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Anthropic posted a job opening in its London office for an executive assistant, describing the role as requiring someone 'highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-starting.' The listed salary is reported at around €145,000, roughly $190,000.
Meta rolled out two new premium AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, on Monday, building on its earlier Muse Spark model. The company describes them as its most capable models yet, able to handle agentic tasks like processing insurance claims, explaining lease terms, and building working apps, with Muse Wonder initially offered to paying coders.
Intel announced it will discontinue support for Software Guard Extensions (SGX) on server platforms after its upcoming Xeon 'Diamond Rapids' CPUs, while continuing to support existing SGX deployments into the early 2030s. The company said it will instead expand Trust Domain Extensions (TDX), which secures entire virtual machines rather than isolated application enclaves, to meet growing confidential computing needs in cloud, enterprise, and AI workloads.
A Verge laptop reviewer describes starting to experiment with running AI models locally rather than relying on cloud services, citing privacy concerns about sharing personal data with companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic. The testing includes Apple's new M5 Ultra Mac Studio and upcoming Windows RTX Spark machines with up to 128GB of RAM, starting with the open-source self-hosted tool Hermes Agent, which runs free when used with local large language models.
OpenAI has released a tool called Dots that goes beyond answering prompts, instead working out the steps needed to complete a task on a user's behalf. The move is part of a broader shift toward 'agentic' AI systems that act rather than merely respond.
Momentum Cyber projects cybersecurity acquisitions will rise to roughly 450 deals in 2026, up from 404 last year, even as the number of funding rounds slips to an annualized 754 from 820. The firm points to identity management, non-human identity, data security, agentic security, runtime protection and operational-technology security as the hottest categories, citing recent deals like Cyera's $1 billion acquisition of Oasis Security and Cisco's purchases of Astrix Security and WideField Security.
Meta launched its autonomous AI agent Muse on Sept. 8, which can search, compare prices, and complete purchases on retail sites without human input at each step. The app has surpassed 5 million downloads and 3 million weekly active users, briefly overtaking ChatGPT atop Apple's U.S. App Store, while Meta's stock has risen more than 17% since launch.
Retired General David Petraeus, former CIA director, said on the Forecast2050 podcast that by 2030 militaries could deploy 'agentic AI staff officers' coordinating networks of autonomous sensors and weapons with little or no human input. He described these systems as tireless AI officers directing operations across groups of machines rather than controlling single drones, and said he expects platoon- or battalion-sized autonomous units to coordinate without human intervention. He also predicted Ukraine will expand use of autonomous unmanned systems by the end of 2026.
Google Cloud unveiled a new agentic AI feature for Gemini that can plan and execute multi-step tasks, not just answer questions, using a single interface. The rollout targets business users first, with Gemini Enterprise already used by nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies, before expanding to consumers. The agent can connect to internal business systems, use custom tools, and let users pick which AI model handles a task, including Anthropic's Claude.
StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 27B active and 600B total parameters, now listed on OpenRouter. The model targets agentic workflows, supporting a 1-million-token context window for handling large codebases and documents. StepFun highlights its strength in software engineering, professional knowledge work, and finance-related tasks.
A Kyndryl survey of 2,000 senior IT decision-makers found that just 10% are applying agentic AI to modernization efforts, even as decades-long attempts to update legacy systems continue to fall short. The survey found only about half of companies modernizing report improved IT operations, less than half see innovation gains, and nearly one in five say the benefits were limited or unclear, with many projects running late and over budget.
Arti discusses a triple focus on responsible AI, emphasizing security, environmental efficiency, and human oversight. The company employs a multi-layered governance framework to ensure AI is used ethically and safely in both internal operations and customer products, maintaining human judgment as central to AI deployment. She highlights the importance of human responsibility in critical decision-making processes involving industrial AI systems.