OpenAI launched AgentKit at its Dev Day event, a comprehensive toolkit designed to help developers build and deploy AI agents more efficiently. The platform includes Agent Builder for visual workflow design, ChatKit for...
OpenAI has introduced "Instant Checkout" allowing ChatGPT users in the U.S. to complete purchases from Etsy and Shopify merchants directly within conversations, using payment methods like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Stripe, o...
PayPal and Google announced a multi-year partnership to create AI-powered shopping experiences using Google's AI technology and PayPal's payment infrastructure. The collaboration includes developing Google's new Agent Pa...
Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in investment for reinforcement learning (RL) environments, with AI labs like Anthropic reportedly planning to spend over $1 billion on these training simulations. These environment...
Google announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open standard for AI agents to make autonomous purchases on behalf of users, backed by over 60 merchants and financial institutions. The protocol includes safeguards...
Y Combinator-backed Motion raised $38M in Series C funding to develop their integrated AI agent platform for small and mid-sized businesses. The company's AI agent bundle, launched in May, grew to over 10,000 B2B custome...
Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO and Hadoop creators, emerged from stealth with $20M funding to launch Aidnn, an AI agent that enables business managers to query complex enterprise data using natural languag...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will feature a panel discussing the emerging trend of startups using AI agents instead of human employees for initial hires in roles like sales, billing, and customer support. The panel includes f...
Anthropic has launched a research preview of Claude for Chrome, an AI agent that can interact with and control browser activities for select users paying $100-200 monthly. The agent maintains context of browser activitie...
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, a unified AI model that combines reasoning abilities with fast responses and enables ChatGPT to complete complex tasks like generating software applications and managing calendars. CEO Sam Altm...
