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Drone strikes disrupted Russian banking and delivery apps, and Moscow is now weighing underground data centers. The lesson applies to any business.
Read more: Russia wants to move data centers underground after drone strikesGoogle added a way to save notes inside a Gemini chat, and one Android writer now uses it instead of Keep for research. It is open to personal accounts.
Read more: Why one writer now saves notes in Gemini instead of Google KeepNvidia's CEO says he backs both open and closed AI models, while a startup shows a tuned open model matching a top rival at a fraction of the price.
Read more: Nvidia's CEO says he is happy to profit from both open and closed AIRunway's co-founder says AI is shifting from making video clips to building interactive worlds, a change that could reach how businesses make ads and training.
Read more: Runway's co-founder says AI is moving from making clips to building worldsOpenAI has hired Uber's Jill Hazelbaker to run corporate affairs, a sign the AI maker is putting more weight on how it deals with the public and officials.
Read more: OpenAI hires Uber's Jill Hazelbaker to lead corporate affairsPalantir's revenue nearly doubled and U.S. business sales passed government sales, but many new corporate deals are short trials that could be dropped.
Read more: Palantir's sales nearly doubled, but its new business customers may not stayMaybelline now lets shoppers preview lipstick, eye and brow shades on their own face inside ChatGPT, then find where to buy them.
Read more: Maybelline lets you try on makeup inside ChatGPT using your cameraWalmart's AI assistant, Sparky, can now turn a photo of a handwritten list into a shopping cart, just ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Read more: Walmart's shopping assistant can now read your photos and handwritten listsCisco says it is combining what it sees across business networks with OpenAI models to build security that adapts on its own. Details are scarce.
Read more: Cisco is using OpenAI models to spot and stop cyberattacks fasterMeta says advertisers who followed its AI assistant's tips got about 5% more conversions and spent 9% more, and some outlets say Google Search could lose out.
Read more: Meta's AI ad helper links to 9% higher ad spending, Google may feel itApple's yearly filing says AI agents can send messages, change code and make purchases in ways nobody directed, which matters before you give one access.
Read more: Apple warns its own AI helpers could act without being told toOpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra model designed a talking-to-Codex gadget in under a week, but humans still had to fix mistakes before it could be built.
Read more: OpenAI says its AI designed a working gadget in under a weekApple's iOS 27.3 lets app makers plug Siri AI into their apps, so you can ask Siri to get things done inside them. It starts as a developer preview.
Read more: Apple lets Siri AI work inside the other apps on your iPhoneFal, which runs AI image, video and audio tools for other companies, raised $1.3 billion and doubled its value to $16 billion since April.
Read more: Fal, a company that runs AI video and image tools, is now worth $16 billionWIRED reports an Accenture contractor's personal AI coding tool ran with admin access inside a Defense Department system for two months. Accenture denies wrongdoing.
Read more: Contractor's personal AI tool ran inside a Pentagon network for two monthsA Stanford study found 44 percent of well-known claims about AI chatbots no longer hold, so old advice on what AI can or can't do may be wrong.
Read more: Most of what we know about AI chatbots goes out of date within about a yearCrowdStrike released a tool that lets security teams stop an AI agent, block its restart and cut its network access, but a human still decides when to use it.
Read more: CrowdStrike launches an emergency off switch for rogue AI agentsApple Intelligence is now live on iPhones in China, with Alibaba's Qwen handling the jobs ChatGPT does elsewhere. Here is who gets it and who does not.
Read more: iPhones in China get Apple's AI features, powered by Alibaba's QwenYango Ride now works inside ChatGPT, so riders in more than 25 countries can check fares, routes and pickup times in one chat before booking.
Read more: You can now plan a Yango ride inside a ChatGPT conversationCall transcription turns phone and video calls into searchable text, which can replace note-taking and give teams a record for training and compliance.
Read more: Call transcription turns phone calls into searchable written textLinkedIn says the cost of running its AI hiring tool has stopped rising after it changed the models behind it, a sign of how AI bills can shape prices.
Read more: LinkedIn says it held AI costs flat by changing the models behind its toolsOpenAI says ChatGPT now runs one search for every five on Google, which could mean more ads in chatbot answers and fewer visitors to business websites.
Read more: OpenAI says ChatGPT now handles one search for every five on GoogleOpenAI, Anthropic and other tech firms say they are working to protect Tuesday's US midterm elections from false information and efforts to undermine democracy.
Read more: OpenAI and Anthropic Staff 'War Rooms' to Block Election LiesOpenAI is partnering with Cathedral, the startup that got into Anthropic's systems, to test its own defenses. AI firms hold vast data, so their security touches users.
Read more: OpenAI hires the startup that broke into Anthropic's systems
