ChatGPT adds team workspaces, and Meta opens Muse to businesses
Shared documents inside ChatGPT, a free Meta agent for small businesses, and a White House help chatbot.
Models and products
New AI tools and features, and assistants arriving in apps you already use.
ChatGPT adds shared workspaces and documents, with slides coming soon
At its DevDay event on September 29, OpenAI announced Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT for co-workers, and Pages, a new kind of document. Slides made by talking to ChatGPT will roll out in the coming weeks, OpenAI says.
Why it matters: If your office drafts quotes or job notes in ChatGPT, staff could share and edit them in one place, though the article does not say which plans get it.
Source: TechCrunch ·
Meta opens its Muse agent to small businesses, free with limits
Meta announced Muse for Small Business, an agent that links to Facebook pages, Instagram professional accounts and Meta ad accounts, plus tools like QuickBooks, Stripe and Zoom. It is free with usage limits, and more use needs a paid plan.
Why it matters: If you find customers through Facebook or Instagram, this is a free assistant tied to those pages, with usage limits before a paid plan.
Source: TechCrunch ·
Meta says Muse reads Mac messages only after you allow it
A columnist at Inc said the Muse app for Mac read his private messages without permission. Meta disputes it, saying Muse can read Messages only if you turn on both Full Disk Access and its Messages connector.
Why it matters: If customers text you on a Mac, Meta says those two settings decide whether Muse can read your customer messages.
Source: TechCrunch ·
Adoption and use cases
How businesses and local agencies are putting AI to work.
White House announces America.gov, a chatbot for government services
President Trump announced America.gov on September 29, an AI chatbot meant to help people find government services and information. Google says it is a partner and its Gemini model is involved, and the article gives no launch date.
Why it matters: If you look up government rules or forms for your business, this may become one place to ask, so check any answer about taxes or filings against the official page.
Source: TechCrunch ·
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