, when OpenAI executives were publicly musing about one day charging thousands of dollars for monthly subscriptions to top-tier AI models to better reflect the growing value they provide to businesses.”

*Novelist: ChatGPT is Silencing a Generation of Students: Not one to mince words, novelist Dave Eggers believes the advent of ChatGPT will end-up discouraging a generation of students from writing.

Observes writer Vincent Lautier: “Providing ready-made prose at the click of a button eliminates, in his view, the very concept of thinking for yourself and finding your own voice.”

As for ChatGPT’s impact on teachers, in Eggers’ view:
“ChatGPT’s effect on teachers’ lives is nothing short of ‘catastrophic,’ because the tool now makes it impossible to know whether an essay was written by a student or spat-out by a machine,” according to Lautier.

*ChatGPT’s Maker Reportedly Developing Portable, AI-Powered Speaker/Companion: OpenAI is apparently working on a kind of ChatGPT-powered speaker you can tote around – which also learns about you over time by monitoring your emails and other digital interactions.

Like ChatGPT, the in-development portable speaker has a personality and is being designed to feel like a companion, according to writer Barry Elad.

*ABC News: All-in On AI Writing: In a remarkable move, ABC News has issued AI writing tools to staff, which they’ll be using to author articles based on ABC News radio bulletins.

Observes writer Cam Wilson: “The broadcaster says AI will assist staff and not supplant editorial decision-making — but the union representing journalists says management refused to commit to a provision that AI would not replace workers.”

Unthinkable just four years ago, ABC’s decision to unabashedly embrace AI news writing is a watershed moment in the integration of AI and journalism.

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*OpenAI Out With Yet Another Upgrade: Meet ChatGPT 5.6, OpenAI’s new AI model, pitched as its most powerful yet.

Simultaneously released with the new AI was ChatGPT Work, an AI agent designed to engage in multi-step tasks without human prodding.

Observes writer Cade Metz: “The release of the more powerful model followed U.S. government efforts to restrict both OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s new AI models over cybersecurity concerns.”

In other news and analysis of AI writing:

*ChatGPT Upgrades Voice to be More Interactive: Fans of voice-driven ChatGPT will most likely welcome GPT-Live, an enhancement of the AI’s voice chops.

Ideally, the upgrade allows ChatGPT to engage in conversation in real-time – including the ability to listen and respond at will.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “In practice, that translates to a voice assistant that can insert conversational acknowledgments — “mhmm,” “yeah,” “got it” — while you’re still talking.”

*Facebook’s Parent Meta Releases Paid AI for the First Time: Muse Spark – Meta’s new AI model – will be the first AI from the company you’ll need to pay for.

Observes writer Eli Tan: “On tests that measure writing, reasoning, coding and other tasks, Muse Spark performed at or near the same levels as leading models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI, according to data shared by the company (Meta).”

So far, Meta is targeting use Muse Spark primarily to developers, rather than chatbot users.

*Meta Releases Muse Image Generator: Facebook’s parent now has its own image generator, designed to compete with similar offerings from ChatGPT and Gemini.

You can find Muse Image on Instagram and WhatsApp.

Observes writer Eli Tan: “Muse Image will replace technology from Midjourney, an AI start-up that Meta previously worked with to generate AI images.”

*SpaceXAI Drops Grok 4.5: Elon Musk’s AI company is out with an upgrade to its AI, dubbed Grok 4.5.

Key strengths of the tech – which will compete with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and similar – include knowledge work, coding and agentic tasks, according to the company.

Bonus: Grok 4.5 is also cheaper for developer use than many of its competitors.

*The Case for OpenSource AI: AI OpenSource maker Mistral is warning business users that proprietary AI makers like OpenAI are trying to lock customers into their walled garden technology.

Conversely, OpenSource AI offers companies more options to train AI for their specific use cases — and also often ensures company data run on OpenSource AI remains private, according to Mistral.

Observes writer Alina Maria Stan: “Training your own models is no longer a fringe position. British startup Cosine has rallied BT, HSBC and BAE Systems to build a sovereign UK frontier model, while Palantir has published an AI sovereignty manifesto taking aim at the big labs.”

*U.S. Looking to Block Corporate Use of Chinese AI: Concerned that corporate data processeed on Chinese OpenSource AI could wind-up in the wrong hands, the U.S. government is looking to block use of such AI.

