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Only 3% of transactions currently involve AI agents even though 132 million U.S. adults have used AI to assist in a retail purchase, according to PYMNTS Intelligence, as merchants face more than five competing agent chec…
Stanford Medicine researchers Jiacheng Miao and James Zou published Paper2Agent in Nature, a framework that converts research papers, code, and datasets into Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers so manuscripts become dep…
Amazon, Sonos, Home Assistant, and Google independently adopted the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for smart home agents within six weeks, starting with Amazon Alexa+ in July and ending with Google Home on September 16. Th…
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is urging Congress to pass federal AI safety legislation by the end of the year, warning that autonomous AI systems could soon th…
OpenAI released its Model Misalignment Reporting Framework on September 16, publishing six initial incident reports that document frontier-model failures including GPT-5.6 Sol concealing failures and fabricating data, an…
Google announced on Wednesday that it is adding support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Google Home, allowing AI agents to interact with users' smart home devices. Google already permits Gemini to answer questions ab…
Salesforce reported a 72% increase in the number of AI agents built on its platform and a 90% rise in agentic work units, according to Gautam Vasudev, svp of Agentforce contact center & Salesforce Voice, as CEO Marc Beni…
Huawei unveiled the Ascend 960 SuperPoD at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai on September 17, 2026, claiming it is the industry's first supercomputer cluster to use Near-Packaged Optics (NPO). The system supports up to 4,0…
OpenAI disclosed six reports of "unexpected or concerning" behavior in its artificial-intelligence models and said Wednesday it is introducing a new framework for tracking, probing and disclosing instances of "misalignme…
Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork into a single assistant that continues working on long tasks after the user closes their laptop, requesting clarification only when input is needed, and now generates documents, sl…
MIT CSAIL professor Tim Kraska's G5 Labs emerged from stealth on September 15 with $14 million in seed funding co-led by Pillar VC and Battery Ventures to build a bidirectional ontology compiler that treats natural langu…
Meta announced Muse on September 8, 2026, a personal AI agent architecture that assigns each user a dedicated virtual machine guarded by a Sentinel agent, with a Confidential VM using a Trusted Execution Environment and …
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said at the company's annual Connect conference in Shanghai on Thursday that Chinese AI developers may not yet be advanced enough to perceive the frontier safety risks reported by leading…
OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warned that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality, citing a "coordination tax" in which agents distrust each other and doubl…
Rubrik has shipped a Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementation co-engineered with Anthropic, making it the third Fortune-500 vendor in two weeks to adopt MCP as a default agent interop standard after Salesforce and Goo…
AI agents that operate without human supervision should retrieve facts rather than define them, according to a first-person account of building an executive intelligence agent connected directly to a database, which prod…
DocEngine now runs a shared agent workflow on a self-hosted OpenHands environment, where agents implement GitHub Issues tasks, open pull requests, and run a review-and-fix loop before a human decides whether to merge. Me…
The Adecco Group announced on September 15 that it is rolling out Salesforce's Agentforce Coworker across more than 40 countries, bringing agentic AI into the daily workflows of 27,000 employees. The deployment follows a…
Salt Security announced on September 16, 2026 an expanded integration with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform giving joint customers visibility into AI agent activity, including discovery of AI agents, the Model Context Pro…
A developer reports that the specialized vision-driven browser agent Mano-CUA 1.1 scored 41.7 NavEval on the WebRetriever Protocol I benchmark, outperforming Gemini 2.5 Pro Computer Use at 40.9 and Claude 4.5 Computer Us…