October 2026

Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.

Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information McDonald’s is facing a lawsuit in federal court over its alleged use of an AI tool to determine pricing across independent franchises, which prosecutors say violates antitrust laws and has unfairly inflated menu prices for Americans. The vast majority of

Veteran CISO will lead advisory board as the growth of human, machine, and AI agent identities outpaces the systems built to govern them Oak, the AI-native Identity Operating System governing every human, machine, and AI agent identity, has appointed Bobby Ford, Chief Strategy Officer at Doppel, as the chair of its Executive Advisory Board. In

Aembit, the identity control plane for AI agents, today announced support for securing personal agents’ access to enterprise environments, available immediately to existing customers at no additional cost.  As personal agents, such as Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots, move into workplace use, they can gain access to email, cloud applications, code repositories, internal tools, and

Kristalina Georgieva says big economies will have to make ‘very touch choices’ as soaring bond yields hit budgets Business live – latest updates The head of the International Monetary Fund has called on governments across big economies to tighten their belts as soaring bond yields hit budgets. Speaking in Singapore, the IMF’s managing director, Kristalina

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. OpenAI says its “ChatGPT for Teens” is safe for users aged 13 to 17. A new

Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.

Intellias, a global partner for AI-enabled product engineering and digital solutions, today launches Agentic ServiceOps a managed IT service that applies governed agentic AI across IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations management (ITOM), from the service desk to the infrastructure behind it. It helps organizations resolve more IT work end to end, breaking the link

Unlocks the Value of Unstructured Data for People and AI, Lowers Infrastructure and AI Costs, Strengthens Resilience, and Improves Productivity Nasuni, a leading AI infrastructure company purpose-built for unstructured data, today announced the general availability of AI Activate and Resilio 6.0, with Enterprise Search rolling out to customers later this quarter. Combined with the recent

Nscale Limited, the full-stack AI cloud platform, today announced the appointment of Amy Banse, a seasoned corporate executive and veteran board director, to its Board of Directors. Banse will also serve as Chair of the Compensation Committee. Banse brings over 30 years of corporate strategy, investment, and governance experience to Nscale. She currently serves on