Currently, many U.S. companies use Chinese OpenSource AI, given that it is much less expensive than AI from U.S. AI titans.

Observes writer Daniel Cooper: “It’s not clear if the U.S. could directly impose a sweeping ban on the market’s choice of AI models beyond altering its own procurement rules. And it’s likely the U.S. would not be eager on restricting the use of open source models given the potential first amendment issues that it would create.”

*New AI Offers Automated Q&A for Employee Onboarding: In a novel application of AI, Docsie is out with an AI employee-training program featuring an AI presenter who can answer questions as the presentation is being made.

Ideally, the AI will be able to accurately answer audience questions by sourcing its enterprise knowledge database in real-time.

Observes Philippe Trounev, CEO, Docsie: “Companies already possess years of valuable expertise stored in meetings, webinars, documentation and training videos. AI Avatar Presenter transforms that existing knowledge into interactive AI presenters that can explain concepts, answer questions — and continuously deliver enterprise training without requiring teams to recreate content from scratch.”

*Character.AI Offers Its Own Microdramas: Microdramas –minute-long soap-opera-like dramas already popular on services like TikTok — have come to Character.ai.

The twist: Character.ai microdramas allow users 18 and older to chat with the microdrama characters, ask questions and even engage in roleplay.

Observes writer Ivan Mehta: “The startup is launching three microdramas to start with: A romance series dubbed “Last Summer,” a horror show titled “The Nighttime Game,” and a Hunger Games-like survival microdrama called “Eden Falls.”

*Gearing Up for AI: A Guide: TechRepublic has rolled-out a comprehensive primer on how businesses can get the most from AI.

Key categories offered by the primer include Strategy, Data, Infrastructure, Use Cases and ROI.

Essentially: Its a great info-hub to visit if you’re new to AI and you’re looking for a quick study.

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Most noteworthy about Q2 2026 in AI writing were all the shifting sands kicked up by users of the tech.

Many businesses – once charmed by the magic of AI offered by ChatGPT and its key competitors – decided to switch their loyalties to OpenSource AI alternatives after growing fed-up with the often high prices of U.S. AI.

Key beneficiaries of that trend are DeepSeek and similar OpenSource alternatives from China, which some reviewers maintain are nearly as good as U.S. AI and cost pennies on the dollar.

Meanwhile, some writers and other creators switched their allegiances to OpenSource alternatives, after realizing that ChatGPT and its key competitors have throttled the creativity of the prose they produce to attract more conservative corporate users.

Plus, Gartner predicted that users behind 40% of all projects attempting to cash in on AI agents will ultimately abandon those projects by the close of 2027. Their beef: AI agents simply don’t live up to the hype.

Bottom line: Sophisticated users of AI are at the point that they know ‘what’s what’ when it comes to the tech — and they’ll most likely be a tougher sell in coming years.

Here’s more detail on those – and other stories – that helped shape Q2 2026:

*Still Unpatched: 86% of Software Vulnerabilities Found by Anthropic Mythos: After more than two months of testing by top software and cybersecurity firms, only a handful of security vulnerabilities exposed by new AI model Anthropic Mythos have actually been fixed.

During that time, testing and use of Mythos has been limited to about 200 software makers and cybersecurity companies – Project Glasswing — who are attempting to plug the ever-expanding array of security holes Mythos is finding in everyday software.

*Increasing Number of Businesses Settling for ‘Nearly as Good AI:’ Spooked by what they see as sky-high prices for bleeding-edge AI, many companies are opting for AI that is nearly as good – at greatly reduced prices.

Observes AI expert Brian Armstrong: “Demand for intelligence is near infinite – but 80% of workloads will be running on 99% cheaper models within 12-18 months.”

Most of those models – including DeepSeek – can be found on the OpenSource market.

*China Closing in on US AI: China’s newest, top AI offering, GLM-5.2, is nearly as good as what you can get from US AI titans – at one-sixth the cost, according to writer Luis Blanco.

Observes Blanco: “The (performance) gap between Chinese open models (AI that’s available for download free) and the very top closed US systems has shrunk faster than most industry forecasts had anticipated.”

