TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Announces Latest Contender in AI-Assistant Race

0:00This episode is supported by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Every business wants to move faster. Few can afford to be wrong. That's why nine of the Fortune 10 run on Claude for the work they want to get right. Safety and accuracy are not just line items for Anthropic. That's their whole mission. See what's next at Claude.ai. Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, September 29th. I'm Julie Chang for The Wall Street Journal. OpenAI has introduced its latest contender in the AI assistant race with Dot. CEO Sam Altman said it's an always-on AI agent running in the cloud to perform background tasks and assist with things like booking travel and fixing software bugs.

0:45Dot is set to compete with the likes of Meta's Muse and Instinct. The agent will first roll out to subscribers of OpenAI's$200 a month pro plan, as well as to companies on some of its business plans. OpenAI says users can access DOT through ChatGPT as well as through enterprise products, and soon via text messages. News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. The Trump administration is introducing an AI tool designed to act as a single digital concierge to federal services. The tool will be housed on America.gov. Instead of forcing citizens to search through the endless maze of tens of thousands of terrible government websites and rules, and more than 10 ,000 forms, you have over 10 ,000 forms to do basic acts, you'll now have one front door for every single question.

1:45According to the head of the White National Design Studio. The site will eventually allow constituents to complete various tasks, from renewing passports, enrolling in Medicare, to reserving campsites, and more. And AT &T has signed a multi-year$3 billion contract with Corning for fiber and cable, to help expand its network and meet the growing demand for data. AT &T said it's aiming to provide high-speed internet to 60 million Americans by late 2030. The telecommunications company said the average AT &T fiber household now uses more than one terabyte of data each month, a five-fold increase in 10 years.

2:28The companies said fiber is the only technology that can meet that growing demand. Verizon inked a similar agreement with Corning earlier this month. And that's it for your T &B Tech Minutes. We'll have another Quick Tech Update in the morning. This episode is supported by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Every business wants to move faster. Few can afford to be wrong. That's why the brands you trust also trust Claude. See what's next at claude.ai.wsj.