PayPal breaks new ground as the first digital wallet to integrate with ChatGPT's Instant Checkout feature launching in 2026, allowing users to access their complete payment methods and shipping information directly through the AI interface, expanding OpenAI's e-commerce reach beyond current partnerships with major retailers like Etsy, Shopify, and Walmart.
Microsoft launches Mico, a new AI companion designed to be more personal and human-centered than existing chatbots, as the tech giant challenges ChatGPT's dominance with help from former Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman.
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.
AI hiring platform Findem raises $51 million in new funding as its customer base explodes 100x to over 12,000 users in just 12 months, leveraging 1.6 trillion data points to revolutionize talent matching for major companies like Adobe and RingCentral.
NVIDIA unveils comprehensive enterprise guide for transforming traditional chatbots into intelligent AI assistants using Retrieval-Augmented Generation technology, providing real-time data access and domain-specific capabilities through their NeMo and NIM platforms for scalable deployment across industries.
Revolutionary autonomous AI agents now tackle complex real-world tasks by perceiving environments, making decisions, and taking coordinated actions through multi-agent frameworks like CrewAI and AutoGen, transforming industries from healthcare to software development despite ongoing challenges with reliability and security.
Edmunds unveils 'Edmunds Mind,' a revolutionary AI ecosystem featuring specialized agents like DataDave that achieves 95% analytics accuracy, transforming car shopping through automated workflows, real-time vehicle data correction, and personalized responses powered by advanced memory systems and hierarchical agent communication protocols.
Salesforce stock jumps 5% as the cloud giant projects revenue will exceed $60 billion by 2030, betting its new Agentforce AI automation platform will accelerate growth above 10% annually and outpace analyst expectations of $58.37 billion.
Gmail rolls out new AI-powered 'Help Me Schedule' feature that automatically detects meeting planning in emails and suggests available times based on Google Calendar, streamlining the back-and-forth of coordinating appointments.
Salesforce launches Agentforce 360, an enhanced AI platform with flexible programming tools and deeper Slack integration, claiming 12,000 customers while facing fierce competition from Google and Anthropic despite MIT research revealing 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to reach production.