Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together
The app gives agents their own identities and inboxes and lets them partake in conversations as naturally as people can.
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Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law
The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses.
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse.
Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses
Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours of battery life.
Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.
Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.
Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.
YouTube Music gets more conversational with new AI features
Built directly into the YouTube Music app, Ask Music lets users describe what they want to hear in everyday language rather than searching for individual songs or artists.