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Today in brief.
OpenAI and Upwork chart how AI is rebundling freelance work
A new OpenAI and Upwork study finds that work people do in ChatGPT is losing share on Upwork, while AI-related freelance projects are getting broader and bigger.
💼 Business
ChatGPT adds business profiles and Business Agents
OpenAI is letting companies claim their listing in ChatGPT, see how people find them, and (for some U.S. shops) launch an agent that answers customer questions.
🔧 Tech
SPECTRA squishes models about 3x so they fit a 4GB laptop
An open compression stack claims 2.8x to 3.3x shrinkage with real-time speed on a 4GB GPU, while Apple is privately previewing a Mac app to run local models.
🔬 Science
Gemini Robotics 2.5 works a Mercedes line, and NVIDIA opens Alpamayo 2
DeepMind's new robot model kits parts in real Mercedes factories at 96% success, and NVIDIA released an open in-car reasoning model the same day.
🤖 AI
Gemini 4 Carbon ships, with swarm agents and a formal proof of Signal
Google opened Gemini 4 Carbon today for paying developers, enterprises, and AI Ultra users, and used it to help formally verify core parts of Signal's cryptography.
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🔧 Tech
Claude now has Whiteboards, Sheets, Meetings, and Data
Anthropic shipped a knowledge-worker office suite inside Claude, moving past coding tools and into meetings, boards, spreadsheets, and live company data.
🏛️ Policy
Grok Build leaked thousands of apps, and Fireworks exposed Notion chats
Two vendor incidents show how AI apps spill data: guessable share links at Grok Build, and a third-party inference provider used by Notion.
💼 Business
Adobe puts agents and an MCP inside Photoshop and Premiere
At MAX, Adobe added more generative controls to its creative apps and shipped a local MCP so ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini can drive Creative Cloud features.
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