Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky warns two types of people won’t survive the AI era
Tech leaders have spent the past few years warning workers that AI will threaten every single job, from…
From slop to non-slop: The new big AI theme is quantity
Two years ago, every argument about AI was about quality. The machines hallucinated court cases, absorbed biases from…
Idealab’s Bill Gross gives away 1.2 million AI-generated business ideas
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: Idealab’s Bill Gross gives away 1.2 million AI-generated…
Spotify Claims It Is ‘Unusually Well-Positioned’ for an Agentic AI Takeover
Agentic AI is the AI industry’s buzzword of the moment. The companies developing it and its numerous fans…
While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other…
Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island. Things Got Very Weird.
Life, it seems, wants to play. Anyone who’s ever spent ten minutes with a five-year-old knows this perfectly…
AI Agents Successfully Recreate the Gender Pay Gap
We can replace human workers with AI agents, but we can’t take sexism out of the workplace. A…
Natura Wants People Controlling AI Agents From Their Fingers
Artificial intelligence and hardware startup Natura has reportedly debuted a smart ring designed to let users interact with AI agents.…
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
A new fleet of AI agents is making its presence felt on the internet. On Sunday, a group…
Apple Makes It Tougher for AI Agents to Access Macs
Apple is changing its Mac operating system to make it clearer when artificial intelligence agents seek access to…
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it…
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema, a startup that uses teams of AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance,…