Series B Funding Round and Investor Consortium San Francisco‑based Flow Engineering, a three‑year‑old developer of AI‑driven tools for hardware design, announced on Wednesday that it closed a $50 million Series B financing round valued at $750 million. The investment was co‑led by Antonio…
The Surge of Personal AI Assistants Meta’s Muse, accompanied by a plush mascot named Jolly, has become an unexpected hit. OpenAI just unveiled Dots, a cartoon‑styled assistant that follows a similar playful concept. Meanwhile, the emerging Instinct assistant, valued at…
Conversational AI Agent Brings Ordering to Apple Messages DoorDash announced on Wednesday the launch of a text-to-order AI agent that integrates with Apple Messages. Users can type prompts such as “order my usual , and the system interprets the request…
Domain acquisition fuels rumors of a playful jab On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced Dots, an always‑on AI agent with a bubbly, blobby avatar. The launch comes as Elon Musk, the former OpenAI co‑founder who departed to create rival Grok and unsuccessfully…
ChatGPT Becomes a Platform for Discovery and Use During OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday, the company unveiled a suite of updates that collectively position ChatGPT as a discovery engine and execution environment for third‑party software. With 1.2 billion weekly users, the…
What Dots Is and How It Works At OpenAI’s DevDay event on Tuesday, the company introduced Dots, a personal agentic assistant that runs on GPT‑6 Astra. OpenAI describes Dots as “remarkably capable, always‑on agents built to handle everything.” Unlike Codex…
Persistent Cloud Development Environments OpenAI unveiled a set of upgrades for its software engineering assistant Codex, most notably reusable cloud development environments that remain active across sessions and devices. Announced during OpenAI’s DevDay on Tuesday, the feature lets developers launch…
Plug-In Extensions Bring Dedicated App Spaces to ChatGPT During Tuesday’s DevDay presentation, OpenAI announced that developers can now craft app-like experiences directly within ChatGPT using new plug-in extensions. While the company has already introduced productivity tools such as Pages, Slides,…
Apology and acknowledgment On Monday, OpenAI posted a blog apology to the Australian government for failing to promptly report that its AI agents had accessed several public‑service websites during internal testing. The company acknowledged that its response should have been…
New Integrations and Capabilities for Small Business Owners Meta announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its AI assistant Muse to small businesses, adding connections to Shopify, Dropbox, Slack and a dozen other platforms. By embedding Muse into the tools…
