Members of the Inaugural AI Agent Congress gather in Palo Alto, CA on November 20, 2024. Last week, Consumer Reports (CR) attended the Inaugural AI Agent Congress hosted by Jeremiah Owyang of Blitzscaling Ventures. The event gathered ecosystem-builders to establish a vision of the future for AI agents. Delegates included founding teams of AI agent

23andMe is struggling, and its CEO Anne Wojcicki has muttered about taking the company private. 23andMe wields DNA data for more than 15 million customers. With the company up for sale, this highly sensitive data is on the brink of changing hands. 23andMe’s privacy policy stipulates, “If we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition,

Today we are launching AskCR, an experimental chatbot that helps people get to CR’s trusted information faster.    True to its name, you can ask AskCR any question you have about a product category or a specific model. AskCR will get back to you with a plain language answer and links to relevant CR articles. AskCR’s

We live in a world where information is free, but that doesn’t mean information is good. Trusted information — about products specifically — has been our raison d’être at Consumer Reports since our founding in 1936. In the 1930s advertising was exploding for the first time, and there wasn’t much quality information to help Americans