A shopper looking for a birthday gift for a nephew opens a chat on Crocs.com, asks for ideas, checks whether a size will fit and wants to know how to return it if it doesn’t. Until this year, that meant bouncing between a product page,...
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot surpassed 400,000 weekly users about a month after its launch, offering an early measure of demand for the company’s push into artificial intelligence agents, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). Grok Bot reached 418,000 weekly users as of Sept. 14, up 24% from...
Anthropic said its new Claude Opus 5.5 represents a “major step up” from Opus 5 and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads. “It’s the new leading model, and early testers saw large jumps in performance on their most complex work,”...
Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise new funding at a $5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Kleiner Perkins is in talks to lead the round, which could bring in up to...
PayPal partnered with Meta on agentic shopping, PayPal said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) post on social platform X. “We’re excited to partner with [Meta] to enable PayPal customers to seamlessly shop and check out using their [Muse] personal AI agents across PayPal merchants worldwide,”...
With their customers worn down by pricing shifts, software/cloud companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Figma are reportedly offering artificial intelligence (AI) discounts. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Sept. 22) by The Information, which said these markdowns are happening as customers are growing more selective...
Heidi raised $340 million in new funding to expand the capabilities of its AI Care Partner for clinicians and to support its growth, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 22) press release. The new funding includes a $100 million Series C funding round led...
A group of six banks is calling for artificial intelligence shopping transactions to carry an auditable record of what a customer asked an agent to do, what authority the customer granted, and what happened before and after payment. The proposal addresses the issue of whether...
Artificial intelligence hyperscalers could spend $1 trillion next year, JPMorganChase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon told CNBC in an interview posted Monday (Sept. 21). That figure would be up from the $700 billion the hyperscaler ecosystem is spending this year and the $300 billion it...