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Amazon is training humanoid robots to deliver packages. The Information reports that the company has set up a “humanoid park” at its robotics facility near Seattle to simulate real-world delivery scenarios. The test environment includes obstacle courses and a Rivian delivery van. Continue Reading →
Agentic Life
The web, as we know it, is about to disappear. Not the infrastructure, but the paradigm of PageRank, clicks, and funnels that has defined digital commerce for three decades. In the coming weeks, not years, agentic AI will transform websites from destinations into API endpoints, and user journeys into autonomous workflows. Continue Reading →
Opera has always been the artisanal coffee shop of browsers. On May 28, the company announced Opera Neon, which it describes as “the first AI agentic browser.” Opera Neon is designed to recognize user intent and turn it into automated web actions, positioning the browser itself as a helpful digital coworker rather than a passive window to the internet. Continue Reading →
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend. At a Sunday party, I heard a guest gush that ChatGPT understands his business better than his staff. The enthusiasm is common; the reality is more nuanced. Continue Reading →
Yesterday at Anthropic’s first “Code with Claude” conference in San Francisco, the company introduced Claude Opus 4 and its companion, Claude Sonnet 4. The headline is clear: Opus 4 can pursue a complex coding task for about seven consecutive hours without losing context. That leap takes us from last year’s five-minute attention span to what feels like a full work shift at silicon speed. Continue Reading →

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