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CCW showed agentic AI moving deeper into CX platforms. Here’s what IT leaders should know about governance, data, workforce planning, and rollout. The post Zoom, Salesforce, Dialpad, and Others Bet Big on Agentic AI for CX appeared first on TechRepublic.

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

Microsoft GitHub Copilot. Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Microsoft-owned GitHub just had its "best month ever," an executive told employees in a meeting. Usage of the company's Copilot AI coding tool surged after GitHub changed its billing model. The surge is a bright spot for GitHub as it competes with fast-growing rivals. GitHub just had its "best month ever" thanks to a growing demand for AI coding. The Microsoft-owned developer platform saw a significant jump in customer usage in June after changing how it charges for Copilot, its AI coding tool, Chief Technology Officer Vladimir Fedorov told employees during a meeting on Wednesday. "June was by far our best month ever," Fedorov said, declining to "talk about the numbers" because the company's financial quarter is coming to a close. The surge is a bright spot for GitHub as it competes with fast-growing rivals such as Cursor, OpenAI's Codex, and Anthropic's Claude Code, all of which help write, edit, and fix software. Microsoft declined to comment. Fedorov also said he personally doesn't think GitHub needs to raise prices much based on this usage spike, but he stopped short of disclosing any of the company's definitive plans on pricing. On June 1, GitHub changed how it charges customers for its Copilot AI coding tool to billing based on how much they use the tool, versus a flat-rate per user for a fixed number of requests. The change aligns GitHub with its coding tool rivals that charge based on consumption. GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, is a popular place for engineers to store and manage code and collaborate on projects. GitHub had an early lead because of its popularity. Lately, though, GitHub has faced more competition from Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code. In an internal meeting late last year, a Microsoft executive spoke about needing to overhaul GitHub to compete with those tools, according to audio reviewed by Business Insider. Due to increased usage, GitHub experienced dozens of major outages in 2026. Microsoft is now turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues after those outages, Business Insider recently reported. Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at astewart@businessinsider.com or Signal at +1-425-344-8242. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely. Read the original article on Business Insider

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REI Robert Alexander/Getty Images REI faced backlash after an Instagram ad featured a bike with two sets of handlebars. REI said the ad was generated by Meta's AI ad tool. Meta has said its AI creative tools for ads are used by millions of advertisers. A recent Instagram ad from outdoor retailer REI Co-op drew backlash after some users noticed that the bike in the image seemed to have a unique feature: two sets of handlebars. "REI using AI slop now. So much for caring about the environment," read a Reddit post over the weekend about the ad that received hundreds of upvotes. Turns out the image was the result of AI adjustments, with REI pointing to an AI tool from Meta, Instagram's parent company. "Meta auto-enrolled us in an AI personalization tool that produced an inaccurate and inappropriate alteration of a vendor-provided image in some of our ads," an REI spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider. "While a two-handled bike might be interesting, it is not something you will find in our assortment." REI using AI slop now. So much for caring about the environment by u/Jeffrey_C_Wheaties in REI The image, which promoted a bike from the brand Van Rysel, showed a woman in a park standing beside the oddly shaped bike. Van Rysel North America confirmed to Business Insider that the original image supplied to REI came from a Van Rysel photo shoot featuring cyclist Amity Rockwell, adding, "Any later alterations were not made by Van Rysel." Meta declined to comment when reached by Business Insider. The company's terms for its generative AI ad tools state that AI-generated ad outputs may be "inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, offensive, and/or inappropriate" and that advertisers are responsible for evaluating them before use. The REI spokesperson said the company unenrolled from the Meta tool, adding, "This does not align with our values or how we manage our brand. Product accuracy and our vendor relationships matter. We apologize for the confusion this caused." REI is not the first advertiser to report unexpected results from Meta's AI ad tools. As Business Insider previously reported, several advertisers said Meta's AI tool had also generated bizarre or nonsensical ads for their products, and that some settings, like "test new creative features" and "automatic adjustments," had automatically been toggled to "on." A Meta spokesperson at the time said advertisers who use full image generation "have the opportunity to review the generated images before running their ad." They also said millions of advertisers had found their AI ad creative tools valuable and that the tools improved their ad performance. Read the original article on Business Insider

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 19: Kickbacks, no-show jobs, "dirty" VCs, and shelf ware — industry expert Robert "RSnake" Hansen explains why he thinks it's time for a CISO code of ethics. It could ensure cybersecurity bosses aren't engaged in self-dealing that could risk enterprise, and even national, security.

