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Tag: AI chatbot
Microsoft’s Rebuilt Copilot Is a Bet on How Companies Will Work Next
In 1981, a multinational company that wanted to know what the next financial quarter looked like had to piece the answer together from interoffice memos and faxes, each moving from desk to desk until someone could reconcile the numbers. That labor-intensive process disappeared with the introduction of the Excel spreadsheet, which traveled as an email […]
AWS Makes Quick’s Desktop App Generally Available
Amazon Web Services has released a new way for enterprise customers to use its Quick AI assistant. On Thursday, the company announced that a desktop version is now generally available, offering another way to use it beyond the browser. This app also gives the AI more context by pulling in work-related information stored on the […]
Adobe Widens Its ChatGPT Presence With Plugin Built for Creative Workflows
When Adobe began abandoning shrink-wrapped software for the cloud in 2011, it dragged the entire industry toward subscriptions. Now the company is attempting its next migration, this time into territory it doesn’t control: chatbots. On Thursday, Adobe launched a plugin for ChatGPT that brings more than 70 of its tools natively into an assistant used […]
Slackbot Steps Into the AI Spotlight
For more than a decade, Slack has positioned itself as a place where work happens (remember this commercial?). It has become a central part of how teams communicate and collaborate. But one of its most overlooked features—the Slackbot—is now stepping into a much bigger role and becoming what Salesforce describes as the “ultimate teammate.” Slackbot […]
Intercom Turns Fin Into a Developer Platform
Three years after launching its Fin customer service agent, Intercom is opening it up to third-party developers via an API. There’s a catch: It’s open to anyone spending at least $250,000 on Intercom, but the company promises usage rates that are “by far the cheapest in the industry.” Until today, Fin had been confined to […]
Ai2 Challenges the Status Quo in Coding Agents with SERA, an Open-Source Model Built for Specialization and Scale
Coding agents are everywhere. What was once a handful of experimental tools has become a crowded field spanning GitHub (Copilot), OpenAI (Codex), Google (Jules), Anthropic (Claude Code), AWS (Kiro), Vercel (v0), Salesforce (Agentforce Vibes), and a growing roster of startups, each promising to change how software gets written. Now, nonprofit AI lab Ai2 is entering […]
Salesforce Opens App-Building to Everyone with Agentforce Vibes AI
Salesforce is telling developers—or anyone who has a software idea—that there’s no excuse for not building an app on its platform. Ahead of Dreamforce, the enterprise tech firm is unveiling Agentforce Vibes, its vibe coding solution. But unlike what’s available through Anthropic’s Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Vercel, Lovable, or Replit, Salesforce brags that its platform […]
Slack Opens Up Conversational Data to Power Smarter AI Agents
Slack aims to help developers leverage the vast amount of conversational data stored on its platform. The goal: Build better, secure, and context-aware AI agents for the enterprise. To achieve this, the Salesforce-owned firm is launching not only a real-time search API, but also a Model Context Protocol server and other new tools. “The future […]
Ralph Lauren Brings a Digital Stylist to Life with Ask Ralph AI Shopping Assistant
Fashion and lifestyle brand powerhouse Ralph Lauren has launched an AI agent that provides styling inspiration and outfit recommendations to consumer shoppers. Ask Ralph, as it’s called, is a conversational bot that utilizes natural language processing to comprehend prompts, interpret context, and provide suggestions to users, much like a human stylist would. The agent is […]
Google’s Jules Coding Agent Exits Beta, Joins the AI Coding Arms Race
Google’s rival to GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Codex, and Cursor is now publicly available. After three months in beta, the company’s AI coding assistant, Jules, has launched, now powered by Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model. A product from Google Labs, Jules was initially an experimental AI agent first announced in December 2024. Six months later, it […]