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Tom's Guide shares seven ChatGPT prompts for comparing products, spotting hidden costs and finding cheaper options before holiday shopping starts.
Read more: Seven ways to use ChatGPT to avoid overpaying for techOpenAI's CEO met Samsung's top leaders in South Korea about memory chips, a sign the supply squeeze could lift prices for phones, laptops and AI tools.
Read more: OpenAI's Sam Altman meets Samsung leaders as chip shortage growsAI assistants and agents influenced 262 billion dollars in online sales over the 2025 holidays, so sellers now have to be readable by machines, not just people.
Read more: AI shopping assistants now influence one in five online salesCloudflare says it blocked 18.2 million network attacks in three months, mostly small and short ones. Any business with a website can be a target.
Read more: Cyberattacks that knock sites offline hit 18.2 million in three monthsFake forex firms with no UAE office are cold calling residents and draining savings. Victims lost between Dh36,500 and Dh180,000 each.
Read more: Fake forex brokers in the UAE cold call victims and take millionsFake Geek Squad invoices push you to call a number within about a day. The call can end with a stranger on your computer and real money gone from your bank.
Read more: Fake Geek Squad invoice emails want you to call a scam numberResearchers showed a booby-trapped ChatGPT share link could read a signed-in user's private chats. OpenAI has fixed it, and users need to do nothing.
Read more: A shared ChatGPT link could have exposed private chatsEvery iPhone has a built-in Background Sounds setting that can cover small noises that wake light sleepers. It costs nothing and needs no app.
Read more: A free iPhone setting can mask the noises that wake you at nightHuge AI data centers can push up electric bills for people who live miles away, and some states are now making the companies pay more of the cost.
Read more: AI data centers can raise your electric bill even if none is nearbyOpenAI's Dot agent can now start text conversations on iPhone and Android, but only for US Pro subscribers, and the iPhone route rests on shaky ground.
Read more: ChatGPT's AI helper can now text you first on iPhone and AndroidAmazon says it will spend even more on AI, and its shares slipped, which matters if your savings are in stocks or a retirement fund.
Read more: Amazon joins tech rivals in spending even more on AI as shares slipOpenAI posted outside arguments that AI training is fair use. No new ruling came with it, so the rules stay unsettled for creators and AI users.
Read more: OpenAI shares legal arguments that AI training is fair useWhatsApp is rolling out a new layout on iPhone and Android, and iPhone users are seeing green where the app used to be blue.
Read more: WhatsApp redesign turns iPhone app green and annoys some usersNvidia is in talks to guarantee billions in loans for an Anthropic data center, a sign that AI's building boom is leaning on its suppliers for support.
Read more: Nvidia may cosign billions in loans for an Anthropic data centerA privacy nonprofit is asking the FCC to protect people from unwanted political robocalls, which could mean fewer interruptions and fewer scams.
Read more: Privacy group asks FCC to stop unwanted political robocallsAARP is placing an inflatable couch around New York City so unpaid family caregivers can rest and share their stories, which could shape its push for people 50 and older.
Read more: AARP Puts an Inflatable Couch in New York City for Unpaid CaregiversNew York has put limits on AI chatbots that may urge children to hurt themselves, a step that matters to any family whose kids use these apps.
Read more: New York Limits Chatbots From Encouraging Self-Harm in ChildrenOpenAI now wants $10 billion less from investors than first planned, a sign that even the top AI company is trimming its money plans.
Read more: OpenAI cuts how much money it wants to raise by $10 billionGoogle says it has identified the fast battery drain hitting Pixel Watch owners and is working on a fix, though it has not said when it will arrive.
Read more: Google says a fix is coming for Pixel Watch battery drainPayment firms that process shop sales across Africa are adding loans, supplier credit and stock tracking, and your sales history may decide what you can borrow.
Read more: African payment apps now want to lend to and run your businessA tech writer used Claude and the free Rainmeter tool to make custom desktop widgets on Windows 11 in minutes, with no coding background.
Read more: He built custom Windows desktop widgets with Claude in minutesDarkbloom let Mac owners rent out their computers to run AI jobs. Falling AI prices mean pay is low, and older Macs may not be worth running.
Read more: Renting out your Mac to AI companies now pays far less than hopedAnthropic says an unreleased Claude model chained software flaws into five working attacks in tests, a sign that installing updates quickly matters more.
Read more: Anthropic says its AI linked software flaws into five working attacksBedrock Robotics raised $600M for excavators that dig with no one in the cab, a sign of how much money is chasing a shortage of skilled operators.
Read more: Diggers with no driver are suddenly a hot bet for investors
