Months after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency stripped the Internal Revenue Service for parts and snagged as much taxpayer data as they could get their hands on, the agency is getting some support—just not from actual people. According to a report from Axios, the IRS is deploying AI agents for the first […]
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT’s Ability to Buy Stuff for You
OpenAI just made it possible to buy things directly from ChatGPT. Starting today, all ChatGPT users in the U.S. can use a new feature called Instant Checkout to purchase items from Etsy sellers without leaving the chat. OpenAI says more than a million Shopify merchants, including Glossier, SKIMS, and Spanx, are coming soon. For now, […]
ChatGPT Pulse: OpenAI Wants to Give You a Morning Briefing (and Get a Peek at Your Other Apps)
Some ChatGPT users can now get their day started with a personalized morning briefing from ChatGPT, but first, the OpenAI chatbot will have to scour through their chat history, email, and calendar, among other things, the night before. OpenAI announced today that it is previewing a new feature called ChatGPT Pulse to users who are […]
Studies Show AI Models Love to Share With One Another (and Do a Little Price Fixing as a Treat)
Two recent studies took a look at what happens when you let AI models communicate with each other. Both should probably give us pause about letting these machines make friends with one another. The first study—a preprint paper out of Northeastern University’s National Deep Inference Fabric, which seeks to peer into the black box of […]
Replit’s AI Agent Wipes Company’s Codebase During Vibecoding Session
AI coding assistants that promise to speed up software development sound like the future, until they delete your company’s database and lie about it Jason Lemkin—the founder of SaaStr, a company which supports and funds SaaS entrepreneurs — found that out the hard way. While using Replit’s AI agent, which he affectionately dubbed “Replie,” to build […]