Walmart is giving AI agents a dedicated front door. On Oct. 21, it unveiled an Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles that let approved assistants shop for customers across Walmart and Sam’s Club, with separate identities, default approvals and optional spending caps. Amazon chose the opposite path: it sued Perplexity, blocked Meta’s Muse and invoked its … Read more
The long-promised shift from assistants that answer questions to agents that keep working after you close the laptop arrived on September 29, 2026, when OpenAI used its San Francisco DevDay to unveil Dots. Each dot is a persistent agent running on its own cloud computer, and the first one is included at no extra charge … Read more
Meta’s Muse assistant arrived on iPad on October 7, 2026, roughly a month after its September 8 debut on iOS and Android — a multidplatform rollout pace it took Instagram some 15 years to match. The app has already passed 6.6 million installs, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, and Meta used … Read more
Brett Adcock made his name in hardware: first as co-founder of electric air-taxi developer Archer Aviation, then as founder of Figure AI, the humanoid robotics company backed by Microsoft, BMW and OpenAI. With Hark, his newest venture, he is reversing the order of operations — software first, machines later. The debut product, Hark Pro, ships … Read more
Apple has confirmed it will tighten one of macOS’s most powerful privacy permissions, announcing new controls around Full Disk Access (FDA) in a post on its developer news site in early October. Going forward, granting an application sweeping access to a Mac’s files, mail, messages and browsing history will require what the company calls “very … Read more
OpenAI is pushing advertising deeper into ChatGPT with a new visual ad format that appears while users generate images, turning the assistant’s most visual surface into a commercial one. Testing begins later this month in the United States with an initial group of advertisers, and no global rollout date has been confirmed. A new ad … Read more