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.
Computer Sciences
Yiming Zhang didn't grow up playing chess. Like many other people, the Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student discovered the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit" during the pandemic and began playing online. However, he ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
The most controversial AI platform is arguably the one founded by Elon Musk. The chatbot Grok has spewed racist and antisemitic comments and called itself "MechaHitler," referring to a character from a video game.
Aug 14, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence is a lively topic of conversation in schools and workplaces, which could lead you to believe that only younger people use it. However, older Americans are also using AI. This raises the questions of ...
Aug 14, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers from Simon Fraser University have unveiled an artificial intelligence framework that could transform drug development and accelerate the discovery of new medicines.
Aug 13, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
A new approach called open ad-hoc categorization (OAK) helps AI systems dynamically reinterpret the same image differently depending on the categorization context, rather than using fixed visual interpretation. A University ...
Aug 6, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
While developing a tool to boost literacy and reading comprehension, researchers at Northeastern University have joined in on a beloved children's activity: storytime.
Aug 6, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Not long ago, planning a trip meant juggling guidebooks and hours of searching the web for the best restaurants and must-see sights. Now, travelers are turning to artificial intelligence tools to do the heavy lifting.
Aug 4, 2025
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Business
The Ateneo de Manila University's Business Insights Laboratory for Development (BUILD) is looking at ways for artificial intelligence (AI) to augment and enhance—rather than replace—human labor in small businesses, which ...
Aug 4, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Cars are still the number one mode of transportation in Germany, in spite of their high carbon emissions. To make eco-friendly alternatives more attractive, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies ...
Aug 1, 2025
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Business
In a world obsessed with shortcuts to success and wealth, Mia Zelu is the ultimate fantasy: A virtual influencer who skipped the everyday grind and even the basic requirement of existing. But audiences are still double-tapping.
Aug 1, 2025
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