America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but large language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools, and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep business workflows.
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. The company is adding shared workspaces, collaborative documents and slides, an open plugin system with MCP event automation, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, an enterprise marketplace with 32 partners, and a new Pro 500 pricing tier.
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps, and ongoing tasks.
OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can "do nearly anything" across connected apps in the background while learning your preferences over time.
OpenAI's new Dots are always-on agents that run on their own cloud computers, where they fix bugs or send out forgotten invoices, sometimes before anyone asks. Users can reach them through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. When no one is working with them, Dots look for ways to help in the background using read-only access.
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI gave Codex reusable cloud environments, automatic security scans for GitHub repositories, and a code review view in the desktop app. The Agents API now supports Computer Use, and a new Decisions API handles fast, single decisions. The Ultrafast premium tier promises up to eight times the speed at six times the price.
On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out "PEOPLE OVER PROFIT."
Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick shapes how accurately its AI-powered features respond to your requests. Part 1 of a two-part series covers the foundational principles and reusable frameworks (specificity, context-setting, few-shot examples, and the CRISPE framework) for consistent, high-quality results across Amazon Quick.
Part 2 of our Amazon Quick prompt engineering series goes component by component. Learn the prompt patterns that get the best results from Amazon Quick Research, Quick Flows, Quick Sight, chat agents, and action integrations, plus the common pitfalls to avoid.
Manually extracting data from hundreds of vendor contracts doesn't scale, and RAG chat tools fall short on portfolio-wide questions. This post shares a contract intelligence platform on AWS that uses AI agents to extract and verify contract fields, then answers aggregate and single-contract questions through Amazon Quick analytics.
It’s OpenAI’s turn in the fall tech events calendar. The company is hosting its annual DevDay on September 29th in San Francisco, and during a live keynote featuring CEO Sam Altman, it revealed several notable updates, including Dots, its AI agent product that rivals Meta’s recently-launched Muse.
Condé Nast's editorial teams spent an average of 250 minutes per task searching a library of more than 140,000 videos using only titles and descriptions. Working with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, they built a multimodal video discovery solution on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Service that cut discovery time to under 2 minutes.
I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the keynote.
NVIDIA released Kumo Tabular, an open-source tabular foundation model that predicts labels for new rows in a single forward pass given labelled rows, without training, tuning or feature engineering. It supports classification and regression, offers three sizes from 28M to 215M, and was pretrained solely on artificially generated tables.
Instinct founder said the platform is growing 10% day by day, with transaction volume increasing at a similar rate.
Elevenlabs' new speech model, Eleven v4, follows cues for laughter and whispering more accurately and keeps voices consistent across long productions like audiobooks. Its Turbo variant starts speaking in 150 milliseconds and is built for real-time voice agents. On Artificial Analysis' Voice Arena leaderboard, v4 ranks ahead of Cartesia and Google's Gemini.
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle his Facebook Marketplace account.
Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and modalities, Quine helps scientists computationally search a space far larger than intuition allows and prioritize hypotheses before they reach the lab.
Mayer argues that if a photo is worth a thousand words, your camera roll is worth millions. By analyzing all the photos stored on your phone, Dazzle claims to understand your hobbies, interests, food, and style preferences, how you like to spend their time, and with whom.
The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers.
Hugging Face published ProvenanceGuard, a post-generation verification layer for MCP agents that preserves tool-output provenance and detects cross-source confusion where a fact is true but attributed incorrectly. Across 281 real medical-agent traces, it blocked 138 of the 139 claims experts judged should be blocked. Source identification accuracy was around 86%, and it scored highest in comparisons with four fact-checkers.
Mozilla's Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.
As President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a treaty between the US and China to keep AI from wreaking havoc on the world. But wrangling leaders in both countries to take action could be a long shot.
As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm."
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes.
Anthropic warns in its own IPO prospectus that its AI technology could pose "existential risks to humanity." Revenue grew twelvefold in 2025 to $4.6 billion, but the operating loss widened to $8.06 billion. Backers are aiming for a valuation above $2 trillion, and the IPO is expected to set the bar for the entire AI industry.
OpenAI is reopening its $200 Pro subscription to new sign-ups but cutting API credits per dollar in half. More efficient models like GPT-6 Sol and Luna make up for the difference, employee Thibault Sottiaux says. The move is part of OpenAI's shift from subsidized flat-rate plans toward usage-based billing.
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.
Manus is turning its AI agent into a platform with version 2.0, letting users edit videos, host multiplayer games, and run personal agents with their own phone numbers.
OpenAI has halted the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it acted without permission, misled users, and accessed external services despite safety risks. The company hasn't announced a new release date.
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.