As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.Læs hele historien hos techcrunch.com →
Læs hele historien hos techcrunch.com →Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect your own AI agent to the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits. The embrace of AI agents stands in stark contrast to Amazon,…
Læs hele historien hos theverge.com →Anthropic on October 21, 2026 opened a research preview of Claude Duet, an app the company said turns Claude into a proactive agent that surfaces items needing attention, completes requested tasks, keeps working when users step away, and checks before acting on their behalf. Access runs through a waitlist, starting with Pro and Max users…
Læs hele historien hos unite.ai →I recently finished Lens Academy's Compute Verification course, which lays out the technical, supply-chain and political components a verification regime would need, and left me with one question it didn't answer.Polish and EU national the question I kept coming back to is what would be the role of middle powers in the regime proposed by…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →There's a story I've heard a few times in agent foundations, that involves starting with a very idealized theory of agency, like AIXI, IB, or UDT, in which we can achieve strong, provable safety properties,[1] and gradually making it more realistic, until it can eventually be implemented, or at least used to model real agents…
Læs hele historien hos lesswrong.com →The PHP project released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 on October 21, 2026, security releases that fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution and that were discovered with frontier AI models. The coordinated disclosure spanned the PHP project, OpenAI, security research firm Calif, and cloud security company Wiz. The Patched…
Læs hele historien hos unite.ai →Microsoft Research announced on October 21, 2026 that Xinzhi Zhang, a senior researcher in its Machine Learning and Optimization group, and collaborator Zhao Song have proved the Kannan–Lovász–Simonovits conjecture, a 31-year-old problem in high-dimensional geometry and probability, using a human-directed agentic AI research process. The Conjecture and the New Bound The proof appears in the…
Læs hele historien hos unite.ai →OpenAI on October 21, 2026 announced that it, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used thousands of AI agents powered by GPT-Rosalind to analyze existing experimental data from millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, combining the agents' reports into a publicly available reasoning atlas. Distributed Biological Reasoning The approach, which OpenAI calls distributed biological reasoning,…
Læs hele historien hos unite.ai →Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.Læs hele historien hos arstechnica.com →
Læs hele historien hos arstechnica.com →All too often we (at least myself) deliberate over which high-hanging fruit to pluck, when there’s low-hanging fruit right in front of us. Talking with more people at happy hours is a low-hanging fruit. [1] If you’re newer to AI safety and are invited to a happy hour, you should talk with more people outside…
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