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Visa tested 22 AI shopping agents on everyday purchases. They succeeded only about 57% of the time, so checking their picks before you pay still matters.
Read more: AI shopping assistants bought the wrong thing almost half the timeA woman was arrested after police linked her used Samsung foldable to a killing. Four simple checks can help any buyer avoid a similar mess.
Read more: She bought a used phone and was arrested. Here is how to avoid thatA tool called Webloc, sold to police in several countries, can locate people through technology built into everyday apps. Here is what that means for your phone.
Read more: Police tool can find people through ordinary phone appsSalesforce expects AI chatbots to start 20 percent of holiday online shopping visits in 2026, and sellers may need proof a real customer approved each AI-made order.
Read more: AI shopping assistants are about to send you a wave of holiday buyersA Reddit user says AI makes building an app so easy that it can hide the harder job of finding customers, while $200 a month in tools adds up.
Read more: Building an app with AI is easy. Finding customers is the hard partResearchers found a data-theft campaign against South Korean financial firms that leaned on AI coding tools, and the attacker's own files were left exposed.
Read more: Hackers Used AI Coding Tools to Steal Data From South Korean BanksComedian Husk went viral by showing chatbots fail simple tasks. Now OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI want to work with him, which says something about how far AI still has to go.
Read more: A comedian who mocks chatbots now has AI companies chasing himFour apps can bring features from newer Pixel phones to an older one. Two come with warnings, so it helps to know the catch before you install.
Read more: Older Pixel phones can copy new Pixel features with four appsBloomberg explains Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, two AI agents, and what they can do. Know the safety worries before you let one act for you.
Read more: Meta and OpenAI push AI agents, and safety questions followA 2025 survey found 92 percent of nonprofits use AI, yet only about 15 percent have a policy for using it responsibly. Here is why that gap matters.
Read more: Most nonprofits use AI, but few have rules for using it safelyIntuit's CEO says AI will help the TurboTax and QuickBooks maker grow, even as some wonder if the 44-year-old company is being disrupted.
Read more: Intuit's CEO explains how the TurboTax maker plans to handle AITwo health providers agreed to settle breach lawsuits, and affected patients can claim free credit monitoring and cash before January deadlines.
Read more: Two health providers settle data breach lawsuits, payouts availableHugging Face's CEO says the biggest AI dangers will come from a few secretive labs, and that people who run AI agents should be legally responsible for what they do.
Read more: Hugging Face CEO says the real AI danger is secret labs, not open modelsMeta says more than 10 million people in the US and Canada set up its Muse AI agent in about six weeks, while AWS sells stores a base for their own shopping helpers.
Read more: Over 10 million people set up Meta's new AI shopping helperA reviewer ran Google Maps and Waze side by side for over 500 miles and picked Maps for all-around driving, citing clearer traffic marks and calmer routes.
Read more: After 500 miles of testing, Google Maps beat Waze for everyday drivingAmazon has swapped Grubhub for Uber Eats as the food delivery perk for US Prime members, and the Grubhub+ benefit ends Thursday.
Read more: Amazon Prime now offers Uber Eats delivery, replacing GrubhubOpenAI says it will follow a set of community rules for towns that host its AI data centers, but the details on power bills and jobs are not public yet.
Read more: OpenAI sets out rules for how its AI data centers treat local townsAn Android Authority writer says a roughly $200 BOOX e-reader is how they got back to reading, after finding that reading on a phone is a trap.
Read more: A $200 BOOX e-reader is one writer's way out of phone readingSeenThis says its new tool lets teams brief an AI chatbot and get editable video ads in under an hour, but access is limited and the speed claim is early.
Read more: SeenThis lets your AI chatbot build video ads for youAttackers are using Microsoft's real sign-in page to take over work accounts. No password is stolen, and one rushed code entry by an employee can be enough.
Read more: Hackers Are Tricking Workers Into Handing Over Office Account AccessAmazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta plan at least $720 billion in AI spending this year, and investors are asking when it will pay off. Your stock holdings may feel it.
Read more: Big Tech plans $720 billion in AI spending this year, with no payoff yetThe New York Times looks at the experiences that shaped how Anthropic's CEO thinks about AI, a view critics call doomer and others call responsible.
Read more: How Anthropic's chief Dario Amodei came to see AI as both promise and riskAn engineer who helps build Anthropic's Claude Code warns that handing too much thinking to AI can leave you unable to explain your own work.
Read more: Anthropic engineer warns that leaning on AI can dull your thinkingWhatsApp is testing a way to write a message now and have it sent later on iPhone. Here is how it would work and what is still unknown.
Read more: WhatsApp is testing a way to schedule messages on iPhone
