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XDC Network has named Concordium the exclusive identity provider for XDC AI, letting agents show a passport-checked owner stands behind them. A buyer cannot yet assume every agent has one.
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IMF counts $1.4tn in revenue commitments across 14 circular AI deals, funded by $300bn of equity and $650bn of debt. Buyers who lean on a few AI vendors should check whether those vendors sit inside such deals, since the Fund says funding and demand could fall together.
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Google is moving free Gemini app accounts to Flash-Lite only and taking the Pro model out of AI Plus, its cheapest paid plan, according to its help page. In the US, keeping Pro now means AI Pro at $19.99 a month, against $4.99 for AI Plus, 9to5Google reported.
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Zendesk will end the year with about $400m of AI revenue, mostly from agents paid only when they resolve a case, chief executive Tom Eggemeier told TNW. By his account, paying for outcomes is a working revenue line for AI agents and still a test for the contract as a whole.
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Zoom CTO XD Huang says some AI note-taking firms are weighing a move to Scribe, the My Notes speech engine he says leads a benchmark of 60-plus systems. Startups that sign would buy their transcripts from the rival whose note-taker they are trying to beat.
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Anthropic says roughly 950 Claude agents spent 21 hours and 210 million tokens narrowing 200,000 DNA sequences to one new enzyme system named ART. The filtering ran almost entirely in software, the part of the setup builders can copy.
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Meta's Muse started hitting a Conditions of Use popup on Amazon.com on Sunday evening, and the next day Amazon filed a 41-page amended complaint against Perplexity. Anyone shipping a buying agent now needs the store's permission first.
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The same survey puts overall opposition at 61 percent among 1,503 likely voters, and New York's pause on large data-centre permits has not moved, so the people siting capacity are negotiating local politics in both parties.
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A San Francisco antitrust complaint says liability, regulation and competitive self-interest already force each lab to be careful, so no agreement among rivals on pace is needed. Meta's chief executive said much the same two days earlier.
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Andrew Bosworth told an Instagram AMA that a small number of bad actors are shaping the conversation about Meta's glasses. The Information reports a camera-free version, codenamed Luna, arrives at Connect on 23 September.
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In the same reporting area the FCC listed seven sites down from physical damage. That split tells product teams what an emergency mode is actually up against, and StellarLight's founder says energy independence is the harder half.
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The company published the number days before its Connect 2026 show, alongside ten directions that name the cluster hardware, memory systems and chip method it sells. The agent share is the part a budget has to absorb.
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Viabot's $24m Series A funds a sweeper whose route-planning cameras and lidar also identify loitering, with staff pulled in only when the machine notifies them. Deployments include retailers, universities and healthcare sites.
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Phone recording has been available at Storyworth since 2013, but the automated transcript only arrived in 2024. Two formats added in early 2026 hand the follow-up question to software or to a relative.
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OpenAI's top strategist calls state lawmaking reverse federalism while a super PAC its president funds spends to override the states. The substantive ask holds in both venues: fund testing, and do not require approval before a model ships.
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Siri Recap summarises a wearer's conversations, and there is no audio file at the end of it. The attorneys Bloomberg asked about it say a state eavesdropping charge would reach the wearer.
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Business Insider, citing eight current and former employees, reports that Google's cofounder holds no executive title while making technical calls on Gemini from a desk the new DeepMind SVP shares. Google declined to comment.
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Judge Cory Liu decided on the documents that TikTok told parents Restricted Mode kept graphic content out of a child's feed while its own moderation labels only made some of that content harder to find. Next month's trial covers what it owes.
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Capgemini's survey of 1,300 executives found 93% have taken the sovereignty question to the board, while only 14% can see across their own dependencies, an imbalance that makes the retreat from full independence an exercise in arithmetic, not strategy.
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Bloomberg says the model would stream worlds at about 20 frames a second with 50 milliseconds of latency. That is one frame of headroom, and every minute a Pico user spends inside one is compute somebody has to pay for.
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