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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
The RegisterMicrosoft's Copilot now bills agent work by usage, on top of seats
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
AI scams cost Americans nearly $900M last year, FBI says
TechCrunch· 28 SepAmericans lost nearly $900 million to AI-driven scams last year, up 24 percent, according to the FBI. DetectifAI, started after a cloned voice fooled its founder's grandfather, runs small models on the phone itself to spot synthetic voices during calls in real time. It already screens more than 100,000 calls a month for financial institutions in India.
- Set a rule: no payment or bank detail change is approved on a phone call alone.
- Tell your team that a familiar voice is no longer proof of who is calling.
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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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