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Wealth firm Arca lets AI agents do the background work, but only human advisors can trade or move client money. Here is why that setup matters for your own tools.
Read more: This wealth firm lets AI do the prep work and humans move the moneyWhatsApp test versions show timer choices of 24 hours, seven days or 90 days for disappearing messages, but there is no release date yet.
Read more: WhatsApp tests more choices for disappearing messagesA Galaxy Watch 9 owner says turning off Always On Display added six to eight hours of battery, without losing the features that make a smartwatch useful.
Read more: Turning off one watch setting added hours of battery lifeAI agents that can pick a product and start the payment are becoming practical, and businesses can set the limits. Early use is expected to be narrow.
Read more: AI shopping agents can now buy things for you within set limitsA new report says Google still gets 18 times the traffic of ChatGPT, which matters if customers find your business through search.
Read more: Google still draws 18 times the traffic of ChatGPTMicrosoft is promoting physical AI, software that lets factory machines sense, decide and act on their own. Small manufacturers are part of the pitch.
Read more: Microsoft Pushes AI That Lets Factory Robots Think on the JobOpenAI and ServiceNow now let staff look up work data and take actions from inside ChatGPT, within each company's own permission rules.
Read more: ChatGPT can now carry out work tasks inside ServiceNowA new AI model called Jev returns a probability score instead of text. Its maker says that makes sorting tasks far cheaper, though the claim needs checking.
Read more: New AI model answers with odds, not text, and claims 100x lower costA researcher released working attack code for an Android flaw that can crash a phone or cut off calls with one text. Older phones may stay exposed.
Read more: A single text message can crash some Android phonesTikTok launched a restaurant guide called Must Eat and is reportedly working on payments, a sign it wants to be the app you use for almost everything.
Read more: TikTok is adding restaurant picks and payments to become an everything appA man reportedly used Meta's AI model, Muse, to sue a company. The case settled in 20 minutes, a sign of how AI could reach small legal disputes.
Read more: Man used Meta's AI to sue a company, and it settled in 20 minutesA new grant will fund AI tools to help states understand and replace the old computer systems behind Medicaid and SNAP, which could mean fewer delays for families.
Read more: Grant will use AI to help states fix outdated food and health aid systemsInstagram's repost button shares public posts and reels with your followers in one tap. It is also easy to hit by mistake, and undoing it takes seconds.
Read more: How to repost on Instagram, and how to undo an accidental oneOne Apple IT writer argues that heavy AI users could save money by running models on a Mac instead of paying cloud bills that grow with every task.
Read more: Running AI on your own Mac may cost less than paying per useA writer at Android Police deleted a VPN app, VLC and the download app 1DM after switching to the Aloha browser. Here is what it does and what to check first.
Read more: One Android browser replaced this writer's VPN, video player and downloaderSamsung's One UI software can share a keyboard between phone and tablet and send apps to different speakers. Other Android phones can't match these tricks.
Read more: Samsung phones can do some audio and multi-device tricks others can'tAI company Sierra passed $400M in yearly recurring revenue as ServiceNow stock fell 26.9% in a day. Software pricing is shifting from per user to per result.
Read more: A young AI company added $150M in sales in three monthsAnthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, has filed to go public, and the filing leaves open questions about its business and the wider AI sector.
Read more: Anthropic's stock market filing raises questions about its businessPhones like the iPhone 18 Pro can survive a dunk, but CNET says pools and the sea are a different matter, and a warranty will likely not cover the damage.
Read more: Your Waterproof Phone Is Not Meant for the Pool or the SeaA tech reporter spent five days with Apple's roughly $2,000 iPhone Duo and kept using it over a top-end iPhone, despite broken apps and a return to Touch ID.
Read more: A reporter took two iPhones on vacation and kept the new DuoReddit says it will slowly require accounts to see more of the site, starting with a test outside the US. Here is what that could mean if you read without logging in.
Read more: Reddit will start requiring logins to see more of its contentExperts expect more fake delivery texts, often posing as Royal Mail, as Christmas online shopping peaks in November and December.
Read more: Fake parcel texts are expected to spike as Christmas shopping startsResearchers showed that opening a shared ChatGPT link could let an attacker read private chats. OpenAI says it fixed the flaw on October 26.
Read more: Researchers Showed One Shared Link Could Hijack a ChatGPT AccountJaipur Police say a suspected kingpin paid workers for ID papers to open bank accounts that moved about ₹24 crore in fraud and betting money.
Read more: Police say workers' ID papers were sold to run a fraud money network
