Amazon is axing its Rufus chatbot and making its Alexa assistant the centerpiece of its artificial intelligence shopping strategy. The company introduced Alexa for Shopping, an e-commerce bot that can ...

An ex-con who’d just been released on parole was sentenced to a year and a day behind bars for sucker-punching an FBI agent and sending the lawman sprawling onto a Brooklyn sidewalk Darren McKenzie, ...

Here are two true things about AI: A lot of it doesn’t work the way it’s intended to a lot of the time, and we’re constantly told that we need to get used to it because it’s not going anywhere. Sure, ...

Google also launched Workspace Intelligence at its Cloud Next event, promising a new work graph that underpins AI agents within Workspace apps. Google wants its Chat app to become the main interface ...

Augustin, a German board-certified psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A Florida father ...

Google is testing an “Agent” tab inside Gemini Enterprise. The new setup lets you create, manage, and deploy multiple AI agents for different workflows. The new interface includes a “Tasks” dashboard ...

The Google ADK is a capable and mostly complete framework for developing agents, with support for multiple agent types, multi-agent architectures, and multiple programming languages. The Google Agent ...

Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians, and businesses. Her stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at the FDA, and the boom in direct-to-consumer ...

It might be time to break up with your chatbot. The reasons for moving on—or at least trying a new one—are piling up fast. Companies are constantly releasing new AI models with more powerful ...

While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice. By Sarah Kwon As chatbots become a fixture in ...

Microsoft says Agent Framework 1.0 is the production-ready release, with stable APIs and long-term support for both .NET and Python. The framework is presented as a unified successor path that builds ...

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo Many consumers say early experiences with customer support chatbots feel more like deflection ...