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  1. Walmart launches tools for AI agents to shop for customers

    Tech-Economic Times ·

    Walmart on Wednesday intrduced new tools that will allow artificial intelligence agents to shop and complete transactions for customers, as the retailer seeks to position itself in the growing use of AI-powered assistants in online...

  2. Anthropic’s New AI Agent Purchases Business Supplies

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Anthropic has unveiled an app in which Claude works as a “proactive agent” on behalf of professionals and small business owners, including purchasing business supplies, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. In this app, Claude Duet,...

  3. Walmart Opens Doors for AI Agents That Obey Strict Rules

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Walmart has introduced three tools designed to let customers shop at Walmart and Sam’s Club through their choice of apps and artificial intelligence (AI) agents. “Shopping with an agent won’t be for everyone, and it doesn’t have to be,”...

  4. Anthropic Launches Claude Duet, a Proactive AI Agent

    MacRumors ·

    Anthropic today introduced Claude Duet , its answer to Meta's Muse agent and OpenAI's Dots agent . Like Dots and Muse, it is a proactive agent that "reaches out before you ask." Claude Duet connects to your apps and suggests things that...

  5. Microsoft: Treat AI agents as insider threats

    CSO Online Security · · Unconfirmed

    EVP of Microsoft Security Hayete Gallot writes in a blog post that AI agents operating independently within companies could be a serious security threat. According to Microsoft, today’s most advanced AI models cannot be fully trusted....

  6. ServiceNow Announces New AI Agent Services With Nvidia

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Enterprise software platform ServiceNow has launched an agentic-AI-focused expansion of its partnership with Nvidia. The new updates are “designed to bring governance and security across every layer of AI agent execution,” the company...

  7. Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent

    The Verge ·

    Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic , and it's...

  8. While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat

    TechCrunch ·

    As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.

  9. Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you

    The Verge ·

    Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect your own AI agent to the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits....

  10. Pigment Raises $250 Million for Agentic AI Platform

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Business planning and performance management platform Pigment is worth $2.3 billion after raising $250 million in a Series E funding round, according to a Wednesday (Oct. The financing will help Pigment further develop its compute...

  11. OpenAI Agents Silenced Security Team Alerts, Removed Misalignment Monitor

    SecurityWeek · · Medium severity

    In two internal incidents, agents read routine coding instructions as permission to weaken monitoring, and one gave a false answer about it. The post OpenAI Agents Silenced Security Team Alerts, Removed Misalignment Monitor appeared...

  12. Opply raises $7.5M to expand its agentic AI platform for CPG brands

    Tech.eu ·

    Opply , a company developing an AI-powered operating platform for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, has raised $7.5 million in a funding round led by Chalfen Ventures , with participation from Index Ventures, Anthemis, Entrepreneurs...

  13. The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting

    The Hacker News ·

    An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting...

  14. Inside NVIDIA Sentry: Secure AI Agents at Runtime

    NVIDIA Technical Blog ·

    An AI agent can complete its assignment and still cross a security boundary. Recent incidents show that agents can circumvent security controls while using... An AI agent can complete its assignment and still cross a security boundary.

  15. Hugging Face CEO Criticises Netflix Documentary on OpenAI Agent Cyberattack

    Analytics India Mag · · Medium severity

    Clément Delangue, Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face , has criticised Netflix’s documentary on the cyberattack involving OpenAI’s AI agents, accusing the filmmakers of exaggerating the risks of artificial intelligence while overlooking...

  16. ThreatLocker adds external controls for AI agent access and execution

    Help Net Security ·

    ThreatLocker has announced the launch of Zero Trust AI Control (ZTAIC), giving organizations a tool to deploy agentic AI without surrendering control of their environments. ZTAIC enables security teams to give AI agents exactly what...

  17. Why AI agents demand a new approach to cyber resilience

    DQ : Latest Posts · · Critical severity

    As AI agents gain access to enterprise systems, security architectures built around human behaviour and response times face new challenges. Agents can operate at machine speed and scale, potentially amplifying the impact of a...

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