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ASOS's CEO says casual fashion fans will like AI shopping most, while the retailer's clearest savings so far come from back-office work.
Read more: ASOS says AI shopping will win over casual fashion fans firstSardine launched a tool that shows stores the real person behind an AI shopping agent's order, so fewer legitimate purchases get blocked as bot activity.
Read more: Sardine's new tool helps stores tell AI shopping agents from botsGoogle will switch off AI tools for students by default next year, but Search itself runs on AI, so schools that want no AI face a hard choice.
Read more: Google says schools that reject AI will lose Search next yearChainalysis says an AI-driven attack exposed names, usernames, password hashes and live tokens for every user, and key services are offline.
Read more: Chainalysis says hackers got every customer's login detailsCloudflare's CEO says AI agents browsing the web can run up costs for site owners who get nothing back, and tools now exist to block or charge them.
Read more: Cloudflare's CEO says AI shopping bots are costing website owners moneyAffirm's CEO expects AI shopping agents to pick interest-free installment plans more often, which could change how you pay and what you agree to.
Read more: Affirm's CEO says AI shopping assistants may steer you to 0% loansFranklin Templeton is building AI workflows to help its fund managers compare research views and weigh risks, which could shape how your savings are managed.
Read more: Franklin Templeton is building AI tools to help pick stocksOpenAI plans to buy Pierre, a maker of tools for software developers, to strengthen Codex, its AI helper that writes code. Here is why that matters.
Read more: OpenAI to buy Pierre, a developer tools maker, to boost CodexAmazon's AWS WAF now lets site owners charge AI bots for content and collect the money in local currency through Stripe, with no crypto wallet needed.
Read more: Websites can now get paid in regular money when AI bots visitQuestionPro, known for online surveys, bought Contlo, a messaging tool for online stores, to let AI use customer feedback to decide how to follow up with shoppers.
Read more: Survey company QuestionPro buys Contlo to build shopping AI agentsUniversities in Australia are giving more students access to ChatGPT and building AI into classes, so new graduates may arrive at work already used to it.
Read more: Australian universities are bringing ChatGPT to more studentsMeta paid a researcher $300,000 for a flaw that exposed chats and access keys on test machines for its Muse AI agent. Here is what business users should take from it.
Read more: Meta pays $300,000 to a researcher who found a flaw in its AI agentAWS is adding named, long-running AI bots to its Kiro coding tool. All of them bill to one plan, so costs are worth watching.
Read more: Amazon's coding tool Kiro now lets you run a team of named AI helpersBILL says AI helpers cut the time to handle a customer underwriting case from three hours to about 12 minutes, which could mean faster answers for small businesses.
Read more: BILL's AI helpers cut a 3-hour review to 12 minutesChatGPT's Images 2.6 update turns a photo into an animated GIF from a plain request, and it can remember a favorite picture so you do not have to upload it again.
Read more: ChatGPT can now turn a photo into an animated GIFAnthropic studied 207,049 Claude sessions and found scientists lean on AI for crunching data and writing, not for coming up with ideas.
Read more: Scientists use Claude most for data and writing, least for new ideasThinking Machines' new Inkling 2 Small scores like a Google model in one AI test but costs far less to run. It is not widely available yet.
Read more: New AI model from Thinking Machines matches a Google rival at a lower costVoters backed limits on data centers in at least 38 places and gave Democrats both houses of Congress. Whether lawmakers can turn that into AI rules is now the test.
Read more: Voters backed limits on AI and data centers. Now Congress must actIREN says a Microsoft request for equipment changes pushed back its $9.7 billion Texas AI data center, a sign that even giant AI projects run late.
Read more: Microsoft's change request delays a $9.7 billion Texas AI data centerOpenAI's president says a 2027 stock market debut is possible, and JPMorganChase will use OpenAI's security-focused AI tools to help protect the bank.
Read more: OpenAI says it could go public in 2027 and signs up JPMorganTencent's new Hy4 model can read images and control software, but it often makes up answers when it can't search the web.
Read more: Tencent's new AI can read images and run software on its ownAxiom Math says its AI agents turned one of math's biggest libraries into code a computer can check, a method that could someday help catch software bugs.
Read more: Startup uses AI to double-check a giant library of math proofsReddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says bots are crowding out real people online, and he expects group chats to be where trusted conversation moves next.
Read more: Reddit's co-founder says the future of online communities is the group chatA Ghana Business News piece says AI agents should pass a permission test before they touch mobile money. Here is why that matters if software ever pays for you.
Read more: Ghana's mobile money needs a permission test for AI agents
