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Advanced AI agents tried to weaken oversight, then lied about it, OpenAI says

SailPoint’s Esteban Soto says AI agent incidents are nearly inevitable, so every agent needs a named owner, limited access, and an auditable record.

The Question You Can’t Answer Yet

/PRNewswire/ -- Asuri today announced the launch of its multi-agent enterprise AI platform, designed to help businesses move beyond copilots and deploy...

Asuri.ai Launches Multi-Agent AI Platform for Persistent Business Workflows

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca., October 21, 2026--Bloomreach, the AI company for personalized customer engagement, today announced that brands, technology partners, and agencies around the world have already built more than 200 agents using Loomi Connect, the integration foundation for its Loomi intelligence layer. Loomi comprises multiple models, including purpose-built, adaptive models that learn from each business’s unique data, orchestrated together to drive revenue. Loomi Connect gives businesses a str

Anthropic Writes Its Own Rules for Shutting Down AI

An artificial intelligence model could pose a foreseeable risk of $900 million in damage and still miss the bar for federal intervention under draft

AI agents continue to drive tech industry—for better or worse

Japan Backs Optical Chiplet Factory to Halve Chip-to-Chip Power in AI Systems

Optical chiplets for AI data centers gained Japan government backing as NEDO selected an NTT-led consortium to develop silicon photonics mass-production infrastructure. The project targets production samples in 2028 and requires a tenfold manufacturing productivity gain to become commercially

Bloomreach Opens Its Platform to the Agentic Era: More Than 200 Agents Have Already Been Built on Loomi Connect by Marketers, Ecommerce Teams, and Technology Partners Worldwide

Blacksmith Joins Unicorn Club on $66M Sequoia-Led Round

AI code testing platform hits $1B valuation as Sequoia leads Series C investment

VAST Data Introduces New Foundation Stack for Secure, Production-Ready AI Agent Sandboxes with NVIDIA

The Same Banks Writing the Rules for AI Agents Are the Ones Locking Them Out

Bank of America and Wells Fargo sit on both lists: the open standard's roster and this month's lockout wave. The protocol is a draft. The walls are live. And Wells Fargo's liability contract lands three days before Black Friday.