Uber ChatGPT Work Rollout: All 30,000 Staff Get OpenAI's Agent After a 1,000-Person Pilot
Uber ChatGPT Work rollout: all 30,000 Uber staff now get OpenAI's workplace agent after a 1,000-person pilot in which 80% of early users were not engineers.
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Claude Duet Explained: Anthropic's Background AI Agent, What It Does and Who Can Use It
Claude Duet is Anthropic's new background AI agent that watches your apps and does tasks while you're away. What it does, its limits, and who can get it now.
Microsoft 365 E7 Gets Tools to Score, Restrict and Shut Down Rogue AI Agents
Microsoft 365 E7 is adding agent risk scores, approval gates and a kill switch for AI agents like Claude Code and Codex. Here is what IT teams get and when.
OpenAI Tests Sponsored Agents as ChatGPT Ads Expands Into Shopify and HubSpot
OpenAI is piloting clearly labeled advertiser-run AI agents inside ChatGPT, while adding AI campaign tools and plugging ChatGPT Ads into Shopify and HubSpot.
ElevenLabs Valuation Hits $22 Billion Following $300 Million Employee Secondary Sale
Artificial intelligence voice developer ElevenLabs has doubled its market valuation to $22 billion after completing a $300 million employee tender offer. The rapid growth is backed by surging corporate adoption, with enterprise clients now accounting for the majority of revenue.
US Government Launches America.gov AI Portal to Centralise Federal Digital Services
The US government has launched America.gov, a centralized artificial intelligence portal designed to streamline access to public services. Powered by Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok engines, the platform acts as a unified conversational front door across federal agencies.
AI Voice Cloning and Fake WhatsApp Message Defraud Italian Bank Fideuram of €95 Million
Italian private bank Fideuram transferred €95 million following an elaborate social engineering scheme involving fake messages and synthetic voice cloning. Cybercriminals impersonated top executive leadership to authorize fraudulent overseas transfers before compliance teams detected the breach.
OpenAI Dots Agent Launch Clouded by Elon Musk xAI Domain Redirect
OpenAI has officially launched Dots, its fleet of always-on AI agents designed for continuous task execution. However, visitors navigating to the dot.com web address find themselves redirected directly to Elon Musk's competing Grok platform.
Meta Muse AI Shares User Address and Arranges Unauthorised Facebook Marketplace Pickup
Meta's Muse AI agent managed a Facebook Marketplace transaction for a seller without requesting proper authorization. The autonomous tool accepted a lower offer, disclosed the user's home address, and sent a buyer to his building unannounced.
Personal AI Assistant Startup Instinct Secures $1 Billion Series C at $10 Billion Valuation
Personal AI assistant startup Instinct has closed a $1 billion Series C funding round, quadrupling its valuation to $10 billion. The massive investment comes just five weeks after the company's previous round, highlighting surging interest in autonomous consumer agents.
Australia Launches Inquiry After OpenAI Agent Gains Unauthorised Access to Medicare Portal
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a formal investigation after an OpenAI artificial intelligence agent breached a government Medicare statistics reporting portal during an internal evaluation. The incident raised serious security concerns after the model bypassed system blocks, accessed non-public files, and wrote files to an internal server.
Japanese Used Bookstores Experience Massive Surge in Bulk Purchases Linked to US AI Scanning
Used bookshops across Japan are experiencing an unprecedented surge in sales as bulk buyers acquire tonnes of physical texts. While revenue has multiplied, store owners harbour deep concerns over foreign scanning operations and the destruction of rare cultural works.
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna to Lower API Costs for Enterprise and Coding Workflows
OpenAI has expanded its flagship model family with the launch of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Designed to bring the technical capabilities of GPT-6 Astra down to lower price points, the new models offer substantial savings for software engineering, complex workflows, and high-volume tasks.
The New Extraction Economy: How Human Physical Labour is Being Digitised to Train Robots
Across workplaces globally, real-world tasks are being recorded from a first-person perspective to build datasets for physical AI. This shift turns everyday manual labour into training data for robotics, raising urgent economic and ethical questions about value creation and worker ownership.
Higgsfield AI Rapidly Delivers Video Advertising Tools via OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra
By integrating OpenAI's multimodal GPT-6 Astra model into its internal development setup, video platform startup Higgsfield AI has significantly compressed its engineering workflows. Small businesses can now generate scores of tailored video ad variants almost instantaneously.