Google has enhanced its Gemini Code Assist with new agentic capabilities that can complete multi-step programming tasks such as creating applications from product specifications or transforming code between programming l...
Amazon has unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can independently control web browsers to perform simple tasks like making reservations or ordering food. The technology, developed by Amazon's San Francisco-...
OpenAI has released new AI models for transcription and voice generation that offer improved accuracy and control over previous versions. The new text-to-speech model allows developers to steer voice characteristics usin...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company's Llama AI model family has reached 1 billion downloads, representing a 53% increase over a three-month period. Despite facing copyright lawsuits and regulatory challen...
Manus, an "agentic" AI platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has generated enormous hype with claims of autonomous capabilities surpassing competitors like OpenAI's tools. However, early users and testing revea...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker has raised serious concerns about agentic AI systems at SXSW, describing them as requiring extensive system access comparable to "root permissions" to function. She warned that AI agen...
Amazon has established a new group within AWS dedicated to developing AI agents, with the goal of creating systems that can automate tasks for users. The initiative, led by longtime AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, i...
Amazon introduced Alexa+, a new AI assistant that uses a 'model agnostic' approach to select the best AI model for each specific task. The system utilizes Amazon's Bedrock cloud platform, their in-house Nova models, and...
