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Dutch shops pull Meta camera glasses over privacy fears
Two retailers have stopped selling them while the Dutch government looks at a ban.
Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, says the Ramp AI Index
The latest Ramp AI Index, built from the card and bill data of more than 70,000 US companies, shows business spending on AI has fallen since a peak in July while usage has risen about 50 percent to a record at the end of September. Ramp's economist puts it down to price cuts and cheaper lite models, driven by competition between OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Check what you pay for AI subscriptions and API use against the current price lists. Several providers have cut prices or added cheaper models since the summer.
- For routine jobs such as sorting email or summarising notes, test the cheaper lite or mini version of the model you already use before paying for the top one.
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