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A new French-language prize openly invites fiction written with AI tools, and entrants must say which tool and prompt they used.
Read more: A new book prize is built for stories written with AIIBM released free speech-to-text models that transcribe and translate audio, including one that ranks second among open models on English accuracy.
Read more: IBM releases free speech-to-text models that transcribe and translateWhop, a platform for starting and running online businesses, raised $205 million at a $5.1 billion value, with AI that suggests business decisions.
Read more: Whop raises $205M at a $5.1B value to help people run online businessesSamsung's 27-inch Odyssey G80HF 5K gaming monitor is $599.99 at Amazon and B&H Photo, $100 below its best earlier price.
Read more: Samsung's sharp 27-inch gaming monitor drops to $599.99, $100 under its bestA report says Google is taking cues from Samsung's screen recorder for Pixel phones, which could make sharing how-tos and saving proof easier.
Read more: Google Pixel phones may get a Samsung-style screen recording featureA Fiserv executive says online stores are working out how their checkout will handle AI shoppers, and McKinsey sees up to $5 trillion in sales by 2030.
Read more: Online stores weigh whether their checkout can handle AI shoppersMistral and Nvidia plan to use AI to speed up how cars, planes and chips are designed and tested, and to publish open tests so others can check the results.
Read more: Mistral and Nvidia team up to design products faster with AIInstant payments and stablecoins are here, but speakers at Money20/20 said many banks and companies are slow to use them fully. Checks and ACH are not going away.
Read more: New ways to move money are here, but many banks are slow to use themAndroid keeps a log of dismissed notifications, and a quicker way to open it exists. It could save a message you swiped away by accident.
Read more: There is a faster way to see old Android notificationsFanFeed co-founder Cole Rubin says a little fear, a sharp sense of his own gaps and speed help a small company compete with bigger names in ticketing.
Read more: FanFeed's Co-Founder Says Staying a Little Paranoid Helps Startups Beat GiantsSarasota Memorial and Unite Us say tracking patient referrals to community help after discharge cut hospital readmissions. The exact numbers were not in the release text.
Read more: Sarasota Memorial Links Patients to Community Help and Cuts ReadmissionsCloudflare says it switched on default protection against two new PHP flaws for all customers about nine hours before the public heard about them.
Read more: Cloudflare blocks two new PHP security flaws before they were publicAnthropic's own study found its AI agents logged six times the hours of its staff, while junior workers' share of new technical hires fell from 27% to 9%.
Read more: Anthropic's AI Helpers Log Six Times Their Human Bosses' HoursRayNeo is selling two kinds of smart glasses in Canada: one acts as a portable big screen, the other translates speech and takes meeting notes.
Read more: RayNeo brings glasses with a giant virtual screen to CanadaThe F Suite launched Floyd, an AI that links every answer to the CFO conversations and documents behind it, so finance leaders can check before they sign off.
Read more: A new AI tool for finance chiefs shows the source behind every answerAnthropic says its Claude AI flagged 493 security issues in 25 open-source projects, including one that sat unseen for 21 years. Here is why that matters.
Read more: Claude found 493 security flaws in 25 open-source projectsAt SaaStr, two AI assistants set up their own shared mailbox and agreed on a safe word, so a human must approve any action. It shows why approval rules matter.
Read more: Two AI assistants built their own shared mailbox and a safe wordA video roundup points to possible price hikes from Jio, Airtel and Vi, a Micromax return, an iQOO16R for India and a WhatsApp reply warning.
Read more: Phone news roundup: price hike talk, Micromax return, new iQOOSalesforce built a voice AI for business calls that shows its written answer before speaking it, so a person can check it first. The test scores are the company's own.
Read more: Salesforce unveils Launa-Omni, a voice AI built for business callsPHP shipped fixes for two critical flaws that could let attackers run code on a web server with no login. Any site running PHP should update.
Read more: PHP fixes two critical flaws that let attackers take over serversSafety advocates want OpenAI and Anthropic to cap the computing power used to build new AI, a debate that could shape the tools businesses rely on.
Read more: AI safety advocates want OpenAI and Anthropic to limit computing powerCriminals are buying search ads and building fake AI install pages that trick people into pasting a harmful command. The trick is now the most common attack one security firm sees.
Read more: Fake AI download pages are tricking workers into installing malwareA survey of 520 tech leaders finds companies swap AI models freely. The hard part to move is the connections and workflows built around those models.
Read more: Companies swap AI models easily, but the connections built around them stickSecurity firm CrowdStrike found four hacking groups using AI tools like Claude to run attacks, and the damage came from old security gaps nobody had fixed.
Read more: Criminal hackers are tricking AI tools into running attacks for them
