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OpenAI is poised to undercut rivals like Anthropic and Google in the race to see its AI tools integrated into federal agency workflows.  The AI giant hasreached an agreementwith the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the government’s central purchasing arm, to offer ChatGPT Enterprise to participating federal agencies for just $1 per agency for the […]

Google on Wednesday launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta, just over two months after itspublic preview debut in May. Googleinitially announcedJules as a Google Labs project in December and made itavailable to beta testersthrough a public preview at its I/O developer conference. Kathy Korevec, director of product at Google Labs, told TechCrunch

“People love Claude Code, they love using models to write code, and these models are already extremely good and getting better,” said Logan Graham, a member of Anthropic’s frontier red team who led development of the security features, in an interview with VentureBeat. “It seems really possible that in the next couple of years, we

A growing body of evidence suggests that over-reliance on AI could be eroding the human skills needed to use it effectively. Research warns this emerging human skills deficit threatens the successful adoption of AI and, with it, an opportunity for economic growth. It feels like not a day goes by without another proclamation about how

A new startup,Lava Payments, aims to take on payment giants by building a solution for the modern web where AI agents now handle transactions for their customers. The idea came to founder Mitchell Jones after he left his earlier Y Combinator-backed fintech startup, Lendtable, as he began to experiment with AI. He saw the potential

Companies across many industries are implementing AI agents for internal use, automating a wide range of tasks. In the financial sector, AI agents are critical for fraud detection. They can analyze vast amounts of transaction data in real time. Meanwhile, sales organizations are using AI agents to gather data on potential customers. These AI sales

Generative AI is entering a more mature phase in 2025. Models are being refined for accuracy and efficiency, and enterprises are embedding them into everyday workflows. The focus is shifting from what these systems could do to how they can be applied reliably and at scale. What’s emerging is a clearer picture of what it

AI agent tools promise to siphon out some of the drudgery from daily workflows, but most organizations are hesitant to adopt them yet, harboring a pressing concern: data security. Large enterprises with trade secrets, companies in highly regulated industries, and government agencies have thought more than twice about bringing in AI tools out of concern

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)saidon Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipping tens of millions of dollars’ worth of high-performance AI chips to China. The DOJ said Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang were arrested in California on August 2 and charged with violating the Export Control

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