Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining popularity far beyond tech circles, with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies going head-to-head in the surging market for consumer-friendly AI agents.While the leading AI labs have offered tools with agentic capabilities for years, agents that are designed to work proactively on a user’s behalf for tasks from buying groceries to managing to-do lists have taken off this year.For anyone getting started, it can be overwhelming to understand the differences between the companies’ various offerings and which agents might be best suited for specific tasks.Here are some pointers on where to begin if you’re looking…
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The Amazon rainforest has long been called the “lungs of our planet,” because of how it takes in and stores billions of tons of carbon dioxide. But the Amazon has been losing that ability. Years of deforestation, drought, and fires have hindered just how much CO2 the rainforest can absorb. Now, the Amazon rainforest often releases more carbon than it takes in, a new study finds. It’s only in the “wettest years” that the rainforest is nearly carbon neutral. The study, published in the journal Nature, was led by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and included an international team…
Every executive team I talk to asks me some version of the same two questions: How fast can we deploy AI? Which AI tools should my team have? But they are asking the wrong questions. A person or organization can purchase a license to an AI solution in moments, but how fast can people adapt? The answer to this question will decide who succeeds in the AI era. TECHNOLOGY IS MOVING QUICKLY AI tools are changing weekly. A workflow can change overnight. A new model can suddenly perform a task that belonged entirely to a person six months ago. People…
You can finally get Cheerios in a resealable bag. General Mills announced Tuesday it partnered with SC Johnson’s Ziploc brand for Cheerios with Ziploc PantrySeal, its trademarked name for a new bag design. It features a blue Ziploc seal that goes partially across the top of the bag and doubles as a handy pour spout. The specialty box is available only for Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios and exclusively at Walmart’s website, where a 14.4 oz box retails for about $5. It’s a wonder it took so long. General Mills says it receives hundreds of thousands of requests for resealable…
It’s Friday afternoon—and your favorite team member’s last day before they move on to a new organization. You wanted to work through their final handoffs, but they’re in HR’s office. And in that meeting, for the first time in three years, someone asks them: “What made you decide to leave, and what could we have done differently?” They answer, in full detail. They joined because the company’s careers page promised “development opportunities,” but they got turned down for every leadership program they asked to attend. They were told more than once that a promotion was coming. It never came. And…
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it is combing the current Social Security Number (SSN) database, calling it the most comprehensive record “cleanup” in the agency’s 91-year history. “Accurate SSN records prevent fraud across federal programs and support the proper administration of benefits,” Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano said in a statement. The SSA said it is working with agencies across the federal government and in states “to validate identities and prevent improper payments of taxpayer dollars.” According to the agency, since the beginning of the Trump administration, it has “corrected nearly 15% of all active SSNs across approximately 330…
QUESTION Mr. Armstrong, Your advice is opposite Warren Buffett told shareholders in May 2025. “We wouldn’t want to be owning anything that we thought was in a currency that was really going to hell, and that’s the big thing we worry about with the United States currency,” Would you comment on that? Jeb ANSWER: Look, I do not like to criticize other analysts. Warren is a domestic player. He viewed the world through the old-world view that was taught in school about Random Walks, Quantity of Money, and Keynesian Economics. All of those theories have crumbled into dust. By…
Airfares for the cheapest U.S. airline jumped in price this year, but that hasn’t stopped fliers from booking. In its third-quarter earnings report published on Wednesday, Frontier Airlines revealed that its ticket prices have surged. The airline’s fare revenue per passenger jumped from $39.74 to $67.82 in Q3—a 71% increase. That metric looks at ticket prices alone and doesn’t factor in the add-on costs passengers might pay for things like upgrades and checked luggage. Frontier’s total revenue per passenger rose 30% during the same time frame, from $106.44 to $138.22, while its non-fare revenue per passenger stayed relatively flat, growing…
The American dream of homeownership is becoming increasingly dependent upon whether your parents have assets. A new analysis from Rocket Mortgage found that the share of homebuyers under 35 purchasing property with a co-applicant over 55 increased 21% between 2018 and 2025. Approximately one in 30 younger buyers now has an older co-applicant on the mortgage. Meanwhile, total home purchases among Americans under 35 have declined 15% over the same period. The cost of entering the housing market has increased so dramatically that family wealth is becoming a determining factor in who can purchase a home and who remains trapped…
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