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iOS 27.3, due next month, adds a Gym Strength plan to Apple Fitness+, which could make the top Apple One tier worth a second look.
Read more: Apple's top subscription bundle gets a new strength workout planA new roundup of demo automation tools says letting buyers explore your product on their own can shorten sales cycles and free up your sales engineers.
Read more: Software that runs product demos for you, so sales teams close fasterCyera, a cloud security startup, is reportedly raising about $800 million at a $20 billion value, up from $12 billion in June.
Read more: Cyera, a five-year-old security startup, may be worth $20BThe RCMP says scammers are faking its Ontario communications centre number, so a call that looks official on your screen may not be real.
Read more: Scammers are faking police phone numbers in OntarioAxiom Math says its AI agents turned one of math's biggest libraries into code a computer can check, a method that could someday help catch software bugs.
Read more: Startup uses AI to double-check a giant library of math proofsReddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says bots are crowding out real people online, and he expects group chats to be where trusted conversation moves next.
Read more: Reddit's co-founder says the future of online communities is the group chatA Ghana Business News piece says AI agents should pass a permission test before they touch mobile money. Here is why that matters if software ever pays for you.
Read more: Ghana's mobile money needs a permission test for AI agentsMeta has bought Conductor, a tool for running several AI coding helpers at once. Its cloud service shuts down November 20, so users have a deadline.
Read more: Meta buys Conductor, a tool that lets one person manage many AI codersThe Nasdaq fell 5.5% on Thursday, a record dollar drop, after weak AI earnings and Democratic wins. Funds and local power bills could feel it.
Read more: Tech stocks lose $2.5 trillion in one day after election and weak AI earningsApple Messages for Business now lets approved brands send an invitation to iPhone customers, who can accept it to start a chat with a verified sender.
Read more: Apple adds a way for brands to invite customers into Messages chatsHouse Republican leaders want Nvidia's CEO to brief them privately, after a report on his ties to an executive linked to Chinese intelligence. Nvidia chips power most AI.
Read more: House Republican leaders ask Nvidia's CEO to brief them privatelyGoogle's Find Hub on Android can now alert you when a tracker is separated from your phone, so you can catch a forgotten item before you walk away.
Read more: Google's Find Hub now warns you when you leave a tracker behindOpenAI's new ChatGPT Slides builds decks inside the chatbot, but reports say Japanese text can go wrong when you export to PDF.
Read more: ChatGPT can now build slide decks, but Japanese PDFs can breakA new test of AI agents on simulated professional work found none scored above 12 percent, a reality check for anyone planning to hand real jobs to AI.
Read more: Top AI agents finish barely 12 percent of real office-style workAmazon is cutting more jobs. The latest round is small, but repeated rounds can leave workers feeling unsure about their future.
Read more: Amazon Announces More Job Cuts, and Repeat Rounds Worry WorkersCloudflare warns that AI agents acting for millions of people look like one visitor to websites, which makes fraud, disputes and blocking harder to handle.
Read more: AI assistants shopping for you leave websites unable to tell who is whoAdyen and Checkout.com are adding passkeys, so some card purchases could be confirmed with a fingerprint or face scan instead of a bank prompt.
Read more: Online checkout may soon let you confirm a card payment with your fingerprintA user says Claude Code put his email address in web requests during searches, and that he now gets dozens of scam emails a day. Anthropic has not replied in the report.
Read more: User says Claude Code shared his email address with websitesWonder, the company that bought Grubhub, has filed in secret for a US stock market debut, which could let ordinary investors buy in and see its books.
Read more: Wonder, the food delivery company behind Grubhub, files for an IPOThe agency that enforces the pregnancy workers law may shrink the list of covered conditions, which could affect abortion and fertility treatment requests at work.
Read more: Pregnancy Job Protections May Soon Cover Fewer Health NeedsA new app called Oraku says it can turn a photo or one sentence into a short video in well under a minute, and it shows the credit cost before you start.
Read more: New App Oraku Turns a Photo or a Sentence Into a VideoDisney tech staff asked leaders when the next layoffs would come, and say they got no clear answer. The episode shows what silence does to a workforce.
Read more: Disney tech staff press bosses on layoffs they read about in the newsThree recent cases in British Columbia show scammers using a pharmacy, a police phone number and a real person's name to get card details and personal information.
Read more: Scammers are posing as your pharmacy, police and friends this holiday seasonAirbnb says its own AI travel agent arrives in the first half of 2027, planning trips and handling refunds and rebookings inside the app.
Read more: Airbnb plans an AI travel assistant for the first half of 2027
