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People are already finding ways around OpenAI's ban on romantic companion bots in its GPT Store, so families and businesses should expect them to keep appearing.
Read more: People are sneaking AI girlfriend bots past OpenAI's new rulesA new test says AI is getting much better at running experiments on its own, and an Anthropic co-founder now sees self-improving AI arriving by 2027.
Read more: Anthropic co-founder now expects AI that improves itself by 2027Anthropic says many companies can swap a crew of specialized AI helpers for one smarter helper, and in one test that setup ran about twice as fast.
Read more: Anthropic says one AI helper often beats a team of manyThe New York Times says Meta's Muse and OpenAI's dots can handle chores like job applications and tough restaurant bookings, which could save you real time.
Read more: AI helpers can now apply for jobs and book hard tables for youAnthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, is rumored to be nearing a record stock debut, and Fast Company says it wants the public to share in the upside.
Read more: Anthropic is rumored to be nearing a record stock market debutBill Gates says AI will bring abundance, but he expects about 20 hard years first, with sales, support and accounting jobs among the first to go.
Read more: Bill Gates expects 20 rough years of job loss before AI pays offA Foreign Affairs essay co-written by Eric Schmidt says AI will be won by whoever can pay for it, and that government rules can switch off tools businesses use.
Read more: Eric Schmidt says AI giants now act like old colonial trading firmsA PYMNTS report says 57% of large firms have had bot or software agent incidents or losses, and it urges checking who an agent works for.
Read more: More than half of large firms say bots or AI agents have caused problemsOpenAI is offering deep discounts to win big customers from Anthropic, and some say their AI bills fell up to 90 percent. Here is why that matters to buyers.
Read more: OpenAI slashes prices to lure big customers away from AnthropicAnthropic is investigating errors across five Claude models, and the Claude app, API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork are all affected. Plan for failed requests.
Read more: Claude AI hit by another outage, with five models affectedA research team released open phone agents that tap through apps for you, and they posted the best score among open models on real Android phones.
Read more: Free AI that taps through phone apps for you now rivals paid onesA trade group for wholesalers released a podcast with Tom McFadyen on AI and B2B sales. Here is why buyers and sellers of business goods may want to listen.
Read more: A wholesale industry leader explains how AI is changing business-to-business salesMost big retailers say they will prepare for AI shopping helpers, but few have done it. Wells Fargo's new terms also put the risk on you starting Nov 24.
Read more: Most Stores Plan for AI Shopping Helpers. Few Are Ready YetWalmart now lets AI agents shop and check out for customers, and says they cannot see your card data. Any account holder can use it.
Read more: Walmart lets AI assistants shop and check out for youCiti, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are limiting outside AI agents, and Wells Fargo says their mistakes are on you.
Read more: Big banks are blocking AI agents from logging into your accountsA cybersecurity expert's 79-year-old mother lost about $3,000 to online scams. Her three habits for helping without taking the phone away may work for your family.
Read more: A cybersecurity pro's mom lost $3,000 to scams. Here is what he does nowA research firm says AI that can browse, choose and buy for you rests on three parts: agents, payments and tools. Here is what that means for shoppers and sellers.
Read more: The pieces for AI that shops and pays on your behalf are coming togetherAnthropic added support for slow, background jobs and mid-task permission prompts to Claude Code, but only for developers on three surfaces for now.
Read more: Claude Code can now run long jobs and stop to ask your permissionDayforce, a work and payroll software company, plans to buy Ribbon, whose AI has run over a million job interviews. Here is what it means if you apply or hire.
Read more: Dayforce to buy Ribbon, an AI that interviews job candidatesCanva's first AI image maker is free to try, but a Business Insider test found it behind ChatGPT, Muse and Gemini on cards, product shots and photo-style images.
Read more: Canva's first AI image maker trails rivals in a hands-on testKalshi is adding bets on whole sectors, like retail foot traffic and app downloads, giving investors a way to back a trend without picking one stock.
Read more: Kalshi lets people bet on store traffic and app downloadsApple's Image Playground app can make realistic AI photos in iOS 27, and it adds a hidden watermark so people can tell them apart from real pictures.
Read more: Apple's Image Playground can now make realistic AI photos in iOS 27Insightly now connects its customer management system to AI assistants through a shared standard, so an assistant can look up your contacts and deals.
Read more: Insightly lets AI assistants read your customer records directlyA TechCrunch list shows AI products shutting down fast, from small startups to OpenAI, and about 42% of AI projects get dropped by their own companies.
Read more: Many AI products have already shut down, even from big names
