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Walmart Gives AI Agents a Checkout, With Guardrails
Walmart is opening shopping to AI agents with per-agent profiles, spending limits and approvals, while blocking access to customers’ payment-card data.
AMD, Intel Align PyTorch CPU Work Around oneDNN
AMD and Intel will combine x86 PyTorch CPU optimizations in oneDNN, with ZenDNN moving into the shared open-source path to reduce software fragmentation.
Anthropic's Draft S-1: $16.3 Billion in Revenue, an $80.7 Billion Loss, and the Biggest IPO of the Year
A draft IPO prospectus reviewed by the Wall Street Journal shows Anthropic's revenue soaring to $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, alongside an $80.7 billion net loss driven by accounting charges and up to $750 billion in future compute commitments ahead of a November listing that could value the company at $2 trillion.
AOMEI Backupper Update Tampering Hid in Brief Bursts
Google and Mandiant say UNC7017 tampered with AOMEI Backupper updates in brief bursts, directing update clients to CROSSROAD and SHINYROAD malware.
CISA Adds Six Exploited Flaws, Including Reported Plex2Shell
CISA added six actively exploited CVEs: four Plex flaws linked as Plex2Shell, plus SiteGuard and Siemens bugs for organizations to assess and patch.
Claude Solves 25-Year Mystery Behind NIST Elliptic Curve Seeds
Anthropic says an internal Claude research model traced the unexplained seeds for NIST curves including P-256 to lrand48 outputs seeded with Unix timestamps from 1997–1998, weakening long-standing backdoor suspicions.
DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, Its Production Inference Engine
DeepSeek released DeepInfer under Apache 2.0 on October 20, 2026, the inference framework powering its V4.1-Flash model at scale on NVIDIA SM100 and Huawei Ascend 950 hardware.
Gartner Maps 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2027
Gartner’s 2027 outlook names 10 enterprise technology trends, from quantitative and speech AI to agent governance, sovereign computing and biological systems.
U.S. Agencies Publish Rogue-Agent Incident Playbook
U.S. agencies issued voluntary guidance for super-intelligence training incidents, outlining ten practices for detection, containment, recovery and reporting.
ABB Links Record Orders to AI Data-Center Power Demand
ABB reports record $12.055 billion orders as AI data-center demand surges, alongside its Infinitus DC portfolio and Japan power-distribution expansion.
Cloudflare Launches Clairic, a Fast System One Extraction Model for Typed Values
Cloudflare previewed Clairic on Workers AI, a non-generative extraction model that returns typed values, estimates and forecasts from unstructured text or images in a single forward pass, claiming major speed and cost gains.
ConnectWise Freezes Cloud Backup After M365 Identity Abuse
ConnectWise paused Cloud Backup after application-identity abuse reached Microsoft 365 tenants; scheduled backups and restores remain unavailable to partners.