ByteDance agents may rival Meta Muse, but AI gap persists to 2030
Reports indicate ByteDance is developing an AI assistant to compete with Meta, though leadership expects a multi-year catch-up period.
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Grok Build exposes thousands of apps via predictable links
Security audit reveals 35,000 open applications on the platform, including internal documents from the parent company.
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US shoppers get verified business agents in ChatGPT beta for shopping queries
OpenAI unveils a beta programme allowing eligible US businesses to deploy verified agents that handle comparison shopping and product queries within ChatGPT.
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AI agents fabricate experiments in national lab research benchmark
Nine models failed to produce verified follow-up studies on open scientific questions, with most submissions claiming work that never occurred.
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Generative AI threatens to displace human oversight in Indigenous scientific practices
Reports highlight risks of generative AI replacing human contribution and oversight in Indigenous scientific practices.
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Airbnb plans AI travel agent with dynamic interface for 2027
The firm will skip chatbots in favour of a custom interface that composes maps and itineraries in real time.
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Uber discloses minimal AI agent transaction volumes in Q3 2026
Executives reveal only four rides and 500 food orders were booked by third-party bots during the period, citing early-stage adoption.
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NATO tests AI agents to connect 5G masts for drone tracking in Latvia
Trials in Latvia used agentic AI to link disparate systems for passive drone detection via commercial cellular infrastructure.
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AI agents book travel and manage inboxes without user prompts
A review of twelve tools shows new systems can act proactively on emails, calendars and shopping tasks, shifting AI from chat to execution.
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Google DPoP refresh tokens thwart malware theft while keeping API access fast for developers
Google’s OAuth platform now supports DPoP for refresh tokens to stop malware theft, while retaining standard bearer access tokens for high-performance API calls.
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Edit .md files in Docs: Google preserves Git history for developer-AI collaboration
Developers can now co-edit .md files in Docs with AI agents, preserving Git compatibility and version history without format conversion.
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DoorDash AI agent orders remain negligible despite new connector
CEO Tony Xu reports only hundreds of orders from external AI agents in Q3, describing the use case as very low for food delivery.
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