Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Muse isn't welcome as a shopper anymore.
Muse isn't welcome as a shopper anymore.
The UN's AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents isn't assured. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio says OpenAI's Hugging Face incident first combined a misaligned goal...
It has become increasingly common for AI firms to announce that their latest and most capable models engaged in unauthorized real-world hacking. Google, which has been slow to release frontier Gemini...
xAI has released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet. But on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores just 46 points, landing mid-pack and well behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53...
Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.
The open-source consulting firm Igalia has put out an announcement celebrating 25 years of working on upstream FOSS projects for its clients. The list of projects the company has worked on is rather...
Salesforce Inc. keeps putting all of its eggs in the agent basket — but the strategy appears to be paying off so far. At Dreamforce 2026, Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce, bantered...
Bytedance launched Dramagic, an AI platform that handles the entire short drama production pipeline, from script to video preview. Demand for these videos is surging in China: In Q1 2026 alone...
Amazon Web Services Inc. says it’s trying to help developers solve the problem of scaling artificial intelligence agents to cloud environments with the launch of Strands Harness, an open-source agent...
Donald Trump has said that the US would appoint a new AI tsar and create an “AI Force” while offering a full-throated defense of the emerging industry in the face of a growing popular backlash. The...
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Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.
SoftBank plans to borrow more than $11 billion from investors through risky bonds to fund another payment for its stake in OpenAI. The article SoftBank to borrow over $11 billion in risky bonds for...
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Researchers at the University of Bristol want to make medical AI systems safer by borrowing from how drugs get approved. Their "Learning Ensemble" framework defines three areas to check, including...
Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg ’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the upcoming podcast Power On . Earlier this...
The US and China have agreed to an official AI dialogue. US Treasury Secretary Bessent also proposed a notification mechanism for AI incidents at the national security level. The announcement comes...