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WiredTechnology
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.
The GuardianWorld
CBP says in response to lawsuit use-of-force cases are ‘thoroughly investigated, reviewed, and presented’ A US citizen who was shot one year ago by a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent during a sweeping immigration crackdown in Chicago filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Monday, alleging the agent…
Ars TechnicaTechnology
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
TechCrunchTechnology
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.
TechCrunchTechnology
Wajo's Fo agent can hire humans to complete a task.
Ars TechnicaTechnology
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
CNBCBusiness
The personal agent boom is lifting the fortunes of AMD and Intel, which have outperformed their megacap tech peers over the past month.
The GuardianTechnology
In a parliamentary inquiry, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon is questioned by independent senator David Pocock about the company's notification process after OpenAI agents accessed Australian government website data in June. Asked why OpenAI relied on an arbitrary department email rather than direct government…
TechCrunchTechnology
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.
TechCrunchTechnology
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
The GuardianBusiness
During a joint parliamentary hearing on artificial intelligence, Anthropic’s head of safeguards, Dave Orr, says that investigations of hundreds of millions of transcripts reveal no unauthorised interactions with Australian government systems. However, Orr acknowledges Anthropic has limited visibility into customer…
ESPNSports
Eric Karabell lists who he thinks are the top available players worth adding for the week ahead.
The GuardianWorld
Immigration enforcement agency has signed $16.7m deal for devices that induced ‘excessive’ fear in military subjects The electric-shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting…
CNBCBusiness
Meta’s Muse is free for now as the company searches for a business surrounding its personal AI agent.
The New York TimesBusiness
Faced with bots immune to traditional marketing tactics, marketers are racing to win them over with logic and data.
The GuardianCulture
The author of Moneyball brings his exceptional narrative skills to bear on Musk’s anti-government crusade Donald Trump’s catastrophic errors get so much attention that his systemic ones can easily be missed. While the world looks on in dismay at his farcical war in Iran, the thuggery of Ice agents or clownish attacks…
The GuardianBusiness
Would-be marketers enticed by online talk of entering a world of travel and easy cash find that the reality is rather different Months before she entered the Love Island villa, the content creator Yasmin Hadlow promised viewers of her online videos that they could “catch flights and get paid mid-air”. All they had to…
The VergeTechnology
Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, "unsuccessful…
Ars TechnicaTechnology
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
The New York TimesTechnology
“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”
