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Europe is starting to write rules for automated customer service: the European Commission wants any customer to be able to ask for a human when the chatbot can't solve their problem, and it sets out how AI agents that shop on a consumer's behalf must behave. AI keys have become loot: the Railway platform puts at about $740,000 the bill attackers ran up with its customers' keys. And the money shows where the industry is heading: OpenAI brought in about $10 billion in a single quarter on the back of business customers, and Anthropic's IPO already has orders for several times the shares on offer. Picks up from Wednesday's radar.

Brussels wants your customer service to always offer a way out to a human, and sets rules for agents that shop for your customers

On Wednesday the European Commission presented its proposed Digital Fairness Act, the biggest overhaul of EU consumer rules for online commerce. It bans dark patterns, such as claiming stock is almost gone when it isn't, requires subscriptions to be easy to cancel, and ends free trials that quietly roll into paid plans. Two articles hit automation directly. Article 25 says that if you offer online customer service after a sale, customers can ask to talk to a human when other channels don't work, free of charge and in the language of the contract (regulators may weigh the size of the business). Article 26 requires an agent that buys on a customer's behalf to ask, on first use, whether they want to confirm every purchase, only some of them (with a price cap and a time limit) or none, and to disclose and ask for confirmation whenever it gets paid to recommend something. It is only a proposal: the European Parliament and EU governments will now negotiate it, and it would apply 12 months after entering into force. For your business: if your support chatbot has no "talk to someone" button, design it now and track how many conversations use it; that number tells you how much of your support is really resolved. The UNATTENDED rung doesn't mean no people: it means a person steps in only when needed, and the customer knows how to reach them. Source

Attackers ran up about $740,000 with AI keys stolen from Railway's customers: your API key is cash

Railway, a platform where companies and developers deploy their apps and store their keys, published the full report on its October breach on Tuesday. The intruder broke out of the build system on October 20 through an unknown flaw, copied the platform's internal code, found a misconfiguration in it and decrypted the variables of up to about 100,000 workspaces (1.85%), hunting above all for AI provider keys. Railway estimates those keys were used for about $740,000 in unauthorized usage. On October 26 it said it couldn't refund that spend; now it promises to cover whatever the AI providers won't reimburse. According to the company, the attacker worked with AI agents and it became "a contest of agent speed"; it believes the goal was to resell access or copy models. It's the same model-access resale business we covered yesterday with Fireworks. For your business: set a spending cap on every key in your AI provider's console, use a separate key per project, and rotate any key stored on third-party platforms. Note that filing Railway's charge report doesn't revoke a key; you do that with the provider that issued it. Source

OpenAI books about $10 billion in a quarter thanks to businesses, and investors line up for Anthropic: they're competing for your contract

According to the WSJ and The Information, OpenAI took in about $10 billion in the third quarter, up 50% from the previous quarter and up from $3.9 billion a year earlier; its business segment doubled and is now the bulk of revenue, according to president Greg Brockman. But its adjusted operating loss widened to $10.9 billion, not counting $2.6 billion in stock compensation. Anthropic took in about $17 billion in the same quarter, and its IPO already has orders for several times the shares on offer, according to Bloomberg; together with a private placement it could raise up to $90.4 billion, more than SpaceX's IPO. For your business: the two leaders are fighting for enterprise customers, and OpenAI has cut prices on its new models to win them, so get quotes from both before you renew. But a vendor that loses more than it brings in won't hold those prices forever: build your automation's numbers with room for a price increase, and make sure the process can switch models without a rebuild. Source

What to watch tomorrow

Whether Anthropic moves its $70 to $78 range before pricing on the 18th, after Friday's event with Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon, and whether AI providers confirm they are refunding the charges run up on keys stolen from Railway.