Law enforcement, law firms, hospitals, and financial institutions are asked every day to release records, which can contain highly sensitive details – including addresses, social security numbers, medical diagnoses, evidence footage, and children’s identities. To meet compliance and security requirements, staff spend hundreds of hours manually redacting sensitive information, yet when that process goes wrong,…

In a packed hall at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, against a backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a bold vision to remake the digital world. The company that brought generative AI to the mainstream with a simple chatbot is now building the foundations for its next act:…

Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions on behalf of the user across websites. Recall OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent (formerly known as "Operator") and Anthropic's Computer Use, both released over the last two…

For more than a decade, conversational AI has promised human-like assistants that can do more than chat. Yet even as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude learn to reason, explain, and code, one critical category of interaction remains largely unsolved — reliably completing tasks for people outside of chat. Even the best…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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),…

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…