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President Donald Trump says he plans to create a new “AI Force” and appoint an “AI czar” — but what would either actually do, and what could they mean for the future of artificial intelligence regulation in the United States?

YouTube used its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday to announce a set of AI tools that turn YouTube Studio into a packaging department.

Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon. As of Sunday night, Muse users who try see a popup that says, "Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed."

Gartner calls agent management platforms "the most valuable real estate in AI." The firm projects enterprises will spend $15 billion on this category by 2029, up from less than $5 million today. That is 3,000x growth in four years. If you have been in meetings where someone uses the phrase "managed agents" and nobody q

OpenAI announced that it is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to be hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, and OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna roughly an hour later.

Meta Connect 2026 produced the usual parade of hardware: Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses starting at $449, camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio frames starting at $349, $1,299 Meta VR Glasses tethered to a pocketable computing puck, and a pocket-sized Muse Charm that looks like a Tamagotchi. I'll let the interweb review the hardw

Something strange happened this week. For the first time since Apple started making iPhones, they launched a flagship phone and, not only did I not order one, I didn’t even think about it. I watched the keynote on September 9. Yawned… thought about the iPhone Duo for about 10 seconds. But giving up camera capabilities

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