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    This Android wearable lasts for days, and left my Samsung Galaxy Watch in the dust

    <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The OnePlus Watch 3 normally retails for $350. Its long-lasting battery, durability, rotating digital crown, and superb design make this a compelling smartwatch. However, the OHealth app needs some work, workout data screens are limited, and ECG measurements are not supported. –> After the original OnePlus Watch failed in 2021, the […] More

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    Slack will generate thread summaries and AI notes from your huddles now

    Begin Again/Getty Images Slack is harnessing AI to make workplace collaboration and communication even smoother. On Thursday, the workplace productivity software company announced four new AI-powered features built directly into its platform. The bundle is meant to function as a smart digital assistant operating in the background of a team’s normal operations, automating routine and […] More

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    Dell’s new Pro Max lineup offers top-tier laptops for sky-high prices

    Dell Dell launched its new Pro Max laptops Thursday, unveiling three tiers of its top-performing laptops with a combination of high-end hardware: AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra processors, and the new Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell GPUs.  Nvidia announced the Blackwell-generation GPUs on its RTX Pro platform earlier this year — first for desktop […] More

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    Move over, Tesla Powerwall: EcoFlow’s new home backup system claims to reduce energy bills by up to 90%

    EcoFlow EcoFlow recently announced the launch of a new Ocean Pro<!–> whole-home energy backup solution, the company’s first permanent energy storage solution in the US. The full system lets you use EcoFlow or third-party solar panels with a smart home panel, an Ocean Pro inverter, and an Ocean Pro battery. Instead of comprising a portable […] More

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    Fighting AI with AI, finance firms prevented $5 million in fraud – but at what cost?

    d3sign/Getty Imageds When most people think of AI, the first thing that probably comes to mind isn’t superintelligence or the promise of agents to boost productivity, but scams.  There’ve always been fraudsters among us, that small percentage of the population who’ll use any means available to swindle others out of their money. The proliferation of […] More

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    ChatGPT isn’t just for chatting anymore – now it will do your work for you

    Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETNot too long ago, I wrote that AI agents were the future of AI: tools that could carry out tasks for you, like ordering groceries or booking meetings. OpenAI’s latest launch makes that reality appear a bit closer.  Also: AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VPOn Thursday, during a live stream, OpenAI launched a ChatGPT agent, which the company claims can handle complex tasks for you from start to finish. Some examples OpenAI provided were looking at your calendar and writing a briefing based on your upcoming events, or even planning and buying ingredients for a meal you were thinking of cooking. Let’s dive in. How it worksOpenAI’s most cutting-edge features, including Operator and deep research, gave the public a taste of the company’s agentic capabilities and now power this new agent mode. Operator, which launched in January, was created to interact directly with a web browser to carry out actions for you, while deep research is an agentic feature that can search the web for you and compose a detailed report in minutes that would otherwise take humans hours.After noticing that many of the queries being fed to Operator were a better fit for Deep Research, OpenAI decided to combine the two in this new experience — and add a few new tools.Also: Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands – where do we go from here?For starters, the ChatGPT agent uses a visual browser that interacts with the web through a graphical user interface (GUI), a text-based browser, a terminal, and direct API access, according to the blog post. It also uses ChatGPT connectors, a feature that allows users to connect apps like Gmail and GitHub to ChatGPT so it can pull relevant information to fulfill their requests. With all of those different sources of information, ChatGPT is able to reason through which is the best for the task at hand and pull information accordingly. This processing is done using its own virtual computer and distinguishes between reasoning and action based on human instruction, which allows it to retain context while pulling from multiple tools.  More