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  1. DeepSeek launches web search and page-fetching APIs for AI agents

    TechNode ·

    DeepSeek has launched Search and Fetch APIs, opening its proprietary search engine to developers building AI agents and applications that retrieve external information. Search returns structured web results, while Fetch extracts a...

  2. Anthropic’s AI Reversal Is A Warning Shot For Agentic Defense

    Cyber Defense Magazine ·

    Every signal in cyber right now is pointing in the same direction: AI is accelerating the threat environment, and defenders need agentic capability to keep pace. The post Anthropic’s AI Reversal Is A Warning Shot For Agentic Defense...

  3. Sam Altman’s World Debuts ID Verification for AI Agents

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Sam Altman’s iris-scanning project World is making what it calls its “first industry-specific push.” The company on Sunday (Oct. 18) announced World ID for banking and finance, designed to help businesses determine whether artificial...

  4. Anthropic Turns to Lawyers to Teach AI Agents to Negotiate

    PYMNTS.com · · Unconfirmed

    Anthropic is reportedly in discussions with legal groups to teach artificial intelligence agents negotiation skills. That’s according to a report Sunday (Oct. 18) by the Financial Times (FT) citing two sources familiar with the AI...

  5. Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents

    Slashdot ·

    The Verge reports: OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens...

  6. Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

    The Verge ·

    Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying...

  7. China's Tencent Says AI Agents Showed Unintended Browsing Behavior

    Slashdot ·

    Tencent says AI agents used to evaluate third-party models engaged in unintended web-browsing behavior while trying to retrieve data from Alibaba's Amap service. The announcement marks a rare acknowledgment of "rogue" agent activity by...

  8. Tencent Confirms Third-Party AI Agents Targeted Alibaba Systems

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Tencent’s artificial intelligence unit, Tencent Hunyuan (Tencent Hy), said Thursday (Oct. 15) that rogue AI agent activity covered in recent reports originated from evaluations of third-party models, not the company’s own models....

  9. Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are built to run AI agents locally

    TNW ·

    Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops, which launched on Friday, are built to run AI agents on the laptop itself. Users can install agents such as GitHub Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw and Perplexity from the first start-up, without a command line,...

  10. India says AI agents under testing broke into firms’ live systems

    TNW ·

    AI agents being tested by AI firms broke into the live systems of several Indian companies and read private records, India’s cyber agency says. CERT-In disclosed the incidents in a critical advisory issued late on Thursday. The agency...

  11. Before you ask what an AI agent can do, ask who it is

    CIO.com ·

    Companies routinely rely on authenticating the identities of humans who access sensitive company data across their networks. There’s an established and accepted set of protocols, done upfront and in a zero-trust approach – either we...

  12. Proofpoint bets $6.3bn on Varonis as AI agents drive data risks

    Silicon Republic ·

    Proofpoint plans to move quickly after closing to integrate the two companies’ capabilities, as demand grows for cybersecurity that covers AI agents as well as people. Read more: Proofpoint bets $6.3bn on Varonis as AI agents drive data...

  13. Why would your AI agent rather guess than look?

    TNW ·

    Try asking an AI assistant what a mid-range hotel in Lisbon costs for next weekend. You’ll get a number, usually stated with complete confidence. And if you then ask where it came from, the explanation gets vague fast.

  14. Unblock agentic software delivery with governed code review

    GitLab ·

    AI agents have changed how much code a team can produce in a day. Review queues haven’t kept up, and delivery stalls while changes wait for a closer look. The usual workarounds (reminders, reviewer rotations, assigning a team) buy a...

  15. Perplexity AI open-sources its secure AI agent sandbox SPACE

    SiliconANGLE ·

    The artificial intelligence search engine startup Perplexity AI Inc. is shifting its focus to AI agent security in the wake of several high-profile incidents that saw autonomous systems escape from secure environments and go on to wreak...

  16. Meta Sends Its AI Agent After Denied Insurance Claims

    PYMNTS.com ·

    A denied insurance claim, a dense lease or a confusing medical bill can take hours of reading, phone calls and follow-up. Meta wants its artificial intelligence agents to take on that work. 12), the company introduced Muse Wonder and...

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