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💸 Anthropic launched a beta version of Personal Finance in Claude.

The user can securely connect bank accounts and cards via Plaid and ask questions in their own words: where the money went this month, which payments are still due before payday, whether there are any double charges or hidden fees.

Claude can also build a spending chart, a payment calendar, or a dashboard.

Read-only access: Claude cannot transfer or invest money, does not see the bank password, and chats in this section are not used for training models.

The app has no ads or sponsored recommendations. The beta starts this week for Pro, Max and Ultra plans, for now only in the US.

Your price may differ from your neighbor's. And this is not conspiracy theory.

Retailers can combine AI with personal data to estimate how much exactly you are willing to pay. This phenomenon is called "surveillance pricing," that is, pricing based on tracking.

For example, a store can see your geolocation, browsing history, items left in your cart, and even your cursor movements. Based on this, an algorithm sets the price.

The U.S. regulator FTC has confirmed that companies are indeed using algorithms that set prices tailored to a specific person based on their data.

Vulnerable buyers may end up paying more, such as new parents buying baby food.

Police in the US received an AI that finds a house from a single photo of a room. Coordinates and metadata are not needed. In a demo, it located a house in Charlotte and a villa in Montecito from a photo of a bathroom.

The Raven tool (formerly GeoSpy) from the company Graylark can now geolocate interiors.

You upload a photo of, say, a laundry room, and within seconds a map shows the neighborhood, and next to it an Airbnb listing with the same rooms pops up.