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Conversational Agents

Anthropic’s AI Vending Test Exposes Real-World Weaknesses to Social Engineering

Anthropic added a hierarchical supervisor that curbed giveaways and briefly returned the vending business to profit.

OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.1 to Paid ChatGPT Users, Pilots Group Chats in Four Markets

Google Puts Gemini Inside Maps for Hands-Free, Conversational Navigation

New Papers Flag Retrieval as RAG’s Weak Link, Propose Practical Fixes

Walmart Partners With OpenAI to Enable Shopping Inside ChatGPT

OpenAI–Jony Ive AI Device Faces Reported Delays as Compute, Privacy and UX Hurdles Persist

Apple Tests Next‑Gen Siri With Internal ‘Veritas’ Chatbot, Keeps Tool In‑House

OpenAI Refines GPT-5 After Backlash, Flags Faster Path to GPT-6 as Enterprise Uptake Grows

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Agent for Pro, Plus and Team Subscribers

Apple Pushes Next-Gen AI Siri to 2026 After Quality Hurdles

Google Unveils Gemini 2.5 and AI Mode as Competition in AI Assistants Intensifies