Why the risk is real An IBM report on the cost of data breaches in 2025 found that incidents related to the unauthorized use of AI occurred in around 20% of cases analyzed, increasing the average cost by approximately $670,000.…
Asking a virtual assistant to summarize an email is one thing. But asking it to monitor your inbox, identify urgent messages, check your calendar, and automatically respond to simple cases is another. This second scenario defines an AI agent—a type…
A New Report Highlights Gaps and Opportunities in Consumer AI Olivia Moore, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, released a report on Monday that ranks the top 100 consumer AI applications. ChatGPT remains the dominant player by a wide margin, while…
Brazilian tech company Zoox is preparing to launch Ontology, an artificial intelligence platform designed to preserve the context of business decisions. The system aggregates records of meetings, messages, and internal operations, allowing teams to consult how and why a decision…
From customer service to decision-making: What AI agents can do While a chatbot is limited to answering questions, an AI agent connected to the right systems can consult data, identify replenishment needs, and automatically initiate the next steps of a…
Rapid Valuation Surge and Funding Details Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models, announced a $200 million Series B round on Thursday at a $3.1 billion valuation. The investment was led by…
From Conversational Assistant to Autonomous Business Agent At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company unveiled a unified agent built on Gemini that moves beyond answering questions to executing tasks on behalf of users through a single interface. The…
From Actor to AI Advocate and Entrepreneur Ben Affleck has spent the past week captivating online audiences with his deep dive into artificial intelligence, showcasing a level of technical fluency that surprised even seasoned tech enthusiasts. The actor, who earlier…
New Prohibitions Target Harmful Interactions and Misinformation Anthropic announced on Thursday that it has revised its usage policy, adding explicit bans on election meddling, the development of weapons software, surveillance applications, and—most notably—a prohibition against sustained verbal abuse directed at…
A financial document shared with investors and revealed by the Financial Times on Thursday, 8, shows that OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, had annualized revenue close to $50 billion at the end of September. This figure is around $20 billion…
