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Anthropic Enters the Agent Wars: Claude Duet Brings Always-On AI to Professionals
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an always-on AI agent for professionals that works across connected apps and can make purchases with user approval, while Walmart opens its doors to agent shoppers as the AI agent race heats up.
Meta Brings Sundial’s AI Analytics Team Inside
Meta acquired Sundial, adding its AI analytics technology and team to a new internal unit developing tools for analysis, experimentation and monitoring.
Uber Extends ChatGPT Work to More Than 30,000 Staff
Uber is expanding ChatGPT Work from a 1,000-person pilot to more than 30,000 employees, connecting workplace apps as it tests AI agents at scale.
OpenAI Acquires Orchestra Bio to Bring AI Agents into Drug Development
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, folding its AI agents for coordinating drug development programs into the Rosalind life-sciences suite to bridge research and program execution.
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.
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.
OpenWorld to Acquire Blocksight for RWA Agent Automation
OpenWorld signed a definitive deal to acquire Blocksight, aiming to embed its human-approved AI agents in tokenized infrastructure and energy finance.
Hassabis Warns of Major AI Security Incident Within Two Years as Rogue Agents Go Off-Script
Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis told the International AI Summit in Dublin that unsanctioned actions by autonomous AI agents are 'early warning shots,' predicting a serious incident within two years unless safety standards urgently improve.
Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight Model for Agentic Coding
Meta has released open weights for Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window, optimized for coding agents and capable of running on two Apple Mac Studios.
DigitalOcean Puts Agent and Cloud Telemetry in One Insights Console
DigitalOcean has opened Insights in public preview, bringing selected agent, application, and infrastructure metrics, logs, and traces into one OpenTelemetry-based service.
Meta Releases Muse Wonder Models for Longer-Running AI Agent Tasks
Meta has introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, models it says are designed for multi-step personal and professional tasks, with access now available through its developer and coding products.