AI assistants can now plan meals, fill in a calendar and search through documents. A reviewer's tests of Siri AI and Alexa+ suggest the time saved depends heavily on how much work is left over after the assistant answers.
TechCrunch has compiled a list of notable AI agents that work through text messaging, ranging from general assistants to agents built for families, travel and work.
Sam Altman intends for OpenAI to develop its own humanoid robot, and a demonstration could come next year. He stops short of promising that a commercial product will follow soon after.
This summer, local festival committees and small shops in France turned to image generators for flea-market flyers and menus with a recognisable look. Some town halls are now pushing back through their notice boards and the funding they give associations, though not always setting an example themselves.
TechCrunch keeps a running tally of AI projects that were shut down or fell short of expectations, from Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch.
Google has made Data Agent Kit generally available: a free set of MCP tools and 37 open-source skills that connect coding agents to more than fifteen Google Data Cloud services. It ships two kinds of guardrail, one where a skill asks the agent to stop and one where an IAM deny policy blocks the call outright.