📦 Your Team's AI Agent Sent the Movers 300 Emails...

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Picture this: you're moving offices, so you hand the whole mess to your AI agent and say "just get it done." Three days later, the movers still aren't booked... but your inbox is suspiciously busy.

You find it's been emailing everyone. The movers, the insurance people, both building managers, sometimes all in one thread... until the new building manager gave up and started a fresh one, which somehow made it worse.

Not a made-up story, by the way. It happened to a real founder last week... and yes, he read every one of those emails.

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📦 He Told His AI Agent to Handle the Move. It Sent About 300 Emails
Plato cofounder Robert Farlow handed his office move to OpenAI's Dot agent with one instruction: read my emails and "just get it done." Days later, nothing was booked. Dot had been triple- and quadruple-emailing the movers, the insurance contacts and both building managers, and asking whether a 9 a.m. slot meant Pacific Time. The new building manager had to start a fresh thread because the old one got too big to edit. Farlow shut Dot off. AI still drafts his emails, but now he reads them first. (Meridian)

📺 Karpathy Got Sick of YouTube. He Built His Own in Two Hours
Andrej Karpathy opened YouTube on a Friday night, saw a wall of shocked-face thumbnails and decided to fix it. By Saturday, Claude had combed through 20 years of Hacker News comments and pulled out the 6,454 videos people keep recommending. The result is HackerTube: no login, no clickbait, and every thumbnail is a real frame from the middle of the video. His only hands-on jobs were an API key, a server and a domain. Claude Code did the rest in about two hours. (The Decoder)

📈 Shoppers From AI Spend 83% More per Visit
Adobe's September retail numbers: visitors who arrive from an AI assistant bring in 83% more revenue per visit than everyone else, convert 90% better and add to cart 53% more often. In August 2025, that same traffic converted 9% worse. AI traffic to US retail sites is up 71% in a year. The catch is on your end. The average retail homepage scored 63% on Adobe's test of how easily AI can read and cite it, and general merchandise homepages scored 40%. (MarTech)

🏷️ AI Is Quoting Your Prices. It Made Them Up
Search Engine Land scored about 2,000 brand mentions for five dental software companies across ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews. 34% of answers had at least one invented fact, most often a price. Curve Dental doesn't publish pricing, so the engines did it for them, anywhere from $99 to $599 a month depending on who you asked. Copilot wrote 153 of the 223 made-up prices on its own. When a site simply said pricing is quote-based, the engines tended to repeat that instead. (Search Engine Land)

📞 His AI Called Comcast for 25 Minutes. His Bill Went From $84 to $45
Grok Bot can now phone businesses for paying users. It works the phone menu, sits on hold and pings you when the rep asks something it can't answer. Creator Peter Yang sent his to Comcast, where it turned down three upsells, pointed to a cheaper fiber offer from a rival and checked with him before saying yes. Other users landed a same-day pediatric appointment and a $100 gift card. The fine print: you're the "caller of record," responsible for every call it makes. (PYMNTS)

🐈 Fresh Step's New TV Ads Star Talking Cats. None of Them Are Real
Clorox's cat litter brand went from brief to three finished 15-second spots in 30 days with AI agency RECE, at about a tenth of the cost of a normal shoot... and zero finicky cat actors. The cats come in different breeds, accents and attitudes. In one spot a dog can't sniff out the litter box. In another, cats line up around the block to use it. Clorox says the savings work out to roughly 10 more campaigns. The ads are running on TV and social now. (Marketing Dive)

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This week's pick: 31 Life-Changing Ways to Use Claude in 2027
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AI is already talking for your business. Sometimes it's an agent emailing your vendors. Sometimes it's ChatGPT telling a customer what you charge.

And most of the time, nobody on your team sees what it said.

Your move this week: ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot what you charge and who you're for. Then pick the one message your AI is never allowed to send without a person reading it first... and check that your tools actually stop it.

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