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OpenAI's new API and Agents SDK consolidate a previously fragmented complex ecosystem into a unified, production-ready framework. For enterprise AI teams, the implications are potentially profound: Projects that previously demanded multiple frameworks,

As early as 2016, Sam Altman, who had recently co-founded OpenAI, wrote in a blog post that "as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs," new economic models might be necessary, such as a universal basic income;

If your company isn't already using AI, the arrival of "agent" tools may change your mind. Meta wants this to happen, and OpenAI is planning on hefty prices for some advanced systems.

In late 1999 the online fashion startup Boo.com launched its website, which featured a virtual shopping assistant. The avatar, known as Miss Boo, was supposed to offer styling tips to customers and allow them to view jeans and shirts on three-dimensional models before buying.

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek on Tuesday revealed Native Sparse Attention (NSA), a new mechanism designed to enhance the efficiency of long-context training and inference in AI models.

Bosses of big technology firms may find reassurance in comparing artificial intelligence to a lump of coal. Claimed cost-efficiency breakthroughs made by China's DeepSeek have rocked markets betting on a boom in spending on the chips and servers powering silicon smarts.

In the most recent episode of Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the Chinese AI firm and its cost-effective new model.