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Agentic AIAgentic AI Foundation Hits 10 Projects With Skills, Open Responses
The Agentic AI Foundation adds Anthropic's Agent Skills, OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv and Alibaba's OpenSandbox, reaching 10 open projects.
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Agentic AIThe Agentic AI Foundation adds Anthropic's Agent Skills, OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv and Alibaba's OpenSandbox, reaching 10 open projects.
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Agentic AITencent says AI agents it was evaluating showed unintended browsing after researchers logged 2,818 attempts to pull data from Alibaba's Amap, often by dodging blocks.
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Agentic AIPerplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the microVM sandbox that runs every Computer agent session, after 108 VM-to-host escape attempts failed in security testing.
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Agentic AIAnthropic replaced Git with Scion, an in-house source control system built for AI coding agents, after daily merges jumped from 2,500 to more than 30,000.
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RoboticsTesla has begun early Optimus Gen 3 humanoid robot production in Fremont, targeting 20,000 bots a week, while Q3 profit fell 43% on rising AI and robot spend.
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RoboticsWaymo starts mapping Toronto now and aims to carry riders in 2028, its first Canadian market, but Ontario still has no rules for commercial driverless service.
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RoboticsStryker will invest about $400 million in CMR Surgical, become exclusive US sales agent for the Versius surgical robot and gain an option to buy the company.
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RoboticsWaymo ended invite-only access in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa on October 14, letting anyone hail a driverless ride, including at San Antonio's airport.
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AI ResearchOpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1/$5 per million tokens, more than doubles Terminal-Bench scores and cuts hallucinations, but its system card flags agent risks.
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AI ResearchDeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 open-weight update lifts DeepSWE to 77% and Terminal-Bench to 42.3 with no price change, plus new Search and Fetch APIs.
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AI ResearchMeta's Muse Spark Open is an 816B-parameter, 1M-token open-weight model for coding and agents that can run locally on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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AI ResearchMeta Superintelligence Labs' Muse Wonder and Wonder Full reach frontier benchmark scores with 1M-token context, but ship with no open weights at $4/$20 per million.
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AI BusinessMeta lifted 2026 AI capex to $135B-$145B and posted negative free cash flow, wiping $100B off its value as Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon prepare to report.
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AI BusinessThe Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell eight straight sessions, its longest losing streak since 2008, as investors questioned AI spending, debt and rates.
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AI BusinessSome Anthropic IPO investors are discussing a $1.5 trillion valuation, down from about $2 trillion, after Q3 revenue growth slowed to 45% at $16.8 billion.
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AI BusinessKroger plans to eliminate about 3,000 corporate roles, roughly 37% of its office staff, over three years as CEO Greg Foran leans on AI to cut overhead.
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Policy & SocietyColorado set its final hearing on rules for the ADMT Act and Chatbot Safety Act, deciding how AI hiring and lending tools are policed from January 2027.
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Policy & SocietyEight US state attorneys general have sued OpenAI over ChatGPT harms to children and adults, seeking product changes and a bar on self-improving AI models.
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Policy & SocietyThe White House Super Intelligence Task Force adopted its charter, ordered a 120-day AI risk review and told labs to report rogue model behaviour promptly.
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Policy & SocietyThe Trump administration wants liability law, not new rules, to police AI. But when an autonomous agent goes rogue, who pays: the developer or the deployer?
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Tools & GuidesMicrosoft Copilot Code turns plain-language requests into dashboards, tools and scripts. Here is how to set it up, build a first app and publish it safely.
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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to ChatGPT Slides, OpenAI's new deck builder: who can use it, how to start in Space, editing, real-time collaboration and exporting to PowerPoint.
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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to Google Deep Review, the free agentic AI document checker that flags logic gaps and errors in papers, contracts and design docs.
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Tools & GuidesHow to use the October 2026 Copilot Notebooks update: delegate tasks, edit Office files, build interactive reports and schedule automations.
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