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Bank of America tells customers to stop sharing banking passwords with AI agents — agentic payments are becoming a…

Stop giving out your username and password to your AI assistant, Bank of America warned customers
AI agents are now capable of making agentic purchases, but that doesn't mean they should
Customers are being locked out of accounts thanks to erroneous purchases made by AI agents

Bank of America has requested that customers do not share their usernames and passwords with anyone, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf.”

As agentic AI assistants have exploded in popularity, so too has the trend of having personal AI assistants make payments on a customer’s behalf. But that has led to a regulatory headache for banking providers.

AI agents ingest everything you tell them, including highly sensitive information which can be regurgitated if there is a security flaw.

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Hands-on with the new OLED iPad Mini

Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger OLED display this week, and we’ve just gotten to try it out at Apple’s “Pro and tell” event. It’s an iPad for sure, but the new OLED on the Mini looks exceptional, and the optional nano-texture matte finish

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Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying

The financials Anthropic shared with investors this week suggest that its AI coding tool, Claude Code, is every bit the business success the frontier lab wanted. The company recorded an operating profit in the second quarter, and 900% net revenue retention—that is, spending from the same customers in Q3

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Apple MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display becomes first touchscreen Mac

Apple breaks decades of tradition by finally adding a touchscreen to a MacBook, pairing it with tandem OLED tech and M5 Pro and M5 Max silicon Prefer HTon Google “The Mac has never been better, and never been stronger,” said Apple CEO John Ternus, introducing the MacBook Pro with PROLED

OpenAI Now Lets You Text Your Dot Agent

The feature works with both iMessage and RCS messaging. When OpenAI debuted its Dot agents late last month, it promised users would eventually be able to text them to give them instructions. Now, nearly a month later, the company has begun rolling out a preview among US Pro users that

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