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United's CEO says Starlink Wi-Fi is pulling in flyers loyal to other airlines, and the airline now has a tracker to show which flights have it.
Read more: United says in-flight Starlink Wi-Fi is winning over loyal flyers of rival airlinesThe SBA is putting more than $7 million into nine new regional hubs that link small firms with buyers, bringing the program to 12 clusters nationwide.
Read more: SBA funds nine new groups to help small firms win big contractsA Missouri county health department will pay $2.25 million over a 2022 breach. Affected people can claim $150 or up to $300 by November 16, 2026.
Read more: Missouri health department pays $2.25M over 2022 data breachBroadcom launched Arcot Scam Defense, a tool that lets banks block an online card payment you approved if it looks like you were being manipulated.
Read more: Broadcom adds a second check to stop card scams you approve yourselfCareCredit has launched Pay Later, a loan with fixed monthly payments for dental, vision and other care that insurance skips. Here is what to compare before you sign.
Read more: CareCredit adds a fixed-payment loan for health costs insurance skipsA startup called Wunderfan wants to pay sports fans for watching games, and it hopes to put a price on what people pay attention to.
Read more: A startup wants to pay sports fans for watching gamesA startup with a handful of researchers says AI built nearly all of its new coding model, Flint, which a Wired writer ran on a Mac and found very capable.
Read more: A small startup used AI to build a top coding AI that runs on a MacWriter Derek Thompson backs building more, but says AI data centers are not like housing and may crowd out hospitals, offices and homes.
Read more: A pro-AI writer says AI data centers are a different matterFrance's cyber agency chief says criminals took over retailers' smart fridges through weak passwords and missing protection, not advanced hacking.
Read more: Hackers took over French retailers' smart fridges using weak passwordsStord has bought rival AMS Fulfillment in its largest deal yet, a move that could shape warehouse and shipping choices for online sellers.
Read more: Stord buys rival AMS Fulfillment in its biggest deal yetWhiteLabel.Digital says AI agents will cut its costs and speed up work it does for other marketing firms, with people still checking quality.
Read more: Marketing Firm Uses AI Helpers to Cut Costs for Other AgenciesOpenEvidence, a free ad-funded AI tool, is now valued at $15 billion and widely used by doctors, while studies on its accuracy point in different directions.
Read more: Doctors are adopting an ad-funded AI tool, and accuracy is in questionA law firm says US and European regulators expect businesses to describe their AI data practices accurately, and to do it before anything changes.
Read more: Your privacy policy must match how your AI tools handle customer dataWorley linked a smart-contract system to HSBC so approved invoices can start instant bank payments. Here is what businesses should settle before trying it.
Read more: Approved invoices can now trigger bank payments automaticallyA new French-language prize openly invites fiction written with AI tools, and entrants must say which tool and prompt they used.
Read more: A new book prize is built for stories written with AIWhop, a platform for starting and running online businesses, raised $205 million at a $5.1 billion value, with AI that suggests business decisions.
Read more: Whop raises $205M at a $5.1B value to help people run online businessesFanFeed co-founder Cole Rubin says a little fear, a sharp sense of his own gaps and speed help a small company compete with bigger names in ticketing.
Read more: FanFeed's Co-Founder Says Staying a Little Paranoid Helps Startups Beat GiantsRayNeo is selling two kinds of smart glasses in Canada: one acts as a portable big screen, the other translates speech and takes meeting notes.
Read more: RayNeo brings glasses with a giant virtual screen to CanadaThe F Suite launched Floyd, an AI that links every answer to the CFO conversations and documents behind it, so finance leaders can check before they sign off.
Read more: A new AI tool for finance chiefs shows the source behind every answerAt SaaStr, two AI assistants set up their own shared mailbox and agreed on a safe word, so a human must approve any action. It shows why approval rules matter.
Read more: Two AI assistants built their own shared mailbox and a safe wordSalesforce built a voice AI for business calls that shows its written answer before speaking it, so a person can check it first. The test scores are the company's own.
Read more: Salesforce unveils Launa-Omni, a voice AI built for business callsServiceNow and Nvidia launched Arc, an AI agent that works on email and Teams tasks and uses layered security checks. Here is what to ask before trusting one.
Read more: ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, an AI assistant for email and TeamsBeyondTrust says its new AI Agent Security tool is available now and checks what an AI helper may do on a work computer before it acts.
Read more: BeyondTrust launches tool to limit what AI agents can do on work computersAmazon Connect Customer now lets administrators pick a Modern or Classic agent screen for each support team, which could save agents time.
Read more: Amazon's call center software gets two new screen layouts