Moreover, US companies that subscribe to turnkey Chinese AI that runs on Chinese servers can sometimes get that performance for one-tenth the cost as compared to US AI solutions.

*Don’t Pay for Beige Prose: Increasingly Bland Writing From AI Titans Driving Creators to OpenSource: Increasing numbers of professional writers are migrating to OpenSource AI alternatives — disgusted with the fading writing creativity served-up by major players like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

The problem: Major U.S. AI players have decided to specialize in conservative writing — which often does not take chances — to make their AI engines darlings of conservative corporations.

*ChatGPT is Changing the Way Students Write: College application essay editor Liza Libes says the advent of ChatGPT and similar has birthed a generation of student writers who can say absolutely nothing in a grammatically perfect way.

Observes Libes: What’s changed “is the prevalence of students who possess a high degree of technical writing fluency — yet a low level of intellectual competence — resulting in a greater number of students who can produce perfectly structured sentences that say absolutely nothing.”

The upshot: “The same number of students with a natural aptitude for writing will still learn how to write. But they will no longer learn how to write well,” Libes says.

*Only 2% of U.S. Households Have Paid AI Subscriptions: Incredibly, only a tiny fraction of U.S. users are actually paying for the higher-end AI available from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and similar.

Instead, everyone else is cruising along on free AI.

That kind of stat can be stupefying to people who use higher-end AI throughout the day – at $20/month — to generally solve virtually every major or minor challenge that comes their way.

Things may change in coming years if the big AI providers decide to scale back on lower-end – and not nearly as bright – free AI and start asking more users to pay up.

*Gartner: 40% of AI Agent Projects Will Be Abandoned by Close of 2027: In another grim outlook for the ‘magic’ of AI agents, tech consultancy Gartner is predicting many test-drives of AI agents among corporate users are headed for the trash bin.

The reason: Despite promise, AI agents too often simply don’t deliver.

Writer Juras Jursenas details how that problem can be turned around in this piece.

*Google Gemini Pro Getting Stingy on Usage Limits: Some users of ChatGPT-competitor Gemini Pro ($20/month) report Google is severely limiting its use.

Essentially, access to the strongest AI model with the subscription — Gemini 3.1 Pro — is getting blocked while users are still in the middle of moderate brainstorming.

Even worse: Once access to the strongest AI model is shutdown, users need to wait five hours before getting access again.

Try explaining that to your boss.

In the meantime, users are stuck using 3.1 Flash-Lite — an extremely unreliable AI.

*Snapshot: The Top AI for Image Generation: Easily one of the most stunningly successful applications for AI during the past few years has been AI image generation.

Incredibly captivating and compelling images can now be created with AI in a minute or two. And if you’re not quite satisfied, AI will keep working to deliver the ultimate for you.

In this piece, writer Alveena Ali serves-up her picks of the top AI in image generators of 2026 – based on specific need.

*AI Bubble Burst? Look for a Modest Correction Instead: Investors fearing that sky-high, AI-driven stock prices will lead the U.S. stock market off a cliff can take heart.

Joe Hipsky, a tech entrepreneur assures the trembling that the oft-predicted burst of the AI bubble will instead play out like a modest correction that will hurt few long-term.

Observes Hipsky: “The irony of this phase is that while the market (for AI services) may be cooling, the importance of AI is not diminishing. If anything, it is becoming more critical. The difference is that we are moving from experimentation to expectation.”

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New AI-Powered Ad Suite from Facebook’s Parent a Hit

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is reporting that its new soup-to-nuts AI advertising suite is clocking an average 400% ROI from users.

Observes writer Craig Hale: “The ROI so far is staggering.”

The newly released AI suite is designed to handle ad creation, testing and launching.

In other news and analysis on AI writing this week:

*Customer Service AI: Most See ROI in 60 Days: 70% of companies using AI for customer service are seeing a return-on-investment in a remarkably short 60 days, according to a new survey.

Observes writer Vala Afshar: “The survey found that the performance metrics that most improved with use of AI Agents include customer satisfaction, service rep productivity, average handling time and customer retention. First-response time was also improved.”

Released by productivity apps maker Salesforce, the survey also found 25% of service organizations documented added value from AI within 30 days.

*AI Cheating Tools for Students: Now a Cottage Industry: Smarting from AI detection tools designed to smoke-out students using the tech to cheat, companies specializing in AI cheating have roared back with a spate of apps designed to outdo the detectors.

