Meta’s Muse Agent Puts a Human on the Line
The voice answering on behalf of Meta’s newest product sounds like software, but for a slice of calls it isn’t. Behind a portion of the phone calls placed through Muse,…
OpenAI Ships Two GPT-6 Models at Half the Price
OpenAI’s newest models arrived on Tuesday less than three weeks after the company’s flagship, and they made a simpler promise: nearly the same brain, half the price. The company released…
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 5.5 With Steeper Discounts
Anthropic chose this week to do two things at once: cut the price of its most capable model and push back its public debut. Both moves, coming within days of…
Microsoft and Partners Take Down Fraud Service Tied to 12,000 Accounts
The criminals behind the platform did not need to write their own code. For a subscription fee, “EvilTokens” sold them the tools to break into Microsoft accounts, a service built…
PayPal Lets Meta’s Muse Agent Check Out on Its Network
When Meta’s Muse agent shops for a user, the transaction has to end somewhere: a payment button, a merchant’s checkout page, a card on file. On Tuesday, PayPal said it…
SoftBank Sells $10 Billion in Bonds to Fund OpenAI Stake
The term sheet that reached investors this week set out a shape the bond market knows well: three tranches of dollar notes, maturities staggered out to seven and a half…
Meta’s Muse Tops the Charts, Then Runs Into Amazon
Meta released Muse on Sept. 8 with a simple pitch: a personal AI agent that could book tickets, sort email and act across the web on a user’s behalf. The…
Anthropic and OpenEvidence to Give Free Medical AI to Poorer Countries
OpenEvidence began as a way for a doctor to ask a question and get an answer drawn from peer-reviewed research rather than a search engine. It is free for clinicians…
California Tells Data Centers to Pay Their Own Way
For most of the past two years, California’s message to the companies building the physical machinery of artificial intelligence was effectively: come build here, and fast. On Monday, Governor Gavin…
Palo Alto Networks Wires OpenAI and Anthropic Models Into Its Defenses
The most advanced AI models have spent the past two years being sold mostly as finished products: a chatbot, an API, a copilot. On Tuesday, one of the largest cybersecurity…
