Anthropic is opening a research preview of a shared specification for artificial intelligence agents to operate physical devices, specifically lab and manufacturing instruments, the company said in a Thursday (Aug. 27) announcement. The Model Hardware Standard (MHS) enables agents to operate instruments such as microscopes,...
Cisco is rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) agent, MyAgent, to 90,000 employees, Thimaya Subaiya, executive vice president, operations at Cisco, said in a Thursday (Aug. 27) blog post. MyAgent is built on Cisco’s secure, governed, multi-model agnostic AI platform, Circuit, and allows employees to access...
Thomson Reuters has launched a proprietary large language model that the company developed in-house and trained on its decades of content from Westlaw, Practical Law, Checkpoint and Reuters, the company said in a Monday (Aug. 24) press release. Dubbed “Thomson,” the LLM began with an open-source foundation and was trained on the company’s proprietary content and domain expertise, according...
Meta’s upcoming artificial intelliHatgence assistant, known in-house as “Hatch,” can fill out forms, buy things, perform deep research and “do anything you can do online,” the company said in an internal memo, Business Insider reported Thursday (Aug. 27). Hatch — not the final name of...
Lowe’s AI shopping assistant, Mylow, has fielded more than 25 million questions from customers and store associates since launch, and shoppers who engage with it online convert at three times the rate of those who don’t, CEO Marvin Ellison said on the company’s Aug. 19...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Synchrony’s Maran Nalluswami Agentic commerce is forcing payments companies to make investment decisions before they know where the transaction will ultimately take place. A shopper may begin with an artificial intelligence platform, move to a retailer’s website and...
Artificial intelligence has moved past the hype stage, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that “AI has reached its inflection point. It’s doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue.” Huang waved...
Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant that seems to be gaining traction among early adopters, is raising a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (Aug. 26), citing its interview with Instinct Founder Noah...
Anthropic has agreed to pay $45 billion to rent cloud computing power from neocloud company Nscale’s West Virginia data center, which is set to start operating in late 2027, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Aug. 26), citing unnamed sources. The six-year commitment covers about 460 megawatts of...