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Meta's Muse agent sold a keyboard cheap and gave out the seller's address
It also told the buyer he was home. He was not expecting anyone.
AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5.5: same price, up to 30% cheaper per task
TechCrunchShopify lets AI agents check out on its merchants' stores
Microsoft's Copilot now bills agent work by usage, on top of seats
The Register· 28 SepMicrosoft paired its Copilot super app with new pricing. A per-user monthly subscription covers Copilot Chat and Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. Agent work such as Cowork, Code and Autopilot, and frontier models, is billed by usage on top, in Copilot Credits. Admins can set organisation and user spending limits, and alerts.
- Before switching on Autopilot or Cowork, set a monthly spending limit in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- Run agents with one team for a month and check the credit use before rolling them out.
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NVIDIA NewsroomNvidia builds a kill switch for AI agents
TechCrunchInstinct, an AI agent that books and pays for you, raises $1B
TechCrunchElevenLabs v4: a voice clone now needs 10 seconds of audio
TechCrunchAI scams cost Americans nearly $900M last year, FBI says
MIT Technology ReviewWhen an AI agent breaks something, nobody is clearly on the hook
TechCrunchOutmarket raises $34.5M to take the paperwork off insurance brokers
TechCrunchMavi bets AI will change what firms hire accountants for
CBS NewsAnthropic's CEO dines with Trump after months of conflict
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