Microsoft’s Copilot can now browse the web and perform actions for you

For its 50th birthday, Microsoft is teaching its AI-powered Copilot chatbot a few new tricks. Copilot…

Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser

Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a…

A world without Caesars: How the atproto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people

Don’t call it a Bluesky conference.  Over the weekend, the first in-person gathering devoted to those…

Anthropic appears to be using Brave to power web search for its Claude chatbot

Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out a web search feature for its AI-powered chatbot platform, Claude,…

Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot

Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot, Claude, can now search the web — a capability that had long eluded…

Podcast app Pocket Casts makes its web player free

Pocket Casts, the podcast app acquired by Automattic in 2021, is now making its web player…

Open web initiatives Project Liberty and Solid could be teaming up

Two initiatives to create a more open web, where users are in control of their own…

Open social web browser Surf integrates with Bluesky in latest beta

Surf, the new app from Flipboard for browsing the open social web, is expanding its support…

Amazon Web Services unveils Ocelot chip to slash quantum computing errors

Amazon Web Services unveils Ocelot chip to slash quantum computing errors#Amazon #Web #Services #unveils #Ocelot #chip…

Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web

Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed…

Web Summit attendees aren’t buying Scale AI CEO’s push for America ‘to win the AI war’

In a bold move last month, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang took out a full-page ad…

Perplexity teases a web browser called Comet

AI-powered search engine Perplexity says it’s building its own web browser. In a post on X…

OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site

OpenAI has eliminated a page on its website that used to express its commitment to diversity,…

You can now use ChatGPT web search without logging in

In a move that could make OpenAI’s chatbot a more appealing option over incumbents such as…

A review of Tapestry, an app powered by the growing open web

A new app called Tapestry, which launched Tuesday, aggregates and organizes information from across the web…

Automattic and others back Openvibe, an app that’s unifying the open social web

Openvibe’s clever app that integrates multiple open social networks including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, and Threads, just…

AI startup Character AI tests games on the web

Character AI, a startup that lets users chat with different AI-powered characters, is now testing games…

How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s ecommerce site was down. It…

AI is burying company web sites in search results, but Otterly.AI thinks it can help

Many sites saw their organic traffic decline in 2024, in big part due to the rise…

Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit

Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (aka…

OpenAI brings its AI-powered web search tool to more ChatGPT users

ChatGPT Search, OpenAI’s AI-powered web search experience, is now live for all ChatGPT users — with…