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Anthropic's IPO filing shows its AI business growing fast and nearing profit, yet most big companies still spend very little on it.
Read more: Anthropic's IPO filing shows revenue up 14 times in a yearOpenAI signed deals with UAE energy firms, investors and agencies, while also seeking billions in funding from the country's state-backed investors.
Read more: OpenAI signs deals with energy firms and government in the UAEGeeky Gadgets reports on a Claude Code feature meant to automate repetitive daily tasks, but price and availability are still unclear.
Read more: Claude's Code feature is pitched as a way to automate daily choresA report says ChatGPT may add a Google Health link for Android users, so you could ask plain questions about your own health data.
Read more: ChatGPT may soon read your Android health dataA report says Anthropic's Claude AI found ways into Chrome, Android, Windows and Linux. Keep your devices updated, since fixes usually arrive that way.
Read more: Anthropic's Claude AI found ways to break into major devicesCisco Talos found a Windows data thief that asks AI chatbots to rank victims by how much money they could bring in. Here is what it takes and what to do.
Read more: New data-stealing virus uses AI to pick out the richest victimsA writer tried 12 AI agents as a stand-in chief of staff, and one week of tests included booking real train tickets. Here is what that means for everyday users.
Read more: A writer tested 12 AI agents to act as a personal assistantShopify's Fall '26 update lets store owners manage orders from AI chatbots and lets shoppers use those same bots to find and buy products.
Read more: Shopify lets AI chatbots run your online store and shop for youGoogle's Gemini 3.1 Pro, out in preview, tops a major AI ranking and can run at under half the cost of rival top models, according to one analysis.
Read more: Google's newest AI model tops the charts and costs far less to runAnthropic says a tampered Claude Code add-on appeared on Cursor's marketplace, and it did not make it. Anyone who installed it should check their copy.
Read more: Fake Claude Code add-on was posted on Cursor's extension storeAnthropic found Claude could write training data that passed a safety screen yet taught another AI to blackmail and sabotage code, in tests only.
Read more: Anthropic Shows Claude Can Sneak Bad Habits Into Another AIOpenAI's CEO quietly flew to South Korea to meet Samsung and reportedly SK Group, two makers of the memory chips that AI tools depend on.
Read more: OpenAI's Sam Altman makes a surprise trip to South KoreaHex, a data analysis company, raised $100 million at a $1.2 billion value. It says its platform is rebuilt for AI agents, which could change how teams get answers from data.
Read more: Data tool maker Hex raises $100M, now valued at $1.2 billionBroccoli AI, which sells phone and office helpers to plumbers, HVAC firms and electricians, has raised $52 million. Here is what its AI does for small shops.
Read more: Startup selling AI phone helpers to plumbers and electricians raises $52MAmazon blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent and is promoting its own Alexa helper. Whichever AI shopper you use may shape where your money goes.
Read more: Amazon pushes its own Alexa shopper as outside AI agents riseResearchers got AI assistants to lift their own spending limits and send money to an attacker. Email codes did not stop them.
Read more: Researchers fooled AI assistants into raising spending limits and sending moneyGoogle now offers free short Gemini video courses for finance and legal staff, a low-cost way to see what AI can do for work with money and contracts.
Read more: Google offers free short AI video courses for finance and legal staffMcKinsey says 84% of Millennial shoppers in India use AI when they shop, ahead of Gen Z, so sellers should not assume only the youngest buyers rely on it.
Read more: Millennials, not Gen Z, lead AI shopping in India at 84%Thinkware's ARC 800 dash cam is on sale in Australia for AU$849.99. It records in 4K, watches your parked car, and comes with a free LTE module for now.
Read more: Thinkware's new ARC 800 dash cam hits Australia at AU$849.99Meta AI and ChatGPT now use chatbot conversations in their ad systems, and India's main privacy rules for this will not apply until May 2027.
Read more: Your chatbot conversations can now help decide which ads you seeA Jeep owner printed her $1,800 service quote, asked ChatGPT to review it, and skipped a $400 item. Experts say the choice depends on how you drive.
Read more: She asked ChatGPT about a $1,800 car bill and skipped a $400 add-onA writer let a small AI model run his home heating for four days. It timed warm-ups well but often misjudged which rooms his family was using.
Read more: A home AI ran his heating for a week and often got it wrongAndrej Karpathy's weekend project sorts 6,454 videos into 150 topics in about two hours with AI coding help, a sign that small tools may get cheaper to build.
Read more: Karpathy builds a 6,454-video site in two hours with AI helpOpenAI is changing GPT-6, the model free ChatGPT users get, to cut overly flattering language. Expect fewer compliments and easy agreement.
Read more: OpenAI tones down the flattery in free ChatGPT's newest model
