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Amazon has told Perplexity to getits agentic browserout of its online store, the companies both confirmed publicly on Tuesday. After warning Perplexity multiple times that Comet, its AI-powered shopping assistant, was violating Amazon’sterms of serviceby not identifying itself as an agent, the ecommerce giant sent the AI search engine startup a sternly worded cease-and-desist letter, […]

People Inc., one of the largest media publishers in the U.S., has signed an AI licensing deal with Microsoft. The media giant (formerly known as Dotdash Meredith) made the announcement Tuesday as a part of parent company IAC’s third-quarter earnings. Under the deal, People Inc. will become a launch partner in Microsoft’s publisher content marketplace.

Rivian has created its second spinoff company this year: an industrial AI and robotics venture called Mind Robotics. The new effort will be focused around using “industrial AI to reshape how physical world businesses operate and leverage Rivian operations data as the foundation for a robotics data flywheel,” according to the company’s third-quarter shareholder letter

Googleannouncedon Tuesday that it’s launching new agentic capabilities in AI Mode, its feature that allows users to ask complex questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search. Users can now get help with booking event tickets and beauty and wellness appointments in AI Mode. For example, you can ask “find me

The intelligence of AI models isn't what's blocking enterprise deployments. It's the inability to define and measure quality in the first place. That's where AI judges are now playing an increasingly important role. In AI evaluation, a "judge" is an AI system that scores outputs from another AI system.  Judge Builder is Databricks' framework for

When the transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 in the now seminal Google paper "Attention Is All You Need," it became an instant cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence. Every major large language model (LLM) — from OpenAI's GPT series to Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and Meta's Llama — has been built on some variation of

Sora, the AI video generator from OpenAI, is now officially available forAndroid usersin the U.S., Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.  Initially launched as aniOS appin September, Sora quickly rose to the top of theApp Store charts, amassing over 1 million downloads in a week. With its arrival on the Google Play Store, Sora

E-commerce software providerShopifyis bullish on AI-powered shopping agents, citing AI as an “incredible tool” to enable more entrepreneurs and calling it the “biggest shift in technology since the internet” during its third-quarter earnings call. The company, whichpartnered with ChatGPT maker OpenAIin September, reported that traffic from AI tools to its online stores is up seven

The Informationreportsthat Anthropic expects to generate as much as $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in cash flow in 2028. The growth projections are fueled by rapid adoption of Anthropic’s business products, a person with knowledge of the company’s financials said.   Last month,Reuters reportedthat Anthropic is projected to more than double, and potentially

Nvidia is playing fast and loose with its war chest as it looks to build on its momentum as the chief benefactor of the AI boom. The company on Tuesdaysigneda €1 billion ($1.15 billion) partnership with Deutsche Telekom to set up an “AI factory” in Munich that aims to boost Germany’s AI computing power by