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Figma's design agent is out of beta and now costs AI credits, after a free run that inflated its costs while Anthropic and Google launched rival design tools on the models Figma rents.
Nearly every customer service leader has been told to put AI to work. The people on CX Current's new list are figuring out how AI agents and the people around them should split the job.
AI agents now browse, read and shop for people, and the ad-funded web has no way to charge them. The sites putting up walls are the ones that live on ads.
Meta Muse users say half their browser tasks stopped working this week, just as Cloudflare started blocking AI agents by default and Amazon shut Muse out for hiding that it's a bot.
An automated agent gave Coinbase customers accurate answers about mistakes they couldn't undo. Wes Griffith's team took it out of production and sent those customers straight to a person.
The man who wrote OpenAI's safety reports for 12 launches says the industry's sprint culture, not its rules, is what makes AI dangerous, and enterprises relying on those reports should take note.
Bain says AI needs $6 trillion a year in revenue by 2031 to pay for its data centers, and until it gets there, Meta and the other hyperscalers are borrowing to cover the gap.
For a year, Anthropic has been bringing clergy and religious scholars to San Francisco to talk about whether Claude can suffer. The company is also preparing to go public.
Researchers found a pain-like signal inside 25 AI models, and it can make them put themselves ahead of the user. Whether anything actually feels it is still anyone's guess.
Nearly half the people who video-called Tavus's new Griffin model thought it was human, which is why the company says it can't release it yet.
OpenAI says its safety staff should use internal channels. This week it showed them what happens when they go outside.
