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Agents got good at the web quickly. Pages have a DOM, forms have names, and there are mature browser-automation tools. But a lot of what people do on a phone happens inside native apps that have no website and no public API: messaging, ride-hailing, delivery, banking, and very often the app you are building right…

I like the idea of AI taking care of boring tasks, including sorting through bills and financial paperwork. I can even see the appeal of it helping with shopping. But asking an AI assistant for financial advice and simply handing over the keys to your bank account are different, and this distinction is becoming a…

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Add preferred source Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he now uses cloud-based AI agents to summarize daily company developments, track computing usage by product area and follow internal discussions, calling the setup a productivity gain that keeps humans in the loop on major decisions. He also said fully self-improving AI remains far off, a view…

Six AI assistants were tasked with recovering a fee for a cancelled train journey after the passenger missed the applicable refund deadline.

A customer asks an AI voice agent a question and waits. The agent already has an answer, it’s midway through generating a long, multi-paragraph response, but the customer hears nothing for five seconds. By the time an answer arrives, the customer is frustrated, confused, and no longer paying attention.

Concerns have swirled over the access that consumers are increasingly entrusting to AI agents. Now, security services are trying to catch up.

Sources at several banks have indicated that they have been taking actions independent of user instructions.

Most people revel in milestones. Turning the yearly page on birthdays, holidays and anniversaries is an opportunity for big parties, exchanging nice gifts and celebrating the ones we love. It can also be a minefield of missed connections and hurt feelings if you forget the dates.

Five major U.S. banks are restricting or blocking third-party AI agents from customer accounts after detecting automated systems operating inside those accounts, according to a report published by Axios in October 2026. If you have ever connected an AI assistant to your bank login, you may already be in violation of your bank’s terms of…