Agentic consumer AI denotes autonomous and semi-autonomous artificial intelligence systems embedded in consumer and workplace contexts to perceive goals, plan actions, and execute tasks on users’ behalf. These systems combine generative AI with persistent personal assistants, shopping and travel agents, in-cabin automotive companions, and integrated services in devices such as smart speakers and phones. They support decision-making, personalization, pricing, customer engagement, and creative collaboration, increasingly coordinating across software, robotics, and payment infrastructures to manage everyday activities with minimal direct user control.
Security
A recent study at UC Davis had AI chatbots send messages to people's phones to remind them to get their steps in. Those messages were interactive. Sometimes the chatbot would tell a joke based on this example provided by ...
Nov 18, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
For technology adopters looking for the next big thing, "agentic AI" is the future. At least, that's what the marketing pitches and tech industry T-shirts say.
Nov 18, 2025
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Business
Do people respond differently to digital animals compared to real ones?
Nov 14, 2025
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Security
A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion.
Nov 14, 2025
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Software
Imagine if your bank could move money for you with only the slightest of digital nods for your approval. Or that could tell you that you're overspending but more importantly know how to address that overspending and put you ...
Nov 13, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to preserve the voices and stories of the dead. From text-based chatbots that mimic loved ones to voice avatars that let you "speak" with the deceased, a growing digital ...
Nov 9, 2025
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Business
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a nonprofit launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife aimed at curing all disease, on Thursday announced it was restructuring to focus on using artificial intelligence to achieve that goal.
Nov 7, 2025
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Business
At a Cargill slaughterhouse in Texas, AI-equipped cameras scan every cattle carcass and let workers know when they're literally leaving too much meat on the bone.
Nov 5, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
At 15, when a neurological condition took Tobias Weinberg's ability to speak, aspects of his personality became more difficult to express.
Nov 4, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business are learning how AI can be used to support teamwork rather than replace teammates.
Nov 1, 2025
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