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AI Agents Are Now Running the Back Office at Insurance Giants
Insurance companies are beginning to deploy agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems that do more than summarize documents or answer customer questions. They are orchestrating entire workflows acr...

A New AI Superagent Race Is Pitting OpenAI and Anthropic Against Microsoft and Salesforce
Even as Anthropic and OpenAI unnerve stock market investors with business-focused AI products that could undermine existing enterprise software firms, the software incumbents are trying to catch up. C...

37 Percent of Power Users Make AI Their Primary Finance Tool
The novelty phase of conversational artificial intelligence has officially ended, giving way to a more formidable market phase: structural reliance. While nearly half of U.S. consumers have now interf...

Media Briefing: Turning scraped content into paid assets — Amazon and Microsoft build AI marketplaces
This week’s Media Briefing examines how Amazon is the latest tech giant trying to turn the problem of AI scraping publishers’ content for free into a structured marketplace — if it can get LLMs ...

Microsoft Fixes Bugs Behind One-Click Attacks
Microsoft’s February security updates include fixes for security vulnerabilities that are used by hackers for one-click attacks, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Feb. 11). In these atta...

Anthropic Joins Firms Promising Data Centers Won’t Raise Power Prices
Anthropic said Wednesday it will take steps to ensure its data centers don’t raise electricity prices for consumers, joining a list of tech companies that includes OpenAI and Microsoft that are tryi...

Google Launches Agentic Commerce With Etsy and Wayfair
Google’s standard for connecting businesses and artificial intelligence (AI) agents is beginning to power checkout in the United States. The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), which was i...

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork finally lands on Windows — and it wants to automate your workday
Anthropic released its Claude Cowork AI agent software for Windows on Monday, bringing the file management and task automation tool to roughly 70 percent of the desktop computing market and intensifyi...

Why AI First Slows, Then Accelerates Manufacturing Performance
Manufacturers racing to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) are often experiencing an uncomfortable reality: productivity declines before gains materialize. A study by MIT Sloan describes w...

Google Weaves New Shopping Feature Into Search and Gemini
Google is reportedly offering users new ways to shop while seeking AI-powered answers. The company has begun testing new ad formats on its search AI mode that lets retailers offer products ...

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