This week, Character.AI declared bankruptcy. While some saw the fall of a chatbot platform as a harbinger for the industry , court filings indicate that the decision was actually a key part of a deal...
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those...
A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge . Though Norforge doesn't name the...
Motive Technologies Inc. is pushing the needle for fleet management automation with the launch of a new artificial intelligence offering called Agents today. As the name strongly hints at, Motive’s...
AI agents are increasingly using Stripe's payment service Link to shop for their users, Upstarts Media reports. The article Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it won't share the...
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in...
Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict...
After stock crashes and Firmus's scrapped IPO, industry executives expect only seven to ten of the hundreds of AI cloud providers to survive. CoreWeave lost a quarter of its market value, and...
Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing their jobs. The fund is a company-owned LLC, so...
A team of four Google Gemini 4 agents has beaten Minecraft's Ender Dragon with no human intervention, according to a new paper from Google researchers. The agents were placed in a randomized survival...
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment...
Small business software marketplace Pax8 Inc. today launched 8os, an operating system that lets its information technology service provider partners govern the artificial intelligence agents running...
Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.
Proteins are chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds, and those bonds are remarkably tough on their own-estimated to last several hundred years in water. Yet in nature, proteins rarely survive...
Anthropic has given outside evaluators "employee-like access" to probe the risks of its models, acting on a pledge to tighten safeguards over fears the technology could spiral catastrophically out of...
Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're...
Most companies put AI agents to work speeding up products or workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed. Founded in 2024 on research from Macquarie University in Sydney, the Australian...
After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karandeep Anand recently...
Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run...
Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles or...