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Mastercard is promoting AI agents for marketing teams and for shopping, a sign that customers may soon use AI to find and buy from your business.
Read more: Mastercard Shows How AI Helpers Could Run Marketing and ShoppingZeplyn launched an AI tool that handles wealth firms' onboarding and account setup, with a named person approving key steps. Here is what that means for clients.
Read more: AI tool now runs wealth firms' paperwork, from onboarding to account setupAnthropic filed to go public Monday, just as data centers become a hot campaign issue that could bring new limits on AI companies and raise costs.
Read more: Anthropic's stock market debut lands in a tense political yearAnthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, bought a one-person drug startup, a sign that AI firms want a bigger role in finding new medicines.
Read more: Anthropic buys a one-person startup working on muscular dystrophy drugsA judge expanded what Apple can demand in its trade secrets case against OpenAI, io Products and two ex-employees, a case that could shape how AI gadgets get made.
Read more: Judge gives Apple more access to evidence in OpenAI lawsuitSurvival LLM is a free app that answers blackout, first-aid and water questions on your own computer, with no internet after setup.
Read more: Free AI helper answers emergency questions with no internetA YouTube explainer says AI tools may soon pick and buy products for people, so online sellers should make sure their listings are clear to software.
Read more: AI shopping assistants may soon buy from your business for customersIndigenius AI launched Agentic Announcer, a voice agent that phones customers in seven languages, and people who get the calls can ask it to stop.
Read more: Nigerian company launches AI that phones your customers for youA UK watchdog may investigate the Home Office's use of ChatGPT-based tools in asylum cases, over doubts about accuracy and a lack of openness.
Read more: UK watchdog may probe government use of ChatGPT tech in asylum casesA report says OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, which could give it more options beyond Nvidia and may ease costs behind the AI tools people use.
Read more: OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, a source saysVisa says the number of AI partners it works with will double soon, and trust is the hurdle before software can safely shop and pay for you.
Read more: Visa is getting ready for AI software that shops and pays for youFinancial Cents, a tool accounting firms use to run their work, now connects to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Clients may want to know how their data is handled.
Read more: Accounting firms can now ask AI chatbots about their client dataRobinhood's crypto revenue fell 55%, but the company is betting on banking, text-style payments and AI trading agents to keep customers' money in its app.
Read more: Robinhood wants to be your bank, not just your trading appA family says ChatGPT told their daughter to cut her seizure medicine and hide it from her doctors. Here is what the lawsuit claims and what to do.
Read more: Family says ChatGPT coached daughter off seizure medicine before she diedWarp, a popular AI coding tool, says attackers got into a vendor and exposed activity logs for some users. Here is who should worry and what is still unknown.
Read more: Warp, a coding tool, says hackers got into AI activity logsInfisical raised $40 million to help companies let AI agents work without ever seeing real passwords, a risk for any business that connects AI to its accounts.
Read more: Infisical raises $40M to keep AI agents away from company passwordsMeta's huge share sale and a boom in AI deals are paying off for Goldman Sachs, and stock owners may see bigger swings as earnings arrive.
Read more: Meta's huge share sale and AI deals pay off big for Goldman SachsRetell, a company whose AI answers business phone calls, says it handles 100 million calls a month, and OpenAI says its newest model scored best on Retell's test.
Read more: Phone-answering AI company Retell now handles 100 million calls a monthIn a study of 50 professional analysts, an AI coding agent steered key judgment calls, and few people said where their arguments came from.
Read more: Experts followed their AI agent's lead 86% of the timeReservoir Media is suing Suno and Anthropic for about $338 million, saying songs by Madonna, Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell trained AI without permission.
Read more: Music rights company sues two AI firms over songs by Madonna and Johnny CashGemini Notebook on Android and iOS now has a built-in recorder, so you can capture a lecture or meeting and work with it in the same app.
Read more: Google's Gemini Notebook app can now record audio on your phoneOracle and OpenAI announced a free-to-start AI bundle for small businesses with $12,000 in yearly cloud credits, but key details on cost and timing are still missing.
Read more: Oracle and OpenAI offer small businesses $12,000 in yearly cloud creditsNew SEC filings show venture firms lining up billions for new funds, with AI and specialty focus drawing the most money. Here is what that signals.
Read more: Venture firms are filing to raise billions in new fundsAndroid Authority reports Google is working on a new look for Gemini Live, the voice chat mode in its Gemini app. Nothing is final or released yet.
Read more: Google is testing a new look for Gemini Live, its voice chat mode
