Meta Platforms, Inc. launched its Muse personal AI agent after CEO Mark Zuckerberg identified AI agents as a potential new source of products and revenue. Zuckerberg Sees AI Agents as Meta’s Next Growth Driver During Meta’s second-quarter earnings call in...
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
By Alexandre Kech, CEO at GLEIFAI agents can discover services, negotiate terms, analyze data, and initiate transactions for people and organizations. In financial services, this creates a governance challenge: how can other parties determine which organization stands behind an agent, who authorized it, and whether an action falls within that authority?As GLEIF’s most recent working paper on agentic payments observes, existing legal frameworks can generally allocate responsibility. The immediate
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor update to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, delivering substantial improvements across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks. Alongside these gains, the model reduces task execution time and output length, enabling users to complete…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol discovered a critical PHP vulnerability as part of the Patch the Planet initiative that could affect millions of websites. Security firm Wiz independently found the same flaw using Google's Gemini 4 Argon. OpenAI warns that the same AI capabilities that…
Forecasters often know an event is imminent but not the shape, size, or timing of its effect. We introduce Event Signature Transfer (EST), a training-free, model-agnostic operator that turns a completed past event into an explicit forecast scenario. EST removes a source event's…
Recent advances in natural language processing have led to molecular Large Language Models (LLMs) with strong performance across diverse chemistry tasks. However, they still struggle to capture fine-grained structure-property relationships, particularly how small, localized…
This thesis proposes a framework for "responsible intelligence" to address AI's critical challenges in safety, ethics, and cultural sensitivity. It advances three core areas: First, it improves domain adaptation in specialized fields using active learning and graph-based…
Referring surgical video instrument segmentation (RSVIS) aims at segmenting the instrument in a surgical video, given a textual description. Despite recent progress, current models are trained and assessed on relatively small-scale benchmarks, hindering the development of more…