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Agentic AIMeta's Muse Agent Tops the Charts as Zuckerberg Goes All In
Meta's Muse personal AI agent passed ChatGPT for the top US app spot, logging millions of downloads as Meta adds a Muse Charm device, Mac support and email access.
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Agentic AIMeta's Muse personal AI agent passed ChatGPT for the top US app spot, logging millions of downloads as Meta adds a Muse Charm device, Mac support and email access.
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Agentic AIAt FUSION 2026, UiPath made Coding Agents generally available, launched Cartographer to map how work really runs, and added agent governance controls.
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Agentic AIProofpoint, Palo Alto Networks and Akamai all shipped agent-security products this week as a UN panel warned that traditional safeguards are eroding.
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Agentic AIAmazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from its retail site after Meta refused to withdraw it, setting the first hard boundary for agentic commerce.
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RoboticsThe IFR World Robotics 2026 report counts a record 5 million industrial robots in service, with China taking 59% of installs and the US moving into second place.
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RoboticsUber is committing about $10 billion to autonomous vehicles and fleets as Waymo hits 15 cities and Tesla's Cybercab starts carrying riders in Austin.
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RoboticsAt ROSCon 2026, Alphabet's Intrinsic released Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, opening real-time control, pose estimation and motion planning to everyone.
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RoboticsBoston Dynamics has opened RMAC, a dedicated Atlas humanoid training centre inside Hyundai's Georgia EV plant, ahead of a 2028 production deployment.
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AI ResearchGoogle's Project Suncatcher will launch four TPUs into orbit on October 1 aboard SpaceX Transporter-18, the first real test of whether AI chips can run in space.
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AI ResearchAnthropic's new biology lab says 950 Claude agents screened 200,000 reverse transcriptases in 21 hours and found ART, a CRISPR-like phage enzyme system.
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AI ResearchOpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna with API prices cut by half or more, pushing the frontier on cost per task rather than on benchmark ceilings.
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AI ResearchStepFun's Step 5 Preview pairs a 600B sparse MoE with a 1M-token context and $1 input pricing, with open weights promised for 15 October.
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AI BusinessAnthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai for CPU capacity, with a $9 billion expansion option and a warrant for up to 5% of Akamai stock.
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AI BusinessSnorkel AI raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Insight Partners and S32, to scale its agentic data factory for frontier AI labs.
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AI BusinessAlibaba unveiled its Zhenwu V900 accelerator and a 20GW data centre target, sending shares up 5% and sharpening China's AI infrastructure economics.
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AI BusinessSoftBank has launched an $11bn-plus high-yield bond sale to fund its third OpenAI tranche, tying the AI boom directly to global credit markets.
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Policy & SocietyThe Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act from Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar would pause frontier AI, create a Department of AI and threaten 20-year prison terms.
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Policy & SocietyAustralia has launched an urgent taskforce after an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal, and OpenAI took three months to report it.
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Policy & SocietyFrance convened a high-level Security Council briefing on AI and international security, with Sam Altman set to become the first tech CEO to address it.
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Policy & SocietyTrump says he will create an 'AI Force' and name an AI czar while resisting new rules, days after California ordered a kill-switch review.
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Tools & GuidesDocker's new open skills pack shows how SKILL.md files teach AI coding agents reliable workflows. Here is a practical guide to adopting agent skills in your team.
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Tools & GuidesAfter an OpenAI agent breached an Australian Medicare portal, here is a practical checklist for sandboxing, permissioning and monitoring your own AI agents.
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Tools & GuidesA practical, vendor-neutral guide to tracing, evaluating and guardrailing AI agents so they survive contact with real users and real production traffic.
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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to picking between live speech-to-speech models and long-context omni-modal models for meetings, voice agents and video analysis.
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