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Anthropic’s bid to build self-improving AI agents just spawned a new, anthropomorphic technique dubbed “dreaming.” Loading audio narration… The high-flying AI lab announced the new process at its developer conference on Wednesday. “Dreaming” is part of Anthropic’s push to overhaul software engineering and other knowledge work with increasingly autonomous tools.…
The airport chaos may not be over yet, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are set to remain at many airports across the US.Tom Homan, the White House’s border czar, told CBS News on Sunday that ICE would remain “until the airports feel like they’re 100%.”It comes after President Donald…
China has seen an explosion in “one-person companies” thanks to a little help from AI agents.Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang told Business Insider he has seen this growth firsthand, estimating that 30% to 40% of the e-commerce platform’s customers are “solo entrepreneurs.”Business Insider previously reported on the rise of one-person companies,…
At Meta, there’s no escaping AI. Loading audio narration… The company has begun running intensive AI training weeks to encourage staff to experiment more with AI tools, according to Meta employees who spoke with Business Insider and public LinkedIn posts.The weeks have involved a series of hackathons, demos, and other…
Air travel just got even more chaotic. Loading audio narration… After weeks of airport security lines spilling into sidewalks and parking garages — as unpaid TSA officers call out en masse during the partial government shutdown — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been sent to airports nationwide to help…
Mark Cuban said AI agents will slash an hour of work from typical workdays. Loading audio narration… In an X post on Sunday, the billionaire investor wrote that “smart, bigger companies” will let their employees create and use AI agents to improve their productivity. But he said that more importantly,…
AI agents are here, and sci-fi prophecies of robots taking over have never felt more real. Loading audio narration… No longer just companionable chatbots, AI agents — capable of acting, reasoning, and completing complex tasks — are being deployed at scale in 2026. But as these autonomous systems become embedded…
For five weeks, the people screening passengers and bags at US airports have been working without pay as the government shutdown — the second in four months — stretches on.It’s hitting a workforce that often lives paycheck to paycheck on middle-class salaries and is turning to food banks and community…













