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Anthropic has combined Claude chat and Cowork for Enterprise customers, and the new setup is due to switch on by default Nov. 16.
Read more: Claude's chat and task helper now merge for business customersMonday.com has launched Harmony, an AI that phones sales leads, qualifies them and hands good ones to a human. Here is what it does and what is unknown.
Read more: Monday.com launches AI that phones sales leads and talks like a personUber is giving night shift workers in London and Manchester codes worth up to £10 for rides home or meals, starting as the UK clocks go back.
Read more: Uber offers night shift workers up to £10 off rides and mealsBaba, an AI company, raised $40 million to build tools that help Medicare and Medicaid patients reach care teams and handle the paperwork of getting care.
Read more: Baba raises $40 million for AI that helps Medicare and Medicaid patientsAnthropic's new small AI model, Claude Haiku 4.5, is said to match an older top coding model at one-third the cost and twice the speed.
Read more: Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, a faster and cheaper small AI modelApple is expected to launch its first touchscreen MacBook Pro this week, with a much higher price at the top and older models staying on sale.
Read more: Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro arrives this week at a premiumA SaaStr writer says the key 2027 hire is a leader who shares the pressure of running a company, not just one who finishes tasks. Here is the idea.
Read more: Hire senior leaders who can carry the weight, not just the tasksPatientGain has launched ReputeMD, a $100-a-month service that helps doctors and dentists gather patient reviews while following US health privacy rules.
Read more: New service helps doctors and dentists collect patient reviews safelyGoogle DeepMind's chief AI readiness officer says it favors candidates who keep learning and ask good questions. A study shows most firms are not training staff.
Read more: Google's AI lab says curious people who keep learning get hiredAurasell's AI agent mined its own old meeting notes for a personal opener and booked a meeting. The lesson: your own records may beat bought data.
Read more: An AI sales tool found a fish tank in old meeting notes and booked a meetingAnthropic, 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 offMalaysia's prime minister says SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has picked sites for $50 billion in tech spending, a big step in his bet on AI buildings and equipment.
Read more: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son picks Malaysia sites for $50 billion tech pushA 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 problemsDropbox is weighing memory and attention training for staff, worried that leaning on AI could dull their own thinking. Here is what that means for your work.
Read more: Dropbox weighs brain training so staff stay sharp amid AI useCapitalOS raised $21.9 million to help business software offer cards and bill pay, which could change how small firms handle spending.
Read more: CapitalOS raises $21.9M to put business cards and bill pay inside appsMost 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 YetInstagram now has an app for Apple TV, so Reels, longer videos and live shows can play on the big screen. It needs recent Apple TV software.
Read more: Instagram now has an app for Apple TVWalmart 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 youA 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 nowDayforce, 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 candidatesKalshi 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 downloadsDenmark's Ministry of Digitalisation has quietly ended a pilot of an open source Office alternative, and its reasons are not public in the material available.
Read more: Denmark quietly cancels its test of a free alternative to Microsoft Office
