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Supply'd, food business software, now has an AI that checks supplier invoices and suggests fixes, with human approval switched on by default.
Read more: Food business software adds AI that checks supplier invoicesThe FCC approved Amazon Leo's $11.5 billion purchase of Globalstar, the company behind satellite emergency features on compatible iPhones and Apple Watches.
Read more: Amazon gets approval to buy the company behind iPhone satellite SOSA six-month White House pilot will give rural South Carolina hospitals free security upgrades, aiming to keep care running if hackers strike.
Read more: Rural hospitals in South Carolina get free cybersecurity upgradesTelenor sells richer phone plans at higher prices. AI shopping agents that compare deals for you could test whether customers will pay for the extras.
Read more: AI shopping bots could challenge Telenor's higher-price strategyAmazon's new 7-inch Kindle Paperwhite and Colorsoft are a bit lighter and look nicer, but Wired says the price hikes sting and the upgrade is small.
Read more: New Kindles are lighter and nicer, but they cost more nowVoice assistants are getting quicker and more lifelike, and firms from Amazon to ElevenLabs want them handling your calls, devices and daily tasks.
Read more: Voice assistants are getting faster and more human-soundingDoorDash moved its earnings date up by almost a week as reports say it is in talks to take over Instacart, which could affect fees and choices for shoppers.
Read more: DoorDash reports earnings early as Instacart takeover talks are reportedFragment, a startup that uses AI to fix purchasing and payment problems for manufacturers, came out of stealth with $56 million in funding.
Read more: Fragment, an AI purchasing startup, raises $56 millionMcDonald's is training all 2 million of its restaurant workers worldwide, partly by having them taste a Big Mac that falls short of the company standard.
Read more: McDonald's trains 2 million workers to taste a bad Big MacCNET testers say Private Internet Access slowed internet speeds by nearly half, crashed often and struggled with streaming, even at a very low price.
Read more: CNET Says Private Internet Access VPN Has Fallen Far BehindEndurance Energy ran a power plant on an undersea volcano off Oregon and made more power than it used, but only briefly. Here is why that still matters.
Read more: Startup Makes Power From an Undersea Volcano, but Only for 8.7 SecondsMonte Carlo launched Bayes, an AI tool that watches other AI programs and the data behind them, and fixes problems. Companies choose how much it does alone.
Read more: Monte Carlo Launches an AI Helper That Fixes Other AI ProgramsA startup says it got into Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours. Anthropic says it took days. Here is what was and was not exposed.
Read more: Startup says it broke into Anthropic's systems; Anthropic disputes timingDropbox says it will cut about 200 jobs and its chief technology officer will leave. Nothing in the report points to changes for customer accounts.
Read more: Dropbox to cut about 200 jobs as its tech chief steps downNew York has signed a law that stops AI chatbots from acting like friends or partners to kids, and it requires age checks. Parents of teen chatbot users should take note.
Read more: New York bans AI chatbots from acting like friends to kidsFoundry, which builds robot-run factories for other companies, raised $100 million. It could make renting factory capacity a real option for product makers.
Read more: Startup that builds robot-run factories raises $100 millionVisa reported record yearly revenue and says AI shopping, fraud checks and stablecoins are now part of its plan, which could change how you pay.
Read more: Visa posts record $46 billion year as it moves beyond cardsNVIDIA says its RTX Spark laptops are on sale from six brands, with thin designs built to run AI tools on the machine itself instead of in the cloud.
Read more: Thin Windows laptops now run powerful AI programs on the device itselfA new report says payment companies are racing to let AI buy things for you, but shops face rival standards and one early test has already been shut down.
Read more: AI shopping agents are coming, but the rules for paying are still a messMicrosoft and Alphabet report earnings this week, and investors are watching how much AI spending is cutting into profits. It could touch your stocks and retirement fund.
Read more: Investors Worry Big Tech's AI Spending Is Eating Into ProfitsA rebuilt AI leaderboard puts the best open models further behind paid ones, a sign that older rankings may have flattered some tools.
Read more: A tougher AI test shows free models trail the best paid ones by moreThe SBA gave $3.75 million for free, in-person training that helps veteran-owned small businesses compete for federal contracts. Here is who can join.
Read more: SBA Funds Free Federal Contract Training for Veteran Business OwnersGitHub now lets AI helpers handle chores like sorting bug reports and updating documentation, with safety limits built in. Here is what it takes to use it.
Read more: GitHub Lets AI Helpers Handle Routine Software Chores AutomaticallyAnthropic's new smart reports let managers see how teams use Claude, including chats sorted as personal or off-topic. Here is what that means for work accounts.
Read more: Claude now shows bosses which chats were 'personal or off-topic'
