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Microsoft and Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-House AI

Microsoft and Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-House AI
Microsoft and Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-House AI
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft and Meta each reduced their internal use of Anthropic’s Claude by encouraging employees to use their company’s own, in-house artificial intelligence tools, The Information...

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Bank of America Says Investors Are Overplaying AI and Underestimating Consumers
Bank of America Says Investors Are Overplaying AI and Underestimating Consumers
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

It may be time for investors to pivot from artificial intelligence-linked capital expenditures to consumer-driven spending, Bank of America strategists wrote in a Monday (Oct....

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Loyalty Programs Make Smaller Rewards Balances Spendable
Loyalty Programs Make Smaller Rewards Balances Spendable
October 05, 2026  |  Loyalty & Rewards

Loyalty points are becoming more liquid as airlines give customers more choices over when and how much of their accumulated rewards to spend. American Airlines...

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OpenAI Linking Visual Ads With ChatGPT Images
OpenAI Linking Visual Ads With ChatGPT Images
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI says it is making advertisements within ChatGPT more visual and measurable. The company’s new visual ad format is designed to help users “imagine how products...

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L’Oréal Cuts Customer Service Time 64% With AI
L’Oréal Cuts Customer Service Time 64% With AI
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A L’Oréal adviser who needed to issue a customer a discount code once clicked through about 15 screens over 10 minutes. Now the adviser types...

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US Companies on Pace to Pay $1.4 Billion in Privacy Settlements
US Companies on Pace to Pay $1.4 Billion in Privacy Settlements
October 05, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

A law passed in 1968 is apparently driving a new surge in privacy violation settlements. That’s according to new research published Monday (Oct. 5) by privacy platform Privado...

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OpenAI Rolls Out Text Watermarks to Meet EU AI Act Mandates
OpenAI Rolls Out Text Watermarks to Meet EU AI Act Mandates
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI has begun a limited rollout of text watermarking and detection technologies, the company said in an article released Monday (Oct. 5). OpenAI built the...

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The Public Blockchain Debate is Already Obsolete for Banks
The Public Blockchain Debate is Already Obsolete for Banks
October 05, 2026  |  Blockchain

The crypto industry bet the farm on traditional finance ultimately migrating onto public blockchains rather than retreating behind permissioned networks. The cows are now coming...

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