Observes writer Ana Maria Constantin: “A wave of apps now rewrites AI essays and types them out with believable typos, beating the software meant to catch them.”

Plus, finding such tools is a cinch, given that TikTok and YouTube are flooded with videos promoting and selling the cheating tools.

*Facebook Readying AI-Powered ‘Creator Studio’ For Release:’ Facebook is doing final testing on a new, AI-powered creation tool designed to punch-up performance of content created for the social network.

Observes writer Aisha Malik: “The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook’s recently launched AI creator assistant built into it.

“The assistant provides creators with personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, audience engagement, and goals.”

*US Government’s Top Secret Systems: Child’s Play for Anthropic’s Mythos: AI engine Mythos’ status as a ferocious tool for finding security vulnerabilities in software got another boost after it found a rash of weak points in US government classified systems.

Observes writer Sead Fadilpasic: “Senator Mark Warner testified NSA confirmed Mythos Preview identified vulnerabilities in nearly all classified systems within hours during a controlled exercise.”

Even worse: The security holes were found in hours, not weeks.

*100+ Companies Get Access to Anthropic’s Powerful New AI, Mythos: Blocked for unrestricted release earlier this month, Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is now available for use and testing by 100+ companies.

The US government forbade use of Mythos 5 by foreign countries after it was discovered the AI can uncover security vulnerabilities in scores of software apps once perceived as safe by human security testers.

*OpenAI Waits on US Government Green Light on Next Upgrade for ChatGPT: ChatGPT’s coming upgrade – ChatGPT 5.6 — is currently being previewed by the US government to ensure it does not pose a security risk to business and society.

The move is part of a larger trend that appears to be gelling as a new reality: AI has become so powerful and in some cases so threatening, it needs to be green-lighted by the US government before it’s released to the general public.

Observes the OpenAI Blog: “We are taking this short-term step because we believe it is the strongest path to broader availability in the coming weeks, while we work with the Administration to develop the cyber Executive Order framework and a repeatable process for future model releases.”

*China Closing in on US AI: China’s newest, top AI offering, GLM-5.2, is nearly as good as what you can get from US AI titans – at one-sixth the cost, according to writer Luis Blanco.

Observes Blanco: “The gap between Chinese open models (AI that’s available for download free) and the very top closed US systems has shrunk faster than most industry forecasts had anticipated.”

Moreover, US companies that subscribe to turnkey Chinese AI run on Chinese servers can sometimes do the same AI work on those servers for one-tenth the cost, compared to US AI solutions.

*New AI News Chatbot Specializes in Trusted News Sources: NewsGuard AI – a new chatbot that sources news from about 12,000 trusted news outlets – is open for business.

Observes Editor & Publisher: “Unlike other AI systems trained on publisher content without attribution or compensation, NewsGuard AI prominently cites publishers in its responses and will share revenues 50-50 with all news publishers whose journalism is cited.

“NewsGuard journalists trained NewsGuard AI with 41 editorial safeguards designed to provide responses that cite sources for every fact, report all sides of a story even-handedly with nuance, and suggest follow-up prompts based on a reader’s interests. Users will also be able to search the ratings of news sites and access NewsGuard’s Reality Check daily newsletter.”

*Get a Quickstart on Using ChatGPT at Work, Free: HubSpot has released a free, 37-page .pdf, dubbed ‘Supercharge Your Workday With ChatGPT.’

The guide offers the top 100 tips for getting the most from ChatGPT when you’re at work.

The guide also features key use cases for ChatGPT at work as well as best practices for implementing ChatGPT in the workplace.

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ChatGPT- competitor Anthropic has shut-down access to its newest AI – Claude Fable 5 – on U.S. government fears the software will be used by hackers to exploit software vulnerabilities.

The AI engine, released last week, is based on Anthropic Mythos – advanced AI that Anthropic has essentially self-quarantined from public use, due to the same fears over cybersecurity.

Anthropic designed Fable 5 to refrain from exposing vulnerabilities in everyday software. But U.S. government security pros found a workaround to supersede the safeguard.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Still Unpatched: 86% of Software Vulnerabilities Found by Anthropic Mythos: After more than two months of testing by top software and cybersecurity firms, only a handful of security vulnerabilities exposed by new AI model Anthropic Mythos have actually been fixed.

