Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity launched an agent-based assistant for Android devices on Thursday as it looks to take on larger rival OpenAI's ChatGPT and incumbent assistants such as Apple ...

The Jeff Bezos and Nvidia-backed startup enters the AI assistant race with its versatile Perplexity Assistant.

The Nvidia and Jeff Bezos-backed company said the tool, known as Perplexity Assistant, can book dinner reservations, hail rides on apps and set reminders, among other actions. "We'd love to make it ...

There’s no official ruling on the collective noun for a group of billionaires, but if ever we needed one it was this week, writes Ange Lavoipierre.

TikTok got a short reprieve to make a deal. Project Stargate, a $500B AI plan from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, pushes Musk, Microsoft, aside. Google buys HTC VR tech.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has bashed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for this project as he once again blamed him for playing a game ...

After raising $20 million in a Series A funding round in July 2024, Simple Energy is aggressively expanding its store footprint.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reaffirmed Microsoft's $80 billion annual AI investment in response to Elon Musk's skepticism about Project Stargate's $100 billion funding potential, emphasizing the ...

OpenAI: "This capability marks the next step in AI development, allowing models to use the same tools humans rely on daily and opening the door to a vast range of new applications," the company said ...

The model underpinning Operator is a Computer-Using Agent (CUA) that combines GPT-4o's vision mode to "see" what's on the user's screen through screenshots with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that ...

The company says the CUA’s reasoning technique, which they call an “inner monologue,” helps the model understand intermediate steps and adapt to unexpected input. Under the hood, CUA takes screenshots ...

The U.S. stock market closed higher Thursday, bringing the year-to-date gain of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY to 4%. The S&P 500 climbed 0.5% on Thursday to a record high, lifted by a broad rally ...