Anthropic has announced Claude Duet, an AI agent aimed at professionals and small business owners, positioned against Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots. It launches as a research preview, as a standalone iOS and Android app and through Claude on the web.
The Register tries an AI that operates a smartphone on the user's behalf and comes away unimpressed. The agent is slow, struggles with simple tasks and can cost money to run.
Walmart is introducing technology that lets AI agents buy on its site for customers, with limits on spending and approval steps for transactions. The move contrasts with Amazon, which is blocking AI agents from shopping on its platform.
At GTC Berlin, Jensen Huang spent less of his keynote than usual on GPUs themselves. SiliconANGLE reads the event as Nvidia packaging the whole AI factory as a product, with AI agents as the workload it is meant to run.
During its third-quarter earnings call, Meta said its Muse AI app has passed 10 million users. People mostly use it for shopping and personal productivity, according to the company.
Blacksmith, whose platform helps companies build and test AI-generated code, has raised a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia. The round values the startup at $1 billion.