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.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday dismissed Elon Musk’s criticism of President Trump’s newly announced artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project. “That was a big ...

OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, issued a statement on Thursday following a global outage of the AI-powered chatbot, attributing the issue to a problem with its provider, which caused high error rates.

OpenAI just launched Operator, an AI agent capable of performing tasks autonomously, including filling out forms and ordering groceries.

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.

Altman and Musk founded OpenAI together in 2015, with Musk leaving the then-nonprofit company in 2018 and Altman taking over as CEO in 2019.

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 ...

The Nvidia and Jeff Bezos-backed company said the tool, known as Perplexity Assistant, can book dinner reservations, hail rides on apps and set reminders, among other actions. "We'd love to make it ...

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