Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says more than 10 million people in the United States and Canada have created a Muse AI agent since the app launched in September. Natalie Musumeci and Sydney Bradley report for Business Insider that shopping has become the app’s leading use case. More than 25% of Muse users complete purchases through …
Walmart is launching an Agent Gateway that lets approved AI agents search its online inventory and place orders for customers. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the retailer is also introducing Agent Profiles and specific rules for agents using its services. The Agent Gateway uses the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. This standard enables AI …
Anthropic is bringing its Claude assistant directly into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides through a new Google Workspace add-on that is now in public beta for paid Claude subscribers. In an official blog post, Anthropic announces that users can open Claude in a sidebar next to the file they are working on. The assistant can …
Canva has introduced Craft, its first image generation model developed internally by Canva Research. The company is making the model available to Canva users through Dream Lab, as well as to developers through its public API. Craft is designed for visual work that often challenges image generators: layouts, typography, object placement, and images intended for …
AI agents from major technology companies are encountering growing resistance from the websites they are meant to use on behalf of people. Travel, finance, retail, and review platforms are restricting automated access, limiting promises that agents can book tickets, shop, or manage accounts across the web. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that Yelp permits …
A fine tuned version of Qwen3-4B seeks to reduce recognizable AI writing patterns while remaining usable for everyday writing tasks. Erik Markus Kannike writes for 100toolkit.com that he trained a small open model to avoid habits such as em dashes, rigid contrasts, lists of three, rhetorical questions, and heavily signposted prose. The resulting model, qwen3-4b-deslop, …
AI-generated event posters do not have to resemble the same pastel craft-fair template. The key is to give image generators a clear visual direction instead of accepting their first result. John Hartnup writes for ERE I AM – JH! that repeated default designs, rather than outright poor quality, are what make many AI posters feel …
Nvidia has introduced OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework designed to help companies run AI agents with tighter security controls. The system combines software, network hardware, monitoring, and access policies to restrict what an agent can do while it works. The announcement arrives as businesses look to deploy agents that can handle tasks independently but remain …
Mistral AI has introduced Voxtral 3, a family of speech recognition and speech generation models designed for real-time voice agents. In an official blog post, Mistral AI announces that the release also includes an SDK that combines transcription, reasoning, tool use, and spoken responses in one streaming system. The company is targeting uses such as …
Men and women in the United States now report using AI chatbots at nearly identical rates, ending a sizable adoption gap measured two years earlier. Monica Anderson and Eugenie Park write for Pew Research Center that 49% of men and 47% of women say they have used chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft …