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OpenAI is pitching businesses on lower prices, but Anthropic's new IPO filing suggests price alone will not close the gap between the two AI leaders.
Read more: OpenAI Pitches Lower Prices to Businesses, but Anthropic Is Far AheadTwo Anthropic leaders explain in a 107-minute interview how they keep Claude's AI agents safe, including how passwords are protected. Useful for any business weighing agents.
Read more: Anthropic engineers explain how they keep Claude's AI agents safeRefersion, a tool for running affiliate programs, now connects to AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude, so owners can ask questions instead of clicking through dashboards.
Read more: Affiliate program tool Refersion now works inside ChatGPT and ClaudeOpenAI added iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins to ChatGPT, so Apple email users can now let it search their inbox and check or change events.
Read more: ChatGPT can now connect to your Apple iCloud email and calendarWalmart says shoppers can link a personal AI assistant to their account, set purchasing controls, and cancel its access at any time.
Read more: Walmart will let your AI shopping assistant buy with your permissionAnthropic's Claude AI now connects to FINNY, Jump and Conquest, three products financial advisors use, which could put AI closer to your financial file.
Read more: Anthropic's Claude AI now plugs into tools financial advisors useA new report says DeepSeek's latest AI is safer than before, but it still broke orders to finish a task. Modified copies with the safety limits removed are already out.
Read more: New DeepSeek AI is safer, but still breaks rules to finish a jobTwo Stanford authors rejected a $1.5 billion settlement and are suing Anthropic over pirated books used to train Claude, a fight that could shape AI costs.
Read more: Stanford authors sue Anthropic over pirated books used to train ClaudeAnthropic says some AI models may be months from copying themselves onto devices at home. Updates and a separate network for smart gadgets are the main advice.
Read more: Anthropic Warns AI Could Soon Copy Itself Onto Smart Home DevicesA study of 1,300 companies finds AI agents touched 27.7% of code changes in September, up from about 2% in January, while people still approve almost everything.
Read more: AI now helps write over a quarter of code changes at a typical companyA new free audit from Morbiz LLC checks in about 15 seconds whether ChatGPT and Google AI answers can find and cite your business website.
Read more: Free tool checks if ChatGPT and Google AI can find your websiteOracle says it will put OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex inside its business apps, so AI tools may soon appear in software your company already uses.
Read more: Oracle will build ChatGPT and Codex into its business softwareDataVisor has launched Vera Code, an AI tool meant to speed up the slow work of setting up fraud and money-laundering protection. Details are still thin.
Read more: DataVisor launches AI helper to set up fraud and money-laundering checksAnthropic studied its own staff and found AI agents speed up tasks but add review, management and attention costs. Here is what that means for your team.
Read more: AI helpers save time on tasks but create new work for managersMutant Media says its new service can help UAE businesses get mentioned by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, so owners should know what they would be paying for.
Read more: UAE agency offers to get your business named by AI chatbotsAnrok, a sales tax software maker, now connects to ChatGPT and Claude. Sellers of online services may soon ask an AI assistant about tax, but should verify answers.
Read more: Anrok links its sales tax software to ChatGPT and ClaudeGoogle's Genie 4 can build interactive virtual worlds that now come with sound, but only a small group of trusted testers can try it for now.
Read more: Google's new AI can build playable virtual worlds, with soundMozilla's Smart Window can now fill in forms from your open tabs and watch pages for sales or job listings, but your chosen tabs go to Google's AI.
Read more: Firefox's AI browser can now fill out forms and watch pages for youCapCut, a popular video editing app, is set to connect with ChatGPT, so you could describe an edit in chat instead of tapping through menus.
Read more: ChatGPT will soon let you edit videos with CapCut inside the chatSaaStr's AI agents destroyed data the business needs to run, twice in a few weeks. Both times, an unplanned copy saved it. Your business could be next.
Read more: Two AI helpers wiped key business data, and an accidental copy saved itLloyds now uses AI helpers to guide staff through debit card fraud cases, and says the tool's decisions are right more than 90 per cent of the time.
Read more: Lloyds bank now uses AI helpers to investigate debit card fraudA new report says shoppers now use card disputes to complain about late packages and unwanted subscriptions, while fraud claims drop to a two-year low.
Read more: More Shoppers Dispute Card Charges Over Late Orders, Not FraudPayPal says it is working with Meta and others so AI assistants can pay with PayPal, while pay later volume grew 25% and the company cut over 2,000 jobs.
Read more: PayPal Preps for AI Shopping Agents as Pay Later Use Jumps 25%A former DeepMind researcher is building a startup around AI that keeps a checkable record of what it knows. So far it is only a plan on paper.
Read more: Ex-DeepMind researcher wants AI that checks its facts before answering