A group of pro-Israel demonstrators gathered outside a Williamsburg Poetica Coffee on Wednesday morning. Ben Shimkus/Business Insider Demonstrators gathered outside Poetica Coffee's Williamsburg location on Wednesday. The protest came after Poetica said on social media that Rep. Dan Goldman was not welcome back after a visit. Protesters and counter-protesters traded insults. One passerby suggested the barbs hyperbolic. Roughly 65 protesters and counter-protesters gathered outside a Brooklyn coffee shop on Wednesday after the chain banned Rep. Dan Goldman over his stance on Israel. The demonstrations at Williamsburg Poetica Coffee shop came days after the chain's now-deleted Instagram post showing Goldman inside its Park Slope café — and said he was not welcome back. In the caption, Poetica said it did not serve "genocide enablers" and told the New York Democrat not to return. It also said it had refunded his order. "Hey Congressman Dan Goldman, we see that you stopped by our shop today for a coffee," the deleted post read. "Do you see how it doesn't taste like genocide juice?" On Wednesday morning, Business Insider observed a few dozen protesters outside Poetica's Williamsburg location, along with two smaller, less organized counter-protest groups. NYPD officers separated the groups with barricades as demonstrators shouted competing chants into microphones and megaphones. The demonstration — organized by #EndJewHatred, a Jewish advocacy group — included several speakers who called on Poetica to apologize, praised the Justice Department's decision to open a civil-rights investigation into the chain, denounced New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and led a chant supporting the New York City Police Department. View this post on Instagram A post shared by #EndJewHatred (@endjewhatred) In two other barricaded areas, counter-protesters held signs condemning Israel's military actions in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. Several of them took turns using a megaphone to chant or address the pro-Israel demonstrators. Counter-protesters gathered on the other side of Poetica Coffee's Williamsburg location on Wednesday morning. Ben Shimkus/Business Insider NYPD officers directed protesters, counter-protesters, and onlookers to stay behind temporary fencing. Officers also directed traffic, which was mildly slowed by camera crews outside the coffee shop. A small stream of customers continued to walk into the shop past the protesting groups. One man ate a muffin inside the shop while watching the protests. Business Insider spoke to several people who walked by, as well as people who came to support both sides. While some demonstrators said they were motivated by strongly held views about antisemitism, Israel, and Palestinian rights, several passersby said they had not heard about the protest beforehand and had stopped because of the spectacle. One passerby suggested the groups were being hyperbolic. "It's a lot of mental gymnastics both groups are doing," the man said. The controversy surrounding Poetica has already drawn national attention and federal scrutiny. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said it had opened an investigation into the incident, citing federal laws that bar public companies, including coffee shops, from discriminating on the basis of race, religion, or national origin. Poetica did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The chain's Instagram account was unavailable on Wednesday afternoon. Poetica Coffee's Yelp page also displayed a "public attention alert" after the business received an influx of one-star reviews. Yelp issued a "public attention alert" that "temporarily disabled" posts on the Poetica Coffee page after receiving an influx of 1-star reviews for the chain. Yelp Goldman, who is Jewish and represents parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, said earlier this week that he had stopped by the café with his young daughter and had a pleasant interaction with the staff. In an Instagram comment, he called the shop's post "sad." In a later interview with CNN, the US representative for New York's 10th congressional district said that he supported human rights and "what is going on in the Middle East is horrific" "Now, I may disagree as to whether or not there's a genocide, but come on, we're better than this, and we need to be better than this," Goldman said about the incident. He added that Justice Department resources might be better used on antisemitism cases involving people without his public platform. Goldman lost Tuesday's Democratic primary for New York's 10th congressional district to Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller. Read the original article on Business Insider

The AI arms race between China and the US has researchers on both sides worried about a “Chernobyl moment.”

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Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's DeepMind. Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images The release date for Google's new Gemini 3.5 Pro model has been pushed back to July. The company has been improving the model based on feedback from early testers and its Flash model. The pressure is on Google to deliver amid intense competition between rival AI labs. The release date for Google's next frontier AI model has been pushed to July, Business Insider has learned. The company previously said it planned to roll out the new Gemini 3.5 Pro model in June. However, it is now targeting a July launch as it spends extra time gathering feedback from early testers and tweaking the model, according to a person familiar with the matter. Google teased the new model at its I/O developer conference in May but said it wasn't quite ready. At the time, CEO Sundar Pichai said the model would launch "next month." A Google spokesperson declined to comment. With this upcoming model, the pressure is on for Google at a moment of intense competition among the AI labs. While Gemini 3 outperformed expectations last year, Anthropic and OpenAI are continuing to pull ahead of Google in coding, which has emerged as the first major enterprise use case for modern AI. The source said that Google pushed the launch date back so it could spend more time gathering real-world use cases from early testers. The new model has been available to some users on Google's Antigravity platform and on the AI benchmarking site LMArena, they said. The new Gemini 3.5 Pro model is expected to be better at long-horizon tasks and powering agents. Google has also incorporated feedback from its recent Flash 3.5 model into 3.5 Pro, the source said, confirming a theory that Business Insider floated at I/O. That includes criticisms that Flash consumed tokens too quickly. Have something to share? Contact this reporter via email at hlangley@businessinsider.com or Signal at 628-228-1836. Use a personal email address and a non-work device; here's our guide to sharing information securely. Read the original article on Business Insider

<blockquote cite="https://macwright.com/2026/06/24/accidental-anonymity.html"><p>In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with purely LLM-generated commit messages. [...]</p> <p>My other reaction is that <em>I don't know anything about these people</em>.</p> <p>They haven't put themselves out there. They haven't said anything true. [...]</p> <p>The perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It tells me nothing about this person, other than that they use particular tools.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://macwright.com/2026/06/24/accidental-anonymity.html">Tom MacWright</a>, Accidental anonymity</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/careers">careers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tom-macwright">tom-macwright</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-misuse">ai-misuse</a></p>

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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Runlayer, which provides an infrastructure and control layer for enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $42M  —  When longtime tech investor Vinod Khosla heard that Runlayer—the startup trying to become the default infrastructure layer governing …

OpenClaw removed five packages from its ClawHub skills marketplace that bypassed security checks even though they included infostealers and other threats.