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Meta Platforms reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026, on October 21, 2026, posting revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26% from a year earlier, and announcing that its Board of Directors approved a new class of publicly listed, non-voting Class C common stock. "We hit major milestones this quarter toward delivering personal superintelligence for everyone – including launching Muse and Muse Wonder, our first frontier model," Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO…

Walmart announced on October 21, 2026, that it is introducing Agent Profiles, the Walmart Agent Gateway, and terms for AI agents, tools the retailer said will let customers shop with Walmart and Sam's Club through the apps and agents they choose, with permissions, controls, and protections built in. Walmart said it currently serves customers through stores and clubs, online shopping, pickup and delivery, its Sparky assistant, and conversational commerce integrations with Muse, ChatGPT, Gemini…

Anthropic on October 21, 2026 opened a research preview of Claude Duet, an app the company said turns Claude into a proactive agent that surfaces items needing attention, completes requested tasks, keeps working when users step away, and checks before acting on their behalf. Access runs through a waitlist, starting with Pro and Max users in the US. Anthropic said it built Claude Duet for professionals and small business owners with more on their plates than they can track. The app is available…

The PHP project released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 on October 21, 2026, security releases that fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution and that were discovered with frontier AI models. The coordinated disclosure spanned the PHP project, OpenAI, security research firm Calif, and cloud security company Wiz. The Patched Releases The PHP project's security advisory states that the four releases fix CVE-2026-109618, described as remote code…

Microsoft Research announced on October 21, 2026 that Xinzhi Zhang, a senior researcher in its Machine Learning and Optimization group, and collaborator Zhao Song have proved the Kannan–Lovász–Simonovits conjecture, a 31-year-old problem in high-dimensional geometry and probability, using a human-directed agentic AI research process. The Conjecture and the New Bound The proof appears in the 140-page paper An O(1) Bound for the KLS Constant, credited to Zhao Song and Xinzhi Zhang, first…

OpenAI on October 21, 2026 announced that it, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used thousands of AI agents powered by GPT-Rosalind to analyze existing experimental data from millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, combining the agents' reports into a publicly available reasoning atlas. Distributed Biological Reasoning The approach, which OpenAI calls distributed biological reasoning, divided the analysis among thousands of agents examining a whole-brain CRISPR atlas, a dataset showing how…

Anthropic on October 21, 2026 released an updated version of Claude Security in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers, adding continuous scanning that follows code changes, automatic fix tracking, per-project threat models, and a new API. Eligible organizations receive $25,000 in free usage credits per month for two months under a launch offer running through December 31, 2026. Anthropic said that since Claude Security entered public beta in April 2026, thousands of organizations have…

A student’s calendar rarely tells the whole story. An assignment may live in a school portal, a practice time in a team app, and a weekend shift in a separate calendar. MyDaye AI, launched by three high school students on October 21, aims to connect those scattered commitments and help students decide what to do next. Founders Avi Rao, Hansen Wilson, and Holt Wilson are positioning the conversational planning platform around the full student day: coursework, athletics, extracurricular…

For the past few years, AI-assisted database development has followed a fairly comfortable model. A developer describes a requirement. The AI generates SQL. The developer reads it, changes what looks wrong, and decides whether to run it. That workflow has kept one important boundary intact: AI can suggest an action, but a human still decides whether it reaches the database. However, that boundary is beginning to disappear with agentic AI. Today, AI systems can inspect schemas, run queries…

A phishing message no longer needs to persuade the employee who owns an inbox. It can target the software reading that inbox on their behalf. That is the central warning of IRONSCALES' new From Deepfakes to Double Agents: The New Face of AI-Driven Cyber Risk report, which finds that enterprise adoption of tools capable of taking action has moved faster than the security controls surrounding them. In the company-commissioned Censuswide survey, 77% of respondents said an AI agent or tool at their…

The race to build larger AI systems is creating demand for a component far removed from the models themselves: the lasers that carry data between processors. Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge has raised €10 million to develop multi-wavelength laser sources that it says can be manufactured at the volumes next-generation AI data centers will require. The round, announced on October 21, was co-led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital. Existing investors Innovation Industries, Faber, and…

Andrej Jonovic is the CEO of XBP Global, a multinational technology and services company focused on mission-critical enterprise workflows. XBP Global is applying agentic AI across regulated environments including healthcare, public sector and financial services, where precision, security, data sovereignty and auditability are essential. In this interview, Jonovic discusses adaptive process orchestration, open-weight models, intelligent document processing, human adjudication and what it takes…

Before a robotics team can test a new policy, someone has to make the simulator, data, storage, and compute work together. CoreWeave is targeting that preparation work with Physical AI Launchables, a catalog of tested workload templates announced on October 21 for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and simulation. The templates package environments for five tools—NVIDIA Isaac Sim, CARLA, MuJoCo, NVIDIA AlpaSim, and NVIDIA Cosmos 3—so engineers can configure and start a workload with a command…

I've been writing exclusively about artificial intelligence for ten years. In 2022, there were only a handful of other journalists in the world exclusively dedicated to AI; now we number in the multiple thousands or more, with better-heeled outlets employing more than one staff member to exclusively cover artificial intelligence. As a species, we now concentrate our attention, efforts, fears and hopes around a once-in-a-century cultural and technological phenomena that, until the advent of…

As Brazil increases its investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure, Marcelo Borgheti, Managing Director at Vistra Brazil, considers why converting data centres into a broader AI economy requires governments to focus on operating environments as much as megawatts. With the global race for technology leadership gathering pace, Brazil is stepping up its investment in the infrastructure needed to compete in AI. Its government recently announced approximately 2.3 billion reais (US$444.2…

Mary Technology has announced an integration with Harvey designed to bring a litigation team's accumulated factual work into the platform where its lawyers research and draft. The connector gives Harvey access to the matter record maintained in Mary, including earlier findings, supporting evidence, and the team's review of those findings. The partnership addresses a practical problem in legal AI: producing a convincing answer is only one part of the job. Lawyers also need to establish which…

Glean introduced headless agent building on October 21, 2026, a generally available feature that lets developers create, test, and publish agents as code from coding environments such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, with the finished agents running on Glean's managed runtime. The company announced the feature in a blog post authored by Kelly Huang, a product marketing manager at Glean. Glean said agents authored in code run on the same foundation as agents built in its visual agent builder…

NVIDIA announced at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, that European automakers and mobility providers including Bolt with Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Einride are showcasing autonomous-mobility use cases on the NVIDIA Hyperion computing platform, demonstrating potential applications for level 3 and level 4 vehicles and future robotaxi fleets. Volvo Cars is adopting Hyperion and NVIDIA Alpamayo Stack software for safe automated driving, and NVIDIA introduced new AI and…

OpenAI is extending ChatGPT Ads to 26 additional countries, bringing the advertising platform's availability to 89 countries worldwide, the company said in an October 21, 2026 announcement. OpenAI also reported that more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns on ChatGPT since ads launched just over eight months earlier. New Markets in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Following launches in Mexico and Brazil, OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT Ads to 14 more Latin American…

NVIDIA announced Kumo Forecast on October 21, 2026, an open multivariate time-series forecasting model that combines a pretrained MOMENT-1-large Transformer backbone with optional retrieval over historical data and a model-agnostic interpretability framework. The model, formerly known as NV-Tesseract Forecasting, is available under the Apache 2.0 license, and NVIDIA detailed it in an official post on the Hugging Face blog. The post was authored by NVIDIA's Saira Qureshi, Aditi Gautam…