OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

With OpenAI's latest updates to its Responses API — the application programming interface that allows developers on OpenAI's platform to access multiple agentic tools like web search and file search ...
VentureBeat

Kilo launches AI-powered Slack bot that ships code from a chat message

Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute code changes, debug issues, ...
ZDNet

Alexa+ users can chat with Amazon's AI assistant on the web now - here's how and where

Alexa+ is Amazon's generative AI upgrade to its Alexa virtual assistant. After months in an early access program, Amazon is debuting the Alexa.com website. Users can chat with Alexa+ on the site, just ...
The Verge

The Alexa Plus website is now available to everyone in early access

Anyone can sign up and chat with Amazon’s new AI assistant in their browser. Anyone can sign up and chat with Amazon’s new AI assistant in their browser. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 ...
Cape and Islands NPR

Steamship Authority wasted millions of dollars on website project, report finds

The scathing, 59-page report from the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General was released Thursday. The state Office of the Inspector General released findings Thursday that the Steamship ...
GeekWire

With new Alexa website, Amazon’s consumer AI vision finally comes together — and it’s actually useful

Amazon’s new Alexa.com portal brings the AI-powered Alexa+ assistant to the desktop browser. Amazon is quietly rolling out the last big pillar of its AI-powered Alexa+ vision: the Alexa.com website, ...
PC World

You can finally chat with Amazon’s AI-enhanced Alexa+ on the web

Amazon has launched a web portal for Alexa+ at Alexa.com, providing early access users with a ChatGPT-like interface featuring suggested prompts and easy text copying capabilities. PCWorld reports the ...
The New York Times

Dutch Return ‘Java Man’ Bones, With 40,000 Fossils Set to Follow

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...
Android

Google Chat Gets a New Web Address That Loads Fast

Google Chat gets a new web address that is claimed to load faster and offer a more seamless experience. This does not change the Chat user interface, and bookmarks and links to the old URL will still ...
Yahoo

HGTV, meet ChatGPT: AI is influencing home design — and a reality check is coming.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like this living room? Thanks, it's AI-generated. The technology has gotten pretty good at re-creating on-trend interiors — if you ...
PBS

Hegseth’s Signal chat put U.S. personnel at risk, Pentagon watchdog finds

A Pentagon watchdog report has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. service members at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to discuss a military strike in Yemen earlier this year.