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The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.

Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.

Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users.

Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.

DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.

The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.

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Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during its Q3 earnings call. The AI app now has over 10M users.

Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.

As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.