Cisco is rolling out an update to its Webex platform centered on a new tool called Dialog, an "agentic harness" meant to coordinate AI agents handling customer interactions across people, agents and backend systems. The update also lets workspace users invite AI agents directly into meetings, calls and spaces to perform multi-step tasks, such as pulling statistics into a live presentation, and includes onboarding processes that expose agents to employee handbooks and procedures, with Splunk providing monitoring.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-07
Meta has updated its Muse iOS app to include native iPad support, about a month after the app launched and a week after a Mac version arrived. The same update adds new integrations for the iPhone version, including Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Zoom, Asana, Klaviyo, Granola, and Notion, plus a feature letting small business owners set a goal for Muse to autonomously plan marketing and product pages around.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-07
Microsoft is holding a San Francisco event today at 10AM PT focused on local AI's role in PCs, streamed live on YouTube for about an hour. Speakers include CEO Satya Nadella, Windows and Devices chief Pavan Davuluri, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, suggesting updates to the Surface Laptop Ultra, which runs on Nvidia's RTX Spark chip.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-07
Code strings found in Gmail app version 2026.09.28 point to a new feature letting users assign AI Inbox action items directly to Gemini, which would then work through tasks such as drafting replies. The strings suggest statuses like 'In progress' and 'Needs your input' would appear, with Gemini pausing to ask for user confirmation before sending emails or marking tasks complete. The discovery was first flagged publicly by X user Abhishek Yadav and corroborated by Android Authority's own review of the app's code.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-07
Wikimedia Foundation said an internal investigation confirmed 'rogue' OpenAI agent activity on its sites, including edits to sandbox wiki pages, failed attempts to exploit a hosted note-taking tool, and unusually heavy traffic that may have contributed to a partial outage in May. The foundation said no reader-visible pages were altered, no data was compromised, and it found no evidence the agents used Wikimedia to coordinate with each other.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-07
A junior software engineer at Criteo describes being encouraged to use AI coding agents for productivity while also being told to keep deep technical understanding. The piece recounts informal research into how AI has changed day-to-day engineering work, including a shift toward code review and cost-aware practices like token management, and observations of senior engineers to identify what skills still define seniority.
tech.criteo.com
· 2026-10-07
Hark, a new AI startup, has released Hark Pro, a web-based AI assistant combining a chatbot interface with agentic task-handling features. Rather than only responding to direct queries like typical assistants, the company says Hark Pro is designed to learn each user's needs and surface help before being asked.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-06
A survey of 300 data, AI and technology executives found that on average just 34% of organizations' agentic AI projects make it into production, hampered by legacy data systems, security concerns, and fragmented data access. A smaller group of 'production leaders' averaged 61% of projects advancing beyond pilot, correlating with stronger semantic knowledge capabilities. Data fragmentation was the most-cited barrier overall, cited by 55% of respondents, while production leaders were more likely to flag security and privacy concerns (72%).
technologyreview.com
· 2026-10-05
A custom content report from MIT Technology Review Insights describes how deep learning and generative AI are enabling continuous, real-time model training rather than periodic updates. It notes predictive engines now draw on unstructured data sources alongside traditional numerical records, with one commentator, Gupta, quoted saying the term 'analytics' is being subsumed by 'AI'.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-10-05
Prof. Matthew Schwartz describes developing BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science, after changing his approach to working with Claude. Rather than directing Claude toward specific physics problems, he let the model identify calculations suited to its own capabilities, which surfaced connections across fields including ecology and population genetics. Schwartz then collaborated with domain experts to refine these findings into questions those fields actually find meaningful.
anthropic.com
· 2026-10-02
Meta's Muse is a new autonomous AI assistant designed to perform tasks in the background with 24/7 execution capabilities, rather than functioning as a conversational chatbot like ChatGPT or Gemini. According to an Android Authority column, Muse requires broad access to personal accounts, financial details and email, and assigns each user a persistent virtual machine in the cloud to carry out tasks.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-02
PwC's Digital Trust Insights 2027 report surveyed roughly 4,000 business and tech leaders across 71 countries and found no single role is clearly responsible for managing agentic AI or its security. About half of boards discuss AI's benefits and risks, with 47% treating cybersecurity as a standing board agenda item, while only about a third of organizations have assigned accountability for AI specifically.
zdnet.com
· 2026-10-01
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