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AI is reshaping how people plan and experience travel. From curated videos on Instagram Reels to booking engines that build entire itineraries in seconds, AI is becoming a powerful force in how journeys are imagined, booked, and lived. But this shift raises an important question: is AI giving travellers more freedom, or quietly steering their…
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For many enterprises, there continue to be barriers to fully adopting and benefiting from agentic AI. IBM is betting the blocker isn't building AI agents but governing them in production. At its TechXchange 2025 conference today, IBM unveiled a series of capabilities designed to bridge the gap: Project Bob, an AI-first IDE that orchestrates multiple…
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When I write about the cognitive migration now underway, brought about by the rapid advance of gen AI, I do so from the perspective of someone who has spent four decades in the technology industry. My own journey runs from coding business applications in Fortran and COBOL to systems analysis and design, IT project management,…
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OpenAI launched an agent builder that the company hopes will eliminate fragmented tools and make it easier for enterprises to utilize OpenAI’s system to create agents. AgentKit, announced during OpenAI’s DevDay in San Francisco, enables developers and enterprises to build agents and add chat capabilities in one place, potentially competing with platforms like Zapier. By…
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DeepSeek continues to push the frontier of generative AI…in this case, in terms of affordability. The company has unveiled its latest experimental large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, that mostly matches or slightly improves the benchmarks of its predecessor DeepSeek-3.1-Terminus, but more importantly, comes at a 50 percent reduced cost through DeepSeek's application programming interface (API),…
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Composite, a startup that turns web browsers into intelligent automation engines, has raised $5.6 million in seed funding to eliminate what its founders call the "digital grunt work" plaguing millions of knowledge workers. The round was led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross of NFDG, with participation from Menlo Ventures and Anthropic's Anthology Fund. The…
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eSelf, a startup developing interactive, photorealistic talking AI video avatars, has introduced a new feature called Share Screen Analysis that allows its avatars to view and respond to what users display on their screens. Powered by a combination of a large language model (LLM) from any number of third-party AI providers like OpenAI and Google,…
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OpenAI today announced the release of Sora 2, its latest video generation model, which now includes AI generated audio matching the generated video, as well. It is paired with the launch of a new iOS app simply called Sora, that allows users to insert and edit with AI videos of themselves and their friends alongside…
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Meta’s AI research team has released a new large language model (LLM) for coding that enhances code understanding by learning not only what code looks like, but also what it does when executed. The model, named Code World Model (CWM), is trained on vast amounts of data showing how code interacts with its environment, allowing…
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Hopper Technology Solutions launched a breakthrough artificial intelligence system Wednesday that can autonomously handle complex travel customer service issues from start to finish, a major advance in AI-powered automation for the trillion-dollar travel industry. The new system, called HTS Assist, can conduct entire customer service conversations through voice or chat, accessing airline booking systems to…