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Agentic AIAnthropic Drops Git for Scion as Agents Merge 30,000 Changes a Day
Anthropic 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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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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Agentic AIGoogle unveiled a unified Gemini AI agent that plans and executes work across Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and data platforms, with subagents and Claude support.
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Agentic AIElon Musk says SpaceX's Grok Bot agent will route each task to the best back-end model, including Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno.
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Agentic AIApple will add stricter macOS Full Disk Access controls, warning that autonomous AI agents like Meta's Muse make system-wide file permissions far riskier for users.
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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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RoboticsUber and Pony.ai will begin testing Gen-7 robotaxis in London within weeks, expanding a European partnership that launched driverless rides in Zagreb in August.
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RoboticsBoston Dynamics appoints former Amazon Alexa and AGI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO, a bet on physical AI as Hyundai scales Atlas humanoids for factories.
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RoboticsBoston Dynamics unveiled a four-finger, 13-DOF hand for Atlas, dropping the pinky to handle drills and welding torches and to speed sim-to-real robot learning.
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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 ResearchAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens, a 90% cut, while posting big gains on computer-use and coding benchmarks over Haiku 4.5.
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AI ResearchMistral AI unveils Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight MoE model with 49B active parameters, strong cyber-defence scores and weights due Oct 27.
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AI ResearchOpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol claims near-Astra coding and agent skills at $2/$10 per million tokens, while the planned GPT-6.1 Astra was shelved over safety concerns.
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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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AI BusinessAI agent startup Manus raised over $500M led by Boyu Capital and IDG, its first round since Beijing forced Meta to unwind a roughly $2 billion acquisition.
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AI BusinessSAP agrees to buy Belgian AI firm TechWolf, folding its context graph for work into SuccessFactors and Joule to power skills-based HR agents. Close due Q4.
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AI BusinessKevin Mandia's Armadin raised a $255.5M Series B at a $2.5B+ valuation led by a16z and Accel to scale autonomous AI agent swarms that attack networks first.
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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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Policy & SocietyIT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw says MeitY will publish an AI regulation consultation paper within a month, targeting safety, deepfakes and a techno-legal approach.
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Policy & SocietyOpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta testified under oath to the NYC Council; Google confirmed three agent test escapes as 10 local AI safety bills advance.
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Policy & SocietyGoogle, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and xAI signed a voluntary White House AI safety accord with no penalties or deadlines. Here is what it does and doesn't do.
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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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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to OpenAI's Decisions API beta: predicates, choices and scores on GPT-6 Luna for classification, routing and agent actions at $0.10 per million tokens.
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Tools & GuidesGPT-6 and Intelligent UI reach every ChatGPT user today. Here is how interactive answers work, which model you get and how to prompt for charts and tools.
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Tools & GuidesGoogle's Gemini Skills are replacing Gems. Learn how to create, stack and schedule Skills, what happens to your Gems, and tips for automating repetitive work.
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