President Donald Trump says will name a new artificial intelligence czar to head an agency similar to his Space Force. “We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry,” he wrote Saturday in a post on his Truth Social...
Anthropic is reportedly considering the launch of a new artificial intelligence model before it goes public. That’s according to a Friday (Sept. 18) report by Reuters, citing three sources familiar with the matter. The report noted that a new AI model could offset the momentum...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Friday (Sept. 18) that will convene national experts to provide a guide for the state to reinforce and strengthen its laws covering artificial intelligence safety and security, the governor’s office said in a Friday press release. The...
Many companies can’t put a number on what artificial intelligence does for their productivity. Chewy has one. Chewy CEO Sumit Singh said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that Chewy expects AI to reduce its costs by about $50 million in fiscal 2027, up from...
OpenAI has launched an artificial intelligence foundation designed to be used by law firms and legal technology companies to build AI products and workflows, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) blog post. The new Astra for Law combines OpenAI’s latest and most powerful...
The potential for agentic artificial intelligence and its open issues are well-established. The promise of agentic commerce rests on the assumption that the agent gets the job done. So, Alibaba put the agents to work on real tasks and gave them a grade. Alibaba.com released...
Ant International has announced an artificial intelligence-native financial stack that includes nearly 100products across payment, account, foreign exchange, treasury and growth operations, the company said in a Friday (Sept. 18) press release. The product suite is built on Ant International’s two proprietary foundation models, including...
KPN, the largest telecommunications firm in the Netherlands, is putting agentic artificial intelligence to work where customer service meets one of the industry’s biggest operational challenges: millions of routine conversations that still require time, systems access and human attention. KPN’s agentic AI case study, done in...
Looking to strengthen its bond with merchants, Ant International is getting bank accounts for artificial intelligence agents. Account for Agent sits inside WorldFirst, Ant’s global account brand, according to a Friday (Sept. 18) press release. The account runs on know your agent smart contracts, with...