OpenAI Launches Operator, Its First AI Agent

Microsoft’s AutoGen update boosts AI agents with cross-language interoperability and observability

Microsoft's AutoGen for AI agents is popular among agent developers, and a new update addresses observability and flexibility issues.

VentureBeat - Jan. 15

Microsoft launches Copilot Chat with AI agents; take that, Gemini!

Microsoft wants to make using Copilot a daily habit and take on Google's aggressive push of Gemini for Workspace.

VentureBeat - Jan. 15

Why ‘Beating China’ in AI Brings Its Own Risks

The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences.

Wired - Jan. 15

What’s next for agentic AI? LangChain founder looks to ambient agents

LangChain’s founder Harrison Chase is looking to advance agentic AI with the concept of ambient agents, which might well be the next step on the path to generalized intelligence.

VentureBeat - Jan. 15

AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?

WIRED’s advice columnist cracks open the publication’s archive to consider past promises about AI agents, and to get some advice on how we can use automation while retaining our humanity.

Wired - Jan. 15

OpenAI Details How It Would Like AI to Be Regulated

The resulting regulation—or lack thereof—could have repercussions for businesses working on artificial intelligence.

Inc. - Jan. 14

OpenAI’s agentic era begins: ChatGPT Tasks offers job scheduling, reminders and more

OpenAI will let some users schedule task reminders on ChatGPT, a sign the company may be readying itself to release an agent.

VentureBeat - Jan. 14

Google Joins the AI Shopping Revolution With Agent Tools for Retailers

The next stage of AI development, which lets the technology act with more autonomy and performs some customer service actions, is being applied to an industry that must constantly embrace change.

Inc. - Jan. 13

U.S. tightens its grip on AI chip flows across the globe

The U.S. government said on Monday it would further restrict artificial intelligence chip and technology exports, divvying up the world to keep advanced computing power in the U.S. and among its ...

NBC News - Jan. 13

Blue Origin postpones first launch of its massive new rocket

Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its massive New Glenn rocket due to technical trouble. The Jeff Bezos-founded company didn't set a new launch date.

CBS News - Jan. 13

OpenAI has begun building out its robotics team

Previously, OpenAI partnered with robotics startup Figure to provide the models powering the latter's humanoid robots.

VentureBeat - Jan. 10

Researchers improved AI agent performance on unfamiliar tasks using ‘Dungeons and Dragons’

AgentRefine gives AI agents and models the ability to recognize errors and self-correct to work better for general tasks.

VentureBeat - Jan. 10

The First Berserker: Khazan Demo Launching Soon, Two Months Ahead Of Release

Publisher Nexon has announced that The First Berserker: Khazan is getting a demo on January 16, and players will be able to spend as much time as they want in it.. The game's official Twitter ...

GameSpot - Jan. 10

Bezos’s Blue Origin schedules, then delays first orbital launch

New Glenn launch is delayed until at least 12 January due to conditions in the Atlantic, where booster is slated to land. Jeff Bezos ’s Blue Origin announced it would launch its first orbital ...

The Guardian - Jan. 9

Cohere just launched ‘North,’ its biggest AI bet yet for privacy-focused enterprises

Cohere launches North, a secure enterprise AI platform outperforming Microsoft Copilot and Google Vertex AI in testing, with Royal Bank of Canada among early adopters implementing the technology ...

VentureBeat - Jan. 9

Lenovo launches AI-powered business and gaming PCs at CES 2025

Lenovo unveiled its lineup of AI-powered business, consumer and gaming PCs at CES 2025 with a focus on smart AI for all.

VentureBeat - Jan. 7

Agentic AI can help you to get a new software engineering job in 2025

Thanks to a widening skills shortage, software engineers don’t generally have to look too far for a new role on better money.

VentureBeat - Jan. 7

Carvana gets its first upgrade since Hindenburg short-selling report

Carvana, the online used-car retailer that last week was the target of a short-selling research report, got its first broker upgrade since then which says the controversy has sparked a buying ...

MarketWatch - Jan. 7

Nvidia’s AI agent play is here with new models, orchestration blueprints

Nvidia enters the AI agent space with a family of language models for agentic instruction and orchestrarion frameworks it calls Blueprints.

VentureBeat - Jan. 7

Nvidia launches blueprint for AI agents that can analyze video

Today as part of its CES 2025 opening keynote by CEO Jensen Huang, Nvidia launched a blueprint for AI agents that can analyze video.

VentureBeat - Jan. 7

Nvidia launches Cosmos World Foundation Model platform to accelerate physical AI

Nvidia launched its Cosmos World Foundation Model platform to accelerate physical AI development.

VentureBeat - Jan. 7

Nvidia launches agentic AI blueprints to automate work for enterprises

Nvidia and its partners launched Agentic AI Blueprints to automate work for every enterprise.

VentureBeat - Jan. 7

Nvidia’s Nemotron Model Families will advance AI agents

Nvidia announced Nemotron Model Families to advance agentic AI as part of its bevy of AI announcements at CES 2025 today.

VentureBeat - Jan. 7

U.S. records its first human bird flu death

The U.S. has recorded its first human death from bird flu, in a patient hospitalized in Louisiana. The case was considered the country’s first severe human H5N1 infection.

NBC News - Jan. 6

Sam Altman Says AI Agents Will Transform the Workforce in 2025

In a new blog post, the famous OpenAI CEO reflected on his firing, what the company could do better, and a pursuit of ‘superintelligence.’

Inc. - Jan. 6

Google maps the future of AI agents: Five lessons for businesses

Google's groundbreaking white paper reveals how AI agents leverage advanced reasoning, real-time data access and autonomous decision-making.

VentureBeat - Jan. 6

2025 playbook for enterprise AI success, from agents to evals

From scaling AI agents to evals, to inference reasoning, optimizing costs, and personalization, here are the five critical areas enterprises should prioritize for their AI strategy this year.

VentureBeat - Jan. 6

OpenAI’s red teaming innovations define new essentials for security leaders in the AI era

Red teaming has become the go-to technique for iteratively testing AI models to simulate diverse, lethal, unpredictable attacks.

VentureBeat - Jan. 6

Trump’s tariff policy claims its first victim with Trudeau resignation

President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff policy has claimed its first victim before the president even returned to office.

MarketWatch - Jan. 6

Samsung spreads Vision AI across its 2025 TV portfolio

For this year’s lineup, Samsung said that AI will come to life in more ways than just great picture quality. The company is introducing AI-backed experiences to make your day simpler, more dynamic, ...

VentureBeat - Jan. 6

Why context-aware AI agents will give us superpowers in 2025

In 2025, augmented mentality will emerge from the convergence of AI agents, conversational computing and augmented reality.

VentureBeat - Jan. 5

Ukraine launches surprise operation in Russia’s Kursk region

Footage purports to show Ukrainian armoured columns advancing towards village of Bolshoe Soldatskoe. Ukrainian armed forces began a surprise offensive in Russia’s Kursk region on Sunday, in an ...

The Guardian - Jan. 5

AI Hardware Is in Its ‘Put Up or Shut Up’ Era

This week at CES, companies of all sizes will show off all their new AI-enabled gadgets. Here’s hoping they don’t all just do stuff your phone already excels at.

Wired - Jan. 5

Nebraska hands No. 15 UCLA its first Big Ten loss

Brice Williams scored 16 points, Andrew Morgan added 12 off the bench and Nebraska beat No. 15 UCLA 66-58 on Saturday.

Yahoo Sports - Jan. 4

Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people. Meta is deleting Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI characters the company ...

The Guardian - Jan. 3