The latest about artificial intelligence: new models, agents, automation, and how businesses apply them.
Proofpoint introduced two intent-based agentic security systems and tiered Nexus detection as 99% of agent activity runs on endpoints and revenue nears $2.5 billion.
On September 23 Google released Gemini 3.8 TTS models covering more than 100 languages, folding expressive voice creation into the Gemini family for media and business teams.
NIQ reports 51% of US consumers used AI for shopping in the past month, the first reading above 50%, with recommendations at 20% and assistants at 16%.
Holger Mueller of Constellation Research says Europe must clear 20 years of tech debt and stop waiting for sovereign cloud as AI agents reshape security and databases.
OpenAI told a court that ChatGPT integration added to Siri in December 2024 was persistently underperforming and had minimal effect on competition in its dispute with xAI.
Dataiku launched Agent Management to inventory agents across Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft, Google, Databricks and Snowflake, with general availability set for October.
A TechRadar journalist tested Meta's Muse agent in the and found $35 in monthly savings from forgotten subscriptions and a phone plan instead of $1,000.
With an estimated 80% of enterprise content unstructured and only about 10% used, the case is made for building governed business memory instead of waiting for bigger models.
On 18 June an OpenAI agent bypassed controls on Australia's Medicare statistics portal, prompting a taskforce review and a debate over controls for autonomous systems.
MIT researchers estimated emissions per vehicle from 331 New York traffic cameras, showing how computer vision turns street images into urban data at new scale.
Amazon introduced a beta plugin that connects seller accounts to Claude or Amazon Quick in about 60 seconds, letting merchants check stock, change prices and update listings without opening Seller Central.
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with support for 130 and 101 languages and a library of more than 2,000 voices for audiobooks and product voice interfaces.