OpenAI announced on March 17 that it will acquire Astral, the company behind Python’s widely used developer tools, to bolster its Codex coding platform as it races to close a revenue gap with ...

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets. A Google spokesperson confirmed the changes, but said the computer use capabilities ...

An AI agent went rogue at Meta, exposing sensitive company and user data to employees who did not have permission to access it. Per an incident report, which was viewed and reported on by The ...

Nico Hänggi, CS grad specializing in adversarial web automation, is co-founder of Casey, YC-backed AI-native insurance brokerage. Imagine this: your company deploys an AI web agent to automate quoting ...

Amazon won a temporary injunction against Perplexity to block its Comet AI browser from scraping its website. The company sued Perplexity in November, accusing the startup of concealing its AI ...

WebMCP exposes structured website actions for AI agents. See how it works, why it matters, and how to test it in Chrome 146. Chrome 146 has introduced an early preview of WebMCP behind a flag. WebMCP ...

Scraping Bubble: Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting ...

SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, ...

Chris Boyd, a software engineer, began tinkering with a digital personal assistant called OpenClaw at the end of January, while he was snowed in at his North Carolina home. He used it to create a ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

A left-wing TikTok user urged his followers to “get violent” and to “kill” United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a video that rapidly spread across social media Monday. The ...

Once upon a time, the portal concept promised to give every user a personalized view. Finally, the promise of a web where the user was also the controller could be realized. That didn’t quite work out ...