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Tencent Cloud's CEO is steering the company's AI push toward business customers, with an office assistant called WorkBuddy at the center of the plan.
Read more: Tencent's cloud chief bets on an AI office assistant for businessesA writer let the Megu iPhone app plan three days of outfits from his own clothes. It broke his all-dark-blue habit, but its best features cost a subscription.
Read more: A writer let an AI app pick his outfits for three daysAndroid Authority reports ChatGPT is coming to Google Messages, the built-in texting app on many Android phones. Cost and privacy details are still unknown.
Read more: ChatGPT is coming to Google Messages, the texting app on AndroidBanks are using AI voice agents to answer calls at any hour. A vendor guide explains how they work and why a quick handoff to a person still matters.
Read more: Banks are letting AI agents answer customer phone callsElevenLabs says its new Cue model lines up text with speech faster and more accurately than the tools it tested, which could mean fewer late subtitles.
Read more: ElevenLabs unveils Cue, a tool that matches every word to its exact momentA August poll found 57 percent of Texans oppose new data centers, and the fight is shaping races for governor and Senate. Power bills and water are at the center.
Read more: Texas voters of every party turn against data centersTiger Financial says its new card payment system, built and tested with AI coding tools, is live in Southeast Asia. The speed and savings claims come only from the company.
Read more: Tiger Financial launches a card payment system built with AI coding toolsScene, a new iPhone shopping app from startup Dalet Labs, fills your feed with AI-made images of real products. It raised $7 million, so expect more of this.
Read more: A new shopping app shows you AI-made photos of real productsCompanies that wind down failed startups are selling their code and workplace records to AI labs, and one founder earned tens of thousands of dollars.
Read more: AI companies are buying the data of failed startups to train their modelsHong Kong's privacy office has 85 complaints about three company data breaches, and some scam victims lost more than HK$100,000.
Read more: Hong Kong shoppers hit by scam calls after three company data leaksHome Depot reportedly plans identity checks for AI shopping agents on its site, which could help keep fake or abusive bots away from your money and account.
Read more: Home Depot Wants AI Shopping Helpers to Prove Who They AreAbout $100 billion in loans tied to software companies comes due in 2028 and 2029, and lenders are already nervous. Here is what that could mean for vendors.
Read more: Software companies owe about $100 billion that comes due in 2028 and 2029Etsy beat Wall Street's forecast with $692.5 million in quarterly revenue, and a one-time gain from selling Depop pushed its profit far higher.
Read more: Etsy sales grow 11% to $692.5M as it books a big gain from Depop saleMastercard published an infographic saying that joining fraud and cyber-security tools cuts fraud, but the details behind that claim are not yet available.
Read more: Mastercard says linking fraud and cyber checks cuts fraud lossesSamsung Wallet on Galaxy phones in the US can now earn cash back at thousands of brands, with Rakuten behind it and a Black Friday boost.
Read more: Samsung Wallet now pays you cash back at over 3,500 brandsA Tom's Guide editor saw Apple's new MacBook Pro screen next to a Lenovo laptop and called the gap night and day, though Apple chose the test.
Read more: Apple's new MacBook Pro screen beats a rival laptop in a side-by-side testA reviewer compared five book-style foldables priced near $2,000. The Motorola Razr Fold wins on value and battery, and the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold lands last.
Read more: Five $2,000 folding phones compared, and the Pixel ranks lastFrom November 3, four older Claude models will quietly mark the text they write, and the mark survives copy and paste.
Read more: Claude will start hiding a secret mark in text from older modelsSmall business sales dropped 7% in Q3 2026, but the median price rose 17% to $350,000, mostly because bigger, more profitable companies made up more deals.
Read more: Fewer Small Businesses Are Selling, but the Ones That Sell Cost MoreAnthropic told investors its public push for AI safety could make it a target for government retaliation, a risk that matters to anyone who relies on Claude.
Read more: Anthropic warns investors its AI safety stance could draw government paybackAttackers have begun testing a critical, newly patched flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite that could expose payroll, HR and financial records without a login.
Read more: Hackers probe serious flaw in Oracle business softwareA Chinese blogger known for exposing scams was killed by people hired online, a reminder that scam groups can hit back at those who call them out.
Read more: Chinese anti-scam blogger killed by people hired onlineSurvival LLM is a free app that runs an AI helper and a reference library on your own computer, so it can answer emergency questions with no internet.
Read more: A free AI helper that works with no internet, for emergenciesSupply'd, food business software, now has an AI that checks supplier invoices and suggests fixes, with human approval switched on by default.
Read more: Food business software adds AI that checks supplier invoices
