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Anthropic's Claude Marketplace now lists more than 25 partner tools, and some companies can pay for them from money already set aside for Claude.
Read more: Anthropic's Claude store now sells more than 25 partner AI toolsAT&T's Connected Life security system now works with Google's Gemini AI, so you can ask your cameras plain questions, but only on a $29.99 monthly plan.
Read more: AT&T home security cameras can now answer questions about your footageGoogle told schools that turning off its AI features would also cost them Search. DuckDuckGo is offering an AI-free alternative, which matters if your child uses Google at school.
Read more: DuckDuckGo courts schools after Google ties search to AIOpen AI models are being adopted for lower costs and more control, and a Hugging Face policy chief says the open question is who makes money from them.
Read more: Free AI models are going mainstream, and the money question is openA reader poll found the premium Gemini plan beat the cheaper Google AI Plus. Before paying for either, check which features you would really use.
Read more: More people pay for premium Gemini than Google expectedNothing says its first AI device ships in December with no new screen. Details are scarce, and earlier screen-free AI gadgets have struggled to win people over.
Read more: Nothing says its first AI gadget, with no screen, ships in DecemberOpenAI has added GIF creation to ChatGPT, so you can ask for a short looping clip in plain words. It could help anyone who sends memes or runs social posts.
Read more: ChatGPT can now make GIFs, the short looping clips, from your promptsInstinct's founder says nearly 40% of users link a credit card within three weeks. Here is what these AI assistants ask for and what to check first.
Read more: Nearly 40% of users give an AI assistant their credit card in 3 weeksA Verge reviewer tested Amazon's Bee Frontier, which records daily conversations, and says its AI summaries left her doubting her own memory.
Read more: Reviewer's AI wearable that records everything left her feeling gaslitOpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, whose tools already power its Codex coding assistant, in a push to help AI agents and developers share code.
Read more: OpenAI buys the startup behind the tools its coding assistant usesMeta has bought Conductor, a startup whose tool lets developers run several AI coding helpers at once. It hints at cheaper, faster software work.
Read more: Meta buys Conductor, a tool for running many AI coding helpers at onceA Hugging Face policy chief talks about the costs, risks and trade-offs of building a business on free AI models, as Chinese open models gain ground.
Read more: What to know before building a business on free AI modelsSalesforce says AI stalls when it speeds up one step and the rest of the process stays slow. Its fix is tiny teams that build with AI tools.
Read more: Why Company AI Tools Stall, and the Small-Team Fix Salesforce UsesA startup founded by a former DOGE staffer says it got into Anthropic's AI agents through outside vendor tools. Here is why that matters if your business uses agents.
Read more: Startup says it broke into Anthropic's AI agents via vendor toolsDoorDash is rolling out an AI tool that suggests when and where Dashers should work, but the suggestions come with no promise of orders or pay.
Read more: DoorDash Dashers Can Now Ask an AI When and Where to WorkBerlin firm Pliant raised $80 million to let outside AI tools run business payments, which raises a fair question about who is responsible when software moves money.
Read more: Berlin payments firm Pliant raises $80 million to let AI pay billsA new open-source test found the best AI model solved only 60 percent of routine cloud tasks, and some of its mistakes could not be undone.
Read more: AI assistants fail at many routine cloud computing jobs, a new test findsAi2 is building NeuralGCM+, a free, open climate model funded by Google.org, aimed at faster long-range forecasts of rain and water supply through mid-century.
Read more: Ai2 and Google fund a faster, open climate model for the coming decadesAmazon Quick can now approve routine AI actions on its own, while sending risky ones back to a person. Here is how it works and what businesses should set up.
Read more: Amazon's AI assistant now skips routine approvals, but not risky onesUber says outside AI agents arranged just four rides last quarter, a sign that asking a bot to book your trip is still rare.
Read more: Uber says AI helpers booked just 4 rides last quartermSecure told current and former customers to change passwords after a hacker reportedly stole an encrypted customer database. A weak master password is the risk.
Read more: Password app mSecure tells all customers to change their passwordsSnowflake says its AI coding tool, CoCo, is helping sales growth pick up again, a sign that AI helpers for business data work may be gaining ground.
Read more: Snowflake's new AI coding helper is lifting its sales growthGoogle will back the financing for a Kentucky data center built for Anthropic, a sign of how much money the AI boom needs to keep growing.
Read more: Google agrees to back loans for TeraWulf's Anthropic data centerThe OCC, a federal bank regulator, released a guide for examiners reviewing bank AI use. It sets no new rules, so banks face the same safety standards as before.
Read more: Bank regulator issues a guide for checking how banks use AI
