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Circana, a firm that tracks what shoppers buy, has hired AI company Ode to speed up how it makes market reports for clients.
Read more: Market research firm Circana hires Ode to bring AI into its workA US cyber agency says attackers are pairing a Linux flaw with two PHP flaws to take full control of web servers. Unpatched sites are at risk.
Read more: Hackers are chaining two flaws to take over Linux web serversAccertify, a fraud-prevention company, is letting payment and sales platforms offer its tools, so your provider may soon add fraud checks beyond checkout.
Read more: Fraud-prevention firm Accertify opens a partner program for payment and sales platformsA new daily ranking of AI-built games finds Claude Opus behind 54% of new games, while OpenAI-based games earn up to 58% more likes per play.
Read more: AI-made games: Claude builds the most, OpenAI wins more player likesA new comparison tests Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude over 30 days and 5 years. Here is what it means if you plan to pay for an AI assistant.
Read more: Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude compared over 30 days and 5 yearsZoho is adding AI agents to Zoho Campaigns, its business email tool. Price and timing are unknown, so owners should wait for details before planning around it.
Read more: Zoho adds AI helpers that can run email campaigns for youFestive sales bring fake sites and risky payment requests. Five quick checks on the site, seller and payment screen can keep a bargain from becoming a loss.
Read more: Five quick checks to avoid online shopping fraud during salesAbout 1 in 10 Android phones still runs Android 11, a six-year-old version, while more than a quarter have moved to the newest release, Android 17.
Read more: Android 11, a six-year-old version, still runs on 1 in 10 phonesBen Tossell, who writes the AI newsletter Ben's Bites, felt stuck for 10 months and is now trying a 30-day reset with fewer tools and no AI summaries.
Read more: A top AI newsletter writer says chasing every new tool left him stuckEcommpay has launched an AI chatbot for small businesses that take card and online payments without a finance team. Details are still thin.
Read more: Payments company Ecommpay launches AI chatbot for small businessesGap Inc. is using an AI tool called Bridgette to handle hiring chores as it expects about 200,000 seasonal job applications. Here is what that means if you apply.
Read more: Gap now uses an AI helper to screen holiday job applicantsMicrosoft fixed a bug that kept regular employees from logging into office PCs remotely. If your team works from home, it is worth a quick check with IT.
Read more: Microsoft fixes Windows update that blocked remote loginsVisa and Mastercard agreed to end a rule that makes shops take all their cards, but experts say few stores will turn any away. Here is why.
Read more: Visa and Mastercard drop a card rule, but shops may not use itAO3 is offline for two to four weeks after a security incident, and account details may be exposed, so reused passwords are worth changing now.
Read more: Popular fan-fiction site AO3 goes dark for up to four weeksAnthropic says about 20% of its shares will go to the public good, but it has not said how much reaches charities, when, or who decides.
Read more: Anthropic promises 20% of its shares to charity, but details are vagueServiceNow stock had its worst day on record after small misses and slow AI payoff. Business software buyers may soon hear more AI pitches.
Read more: ServiceNow stock has its worst day ever after weak resultsIsland, a business browser maker, launched a version for AI agents that applies company security rules to what the agents see, change and delete.
Read more: Island launches a secure web browser built for AI agents at workFoundation Mortgage has launched AskClara, an AI chat tool for brokers that handles loans for borrowers who do not fit standard rules. A 'no' is not final.
Read more: A mortgage lender launches an AI chat tool for the brokers it works withElavon's CEO says banks should go slow on AI shopping agents to avoid repeating 25 years of fraud mistakes, and he says the bank-backed Paze wallet is ready to pilot.
Read more: A big bank's payments chief wants AI shopping agents to slow downPostgres inventor Michael Stonebraker says AI tools that answer plain-English business questions failed badly on MIT's own data, and he explains why.
Read more: Database inventor says AI that answers business questions still failsA Bloomberg Technology session says AI that takes action will need a 'self-driving' network, so businesses should check their setup before they adopt it.
Read more: Companies Want AI That Acts on Its Own, and Their Networks Must Keep UpeBay's quarterly revenue rose 14% to $3.2 billion, and the company says AI tools are making it easier to list and sell used items.
Read more: eBay sales jump 14% as more people buy and sell used itemsMistral has released its biggest AI model for anyone to download. It is fast, cheap for its class and strong at coding, but Chinese models still score higher overall.
Read more: Mistral's free AI model codes well and runs cheap, but China still leadsThe head of the CFTC says markets for AI computing costs may be coming, and that rules for AI trading software are still unsettled. Here is what that could mean.
Read more: US trading regulator eyes futures contracts for AI computing costs
