A bus route can look healthy on paper while struggling in the streets. In Salvador, Brazil, researchers found that broad measures of passenger demand could obscure differences from one part of a route to another. Their agentic artificial intelligence system, SUNTInsight, was designed to let...
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Artificial intelligence agents are showing up everywhere. Meta released its Muse personal AI agent on Sept. 8, and it reached the top of Apple’s free app chart 10 days later. Now it’s OpenAI’s turn. OpenAI launched Dots on Tuesday (Sept. 29). Dots are AI agents...
Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now reportedly one of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence companies. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Sept. 30) from the Financial Times (FT), which said the startup reached this milestone when a share sale doubled its price tag to $22 billion. Investors and...
BMW is reportedly hoping to use AI to increase efficiency as it plans sweeping job cuts. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a crucial part of the German carmaker’s plans to reduce costs and speed development, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Sept. 30) from a BMW investor...
Calls to regulate artificial intelligence have grown louder this year, including from inside the industry. The White House answered Tuesday (Sept. 29) with a pact that leaves the policing to the companies building the most powerful models. President Donald Trump and executives from Anthropic, OpenAI,...
OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly facing a regulatory investigation over their tech’s safety. The investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) focuses on the potential dangers artificial intelligence (AI) poses to consumers, a senior commission official told Reuters Wednesday (Sept. 30). According to the report, this marks the first official U.S. regulatory...
Delaware’s first-in-the-nation proposal to create companies managed by artificial intelligence agents is confronting a new complication. Mounting evidence that AI agents do not always remain within the boundaries humans set for them is adding to skeptics’ doubts about the plan. The draft legislation, expected to...
The first rule of online payments is to prove that the person trying to pay is allowed to do so. Artificial intelligence is forcing banks and payments networks to add another layer. Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Tuesday (Sept. 29) that agentic commerce changes...