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 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.
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.
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.
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.