2026-08-27
AI shopping agents aren't ready to buy on your behalf, study finds
Letting an AI do your shopping might not get you the best deal. Researchers at the Wharton School show how erratic AI shopping agents really are: a single external source like Wirecutter shifted product picks by up to 99 percentage points, and even changing the order of identical information altered the outcome.<br /> The article AI shopping agents aren't ready to buy on your behalf, st [...]
2026-08-27
OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent
OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coalition warns of increasingly sophisticated AI attacks on critical infrastructure such as hospitals and water treatment plants and calls for swift action while defenders still have the upper hand.<br /> The article Op [...]
2026-08-27
Canada Is Luring AI and Science Talent as Trump Upends U.S. Research
For decades, the United States benefited from one of the most powerful competitive advantages in science: many of the world’s best researchers wanted to work there. That advantage is not disappearing overnight. The U.S. still has unmatched concentrations of research universities, federal laboratories, private capital and technology companies. But the flow of talent is becoming less one-direction [...]
2026-08-27
Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension
Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web instead of using its Chrome extension. It is on by default for Enterprise, Pro, Max and Team users, who can switch back in settings. Anthropic has put a browser inside Claude. Cowork now detects […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
