Every major marketing platform is now selling “agentic marketing,” and their definitions disagree on the questions that matter most: what counts as an agent, how much it decides on its own, and who approves its work. Continue Reading →
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Google's Gemini has a new feature that lets users create, preview, and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other files directly inside a conversation. The rollout adds manual editing alongside instructions to the model. Continue Reading →
Apple announced its touchscreen MacBook Pro yesterday. The 14- and 16-inch models have PROLED XDR OLED displays and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, which arrived in March. The touchscreen is what I want to try. Preorders are open. Deliveries and store availability begin November 6. Continue Reading →
Bank of America is warning customers against sharing banking credentials with AI agents. I was getting ready to make a joke about this when it occurred to me that the warning is less obvious than it should be. Continue Reading →
Anthropic filed its IPO registration statement on October 26, giving companies that use Claude a detailed look at their supplier’s finances. It plans to trade on Nasdaq under ANT. The offering price and number of shares remain undetermined. The IPO has not been completed. Continue Reading →
Security is a practice, not a product. Buying a security tool gives you another tool to maintain. Protecting yourself requires habits: keeping software current, checking access, verifying unusual requests and making sure you can recover when something fails. AI adds urgency because the tools you connect can act on your behalf. Continue Reading →
OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available. It's a direct Jev competitor that lets software make quick choices, such as classifying a document, routing a customer request, or choosing the next action in an automated workflow. Continue Reading →
PHP2Shell research offers a preview of an AI apocalypse: attackers running code on affected web servers without a password. The number of servers still exposed is unknown. Continue Reading →
OpenAI has begun rolling out a lock for ChatGPT conversations. You can hide selected chats from regular history and search, then open them with a four-digit PIN or supported device authentication. This will help prevent accidentally embarrassing screen shares, but it also creates a new opportunity for people to misunderstand what "private" means. Continue Reading →
Developers are using AI coding assistants to replace smart-TV home screens and disable advertising and tracking components. They're basically turning smart TVs into dumber TVs. Why? 1) Because they can. 2) Because smart TV interfaces are filled with bloatware and other annoying stuff that, in some engineers' eyes, seriously degrades the UX. Continue Reading →