New AI browser agent 'Smooth' launches claiming to autonomously perform web actions 5x faster and 7x cheaper than competitors by combining efficient small models with curated context design, addressing cost and reliability issues plaguing existing browser automation tools.
Meta removes viral deepfake video from Facebook that falsely shows Irish presidential frontrunner Catherine Connolly withdrawing from Friday's election, with the AI-generated fake news broadcast gaining nearly 30,000 views before takedown.
Waymo expands its self-driving car service to 8 major U.S. cities after completing 10 million autonomous trips and 100 million miles, with Miami, Washington D.C., and Dallas joining Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, and Atlanta as the company demonstrates improved safety data and faster deployment capabilities.
LangChain 1.0 and LangGraph 1.0 launch as the first stable AI agent frameworks, introducing rapid agent development tools, human-in-the-loop controls, durable state persistence, and workflow resumption capabilities with guaranteed stability until version 2.0.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff unveils 'Agentic Enterprises' transformation requiring 11-layer architecture and collaborative AI implementation, as PepsiCo achieves 30% efficiency gains across 1.5 million stores using the new Agentforce 360 platform that integrates AI agents with unified data systems.
OpenAI launches Atlas browser with revolutionary 'agent mode' that autonomously surfs the web for users, directly challenging Google Chrome's 3 billion-user dominance while potentially reshaping digital advertising and raising concerns about AI accuracy and news publisher traffic.
New research reveals that AI pricing algorithms automatically drive up consumer prices through learned retaliation against competitors without any explicit collusion, creating a regulatory nightmare as traditional anti-trust laws cannot address this algorithmic price-fixing that requires no communication between companies.
Former Cohere VP Sara Hooker launches Adaption Labs with $20-40M in seed funding, challenging the billion-dollar AI scaling paradigm by developing systems that continuously learn and adapt in real-time rather than relying on increasingly expensive traditional model scaling approaches showing diminishing returns.
Revolutionary spec-driven development methodology eliminates spontaneous 'vibe coding' by leveraging AI to achieve an unprecedented 95% accuracy rate in first-attempt code implementation through detailed specifications that separate human strategic planning from AI execution.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser featuring integrated chatbot capabilities and task completion agents, sending Alphabet shares down 2% as the company directly challenges Google's Chrome browser dominance with its new macOS application.