Anthropic has unveiled an app in which Claude works as a “proactive agent” on behalf of professionals and small business owners, including purchasing business supplies, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) announcement. In this app, Claude Duet, Claude comes to the user when...
Walmart has introduced three tools designed to let customers shop at Walmart and Sam’s Club through their choice of apps and artificial intelligence (AI) agents. “Shopping with an agent won’t be for everyone, and it doesn’t have to be,” the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) press release. “But for customers...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has found a new centerpiece for the company’s artificial intelligence ambitions: Muse, a personal AI agent he is positioning as the foundation for everything from shopping and advertising to enterprise software and smart glasses. After earlier AI efforts struggled to establish...
Mastercard introduced an artificial intelligence assistant designed to help cardholders discover, understand and use the benefits offered by the cards they carry, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) press release. Dubbed “Mastercard Max,” the AI assistant can be delivered to cardholders through the...
Boeing wants airlines to catch mechanical problems before they ground a jet. The aircraft maker announced in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release the launch of Dataliner, an artificial intelligence-powered platform built with Microsoft that pulls an airline’s maintenance and fleet data into one view....
Enterprise software platform ServiceNow has launched an agentic-AI-focused expansion of its partnership with Nvidia. The new updates are “designed to bring governance and security across every layer of AI agent execution,” the company said in a news release Wednesday (Oct. 21). “People are turning to...
Legora raised $550 million in a Series E funding round to support the expansion of its agentic operating system for legal professionals, Legora aOS, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) blog post. The round valued Legora at $8.8 billion, according to the post....
Anthropic’s net loss jumped significantly to $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026, largely due to an accounting charge. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Oct. 20) by Reuters, which viewed a draft prospectus for the company’s planned initial public offering (IPO). Anthropic is...
OpenAI says it is expanding the reach of its ChatGPT Ads to 26 new countries. The expansion brings the advertising offering to 80 countries around the world, and comes as more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns on ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) company announced Wednesday (Oct. 21). “Advertising helps...