OpenAI announced on Thursday that it is launching a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and perform tasks autonomously.

Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity launched an agent-based assistant for Android devices on Thursday as it looks to take on larger rival OpenAI's ChatGPT and incumbent assistants such as Apple ...

It can also ask follow-up questions to further personalize the tasks it completes, such as login information for other websites. Users can take control of the screen at any time.

The new tool, called Operator, can shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. But it still needs help from humans.

The tech billionaires have a rocky history, and Musk's comments about funding for the project, which could attract $500 billion prompted a pointed response from OpenAI leader Altman.

OpenAI has yet to publicly address the issue on its social media accounts, but its status page said there was a "major outage" for 32 minutes and a "partial outage" for nearly two hours. The company ...

OpenAI said its ‘Operator’ agent went live for some users on Thursday, creating the ability for artificial intelligence to automate tasks such as buying groceries and filing expense reports.

Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Ventures, an early backer of Amazon and Snowflake, has some strong takes on where artificial intelligence is going next—and fresh capital to back them up.The ...

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OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” ...

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.