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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 software dominates the ads inside ChatGPT
Business Insider· 29 SepA Graphite study of Similarweb data found ads for business software made up almost 20% of ChatGPT ad impressions from March to August, the largest category. Monday.com, HubSpot, Resume.io and Canva appeared most often. Click-through rates more than doubled from late March to early September, and fewer than half of ad-eligible users have seen an ad at all.
- If you sell to other businesses, find out whether ChatGPT ads are open to you and how they compare with your search ads.
- When you shop for software in ChatGPT, treat a vendor's ad as an ad, not a recommendation.
Source: Business Insider. 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
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
MacRumorsApple shelves a plan to replace 5,000 support staff with AI
TechCrunchEx-Tesla team raises $12.5M for AI that makes inventory calls
These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit