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OpenAI has rolled out a preview feature letting US Pro subscribers text their Dot agents using iMessage or RCS. Users can send text, photos and voice memos to assign tasks, and Dots can proactively text back with updates. OpenAI says the feature was built with messaging partner Linq and underwent extensive security testing.
A WIRED writer built an AI agent system using OpenAI's Codex to select and manage a fantasy Premier League team, feeding it research papers and having it construct a 'harness' of agents that read news, analyze results, run predictive models, and critique suggestions. Early single-model outputs were weak, including benching star striker Erling Haaland, but splitting tasks across multiple specialized agents improved results, while scaling past 100 agents mainly increased costs without further gains.
Microsoft posted first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19 percent, with net income of $33.6 billion, up 32 percent. The company restructured its financial reporting into two new segments, Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer, replacing its prior three-segment structure, and will now disclose Azure revenue quarterly. Azure brought in $33.17 billion, up 48 percent year-over-year, while Devices and Consumer revenue fell 3 percent, with Windows OEM revenue down 22 percent amid a weak PC market.
Surge AI has released DAYJOB: Tax, a new benchmark extending its DAYJOB series (previously covering healthcare and finance) into tax preparation, compliance and advisory work. The benchmark includes 50 environments across eight areas of tax practice, where agents must produce returns, workpapers, reviews or client advice based on client records. In one test case, an agent named Opus correctly flagged a critical eligibility deadline for a home-sale tax exclusion across all five attempts, while another agent, Astra, missed it every time.
Cybersecurity startup Cathedral, founded by former DOGE members, says its AI agents exploited vulnerabilities in third-party business software to access Anthropic's meeting transcripts, salary data, job offers and Slack messages within about 12 hours. Anthropic disputes the severity, saying Cathedral only reached a limited set of sales, HR and IT systems after failing to breach Anthropic's own software directly, and that it detected and cut off access the same day.
Check Point has introduced a subscription-based firewall service called Firewall-as-a-Subscription, built on its R82.20 platform. The offering removes the need to buy hardware upfront but requires customers to commit to monthly or annual payments for at least three years. It bundles Check Point Force hardware firewalls, SandBlast AI-powered threat prevention, an 'agentic console' for managing bots and AI agents, live security updates, and premium support.
A new tool called Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is behind a recent surge of console games being natively ported to PC, including titles like Super Mario Galaxy and Modern Warfare 2. REA isn't an AI model itself but a toolkit and agent harness that links binary analyzers, decompilers, firmware readers and other reverse-engineering tools so AI agents can use them together with instructional 'skill files'. This builds on decades of emulation progress and cheaper hardware-analysis tools like the Raspberry Pi.
Microsoft executives including CTO Kevin Scott and AI chief Mustafa Suleyman described changes to how the company builds software, citing an internal accelerator program, AI-assisted code generation, and custom models and agents now used across engineering teams. The account outlines a shift in Microsoft's development practices driven by its own AI tools.
Political resistance to data center construction is uniting figures across the ideological spectrum, with polling showing a shrinking partisan divide on the issue. Both democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and right-wing strategist Steve Bannon have voiced opposition, according to reporting on the trend.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent a letter to Delaware Governor Matt Meyer on October 26 requesting documents on the state's proposed Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC) framework. The draft legislation would create a 30-month regulatory sandbox letting a single-member entity be run by an AI agent without routine human oversight, while shielding the human or corporate member from most liabilities except fraud or willful lawbreaking.
Hex has raised $100 million in new funding to support a from-scratch redesign of its product, used by more than 2,500 customers. The company says it rebuilt its architecture, data model and compute engine to be 'agent native,' moving away from bolting AI features onto its original 2019-era platform.
TheRealReal, a secondhand luxury goods marketplace, is reported to have joined a growing list of online retailers restricting access for third-party AI shopping agents. These agents act on behalf of consumers to browse and purchase goods automatically across websites.