With the holiday season a couple of months away, tech companies are hurrying to get AI devices into stores. They are betting this will be the year such gadgets finally make shopping lists.
Wired reviews the second version of Friend, the viral AI necklace. The reviewer finds it louder and less interesting than before.
SolarWinds unveiled Avior, a standalone agentic AI system designed to handle first-line IT operations. It tackles the reliability problem of letting agents act on production systems, where the same request can otherwise lead to different outcomes.
Recruiters increasingly ask candidates which AI tools they use. ZDNet notes that landing a new job has become harder, but argues it need not be an insurmountable challenge.
AI can help agency managers spot stalled files, prepare decisions and track follow-up actions, the author argues. The approach relies on reliable data and human sign-off.
Google's Antigravity SDK can now run agentic workflows with models on the developer's own machine, while still calling cloud models for higher-level tasks. The change gives developers more control over privacy, inference costs and network dependence.