Kakao Moves Its AI Assistant Inside the Chat Window
The demonstration began with a gesture rather than an app. Swipe down anywhere with two fingers inside KakaoTalk and an assistant opens on top of the conversation. Kakao unveiled the…
Samsung’s Chairman Takes a $1.9 Billion Gift as the Company Turns to Vietnam
The paperwork took a day. In a regulatory filing on Tuesday, Samsung Electronics said Hong Ra-hee, honorary director of the Leeum Museum of Art, will transfer 11,158,000 common shares of…
OpenAI Tells Developers Its Coding Models Are Running Slow
The notice appeared at 8:10 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time. “We are investigating the issue for the listed services,” OpenAI wrote on its status page on Tuesday, listing ChatGPT and Codex…
Red Bull Hands Race Strategy to an Agent, and Keeps a Human on the Radio
At Monza last year, Max Verstappen cut a corner while defending his position. On the pit wall, a system built with Oracle recommended that the team hand the place back,…
A $3,499 Computer With No Screen, Built for an Agent Instead of a Person
Ghost, a startup in San Francisco, has come out of stealth with a personal computer that has no display and no keyboard. The box is called Core, it sells for…
One Map of Silicon Valley’s Robot Business, and What It Leaves Out
The post that circulated on X this month did what industry diagrams usually do. It turned a sprawling supply chain into a single frame and gave every player a job.…
Anthropic Pulls the Live Web Out of Its Claude Tests
Claude Haiku 4.5 was set to work on example tasks drawn at random from the open web. It reached a page that described an unsolved homicide and carried a public…
Microsoft Puts Its Own Silicon at the Center of Azure
For four years Microsoft has run the largest rental business in computing on accelerators designed by Nvidia. On Monday it told customers and rivals where it intends to stand in…
IMF Sees a Bond Market With Little Room for Error
The warning came from Bangkok, where more than 18,000 delegates had gathered for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and it was aimed at…
ChatGPT and Grok Reach the Military’s AI Platform, Claude Stays Off
The Department of War picked two more chatbots for its internal AI platform on October 12. The one it left out is the one it has been arguing with. ChatGPT…
