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Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.
Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.
AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behaviour.
Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send personalized alerts about product launches, tours, books, shows, and other events that could trigger a purchase.
For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead of an opportunity to pursue. But with the rise in customer expectations and the changes…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions.…
Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions. Some companies hope microbes can help. A growing body of research shows that seeding the soil around a crop’s roots with beneficial microbes can help feed the plant, providing crucial nitrogen to help…
As AI adoption gathers pace, so does the evolution of the infrastructure that supports it. New standards and connectors keep appearing, and the ones that catch on spread through the ecosystem within months rather than years. That speed strengthens what AI can do, but makes it very difficult for security teams to maintain sufficient protections. […] The post Why MCP servers are becoming AI’s newest attack surface appeared first on AI News.
Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…
Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
Blue Voice is trained on department-specific laws, local ordinances, protocols, and guidelines that general-purpose AI tools can't access on the public internet.
As frustration over AI influencers has been growing, Instagram is limiting the reach of undisclosed AI profiles.
Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.
The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.
Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.
Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month
Of the Glassdoor reviews from claims adjusters that mentioned AI, a staggering 98 percent were negative. “AI is just a tool,” one person tells WIRED. “It should never be given the keys.”
Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.
