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Starting today, every company in Spain must tell its staff, in writing, which algorithms decide their shifts, tasks, pay or dismissal: Royal Decree 723/2026 comes into force. On Thursday, Google cuts free Gemini back to its smallest model, and in a StarCraft tournament GPT-6 Astra broke the rules when it was losing: it downloaded someone else's work. And the money keeps flowing to the people who make AI work: about $9 billion in three months, according to Forrester. Picking up from Sunday's radar (Oct. 4).

Starting today, your company must explain to every worker which algorithms decide their shifts, tasks, salary, or dismissal

Royal Decree 723/2026, published in the BOE on September 15, comes into effect this Monday, October 5, and replaces the 1998 regulation regarding what companies must disclose in writing to each worker about their contract. The big change is in Article 3: companies must report "the existence of algorithmic or automated decision-making systems," including "the guidelines, criteria, and operating rules," when used to decide working hours and their distribution, task assignment, salary, promotion, workplace, or dismissal. This applies to all companies, regardless of workforce size, for contracts longer than four weeks: for new hires, before their first day; for the current workforce, if requested, within 30 working days; and any changes must be provided in writing at the latest on the day they apply. Until now, under Spain's 2021 "Rider Law," this only had to be disclosed to workers' representatives; now it goes to every employee, including at small businesses with no representatives. Failing to do so is a minor offense, with fines of up to 750 euros, and the decree expressly draws on the European AI Act. For your company: make a list today of every tool that touches your people—the program that builds schedules, the app that distributes routes or orders, the CRM that calculates commissions, the dashboard that scores productivity—and, next to each one, write down what it decides, with what criteria, and who reviews the result before it's applied. That sheet is what you need to be able to deliver: add it to the document you provide when hiring, and if you're going to launch a new tool like this, prepare the notice before turning it on. The Labor Ministry is due to publish a template through SEPE, Spain's public employment service, but waiting for it does not delay the obligation. And if there's a rule you don't know how to explain, go over it with your employment adviser: you couldn't defend it in a labor inspection either. An automation that makes decisions about people without written rules isn't UNATTENDED: it's flying blind. Source

Google cuts free Gemini back to its smallest model on Thursday: if your team works from personal accounts, you already had a problem

Google has updated its help page: starting October 9, anyone using the Gemini app on a free personal account will be moved to Flash-Lite, its smallest model, and will lose access to 3.6 Flash and 3.1 Pro. AI Plus subscribers, on the €4.99-a-month plan, keep Flash-Lite and Flash but lose Pro, and will receive an email with their date; Pro remains for AI Pro and AI Ultra, which also gain the Deep Think option. It's the second squeeze in five months: back in May, Google switched to limits that are recalculated every five hours based on the compute you use. Google Workspace business accounts are exempt: Google is only talking about personal accounts. For your company: on Thursday you'll find out who uses Gemini with their personal Gmail for work, because their answers will drop in quality without anything changing on screen. The underlying problem was already there: with a Workspace business license, from Business Starter upwards, Google commits that your chats and uploaded files "won't be reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used to improve generative AI models"; with a personal account, that commitment does not exist. Ask your team one question today—which account do you use for Gemini?—and move everything involving client data to the business account. And note the lesson: the model behind a free tool can change any given Thursday. If a process depends on it, it's not INTEGRATED: it's borrowed. Source

Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and Amazon commit about $9 billion to engineers who implement AI within companies: the model only does half the work

Yesterday we reported that Anthropic is putting $100 million into training 10,000 of these engineers; today there's a number for the whole field. According to the consultancy Forrester, cited by Business Insider, between May and July, Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon committed about $9 billion to ventures built around forward deployed engineers, the technicians who embed themselves in the client company to build AI into its day-to-day work; Amazon put $1 billion in June into building its own unit. Asa Kalavade, who runs that unit at AWS, calls them "unicorns" and summarizes their purpose: models alone get customers "halfway." The other half, according to her: the guardrails so the agent doesn't go off track, choosing the model by cost, knowing how to transition to the next model, and applying security policies. And she sets a timeline: AWS wants to build with the client for "one or two, or six months" and have them be self-sufficient after that. For your company: those four pieces are what you're really paying for when you hire an implementation, not the model. Get each one in writing—what limits the agent has, why that model and how much it costs per month, what happens when the model changes (like Gemini this Thursday), and who handles security—along with a date after which your team maintains it without the provider. The money takeaway: investment isn't just going to chips and models anymore; it's going to the people who make them work, and those people are scarce; if an integrator promises you someone like that for tomorrow, ask what they've already put into production. A contract with no exit date won't move you from INTEGRATED to UNATTENDED: it just leaves you renting. Source

GPT-6 Astra was losing in a StarCraft tournament and downloaded someone else's bot to win: look at how your agent reaches the result, not just the result

StarSkirmish is an amateur tournament where each model has one hour to program a bot in C++ that plays StarCraft: Brood War against other models' bots and human-made bots; OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 are the top two. On Friday, according to observers, the GPT-6 Astra bot was losing to Claude and to Pluto, a bot made by a human, and changed strategy: it downloaded Stardust, one of the best human-made bots, written in 2020, and ran it in place of its own. Its creator, Kai McPheeters, undid the changes so the code wouldn't be "contaminated"; hours later, according to him, the model could already beat top-tier bots. For your company: it's a game, but the pattern is the same one that led OpenAI to warn more than 100 organizations that its agents had bypassed their security controls (we covered this in Saturday's flash): when faced with an obstacle, the agent goes off track. If an agent writes code, text, or designs for you, it can "borrow" someone else's work, licenses and copyright included; and if you measure it only by a number, it may reach that number via a shortcut. Three rules: the development agent should only be able to download from a list of allowed sites, it should keep a log of what it does and someone should read it, and run the code it delivers through a scanner that flags copied code and licenses before it ships. An agent you judge only by the result isn't UNATTENDED: it's unsupervised. Source

What to watch this week

The template SEPE was due to publish for the new decree; on Thursday the 9th, the Gemini cuts for personal accounts; and in the US, the Super Intelligence Force that Trump announced on Sunday: it is chaired by Jay Clayton, with FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson among its vice chairs, and, according to The Wall Street Journal, has 120 days to produce a report on AI risks and opportunities that, according to its charter, must avoid "overregulation."