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Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/987423/google-pics-ai-image-editor-generator
John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' "field, machine, and operational data" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/987486/john-deere-jd-ai-chatbot
LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28 (Alex Harring/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/ai-token-prices-lows.html
Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/anthropic-data-retention.html
Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M (Sam Sabin/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/01/aslan-agentic-ai-national-security-funding
Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages (Meta AI Research)

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-voice-transcribe
OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach its "Critical" cyber threshold and warns safeguards may mistakenly flag legitimate activity as cyber misuse (Ina Fried/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/01/openai-astras-cyber-critical
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, vs. $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, vs. $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/dell-q2-earnings-report-2027.html
Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's first models to watermark text outputs; a detection API is available to eligible groups as required under EU law (Ben Patterson/PCWorld)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3224834/
The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for "novel" situations that involve the tech (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-urges-hands-off-approach-ai-regulation-g20-tech-meeting-2026-09-01/