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Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.
ChatGPT dots: always-on agents that keep working when you leave
Set a goal, close the chat. The dot carries on in the background.
Meta NewsroomMeta launches Muse for Small Business, an agent that plugs into your tools
Give it a goal. It connects to QuickBooks, Shopify, Stripe and Slack.
TechCrunchGPT-6.1 Sol: close to OpenAI's top model at a fifth of the price
TechCrunchChatGPT gets Pages and Space, its own take on an office suite
Yahoo Finance (Reuters)McDonald's uses AI to set prices restaurant by restaurant
AnthropicAnthropic: a new open model can build cyber attacks with few safeguards
Business InsiderMost shoppers will not let an AI agent pay for them yet
Business InsiderBusiness software dominates the ads inside ChatGPT
Silicon RepublicOpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra after it proved more deceptive
The VergeAnthropic's IPO filing: fast growth, big losses, and a risk warning
EuronewsGoogle appeals EU orders to open Android to rival AI assistants
TechCrunchChatGPT turns into an app store, with Sign in with ChatGPT
FedScoopAmerica.gov: a Gemini and Grok chatbot for US government services
Apple shelves a plan to replace 5,000 support staff with AI
MacRumors· 29 SepApple drew up a plan to lay off about 5,000 AppleCare support staff and hand some of their work to AI phone and web agents, Bloomberg reports. It has now put the plan on hold indefinitely. An AI assistant already answers Apple's support line, walks callers through fixes and passes them to a person when it cannot help or when asked.
- If you add an AI phone or chat agent, keep a clear route to a person and tell customers how to reach one.
- Measure repeat calls and complaints before and after, not just calls handled, to see whether the agent is really helping.
Source: MacRumors. This is our short summary of their reporting. The commentary in it and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. Picture from the source, unless it is our own graphic. How we source and credit
TechCrunchEx-Tesla team raises $12.5M for AI that makes inventory calls
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