Conversational AI tool aims to guide purchases without leaving TikTok On Monday, TikTok unveiled a conversational AI shopping assistant that can recall a user’s preferences, answer questions about product details, shipping, sizing and availability, and help complete a purchase in…
Visual Ads Rollout and Initial Scope OpenAI is adding visual display ads that will appear alongside AI‑generated images requested by ChatGPT users. The ads are scheduled to launch later this month, initially limited to the United States, and will showcase…
Unified Scheduling for the Whole Family With back-to-school season arriving, juggling work, school, appointments, sports, and chores can quickly become overwhelming. Linkdaze offers a touchscreen tablet designed to coordinate an entire household rather than a single user. Its core advantage…
Feature Launch and Use Cases Instinct, whose AI agent is now valued at $10 billion following its most recent funding round, announced on Monday that users can add the agent to group conversations with friends. The company says the integration works…
Founding Vision and Funding Carnegie Mellon University’s Safe AI lab director Dr. Ding Zhao, veteran startup executive Kyle Wong and machine learning engineer Simo Rachidi have launched Safeworld to tackle the unpredictability of generative AI‑driven robots. The company emerged from…
Background and Previous Commitments President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new Super Intelligence Force during a Sunday morning post on his social network Truth Social. He said the force will coordinate federal efforts to keep America at the…
Amazon’s pledge and the broader backlash In a blog post aimed at calming rising suspicion, Amazon Web Services chief Matt Garman announced that the company will no longer require nondisclosure agreements with government agencies when pursuing new data center projects.…
A growing class of AI assistants can now be reached simply by sending a text, eliminating the need for a separate app. These agents remember conversation context, tap into the services users already employ, and execute tasks ranging from scheduling…
Pope’s digital manifesto on art His Holiness, who holds the titles of Bishop of Rome, Primate of Italy, and Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, posted on X on a Friday morning to outline a spiritual distinction between works crafted…
The App Funeral: A Symbolic Gesture in San Francisco On September 17, Photon staged a real funeral in a San Francisco church, complete with speeches, a coffin for app icons, and panels from Vercel, Stripe, and OpenAI. CEO Daniel Tian…
