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Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with
The Humane AI Pin has collapsed, but Rabbit is still kicking. The company published a blog post and video today showing off a “generalist Android agent,” slowly controlling apps on a tablet in much the same way that Rabbit claimed its R1 device would over a year ago. (It couldn’t, and can’t.) The work builds on LAM Playground, a “generalist…
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Elon Musk: agent of chaos
It’s hard to think of a time when a single figure has been so central to seemingly everything in the way that Elon Musk is right now. Musk is overseeing and overhauling the federal government, while bending it toward his own financial gain. He’s also ubiquitous in the artificial intelligence world, where this week he offered to buy part of…
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An AI agent could help you buy your next car
Capital One has launched an AI agent designed to help customers with one of the more difficult and confusing purchase decisions: buying a car. The new chatbot, called Chat Concierge, will help customers with everything from researching vehicles and scheduling test drives, to exploring financing options. The generative AI-powered assistant, one of many such projects at the financial institution, simplifies…
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GitHub’s new ‘Agent Mode’ feature lets AI take the reins for developers
GitHub has launched a new agentic AI tool for developers, dubbed ‘Agent Mode’, alongside a raft of updates to the Copilot service. Agent Mode enables Copilot to iterate on its own outputs and complete entire user requests in one go, thereby automating broader aspects of the development process. It can also automatically fix errors, suggest terminal commands, and assess run-time…
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OpenAI launches deep research agent for multi-step research tasks – Computerworld
“I think what we are starting to see is a maturation of generative AI in the real world,” said Jason Andersen, vice president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategies. “Initially, generative AI was trying to get some degree of momentum with the common user with diverse needs and questions. As internet users, we expect everything to be fast…
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ChatGPT’s agent can now do deep research for you
OpenAI has revealed another new agentic feature for ChatGPT called deep research, which it says can operate autonomously to “plan and execute a multi-step trajectory to find the data it needs, backtracking and reacting to real-time information where necessary.” Instead of simply generating text, it shows a summary of its process in a sidebar, with citations and a summary showing…
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Former Scale AI leaders raise $4.2 million to simplify agent deployments
With industry eyes focused on the potential of agentic AI, one startup wants to transform support and operations teams with agents and reduce the pressure placed on human workers. Applied Labs, founded by former Scale AI leaders Michael Woo and Soham Waychal, has raised $4.2 million as part of a seed funding round led by Abstract. The investment round saw…
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OpenAI’s new Operator agent can use the web for you – Computerworld
OpenAI is releasing a preview version of its first AI agent, Operator, which is specifically designed to use a web browser and can, for example, book a table at a restaurant for the user on its own. (An AI agent is a system that can be given a task and then work on it independently.) In the meantime, the user…
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Everything you need to know about Operator, OpenAI’s new AI agent
OpenAI has unveiled its first AI agent — but “Operator” remains a research preview, rather than a final product. AI agents are believed by many to be the “killer app” for generative AI, allowing the much-hyped technology to take on practical workloads by automating processes and taking action, rather than only providing information. The end of last year saw a…
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OpenAI debuts AI agent Operator to transform web task automation – Computerworld
“Open AI’s Operator is designed to be a web agent that can autonomously go through websites and conduct multi-step tasks,” said Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst at Amalgam Insights. “This is designed to be helpful both for accessing data within each website as well as conducting complex and time-consuming tasks that currently require repetitive clicking and typing.” Enterprise applications…
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