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Uber says only four rides were booked through an AI agent in Halloween week, Apple is cutting daily internal AI spending caps, and Salesforce claims Agentforce Coworker has 185,000 users at $50 a seat. Nix Nullty, who writes Overhyped, joins us on Uber. Plus four quick hits, and what each one means for you.
Today's stories
- 00:21 Uber said only four rides and about 500 Uber Eats orders came through AI agents in Halloween week, out of about 320 million trips. Nix Nullty, who writes Overhyped, on why agent commerce demos still outrun the receipts. (TechCrunch, The Verge)
- 03:01 Bloomberg reports Apple cut some engineering daily AI caps from $300 to $200, with further cuts toward $100, and non-engineering possibly as low as $25. Apple declined comment. Set your own hard limit and a path for exceptions. (TechCrunch)
- 04:33 Salesforce says Agentforce Coworker passed 185,000 users with 21x usage growth in three months, at $50 per user per month. Vendor numbers; pilot one measurable job before buying company-wide seats. (Salesforce)
Quick hits
- Meta acquires Conductor; cloud service shuts November 20 then deletes cloud data (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company for Codex code review tooling (OpenAI)
- Google: measure cost per successful task; route easy work with cheap classifiers (Google Developers Blog)
- OpenAI Images 2.6 brings faster generation and GIFs to ChatGPT and the API (OpenAI)
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