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The Better Business Bureau is sharing advice on avoiding scam phone calls, and its main message is simple: slow down before you answer questions or send money.
Read more: Better Business Bureau shares ways to avoid scam phone callsApple says a test version of iOS 27.3 arrives next week with some Apple Intelligence tools for iPhones in China. The new Siri is not part of it.
Read more: Apple plans to bring some of its AI features to iPhones in ChinaThe FTC and eight states say Toast signed up customers for add-ons they did not want and made cancelling hard. Business owners should check their bills.
Read more: FTC and eight states sue Toast over hidden fees and billing trapsA reviewer says Anthropic's new Claude Duet agent is a bit less capable than rivals, but its habit of checking in makes it easier to trust with real work.
Read more: Anthropic's new AI helper does less on its own, and that wins trustA researcher found a database password inside Applebee's Android app, exposing customer details. The flaw is fixed, but scam risk remains for account holders.
Read more: Applebee's app left a database password open to anyoneA China-linked hacking group used an AI tool called ARTEX to go after more than 200 organizations at once, showing how AI lets small teams attack at scale.
Read more: Chinese hackers use AI tool to go after 200+ organizations at onceWorkday agreed to buy C1.ai, a tool that controls which people and AI agents can reach company apps and data, and the move points to a gap many firms share.
Read more: Workday buys C1.ai to control who and what can access company systemsAmazon says its cloud unit could grow more than 40% a year for two years, driven by AI demand. For businesses on cloud tools, that may shape prices and features.
Read more: Amazon's cloud arm expects growth above 40% a year for two yearsA top investor at Baillie Gifford says Anthropic's tech skill, efficient spending and founder control make it a fit for people who invest for the long term.
Read more: Why Some Big Investors Are Backing Anthropic for the Long HaulGoogle's Gemini app now lets you share an AI version of your face and voice with friends, so you can all appear in the same generated images and videos.
Read more: Gemini lets you put your friends in AI photos and videosCourts have sanctioned lawyers who filed fake cases made up by AI, and bar groups now say the lawyer, not the tool, is responsible for checking the work.
Read more: Lawyers who trust AI to write court filings can face sanctionsAnthropic's Claude now blocks requests to rebuild a specific existing video game, even renamed. Original ideas and your own assets are still fine.
Read more: Claude now refuses to rebuild existing video games for youOpenAI's CEO says RAM is better used in data centers than in home PCs, while a memory shortage pushes up the price of laptops, phones and other gadgets.
Read more: OpenAI's Sam Altman says computer memory belongs in data centersAmerican Express now lets certain Blue Cash and business cardholders move cash-back rewards into an Amex savings or checking account, with no minimum.
Read more: Amex lets you send card cash back straight into savingsProsecutors say eight people ran a fake-deli scheme that drained more than $7 million from food aid cards. Here is what happened and what SNAP users can do.
Read more: Eight charged in $7 million scheme to steal food aid from New YorkersDartmouth's provost resigned after a review found he used AI in his academic writing without telling journals. The lesson for any workplace is about disclosure.
Read more: Dartmouth's second-in-command resigns over undisclosed AI use in his writingOpenAI says ChatGPT will get stricter on violent topics and that it will publish safety reports, but none of its claims have been independently checked yet.
Read more: OpenAI tightens ChatGPT violence rules and promises safety reportsRevolve now uses AI to build a landing page for each ad click. Spangle, the software maker, reports big sales gains in tests, though the numbers come from its own case study.
Read more: Fashion Retailer Revolve Uses AI to Build a Web Page for Each Ad ClickPolice say 110 people reported fake Amazon calls in nine days, losing £86,837 in total. The scam works by making a call about your account feel urgent.
Read more: Fake Amazon callers stole £86,837 from shoppers in nine daysWorldwide Express used AI agents to sort out freight billing disputes, cutting open cases 75% and freeing $10 million in cash, with people still approving.
Read more: Shipping firm uses AI to clear billing disputes and free up $10 millionCrosby, a two-year-old AI-run law firm, has bid for the brand of Weil Gotshal, a famed Wall Street firm that is preparing to dissolve.
Read more: AI-run law firm Crosby bids for the name of collapsing Weil GotshalA How-To Geek writer says free apps from the Linux world beat Windows' own tools for disk space, PDFs, phone linking and screenshots.
Read more: Five free apps born on Linux that fix Windows annoyancesBluesky's new beta moderation inbox puts reports, strikes and appeals in one place in the app, so you no longer have to rely on email.
Read more: Bluesky adds one inbox for reports, strikes and appealsStripe ran $1 billion in its own vendor payments through Global Payouts and found that bad recipient details, not banks, caused most failures.
Read more: Stripe moved $1 billion in vendor payments to its own payout tool
