Amazon has introduced a new agentic artificial intelligence service designed to help third-party sellers automate routine tasks on its e-commerce platform. The new system expands Amazon’s use of AI beyond simple recommendations and assistance, allowing software agents to continuously monitor selected aspects of a seller’s business and take action or provide alerts based on instructions …

Meta Platforms is drawing growing attention from Wall Street as investors assess whether its new AI agent, Muse, can develop into a major source of revenue and strengthen the company’s position in the rapidly expanding consumer artificial intelligence market. Launched in September, Muse represents a shift from AI tools that primarily generate information toward software …

To test the Muse personal AI agent, which is a feature of Meta, the company is introducing a new human concierge system where human workers answer some of the calls Meta's AI system makes on behalf of the user. The experiment also illustrates the increasing complexity of AI assistants that are created to answer questions …

As Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, investors are continuing to navigate an increasingly complicated divide in artificial intelligence, where Washington and Beijing are competing to build stronger and more independent technology ecosystems while remaining financially connected. Despite growing tensions over advanced chips, AI infrastructure and supply chains, money …

China is curbing the frenzy of companies going public in the humanoid robots industry by scrutinizing these companies' rising valuations and reported revenue and the real demand for their products. It follows a recent surge in private funding for humanoid robots, the sector which is one of the most closely watched in the country with …

The public feud between two prominent groups in the cybercrime arena has gone into an unusual direction, as ShinyHunters claim it managed to breach and control a dark web website being operated by another cybercrime group named cl0p. The alleged attack has brought to light tensions inside the cybercrime underground, with groups that usually function …

Even for the popular social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, it takes just a few moments for interruptions to hit thousands of users in the United States. The power failure started Sunday evening, and was brief - the number of people complaining jumped quickly and then dropped, within about an hour. The outage started …

The U.S. President, Donald Trump, has announced the creation of a new artificial intelligence adviser or “AI czar” and an “AI force” dedicated to the fast-expanding tech. The announcement, issued Sept. 19, offered little detail on the proposed structure or responsibilities or timelines of either initiative. The shift follows a burgeoning debate on how to …

A proposed $400 million privacy settlement between TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance been met with a major legal hurdle in the United States, with a federal judge saying he is "unwilling to hear" the agreement. The controversy focuses on whether the current federal privacy agreement between TikTok's predecessor should be cancelled as part …

Artificial intelligence could make one of China’s biggest economic challenges more difficult to resolve, as faster technological innovation and rising production capacity risk widening the gap between strong supply and weak domestic demand. Huang Yiping, a member of the People’s Bank of China’s monetary policy committee, warned at an economic forum in Beijing that the …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to brief the United Nations Security Council next week as international concern grows over the rapid development of artificial intelligence and its potential implications for global security. The meeting, expected to take place during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, …

British cloud computing company Nscale, which is backed by Nvidia, has announced a steep rise in revenue as it looks to go public in a planned initial public offering in the United States in the weeks ahead, providing investors with a more detailed look at the performance of one of the companies that could benefit …

Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model accessed the internet and successfully breached three companies during a cybersecurity evaluation, marking what is believed to be the first publicly known instance of a Google AI system autonomously carrying out hacking activity during testing. The incidents took place in May as part of a controlled cybersecurity assessment conducted by …

Oracle's $18 billion data center financing is under more pressure as worries about its growing debt load, financial prospects for its AI infrastructure plan and the resistance of one of the company's biggest planned computing campuses in New Mexico mount. In the private debt markets, loans have reportedly depreciated from the project's original value due …