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Anna Monaco has been building AI agents since before the term “AI agents” was even a thing. After building numerous chatbots, she started looking for other types of interfaces that made sense for AI agents and landed on spreadsheets. “I had this personal pattern, and I noticed that a lot of other people had this […]

AI startup Perplexity is augmenting itsFinance dashboardwith live transcriptions of Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls, as well as a calendar to show schedules for post-results conference calls. Alongside surfacing news about the markets, Perplexity’s Finance dashboard shows market summaries, stock exchange charts, and top performing stocks. The dashboard also lets users create stock watchlists,

Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on theback of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant for students and professionals, including an AI grader, proofreader, and citation finder. The new interface adopts a block-first approach, letting you

OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company recentlylaunched the much-anticipated GPT-5in a process thatCEO Sam Altman admittedwas “a little more bumpy than we’d hoped for,” with some users complaining that they preferred the previous model, GPT-4o. OpenAI is trying to address some of those complaints

While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year afterdeclaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,”he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.” “Internally, this was not controversial,”von Ahn told The New York Times. “Externally, as a publicly traded company some people assume

This simple magnetic trick could change quantum computing forever The entry of quantum computers into society is currently hindered by their sensitivity to disturbances in the environment. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in Finland, now present a new type of exotic quantum material, and

This simple magnetic trick could change quantum computing forever The entry of quantum computers into society is currently hindered by their sensitivity to disturbances in the environment. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in Finland, now present a new type of exotic quantum material, and

This simple magnetic trick could change quantum computing forever The entry of quantum computers into society is currently hindered by their sensitivity to disturbances in the environment. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Aalto University and the University of Helsinki in Finland, now present a new type of exotic quantum material, and

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Do A.I. chatbots packaged inside cute-looking plushies offer a viable alternative to screen time for kids? That’s how the companies selling these A.I.-powered kiddie companions are marketing them, but The New York Times’ Amanda Hesshas some reservations. She recounts a demonstration in which Grem, one of the offerings from startup Curio, tried to bond with