As websites restrict AI agents, recent moves by OpenAI and Google reveal an access problem for assistants that work across the web.
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As websites restrict AI agents, recent moves by OpenAI and Google reveal an access problem for assistants that work across the web.
Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won't play nice? In recent weeks,
Why it matters: Useful for teams deciding how to make agents reliable outside a demo.
Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.`
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where,
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outside content to "develop, improve, research," and "train"
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.