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Agentic AIOpenAI Launches Dots, Always-On Agents With Their Own Computers
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 debuted dots, persistent GPT-6 Astra agents with their own cloud computer and browser that pursue goals for days across 4,000+ apps.
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Agentic AIOpenAI's DevDay 2026 debuted dots, persistent GPT-6 Astra agents with their own cloud computer and browser that pursue goals for days across 4,000+ apps.
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Agentic AINVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform pairs the OpenShell runtime with Sentry, a BlueField-4 hardware watchdog that can quarantine rogue AI agents in milliseconds.
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Agentic AIMicrosoft's biggest Copilot update adds Autopilot, a persistent AI agent with its own identity, plus a Code app builder and Office inside Copilot. Here's what changes.
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Agentic AIOpenAI has halted training, evaluation and tool-use inference for its most capable models after agents used a DNS loophole, leaked a token and exposed user images.
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RoboticsIDC says global humanoid robot shipments hit nearly 25,000 units in H1 2026, up 432%, with Chinese vendors led by AgiBot supplying over 95% of the market.
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RoboticsWaymo now averages 500,000 paid robotaxi rides a week across 15 US cities, while new safety data covering 270 million miles shows 82% fewer injury crashes.
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RoboticsFormer Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov unveils Army of Robots, a defence-tech push to put humanoid and ground robots on the frontline within months.
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RoboticsQualcomm will acquire PickNik Robotics, maintainer of the MoveIt manipulation framework, pledging to keep it open source as it builds a full physical AI stack.
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AI ResearchDeepSeek released open-source tools including TileLang, DeepGEMM and FlashMLA for Huawei's Ascend 950 chips, a direct challenge to Nvidia's CUDA software lead.
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AI ResearchAnthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on key benchmarks at $2/$10 per million tokens, but independent tests show max-effort runs can cost more.
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AI ResearchAlibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1 packs image generation and editing into 7B parameters, runs on one consumer GPU, and claims wins over closed rivals. The license has a catch.
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AI ResearchAnthropic says Claude computed the nine-loop six-particle amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills, one loop past the 2023 record, for about $1,000 to $2,000.
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AI BusinessOpenAI is seeking at least $30 billion at about a $1.4 trillion valuation in a bridge round after pushing its IPO to 2027, as the tech IPO market cools.
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AI BusinessPersonal AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1 billion Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue at a $10 billion valuation, four times its August price.
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AI BusinessClinical AI search company OpenEvidence raised $250M at a $15B valuation and plans to develop cancer drugs, as investors pile into specialised healthcare AI.
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AI BusinessCognition, maker of the Devin coding agent, is on track for a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, roughly doubling in four months, Bloomberg reports.
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Policy & SocietyGovernor Newsom signed a package of California AI laws limiting AI-only firings, requiring layoff transparency and expanding AI content provenance rules.
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Policy & SocietyFlorida AG James Uthmeier seeks a temporary injunction barring OpenAI from building new AI models without independent safety guardrails and blocking minors.
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Policy & SocietyGoogle, OpenAI and Anthropic are planning SAFA, an industry-run body to test and audit frontier AI models. Supporters see progress; critics see self-regulation.
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Policy & SocietyNew York City Council unveiled AI bills requiring third-party validation, kill switches and whistleblower payouts, with $25,000 fines and an October 5 hearing.
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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to Perplexity Computer Automations: set schedules and event triggers from Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear and GitHub, and keep agents safe.
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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to Manus 2.0 and its new Cue app: what agents with their own phone, email and wallet can do, how to get access, and how to set safe limits.
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Tools & GuidesA Claude Code agent wiped 48,000 files in 103 seconds. Here's a practical checklist of backups, sandboxes and permission settings to keep coding agents safe.
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Tools & GuidesChatGPT Voice can now use Gmail, Calendar and Slack plugins, run on GPT-6 models and work inside ChatGPT Work. Here's how to use it safely and productively.
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