2026-07-10
OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it. The company is targeting 9 August for deprecation, The Verge reports. Atlas only arrived in October 2025, pitched as a browser that could carry out tasks on a user’s behalf. Nine months later, it is being retired. The move […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-10
SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market
SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the German software group, closing an investigation into how SAP handles maintenance and support for its on-premise enterprise software and sparing it a penalty that could have run into the billions. It […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-10
UN’s digital agency launches an initiative to make AI agents trustworthy
The United Nations’ digital agency has decided that AI agents are moving faster than anyone’s ability to trust them, and it wants to do something about it. On 9 July, the International Telecommunication Union used its AI for Good Summit in Geneva to launch an initiative aimed at keeping increasingly autonomous AI systems identifiable, accountable and […]<br /> This story continues at [...]
2026-07-10
Tencent in talks to become Manus’ largest shareholder
Manus was, briefly, one of the most valuable exits in Chinese AI. Meta agreed to buy the agentic AI startup for more than $2bn late last year, then watched Beijing block the deal on national-security grounds. Now the company is being bought back by the people who owned it in the first place, and Tencent looks set […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-10
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s number two job
Fidji Simo announced her departure from OpenAI’s senior leadership the way many people learn hard news about their own bodies, gradually and then all at once. In a message on Thursday, she said a three-month medical leave had not gone as hoped, that recovery would be longer and more complicated than expected, and that she […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-10
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job
OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to finish the job instead. The company has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agent inside ChatGPT that it says can take action across a user’s apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
