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American Express has introduced a new Intent Intelligence Framework designed to capture and authenticate a customer’s purchase intent before an AI agent completes a transaction, aiming to prevent unauthorized purchases caused by misfiring agents.
Microsoft has revealed the specifications and pricing for its Surface Laptop Ultra, an AI- and agent-ready PC built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, at an event during San Francisco’s Tech Week.
Meta has introduced new AI tools to detect child sexual exploitation on its platforms, reporting that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of such content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026. The company said more than 97% was found by its systems before users reported it.
Meta has introduced Muse Gadgets, an open source project that lets developers build their own hardware connected to Muse, its personal AI agent that books travel, fills out forms and shops on users’ behalf.
Airbnb has added AI-powered search to its app as part of its fall product update, marking the company’s first major step into AI-driven property discovery after CEO Brian Chesky chose to avoid a chatbot-style interface.
The U.S. government’s new public-facing AI chatbot, America.gov, built in partnership with Google and SpaceXAI, has so far proved difficult for users to jailbreak, though it has revealed at least one unexpected quirk.
OpenAI used its DevDay event in San Francisco on Tuesday to reposition ChatGPT as a central platform where people and AI agents can discover, launch and use software, introducing a new model, autonomous agents called Dots, office productivity tools and an expanded app ecosystem.
E-commerce platform Shopify has enabled browser-based AI agents to complete purchases on its merchants’ sites, taking the opposite approach to retailers such as Amazon and reportedly Adidas, which are blocking AI agents from buying on users’ behalf.
Insider Brief Just as artificial intelligence is helping scientists make advances in mathematics and biotechnology, researchers may focus AI on emerging tech, like fusion energy.
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