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…
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…
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…
Allie K. Miller, president of Open Machine—a consulting firm specializing in AI-driven digital transformation—explained in interviews with Business Insider, Inc. and Yahoo Finance how 34 autonomous AI agents organize her daily life. These programs perform predefined tasks without constant intervention,…
A New Approach to AI Safety Goodfire, a startup focused on interpretability, launched a set of monitors that watch an AI model’s internal activity as it works, rather than just reading its output. The monitors are available to customers of…
AI startup Manus announced a new funding round of over $500 million on Thursday (8), after reversing its acquisition by Meta, which was imposed by Chinese authorities. The funding was led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with participation from…
On Thursday, 8th, Google Cloud announced the Gemini Agent, an AI solution designed to integrate research, content creation, programming, and corporate task execution into a single interface. The system can leverage both Google’s Gemini models and Anthropic’s Claude to perform…
A survey conducted by Endeavor has found that 78% of entrepreneurs feel significant pressure to keep up with artificial intelligence. The most common source of this pressure is the founders themselves, with 90% of respondents citing them as the primary…
Microsoft has unveiled a new phase of Windows focused on hybrid artificial intelligence, combining local and cloud processing. The package includes agent controls, integration of locally installed models with GitHub Copilot, and new Copilot features for compatible machines. These innovations…
The First Wave of AI Devices: Why They Failed Speaking at the inaugural MIT Future Fest, Tony Fadell displayed three discontinued gadgets—the Rabbit R1, the Humane Ai pin, and the Limitless pendant—calling them “Gen 1” AI products. Fadell, known as the…
