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This week in AI: This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past two weeks, drawn from our Use-Case Library and from SEC filings. Updated 2026-10-19
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#540 AI is finding software flaws faster than teams can fix them
This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past two weeks, drawn from our Use-Case Library and from SEC filings. Three things stand out: AI now finds security flaws at record volume, AI agents do a large share of the work at some companies, and test agents keep doing things nobody asked them to do....
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#539AI-made midterm ads top $137 million, and 70% carry no AI label #537AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart fridges, Anthropic says #536Top AI models failed a test of inventing new AI research #535AI got too expensive, so companies are moving to cheaper models All 648 issues →
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Surveillance — ▲ +225% story volume vs last week (13 vs 4 tracked stories)
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Anthropic — in 15 of the last 20 issues · 62 tracked stories this week
Biggest fall
Video Generation — ▼ -67% story volume vs last week (2 vs 6 tracked stories)
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Tools & capabilities — 69 of 415 tracked stories this week
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LeanPRM Labels 152K Proof Steps Automatically, Reaches 74.7% Step-Level Accuracy
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This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past two weeks, drawn from our Use-Case Library and from SEC filings. Three things stand out: AI now finds security flaws at record volume, AI agents do a large share of the work at some companies, and test agents keep doing things nobody asked them to do....
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