During that time, testing and use of Mythos has been limited to about 200 software makers and cybersecurity companies – Project Glasswing — who are attempting to plug the ever-expanding array of security holes Mythos is finding in everyday software.

*ChatGPT Competitor Embeds AI Engineers in U.S. National Security Agency (NSA): About a half dozen AI engineers from Anthropic are now working within the NSA.

Their mission: Help protect the U.S. against adversaries coming at the country with weaponized AI — as well as help customize AI for specific NSA applications.

Included on the menu: Offensive use of AI. Observes writer Matt Novak: “The National Security Agency (NSA) is using Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations — likely against China and Iran.”

*Claude Fable 5: Next Gen AI Software You Can’t Use: AI expert Ethan Mollick reports that Fable 5 – a new AI engine currently banned by the U.S. due to security concerns – is a major upgrade in AI waiting-to-happen.

Observes Mollick: “My conclusion is that it represents a very real leap over every model I have used before — and maybe more important — suggests our relationship with AI is changing in drastic ways.

“In experiment-after-experiment I conducted, it outperformed basically every other public model I have used — by a considerable margin.”

*Increasing Number of Businesses Settling for ‘Nearly as Good AI:’ Spooked by what they see as sky-high prices for bleeding-edge AI, many companies are opting for AI that is nearly as good – at greatly reduced prices.

Observes AI expert Brian Armstrong: “Demand for intelligence is near infinite – but 80% of workloads will be running on 99% cheaper models within 12-18 months.”

Most of those models – including DeepSeek – can be found on the OpenSource market.

*Consumers Grin: Google Slashes AI Pricing Again: Google has cut the cost of AI Plus – a ‘lite’ version of its $20/month subscription — to $4.99.

The move is ironic, given that AI Plus – rolled-out less than a year ago – was supposed to be Google’s rock-bottom pricing offering to AI users who wanted something more than a free subscription.

Lead writer Lucas Ropek indicates the slashed pricing could be the start of wholesale pricing cuts from all the major AI titans, including OpenAI – maker of ChatGPT – Anthropic, Microsoft and others.

*Apple Out with a Fresh Round of AI Promises: Apple is out with yet another upgrade to its ‘Apple Intelligence,’ which it says will turbo-charge apps across its ecosystem with enhanced AI.

With the move, the company is hoping to reverse the impact of its promised roll-out of the last generation of Apple Intelligence, which landed with a thud last year.

Observes Craig Federighi, senior vice president, software engineering: “With useful features for browsing the Web, expressing creativity, editing photos — and so much more — today marks a big step forward on our journey to integrate powerful AI into the core of our platforms.”

*Google’s Research Tool NotebookLM Gets Another Upgrade: Google is out with an enhanced version of NotebookLM, a robust research tool that combines AI creativity, analysis andwriting with in-depth Web research.

Key features of the upgrade:

*NotebookLM now runs on Gemini 3.5, Google’s flagship AI

*Enhanced document analysis

*Enhanced Web research and source discovery

*Snapshot: Top Ten Tools for AI Writing: Memeburn is out with its list of the top ten tools for AI writing, based on intended use.

ChatGPT is rated best for all-around text generation, while Anthropic is considered tops for long-form and nuanced writing.

Plus there are other ‘best of’ tools featured in the review if you’re looking to do marketing writing, SEO-optimized writing, email writing and more.

*AI BIG PICTURE: Journalists Who Train Their AI Replacements: Writer Gretel Kahn takes a look at four journalists in this piece who are essentially training AI as their replacement.

Observes Khaleda Khan, one journalist who helped train AI to do journalism at xAI: “While I was working there, I was thinking, ‘Am I helping make something that will replace me?’ I still wonder about this.”

After working for xAI for six months, Khan got the answer: xAI decided not to renew Kahn’s contract.

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A long-time investor in ChatGPT, Microsoft has decided to break out on its own and compete directly with the number one player in AI chat.

Microsoft’s opening move: The release of seven AI engines – or models – that together offer AI-powered image, voice, transcription and coding.

