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Gateway Ticketing Systems has built a way for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to check live prices and sell attraction tickets inside a chat, so attractions may need to prepare.
Read more: AI assistants could soon book your attraction tickets for youAn analysis suggests ChatGPT hands OpenAI's news partners ready-made summaries and ranks them first, which could shape who gets seen when people ask it questions.
Read more: ChatGPT gives OpenAI's news partners a head start over the rest of the webA COO who runs 16 AI agents says the hard part is not the technology. It is naming a human manager for each one and writing down its rules.
Read more: Treat Your AI Software Like a New Hire With a ManagerAmazon and Google have invested in Anthropic, supply its computing power and sell rival AI products. That matters if you use or buy AI tools.
Read more: Anthropic's biggest backers are also its rivalsSalesforce says online stores can now take checkout inside Google's Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, so shoppers may buy without visiting a store's website.
Read more: Salesforce lets shoppers buy inside Google's AI chat toolsAnthropic reports $16.3 billion in half-year revenue ahead of its IPO, while a top economist says AI has not paid off for big US firms outside tech.
Read more: Anthropic's sales soar to $16.3 billion, but most firms see no AI payoffNvidia helped fund Simplismart, an Indian startup whose software aims to cut the AI chips companies need, which could eventually mean cheaper AI tools.
Read more: Nvidia backs a startup that helps firms use fewer AI chipsA Berkeley math professor now gives homework credit just for turning it in, saying AI makes it hard to know who really did the work.
Read more: Berkeley Math Professor Stops Checking Homework Answers Because of AIA four-course Claude training program is $19.99 instead of $159, and it teaches beginners to automate repeat work with the AI assistant.
Read more: A $20 online course teaches you to get more out of ClaudeOpenAI's Ted Sanders says the biggest GPT model is not always the best buy, and a cheaper one may do some jobs as well or better.
Read more: OpenAI says picking the priciest AI model is not always the smart moveHyphenate raised $45 million to build AI that handles business money tasks. If you run a company, it could save time, but your financial data is the question.
Read more: Startup raises $45 million to build AI that runs a company's financesSecurity firm Xint got an OpenAI feature to copy out a model's hidden reasoning as plain text. OpenAI fixed it, and it shows what rivals may try to copy.
Read more: Researchers tricked an OpenAI feature into revealing AI's hidden thinkingA Wired reporter tested six AI assistants on real tasks for a day. They work better than last year, but connecting your email or bank carries real privacy risk.
Read more: A reporter tested six AI assistants for a day on real tasksPayments company Ant International says AI agents could reshape how money moves, which raises new questions about limits, identity and who pays when things go wrong.
Read more: Ant International says AI helpers could soon handle your paymentsAn entrepreneur says Grokbots let a small team run affiliate websites that usually need many more people. Small business owners may want to take note.
Read more: Grokbots help one entrepreneur run affiliate websites with a small teamMeta plans to raise $95 billion by selling new shares to pay for AI, and Nvidia says it will put in $3 billion. Existing shareholders should take note.
Read more: Meta plans to raise $95 billion for AI, and Nvidia is putting in $3 billionMeta says it wrote its own rules for AI agents that act for you. With no shared standards, the article asks why anyone should trust the company that wrote them.
Read more: Meta writes its own rulebook for AI agents that act for youA report says chatbots pointed people with locked accounts and broken phones to reporters. A Tom's Guide test found no sign of it, but the advice still needs checking.
Read more: ChatGPT told some users to email reporters for tech helpAnthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, has shared its finances ahead of a stock sale that The New York Times says could be the largest first-time offering ever.
Read more: Anthropic opens its books ahead of a possible record stock offeringChatGPT now has Pro plans at $100, $200 and $500 a month, while Claude's flagship model costs far less per use. A speed setting can also drain a plan.
Read more: ChatGPT's top plan costs $500 a month, while Claude's runs far cheaperKevin Roose and Casey Newton left The New York Times to start Machine Gods, an AI show built for YouTube first, and Roose has a new book on the race to build human-level AI.
Read more: Kevin Roose leaves the Times to launch a video-first podcast on AIBraiin has upgraded its RADIUS customer service software so AI can handle routine calls and chats on its own, using models from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or a company's own.
Read more: Braiin upgrades its customer service software so AI can answer calls and chatsA software firm says its AI checked 68,000 utility invoices against contract terms and flagged over $1.1 million in possible overbilling before payment.
Read more: AI tool flags $1.1 million in possible overbilling by utility vendorsAnthropic sells two AI models built on the same weights at the same price, but only one can be bought freely. The other requires an application and a review.
Read more: Anthropic's Two Identical AI Models: One Is Locked Behind a Vetting Gate
