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Copilot Bills $750 for What Cost $29; Gemini Reads Your Gmail; AI Firms Pledge $1B Retraining
Google's Gemini Spark now reads Gmail and Calendar overnight to deliver a daily brief, available to US subscribers. GitHub Copilot's new agentic billing has some developers facing $750 bills, up from $29 flat rate, as token-based pricing hits power users. AI companies including OpenAI and Amazon have pledged $1B to retrain 87,714 US workers displaced by AI in 2026.
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The same companies automating jobs and charging per token are now funding retraining—a convenient narrative that doesn't address the scale of displacement.
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