AI at Work

Tools

OpenAI proposes cutting off Cursor's model access on November 12

OpenAI says it will wind down the contract that supplies its models to the AI code editor Cursor, proposing a shutoff on November 12, 2026, after SpaceX bought Cursor's maker. Teams standardised on Cursor now have a dated deadline.

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Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 28, 2026

Enterprise

Google capped console purchases of Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus at 25 seats. Past that, you talk to sales.

Growing a Gemini Enterprise Standard or Plus subscription past 25 seats now runs through a sales representative rather than the console. The invoiced-billing gate also sits in front of Google's AI coding tools.

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Chandni Melwani · Aug 25, 2026

Tools

Slack moved AI coding work out of the IDE and into a channel your colleagues can read

Slack launched Slack Code on August 20, giving coding agents their own channels where planning, diffs and approvals happen in front of the whole team.

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Chandni Melwani · Aug 24, 2026

Jobs

Journalists at USA Today Co. protested AI on their lunch break. They are not asking the company to stop using it.

The demand from 31 union locals is guardrails, disclosure and a say in how the tools arrive, which is what a bargaining unit asks for when it cannot stop a deployment.

Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 22, 2026

Adoption

The government asked workers what AI saves them. The most common answer was an hour or two a week.

Among those who used AI at work in the last week, 31% saved one to two hours, 10% saved none, and 3% said it cost them time.

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Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 14, 2026

California sends a two-part workplace AI ban to Newsom

OpenAI proposes cutting off Cursor's model access on November 12

Google capped console purchases of Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus at 25 seats. Past that, you talk to sales.

Slack moved AI coding work out of the IDE and into a channel your colleagues can read

Journalists at USA Today Co. protested AI on their lunch break. They are not asking the company to stop using it.

The government asked workers what AI saves them. The most common answer was an hour or two a week.

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