The fatal shooting of a 27-year-old real estate agent during an Iowa open house in 2011 shook her industry, which responded with a slate of measures aimed at keeping others in the profession safe.

Google's internal Agent Smith AI tool automates coding tasks for employees. Cofounder Sergey Brin emphasized the role of AI agents at Google, hinting at a tool like OpenClaw. Google employees are ...

New user agent reveals when Google-hosted AI completes tasks like browsing or form fills, opening visibility into assisted user journeys. Google introduced a new user agent, called Google-Agent, that ...

Anthropic’s latest research suggests that while AI is rapidly changing the way work gets done, it hasn’t meaningfully eliminated jobs. At least, not yet. But beneath what Anthropic’s head of economics ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Universal History Archive / Getty. The problem with horses—one of the problems with horses, I say as a former horse girl—is that they are as stubborn as mules.