Top French chefs warm to AI in the kitchen
At the annual gathering of France's finest chefs for the Michelin Guide awards this year, the talk was not only about whose restaurants had gained or lost a star.
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Page 32: Research news on Agentic consumer AI
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.
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Visa wants to give artificial intelligence 'agents' your credit card
Artificial intelligence "agents" are supposed to be more than chatbots. The tech industry has spent months pitching AI personal assistants that know what you want and can do real work on your behalf.
Apr 30, 2025
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Meta releases standalone AI app, competing with ChatGPT
Social media behemoth Meta unveiled its first standalone AI assistant app on Tuesday as it tries to take on ChatGPT by giving users a direct path to its generative artificial intelligence models.
Apr 29, 2025
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Study explores how workers are using large language models and what it means for science organizations
Researchers investigated Argonne employees' use of Argo, an internal generative artificial intelligence chatbot.
Apr 29, 2025
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Danish brewer adds AI 'colleagues' to human team
They have names, faces, and email addresses, but the five new colleagues at Denmark's Royal Unibrew only exist in the virtual realm, which the brewer hails as a milestone to unleash the full potential of its staff.
Apr 15, 2025
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AI agents poised to take over travel industry
Dreaming of going on vacation but not sure where to go? Increasingly the answer—and how to get there, what to eat and where to stay—will come from advanced AI, rather than your old-school travel agent.
Apr 14, 2025
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User-centered app development: Experts suggest balancing feedback with developer intuition
How do apps improve? For some of today's most popular applications, it's by listening to their customers.
Apr 9, 2025
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Microsoft's AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users
Fifty years after the founding of Microsoft, the CEO of its artificial intelligence division has a big task: develop a new product line as integral to daily life as the software giant's past innovations.
Apr 4, 2025
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What is artificial general intelligence and how does it differ from other types of AI?
Turns out, training artificial intelligence systems is not unlike raising a child. That's why some AI researchers have begun mimicking the way children naturally acquire knowledge and learn about the world around them—through ...
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German industry grapples with AI at trade fair
Artificial intelligence is set to bring sweeping change to modern life, but at an industrial fair in Germany many companies wonder how they fit into the tech revolution.
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