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Google Expands Project Mariner AI Agent to Handle Multiple Web-Browsing Tasks Simultaneously
Google is rolling out Project Mariner, an experimental AI agent that browses websites and completes tasks like purchasing tickets or groceries without users visiting sites directly. The updated version runs on cloud virt...
Amazon AGI SF Lab's Cognitive Scientist to Speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Conference
Danielle Perszyk, who leads human-computer interaction at Amazon's AGI SF Lab, will be speaking at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at UC Berkeley. She will join representatives from Google DeepMind and Twelve Labs to d...
Microsoft Launches Discovery Platform for AI-Assisted Scientific Research
Microsoft has announced Microsoft Discovery, an enterprise agentic AI platform designed to accelerate scientific research processes from hypothesis formulation to analysis. The platform enables scientists to collaborate...
Firecrawl Offers $1M Budget to Deploy AI Agents as Employees, Seeking Human Creators Behind the Technology
Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl has posted job listings for three AI agent positions with a combined $1 million budget, seeking autonomous systems for content creation, customer support, and development work. Despi...
Microsoft Adopts Google's Agent2Agent Protocol for AI Communication
Microsoft has announced support for Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol in its Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio platforms. The A2A protocol enables AI agents from different providers to communicate and collaborate acr...
Hugging Face Releases Open Source Computer-Using AI Agent
Hugging Face has released Open Computer Agent, a freely available cloud-hosted AI agent that can operate a Linux virtual machine with preinstalled applications including Firefox. The agent can handle simple tasks like we...
Relevance AI Secures $24M Funding to Develop AI Agent Operating System
Relevance AI has raised $24 million in Series B funding to enhance its AI agent operating system platform, which helps businesses build teams of specialized AI agents. The company reports rapid growth with 40,000 AI agen...
Databricks and Anthropic CEOs to Discuss Collaboration on Domain-Specific AI Agents
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are hosting a virtual fireside chat to discuss their collaboration on advancing domain-specific AI agents. The event will include three additional sessions explori...
AI Startup 'Mechanize' Aims to Automate All Human Labor
Tamay Besiroglu, a prominent AI researcher and founder of the research organization Epoch, has launched a controversial startup called Mechanize that aims to fully automate all work in the economy. The startup is primari...
Google Adopts Anthropic's Model Context Protocol for AI Data Connectivity
Google has announced it will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) in its Gemini models and SDK, following OpenAI's similar adoption. MCP enables two-way connections between AI models and external data sources...