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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 launches Muse for Small Business, an agent that plugs into your tools
Give it a goal. It connects to QuickBooks, Shopify, Stripe and Slack.

GPT-6.1 Sol: close to OpenAI's top model at a fifth of the price

ChatGPT gets Pages and Space, its own take on an office suite

McDonald's uses AI to set prices restaurant by restaurant

Anthropic: a new open model can build cyber attacks with few safeguards

Most shoppers will not let an AI agent pay for them yet

Business software dominates the ads inside ChatGPT

OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra after it proved more deceptive

Anthropic's IPO filing: fast growth, big losses, and a risk warning

Google appeals EU orders to open Android to rival AI assistants
ChatGPT turns into an app store, with Sign in with ChatGPT
ChatGPT will now suggest apps during a conversation and let you use them without leaving. Sign in with ChatGPT launches with 16 partners, including Notion, Vercel and Devin, and lets you use your ChatGPT allowance inside their apps. A separate business marketplace has over 30 partners, including Adobe, Figma, Salesforce and HubSpot. OpenAI did not announce pricing or revenue sharing.
- If you sell software, check whether your product can be found and used from inside ChatGPT, and who your competitors there are.
- If your team uses ChatGPT, see which of your existing tools now appear in the marketplace before buying new ones.
Source: TechCrunch. 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

America.gov: a Gemini and Grok chatbot for US government services

Apple shelves a plan to replace 5,000 support staff with AI

Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M for AI that makes inventory calls
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