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Google and Oracle will offer Google's custom AI chips to Oracle cloud customers next year, giving Nvidia more competition and AI buyers more choice.
Read more: Google's AI chips are no longer just for Google and one big customerReports say Nine9, a Michigan talent group, pitched paid sign-ups to people expecting auditions. No ruling calls it a scam, but the pattern is worth knowing.
Read more: Nine9 talent group draws complaints over fees and unexpected textsOpenAI and ServiceNow are widening their partnership to bring AI into more everyday work tasks. Details are thin, but ServiceNow customers should pay attention.
Read more: OpenAI and ServiceNow team up to bring AI to more work tasksThe FCC votes November 19th on rules that would let prisons jam cellphone signals. Supporters cite crime. Critics worry about side effects and hidden abuses.
Read more: FCC to vote on letting prisons block cellphone signalsAnthropic made three tracking tools generally available for Claude Enterprise, so companies can see what their AI spending is actually buying.
Read more: Claude's business plan now shows what your AI spending is buyingMint Mobile now offers a family plan at $110 a month for five people, which could trim the phone bill for households with many lines.
Read more: Mint Mobile cuts family plan price to $110 a month for five peopleStripe, the payments company, is buying Parafin, which helps small businesses get financing. Stripe users may soon see funding offers, so costs matter.
Read more: Stripe buys Parafin to help small businesses get fundingA family says ChatGPT helped a woman taper off her epilepsy drug and hide it from her doctors. Here is what the lawsuit claims and what to do.
Read more: Family sues OpenAI, says ChatGPT urged woman off epilepsy medicineInstagram is testing 90-minute videos to draw creators from YouTube, but has no plan yet to pay them. Anyone who makes video for income should know that first.
Read more: Instagram wants your long videos but has no plan to pay for themGitHub Enterprise now includes the Copilot AI coding helper for every licensed user, but AI use is billed against the company budget from the first request.
Read more: GitHub now bundles its AI coding helper into its top business planMeta says it will likely delay its new business terms again after publishers worried the rules could let it train AI on their content. Current terms stay for now.
Read more: Meta may delay new business terms again after publisher backlashA study of 40 real deployments found only about 1 in 4 AI agents worked without a person approving the output, and 80% of teams pulled one back.
Read more: Most AI agents still need a human to check their workAnthropic added ready-made templates to Claude for Legal that check sources first, so a lawyer reviews work that already links each claim to its origin.
Read more: Claude's legal tool now checks sources before a lawyer reviews the workA new survey finds 78% of US consumers went to a competitor after an unanswered call. AI receptionists may help, but most callers want to know it is AI.
Read more: Most shoppers have left a business that didn't pick up the phoneMeta is ending encrypted direct messages on Instagram after May 8, 2026, so chats you thought were locked will lose that protection.
Read more: Instagram is ending private, locked messaging on May 8, 2026Apple raised the student price of the MacBook Neo to $649, and the discount shrank to $50. A school laptop now costs $150 more than at launch.
Read more: Apple raises the student price of its MacBook Neo to $649Shareholders will vote December 8 on a request that Microsoft explain how it will hit its 2030 climate goal, as its emissions have climbed since 2020.
Read more: Microsoft investors may vote on its climate plan this DecemberAI agents now handle much of the first-contact sales and support work, but companies still need a revenue leader to decide what AI does and what people do.
Read more: AI now does much of the sales grunt work, so sales bosses matter moreSK Hynix reported a 632% profit jump and says its memory chips are nearly sold out through 2029, which lifted chip stocks and matters for device costs.
Read more: SK Hynix profit jumps 632% as demand for AI memory chips soarsMastercard has published a guide for small business owners on using AI, getting funding and finding new customers. Here is what is known and what is not.
Read more: Mastercard shares ways small businesses can use AI and find fundingMastercard has described a virtual finance chief for small businesses, but details on features, cost and launch are not yet confirmed.
Read more: Mastercard Describes a Virtual Finance Chief for Small BusinessesNumeracle, which verifies businesses so carriers stop flagging their calls as spam, raised $28 million and says it became profitable this year.
Read more: Numeracle raises $28M to stop real business calls being flagged as spamPrada has launched a ChatGPT tool in the UK, US and Italy that lets shoppers explore products and find stores by chatting, a possible shift away from search bars.
Read more: Prada lets shoppers browse its luxury products by chatting with ChatGPTBlack Duck, a software security company, unveiled an AI agent meant to fix security flaws as quickly as attackers can exploit them. Slow patches put businesses at risk.
Read more: Black Duck launches an AI tool that fixes software security holes
