PayPal’s Agentic Commerce Play Shows Why Flexibility, Not Standards, Will Define the Next E-Commerce Wave
While enterprises looking to sell goods and services online wait for the backbone of agentic commerce to be hashed out, PayPal is hoping its new features will bridge the gap. The payments company is launching a discoverability solution that allows enterprises to make its product available on any chat platform, regardless of the model or […]
MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)
Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There’s a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are increasingly valuing: agentic tool use — that is, the ability to go off and use other software capabilities like web search or bespoke applications — without much human guidance. That model […]
How AI-powered cameras are redefining business intelligence
Presented by Axis Communications Many businesses are equipped with a network of intelligent eyes that span operations. These IP cameras and intelligent edge devices were once solely focused on ensuring the safety of employees, customers, and inventory. These technologies have long proved to be essential tools for businesses, and while this sentiment still rings true, […]
Google Cloud takes aim at CoreWeave and AWS with managed Slurm for enterprise-scale AI training
Some enterprises are best served by fine-tuning large models to their needs, but a number of companies plan to build their own models, a project that would require access to GPUs. Google Cloud wants to play a bigger role in enterprises’ model-making journey with its new service, Vertex AI Training. The service gives enterprises looking […]
From human clicks to machine intent: Preparing the web for agentic AI
For three decades, the web has been designed with one audience in mind: People. Pages are optimized for human eyes, clicks and intuition. But as AI-driven agents begin to browse on our behalf, the human-first assumptions built into the internet are being exposed as fragile. The rise of agentic browsing — where a browser doesn’t […]
Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for finance, integrates with Excel to rival Microsoft Copilot
Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and connect it to real-time market data from some of the world’s most influential financial information providers. The San Francisco-based AI startup announced Monday it is […]
When your AI browser becomes your enemy: The Comet security disaster
Remember when browsers were simple? You clicked a link, a page loaded, maybe you filled out a form. Those days feel ancient now that AI browsers like Perplexity’s Comet promise to do everything for you — browse, click, type, think. But here’s the plot twist nobody saw coming: That helpful AI assistant browsing the web […]
Thinking Machines challenges OpenAI’s AI scaling strategy: ‘First superintelligence will be a superhuman learner’
While the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of the industry’s most secretive and valuable startups delivered a pointed challenge to that orthodoxy this week: The path forward isn’t about training bigger — it’s about learning better. […]
Mistral launches its own AI Studio for quick development with its European open source, proprietary models
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be “studio” environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded French AI startup Mistral launched its own Mistral AI Studio, a new production platform designed to help enterprises build, observe, and operationalize […]
Inside Ring-1T: Ant engineers solve reinforcement learning bottlenecks at trillion scale
China’s Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, detailed technical information around its new model, Ring-1T, which the company said is “the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion total parameters.” Ring-1T aims to compete with other reasoning models like GPT-5 and the o-series from OpenAI, as well as Google’s Gemini 2.5. With the new release […]