In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.
Called the “ChatGPT agent,” this new feature is an optional mode that ChatGPT paying subscribers can engage by clicking “Tools” in the prompt entry box and selecting “agent mode,” at which point, they can ask ChatGPT to log into their email and…
AI represents the greatest cognitive offloading in the history of humanity. We once offloaded memory to writing, arithmetic to calculators and navigation to GPS. Now we are beginning to offload judgment, synthesis and even meaning-making to systems that speak our language…
Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests
July 18, 2025
Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Thursday. The financing comes just one month after the six-founder team…
OpenAI isn’t letting the delay of its open source AI model slow it down on shipping other features.
Today, the company is unveiling ChatGPT agent, a feature that allows its AI chatbot to autonomously browse the web, conduct extensive research, download and create new files for its human users using its own virtual computer.
Come again? ChatGPT now gets its own PC? And it can use that PC to…
Mistral’s Le Chat adds deep research agent and voice mode to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance
July 18, 2025
Since OpenAI introduced Deep Research, an AI agent that can conduct research for users and generate a comprehensive report, many other companies have released their own versions of this capability, all named Deep Research. Deep Research, as a feature and product, can be…
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday.
The deal…
AWS unveils Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform for building enterprise AI agents with open source frameworks and tools
July 17, 2025
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes AI agents will change how we all work and interact with information, and that enterprises need a platform that allows them to build and deploy agents at scale — all in one place.
Today at its New York Summit, AWS unveiled Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a new enterprise-grade platform designed to build, deploy, and operate AI agents securely and at…
Anthropic announced today it is rolling out a comprehensive analytics dashboard for its Claude Code AI programming assistant, addressing one of the most pressing concerns for enterprise technology leaders: understanding whether their investments in AI coding tools are…
LEAP SDK: Revolutionizing Mobile AI Development
July 16, 2025
Liquid AI, the startup formed by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers to develop novel AI model architectures beyond the widely-used “Transformers“, today announced the release of LEAP aka the “Liquid Edge AI Platform,” a cross-platform…
OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’
July 16, 2025
Scientists from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta have abandoned their fierce corporate rivalry to issue a joint warning about artificial intelligence safety. More than 40 researchers across these competing companies published a research paper today arguing that a brief window to monitor AI reasoning could close forever — and soon.
The unusual cooperation comes as AI systems develop…
