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Tesla's app now has a layout built for iPad, iPhone Duo and Android tablets, so car and home energy controls use the whole screen instead of a stretched phone view.
Read more: Tesla's app now fits iPads and Apple's new iPhone Duo screensOpenAI and partners used thousands of AI agents to scan millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes. The leads are early, but they could speed up disease research.
Read more: OpenAI's AI agents sift millions of brain cells in 32 minutesHandy will pay $2.95 million after regulators said it hit gig workers with unclear fines. Here is what happened and what to check before using any gig app.
Read more: Handy to pay $2.95 million over hidden fines on gig workersAn Australian court says Apple must allow rival app stores and outside payments on iPhones from March 2027. Apple plans to appeal, so the date could still move.
Read more: Australia orders Apple to let iPhones use rival app storesGoogle says most Fitbit Charge 6 owners never used tap-to-pay, which is why its new Fitbit Edge leaves the feature out. Check before you buy.
Read more: Google says most Fitbit owners never used tap-to-pay on their bandApple's newest watches can give a daily 0 to 10 readiness score after a week of wear, a quick guide to how hard to push that day.
Read more: Apple Watch can now score how ready your body is each dayBank of Ireland says its AI scored over 1 billion card payments and stopped €9.7m of fraud, so a verify request from your bank is likely an automated check.
Read more: Bank of Ireland says AI checked 1 billion card payments and stopped €9.7m of fraudNVIDIA says power, not chips, now holds back new AI data centers, and a group of energy companies is joining its platform to fix that.
Read more: Power Shortages Are Now the Biggest Roadblock for AI Data CentersShopify, Otto Group and others report big savings and sales gains from AI tools, including cheaper AI answers and warehouse changes tested in simulation first.
Read more: European retailers use AI to cut costs and test stores virtuallyNVIDIA's open Earth-2 weather models are being used by AXA, TotalEnergies and others for sharper local forecasts. Here is what that could mean for business and risk.
Read more: European firms use free AI weather models to forecast storms and sunChatGPT's microphone on Android and iPhone now handles more than 70 languages, including mixed ones, so multilingual users can talk without changing settings first.
Read more: ChatGPT voice typing now handles 70+ languages, even mixed onesOracle unveiled four AI tools for staffing, hiring, pay and payroll checks. They could cut admin work for small teams, but people still approve key decisions.
Read more: Oracle launches AI helpers that handle hiring, pay and staffing tasksCode in WhatsApp's Android app suggests Meta AI could go read-only and give way to Muse, an assistant that handles tasks like emails and table bookings.
Read more: WhatsApp may swap its Meta AI helper for a new one called MuseApple says HomeView, a $299 home hub with Siri AI, is built to finish tasks fast with few follow-up questions. Personal requests need a newer iPhone or iPad.
Read more: Apple's new $299 home screen speaker aims to get chores done fastTesla says hands-off driving for owners could arrive around Q2 next year, but only inside the small areas where its Robotaxi service already runs.
Read more: Tesla's self-driving may work only in conditions it handles wellGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai says AI agents now handle his daily catch-up, a sign that routine information work is being handed to software, with limits.
Read more: Google's CEO says a team of AI helpers now assists him at workGoogle says each AI agent it runs for Gemini gets its own walled-off computer, and the tools to control agent access and cost are expanding.
Read more: Google unveils a safer, separate computer for each AI agent it runsA new Southeast Asia report says missing payment options cost sales at checkout, and Indonesia shows it most. Here is what sellers abroad should know.
Read more: Southeast Asian shoppers abandon carts when their payment method is missingClaude Duet, a new Android assistant, says it can sort your to-do list and take on your workload. Check what it can see before you hand over your tasks.
Read more: Claude Duet is a new Android assistant that sorts your to-do listWhatsApp Web may soon get about 49 chat themes, so the computer version could finally look more like the phone app. No release date has been given.
Read more: WhatsApp on your computer may get nearly 50 new chat themesAmazon says attackers used the PHP2Shell flaws on October 17, four days before anyone was told. Websites built on PHP are the concern.
Read more: Hackers hit PHP2Shell flaws four days before the public warningEternal, the Indian delivery company, has launched dark.ai, a chat assistant that says even its own developers cannot read your conversations.
Read more: Indian delivery giant Eternal launches a private AI chat assistantA Reddit user asked Claude to clean up an Android TV that was really a locked Samsung TV. The AI used a phone camera to finish the job in about 11 hours.
Read more: Someone had AI clean up their Samsung TV by letting it watch through a phone cameraDeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, raised about $15 billion, which could mean more choice and lower prices for the AI tools businesses and families use.
Read more: Chinese AI startup DeepSeek raises $15 billion to take on US rivals
