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The Financial Times reports Anthropic's seven billionaire cofounders are set to share control of the company, which matters if your work runs on Claude.
Read more: Anthropic's seven cofounders are set to share control of the companyMoore Threads, a Chinese AI chipmaker, reported sales up 1,774% and a small profit, a sign China's homegrown chip supply is growing fast.
Read more: Chinese AI chipmaker's sales jump 1,774% and it turns a profitFello AI published a 2026 guide comparing two Claude models, Fable and Opus, to help buyers match each one to the right jobs before paying.
Read more: Claude Fable or Opus? A Guide to Picking the Right OneTencent 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 businessesAndroid 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 momentTiger 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 productsHome 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 AreFrom 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 modelsAnthropic 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 paybackSupply'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 invoicesTelenor sells richer phone plans at higher prices. AI shopping agents that compare deals for you could test whether customers will pay for the extras.
Read more: AI shopping bots could challenge Telenor's higher-price strategyVoice assistants are getting quicker and more lifelike, and firms from Amazon to ElevenLabs want them handling your calls, devices and daily tasks.
Read more: Voice assistants are getting faster and more human-soundingMonte Carlo launched Bayes, an AI tool that watches other AI programs and the data behind them, and fixes problems. Companies choose how much it does alone.
Read more: Monte Carlo Launches an AI Helper That Fixes Other AI ProgramsA startup says it got into Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours. Anthropic says it took days. Here is what was and was not exposed.
Read more: Startup says it broke into Anthropic's systems; Anthropic disputes timingFoundry, which builds robot-run factories for other companies, raised $100 million. It could make renting factory capacity a real option for product makers.
Read more: Startup that builds robot-run factories raises $100 millionNVIDIA says its RTX Spark laptops are on sale from six brands, with thin designs built to run AI tools on the machine itself instead of in the cloud.
Read more: Thin Windows laptops now run powerful AI programs on the device itselfA new report says payment companies are racing to let AI buy things for you, but shops face rival standards and one early test has already been shut down.
Read more: AI shopping agents are coming, but the rules for paying are still a messA rebuilt AI leaderboard puts the best open models further behind paid ones, a sign that older rankings may have flattered some tools.
Read more: A tougher AI test shows free models trail the best paid ones by moreGitHub now lets AI helpers handle chores like sorting bug reports and updating documentation, with safety limits built in. Here is what it takes to use it.
Read more: GitHub Lets AI Helpers Handle Routine Software Chores AutomaticallyAnthropic's new smart reports let managers see how teams use Claude, including chats sorted as personal or off-topic. Here is what that means for work accounts.
Read more: Claude now shows bosses which chats were 'personal or off-topic'A new test of AI agents on 50 professional tax jobs found the best one passed just 10.8%, often missing risks the client never thought to ask about.
Read more: AI tax helpers fail most real tax jobs, a new test finds