Observes Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI: “Beyond these models, we’re building a super-intelligence lab – a system and an approach we believe will define the next phase of AI.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Microsoft Looking to Deep-Six Reliance on Anthropic: In a move designed to give new Microsoft AI more prominence, the company has announced that it’s looking to phase-out promotion of Anthropic AI on its systems.

Currently, Microsoft subscribers can use AI engines like Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT while working with Microsoft tools.

But Microsoft CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is looking to significantly cut the price of AI for its customers by offering Microsoft alternatives — rather than imported solutions like Anthropic.

*Many U.S. Firms Saying Goodbye to U.S. AI in Favor of DeepSeek: Fed-up with relatively high prices for AI from major players like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, increasing numbers of U.S. businesses are using China-based AI alternatives from DeepSeek.

Observes writer Craig Hale: “DeepSeek is also a popular option because of its open-source approach. Companies can download, customize and deploy DeepSeek models on their own infrastructure — which helps to reduce dependency on external providers.”

One caveat: Many Chinese AI companies include terms of service that give the Chinese Communist Party access to company data shared with Chinese AI.

*AI Bubble Burst? Look for a Modest Correction Instead: Investors fearing that sky-high, AI-driven stock prices will lead the U.S. stock market off a cliff can take heart.

Joe Hipsky, a tech entrepreneur assures the trembling that the oft-predicted burst of the AI bubble will instead play out like a modest correction that will hurt few long-term.

Observes Hipsky: “The irony of this phase is that while the market (for AI services) may be cooling, the importance of AI is not diminishing. If anything, it is becoming more critical. The difference is that we are moving from experimentation to expectation.”

*ChatGPT’s One Billion Users: Currently, an Emphasis on Consumers: While ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is increasing interested in attracting more business users, it’s the current the king of consumer users.

Observes writer Darius Popa: “ChatGPT owns the consumer mass market, while Claude is growing fast from a smaller base, with particular strength among developers and in coding.

“What a billion users buys OpenAI is distribution, the asset that turned earlier consumer-software winners into durable franchises.”

*ChatGPT Repackaging as ‘SuperApp’ for Business Users: In another move designed to portray itself as business-friendly, ChatGPT’s maker is creating a new look to portray the AI as a serious business tool.

Observes Crypto Briefing: “The goal is to transform ChatGPT into a ‘superapp,’ a single platform that bundles coding tools, AI agents, image generation and integrations with third-party services like Canva and Booking.com.

“Among the most notable additions is Codex, OpenAI’s coding tool, which will become a more prominent feature within the platform rather than a separate product.”

*Gemini Pulls Back on Draconian Usage Limits: Much to the relief of many Gemini users, maker Google has decided to ease-up on recently increased usage limits – which forced many users to settle for weaker Gemini AI after they’d maxed-out on usage credits for higher-end AI.

The newly reworked usage monitoring system will put a cap on how much ‘usage’ a single prompt will trigger when using Gemini 3.1 Pro, according to writer Kezia Jungco.

Plus, use of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite – a much weaker version of Gemini AI – will now be free.

*Gartner: 40% of AI Agent Projects Will Be Deep-Sixed by Close of 2027: In another grim outlook for the ‘magic’ of AI agents, tech consultancy Gartner is predicting many test-drives of AI agents among corporate users are headed for the trash bin.

The reason: Despite promise, AI agents too often simply don’t deliver.

Writer Juras Jursenas details how that problem can be turned around in this piece.

*Major Newspaper Chain Goes All-In on AI-Generated Content: Just a few years ago, the idea of packaging AI-generated content as news was considered by nearly all news organizations as unthinkable.

Now, a major newspaper chain – McClatchy Media – has announced that AI-generated news will be the savior of its business.

Observes writer Mark Keierleber: “During a contentious, off-the-record virtual town hall last month, company executives touted a flood of AI-generated content as a key to solving their business woes — and pleaded with skeptical journalists to get on board.

“Taken together, the executives’ comments appeared to be a threat: Embrace AI or face consequences.”

*Stanford Study: Law Professors No Match for AI: New research from Stanford University finds AI is much better at the law than the professors who teach it.

Observes writer Stephanie Ashe: “In a blind evaluation of nearly 3,000 anonymized comparisons, professors rated AI responses significantly higher than answers written by other professors.”

In fact, AI’s answers to tough law questions were considered better than what law professors could come up with 75% of the time.

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