Topic: agentic capabilities
-
Google's AI Assistant Now Books Travel in Labs
Google's enhanced AI Mode now enables users to search and book restaurant reservations, event tickets, and wellness appointments across multiple platforms through a single query, streamlining the discovery process. The feature is available to all U.S.-based Search Labs participants, with premium ...
Read More » -
Google's AI Now Books Events and Beauty Appointments
Google has upgraded its AI Mode to enable direct booking of event tickets and wellness appointments through search, allowing users to make multi-step requests and receive curated, real-time options. These agentic features are available to U.S. users in Search Labs, with higher usage limits for Go...
Read More » -
Claude Opus 4.6 Nails Work Deliverables on the First Try
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.6, its most advanced model designed for complex enterprise tasks, promising greater autonomy and more accurate first-attempt results to streamline business processes. The model shows significant performance improvements in high-reasoning tasks, including a 10%...
Read More » -
ChatGPT's Browser Bot Appears to Block New York Times Links
AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas have agentic capabilities that perform complex tasks but may intentionally avoid accessing content from publishers in legal disputes with their parent companies. When in agent mode, Atlas mimics a regular Chrome session to bypass automated crawler restrictions, rais...
Read More » -
Google Search Labs Adds AI Agent Features
Google Search Labs has launched an experimental AI feature in the U.S. that enables users to book restaurant reservations directly within the search interface, requiring a signed-in account with Web & App Activity enabled. The system searches multiple reservation platforms for real-time availabil...
Read More » -
Google Gemini Launches in US Chrome with Agentic Browsing
Google has launched its Gemini AI assistant for all U.S. desktop users, expanding access beyond paid subscribers and introducing new browser-based capabilities. The assistant can now operate across multiple tabs, compare information, and will soon retrieve past web pages, while also integrating w...
Read More » -
Gartner: Block AI Browsers for the Foreseeable Future
Gartner strongly advises blocking AI-powered web browsers due to significant security and privacy risks, primarily from their agentic capabilities and potential for data exposure. A core vulnerability is the transmission of sensitive user data, like browsing history and active tabs, to cloud-base...
Read More » -
Gemini 3: Does It Live Up to Google's Hype?
Google's Gemini 3 Pro has been released, featuring enhanced logical reasoning, the ability to process multiple data types, and improved zero-shot generation for creating interactive visualizations and handling complex tasks. Real-world testing shows that while Gemini 3 can replicate core concepts...
Read More » -
Amazon Develops New AI Tools to Boost Ad Inventory
Amazon has launched new AI tools, including a chatbot, to help sellers generate promotional content and ads more efficiently by using prompts and brand details. These AI-generated ads can appear across Amazon's ecosystem, including Prime Video and Twitch, reducing time and cost while expanding ca...
Read More » -
Google's AI Flight Deals Goes Global With New Travel Search Features
Google has globally expanded its AI-powered Flight Deals tool to over 200 countries, enabling users to find affordable travel by describing their preferences, with support for more than 60 languages. The company introduced AI Mode's Canvas tool for travel planning, which generates comprehensive i...
Read More » -
Google's New AI Agent for Gmail & Drive: Join the Waitlist
Google has introduced "CC", an experimental AI productivity agent that delivers a personalized morning briefing to your Gmail by analyzing your schedule, tasks, and connected services to help prioritize your day. The tool synthesizes data from Google apps and the web, offering summaries and pro...
Read More » -
Google's Gemini 3 Launches, Already Fuels AI Mode
Google has launched Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model, integrating all Gemini abilities into a single tool and making it available in Google Search from day one. The model enhances Search with complex reasoning and real-time generative features, such as producing interactive visualizations and...
Read More » -
Unlock Chrome's AI Mode Faster on iOS & Android
Google Chrome has introduced a dedicated AI Mode shortcut on the New Tab page for mobile users, enabling complex queries and follow-up conversations directly within the search interface. The feature is initially launching in the U.S. with plans for rapid expansion to 160 countries and support for...
Read More » -
Google's AI Boosts STEM Query Accuracy with Major Upgrades
Google's AI Mode update significantly improves handling of complex STEM queries, offering clearer and more accurate answers for students and educators. The upgrade enhances performance on scientific and technical questions, providing concise responses with key information upfront and better organ...
Read More » -
Google Chrome's Address Bar Now Has AI Mode
Google has launched an AI Mode in Chrome's address bar for U.S. users, enabling conversational queries and AI Overviews without leaving the current tab. The update includes Gemini integration for summarizing pages and managing tasks, enhanced scam protection via AI, and a streamlined password hel...
Read More »