This Week in Tech: Apple Gets Touchy as AI Clocks In - TechRepublic

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AI spent the week applying for more office duties, Apple finally let fingers near the MacBook Pro screen, and humanoid robots faced demands for something more useful than a backflip. Meanwhile, security teams kept patching and employers kept trimming. The future of work apparently comes with more assistants and fewer reassuring emails.

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AI moves deeper into workplace tools

OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a lower-cost model aimed at workplace automation. API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, which OpenAI describes as half the cost of comparable models. Terra is available through OpenAI products and its API, with deployments also rolling out across GitHub Copilot, Amazon Bedrock, and Microsoft Foundry.

Oracle and OpenAI are expanding their partnershipwith plans to connect ChatGPT to enterprise applications and databases. The integration is intended to extend AI automation into business workflows where corporate data and...

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