Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
…The results suggest that a future where chatbots and AI agents take over ecommerce is still a way off, if it ever materializes. Last year, OpenAI made a bet that it could…
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China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
…Workshops teaching people how to use the AI agent have popped up in cities across the country, drawing crowds of hundreds. Tech companies are racing to integrate OpenClaw into their platforms, while…
Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
…He claims AI tools have helped him shave two or three years off the process. Most recently, Roose tells me, he created a team of Claude agents to help edit his book…
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
…an “agentic harness” like OpenClaw that puts lots of additional instructions into prompts, such as facts stored in long-term memory. OpenAI acquired OpenClaw in February not long after the tool became…
A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine
…Under that bill, if a threat is imminent or lives are at stake, agents can still quickly access the necessary intelligence without a judge’s approval. It also includes defensive cybersecurity exceptions…
Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans
…In a blog published last week, for example, Palantir detailed how NATO, a Maven Smart Systems customer, could use an AIP Agent within the tool. In one graphic, Palantir shows how a…
5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good
Hi Will, I’ve been following your AI Lab newsletter and really appreciate your insights on open-source AI and agent-based learning—especially your recent piece on emergent behaviors in multi…
OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
…OpenAI has tried instead to launch agentic features inside ChatGPT, such as Operator and ChatGPT Agent, though adoption has been limited. The company is hoping a consumer agent built around Codex will…
The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race
As agentic AI models become more adept at both autonomously identifying software vulnerabilities and developing exploits for them—in other words, identifying weaknesses and creating hacking tools—vulnerability disclosure programs are being…
Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
…An AI Agent Snafu Triggered a Security Incident at Meta Agentic AI tools have the potential to transform companies’ efficiency—or make costly and dangerous errors. Tech news outlet The Information this…