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Federal agencies and Congress are leaning on AI failure reports as a first step toward oversight, which could shape how fast problems with AI tools come to light.
Read more: Washington Looks to AI Failure Reports as First Step on OversightGoldman Sachs reportedly limited AI coding tools for bankers and traders. The debate is whether restricting people is enough, or whether the tools need tighter limits.
Read more: Goldman Sachs limits AI coding tools for bankers and tradersBillionaire investor Bill Ackman says Big Tech's huge AI spending will pay off, as a roughly $2 trillion stock sell-off tests investor patience.
Read more: Bill Ackman bets Big Tech's AI spending will pay offGoogle's new Gemini 4 Carbon AI model tops a key test by one point and costs less per task than some rivals, but it still gets facts wrong and is not widely available.
Read more: Google's new Gemini 4 Carbon AI edges past rivals in testsSalesforce plans to buy Cresta, whose AI helps with phone calls. Salesforce users may get smarter call help later, but not before the deal closes.
Read more: Salesforce is buying Cresta, a company that coaches agents on phone callsCMF's $279 Phone 2 Pro matched the $379 Nothing Phone 3a on screen and battery. The cuts are elsewhere, and a successor is not coming in 2026.
Read more: How a $279 phone matched a $379 phone on the things you seeDocuSign is buying Suplari, an AI company that tracks supplier spending, so firms can check whether what they pay matches what their contracts say.
Read more: DocuSign buys Suplari to help companies track supplier spendingClaude scored 48.3% on a Google engineering test and Gemini came in fourth. Even the best score was under 50%, which matters if you plan to pay for an AI tool.
Read more: Google's engineering test ranks Claude first and Gemini fourthAn old laptop SSD can become a fast external drive with a small case, giving you cheap extra room for games or backups instead of a new purchase.
Read more: Turn the old drive from your laptop into fast external storageNVIDIA's much-criticized DLSS 5 graphics tool is being added to its free RTX Remix mod platform, so older games can use it, at a cost to smoothness.
Read more: NVIDIA's disliked new game graphics tool is coming to older gamesTraversal, which uses AI to find the cause of website outages, raised $120 million at a $1 billion value. Faster fixes can mean fewer lost sales.
Read more: Startup that uses AI to fix website outages is now worth $1 billionSmall ears can make AirPods slip, but the fixes are simple: new tip sizes, ear hooks or foam tips, most under $30.
Read more: How to get AirPods to fit small ears and stay putA report says YouTube may add time limits beyond Shorts, which could help you and your kids cap viewing without extra apps. It is not launched yet.
Read more: YouTube may add time limits for more than just ShortsApple's first macOS 27.3 test version shows Markdown files with real formatting in Quick Look, so notes and instruction files are easier to read at a glance.
Read more: Your Mac will soon show formatted text files with a quick press of the spacebarA shipping company says three AI agents cleared billing disputes that had frozen $15 million, cutting its payment wait by four weeks. Here is what it did.
Read more: Shipping firm frees $10 million in stuck cash using AI helpersAmazon's Connect Customer software now lets agents pause an email while waiting on an approval, take a call, and return later, with reports that count only active work.
Read more: Amazon's call center software now lets agents pause an email and come back laterCanva is cutting jobs and restructuring after growth slowed for the first time in a decade. Teams that rely on its design tools may see changes.
Read more: Canva cuts more than one in five jobs after growth slowsBlock's third-quarter revenue rose 10% to $6.7 billion, Cash App profit jumped 27%, and the company raised its full-year gross profit outlook.
Read more: Block beats expectations as Cash App growth lifts profit outlookWhatsApp is reportedly working on ways to help people catch up on busy group chats, which could save time for families, teams and businesses.
Read more: WhatsApp is working on easier ways to catch up on busy group chatsAnthropic has described FlashProve, a system meant to let anyone confirm an AI answer came from the model it claims, though no lab plans to use it yet.
Read more: Anthropic is building a way to prove which AI model wrote an answerSalesforce says half of Slack messages now come from apps and AI agents, not people. Here is what that means for teams that use Slack.
Read more: Half of all Slack messages now come from apps and AI agentsA how-to guide says your router's device list and traffic tools can show which gadgets upload the most data, and whether anything looks unfamiliar.
Read more: How to see which devices on your home Wi-Fi are sending out dataSmall business sales rose 2.3% in October from a year earlier, the best gain since July 2025, as shoppers spent more per purchase heading into the holidays.
Read more: Small business sales rose 2.3% in October, best since July 2025Drone strikes disrupted Russian banking and delivery apps, and Moscow is now weighing underground data centers. The lesson applies to any business.
Read more: Russia wants to move data centers underground after drone strikes
