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Agentic AIAmazon Blocks Meta's Muse Agent, Drawing the First Line
Amazon 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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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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Agentic AIOpenAI disclosed six misalignment incidents and a new reporting framework for agent failures, as Google flagged its own Gemini breach and EU regulators moved in.
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Agentic AIOpenAI's Agents API opened in public beta on September 10, moving the agent loop, context compaction and subagent orchestration onto managed infrastructure.
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Agentic AIAnthropic's Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common driver layer for microscopes, liquid handlers and robot arms, cutting setup from weeks to hours.
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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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RoboticsUBTech's Liuzhou plant now builds a Walker S2 every 10 minutes and D-Robotics raised $400M for humanoid chips, even as FCC rules block new US imports.
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RoboticsAgility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on September 15 with a 50 lb payload, nine-minute fast charge and a safety architecture built to work cage-free beside people.
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RoboticsEurope's most advanced robots cleared tables and delivered parcels inside the European Parliament as the EU pitched a bid to rival China and the US in robotics.
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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 ResearchAnthropic's new R&D Automation Index puts Claude at the lead of 26% of its internal AI research work, up from under 1% in February 2026.
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AI ResearchDeepSeek's MIT-licensed V4.1-Flash packs 552B parameters, a 1M-token window and a KV cache footprint cut to a quarter of its predecessor's.
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AI ResearchOpenAI says Astra is the first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework, triggering gated release and new safeguards.
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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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AI BusinessHarvey's $550M round values the legal AI platform at $15.5B and funds an acquisition of agent-security startup Guardrails AI as ARR passes $400M.
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AI BusinessNvidia confirmed a $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, its second-largest deal ever, buying the open-source AI ecosystem's distribution layer.
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AI BusinessInstinct's $250M Series B topped a funding week dominated by AI assistants, robotics foundation models, autonomous trucking and data centre energy software.
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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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Policy & SocietyGovernor Newsom signed SB 1119 on September 10, requiring risk assessments, crisis referrals and default parental controls for AI companion chatbots.
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Policy & SocietyAll 20 G20 members endorsed the US-backed Carolina Principles, favouring existing sector rules over new AI regulators in a non-binding consensus statement.
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Policy & SocietyBuild American AI launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin and a new super PAC, escalating the political fight over AI data centres.
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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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Tools & GuidesA practical 2026 playbook for agent cost control: prompt caching, cache boundaries, context hygiene, model routing and semantic caching, in rollout order.
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Tools & GuidesA practical 2026 guide to splitting AI work between on-device models and the cloud, keeping sensitive files local without giving up frontier reasoning quality.
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