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Concerns have swirled over the access that consumers are increasingly entrusting to AI agents. Now, security services are trying to catch up. Password manager 1Password on Thursday launched a new tool by which users can allow agents to log into their personal accounts on their be

Calley Means—a top ally to anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a co-author of the so-called “MAHA bible”—resigned from his role in the Trump administration Thursday, reportedly in frustration over delays to food policy changes sought by the Make America Health

* 10-year yield on pace for biggest drop in more than 3-1/2 years * $26 billion 5-year TIPS auction viewed as solid * CME FedWatch shows October Fed hike odds at 7.2% (Updates to afternoon trading) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) - US Treasury yields tumbled on Th

Salesforce announced an agreement Tuesday to buy customer engagement platform Braze in a deal worth about $5.66 billion. Under the deal, holders of Braze Class A common stock will get $47.50 in cash per share. Braze shares closed at $30.04 on Monday. The transaction is expected t

Shares of SpaceX jumped 9% to $161 in early premarket trade on Wednesday, October 21, after Elon Musk’s space and satellite venture reported its first quarterly profit since going public in June, driven by strong growth in its artificial intelligence (AI) business. SpaceX’s reven

Tesla and SpaceX have formed independent committees to explore a potential merger, Elon Musk said during SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings call. The billionaire backed the idea, citing opportunities in AI, chip design, robotics, and connectivity. However, neither company has agreed

AI selloff sends investors seeking safety Yields on 2 through 10 year Treasuries fell at least 15 basis points, marking their steepest declines in more than a year. Yields across all maturities of US government debt dropped by more than 10 basis points. The rally gathered pace as

When we first drove BMW’s first Neue Klasse model, the iX3, it quickly revealed that BMW knows how to make a good electric vehicle. A clean-sheet design, it featured the automaker’s sixth-generation electric powertrain, a completely reimagined dashboard, and powerful computers to

OpenAI made its Decisions API model widely available to users for the first time, entering the market for fast, cheap intelligence that recently made TypeSafe, a startup founded by a former researcher at the frontier lab, a $7.6 billion company. TypeSafe’s Jev model created a cat

Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete with same-category models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta. The company said its model works in two stages. In the first stage, it interprets use

The Scoop The top Senate Republican super PAC is spending more than $1 million in Mississippi’s Senate race to defend GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and stave off an upset bid from Democratic candidate Scott Colom, according to details shared with Semafor. Senate Leadership Fund is la

Discord’s latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly instead of with “a bunch of symbols,” according to the company. LLMs and AI agents often rely on Markdown files for instructions and context, so these improved pre

Elon Musk's latest clash with Ukraine underscores the critical role that his company's Starlink satellite internet service has played in Kyiv's defense against Russia, which invaded unprovoked in 2022. It's also laid bare the downsides of depending on a single provider for satell

Elon Musk's latest clash with Ukraine underscores the critical role that his company's Starlink satellite internet service has played in Kyiv's defense against Russia, which invaded unprovoked in 2022. It's also laid bare the downsides of depending on a single provider for satell

PepsiCo and Taco Bell renewed their long-running partnership through 2036, the food and beverage company said Thursday. The announcement comes one week after Taco Bell's sister chain, KFC, said that it will switch to Coca-Cola as its U.S. beverage supplier. While it is unusual fo

(Bloomberg) -- The cost of options hedges against more gains in Treasuries surged to its highest level since March on Thursday, as investors sought the safety of US government bonds following a spike in oil prices and a deepening fiscal crisis in France.Yields on the benchmark 10

Android-powered foldable phones have been available for years, but most people never paid attention to them. As predicted, that could be changing now that Apple has entered the folding phone market with the iPhone Duo. Analysts have speculated that Samsung’s Z8 foldables were see

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The yen was on track for its strongest daily gain in almost a month on Thursday, as investors sought safety amid fragile equity markets, elevated crude prices from the drawn-out war in the Middle East, and doubts over future returns

Microsoft’s AI diagnostic system correctly diagnosed complex medical cases in a simulation more than twice as often as generalist physicians, according to a study published Thursday in Science. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI’s CEO, called the result a step toward “medical superin

Former OpenAI science lead Kevin Weil has launched Warp Sciences, a new AI startup focused on automating lab work for drug discovery. The company, which trains robots to make and test promising compounds identified by researchers, has raised $215 million at an $865 million valuat

Four years ago, a senior official in Russia’s foreign ministry painted a bullseye on commercial satellite networks that assist Ukraine in its fight against invading Russian military forces. On Wednesday, several days after a Russian military spacecraft moved within striking dista

Weekly quiz: How long did Katie Zacharia last as White House press secretary? Published 22 October 2026 This week, cities across France were hit by a night of violent protests, the UK government approved the controversial Jackdaw gas field, and Tesla unveiled a flying car. Bu

I owe this article to an uncomfortable moment while writing the last one. I built the demos in Testing an iframe’s postMessage Handler with AI assistance. I designed the handlers and the test cases, and a model wrote much of the page scaffolding around them. The first time it han

Shares of Meta Platforms plunged 7.5% in Thursday’s trade on October 22, to reach $644.30 apiece as investors worried about the social media giant’s aggressive bet on artificial intelligence (AI), overshadowing better-than-expected September-quarter results. During its quarterly

Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives — shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people’s AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a life in which we communi

From AI companies financing data center projects to France's heavily indebted government, credit markets are flashing warnings as investors grow warier of borrowing risks. Five-year credit default swap spreads have widened for CoreWeave, Oracle and SoftBank Group, as well as Fran

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Tops Physics Benchmark With 83.1% on CritPt v2 The revised physics research benchmark gives models a code sandbox, and frontier systems have jumped from single-digit to 80%+ accuracy. - CritPt v2 launches with 70 revised research-level physics challenges and

22nd October 2026 - Link Blog Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation. News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux

You.com's Inference Router Challenges OpenRouter With Built-in Failover and Web Search You.com's new Inference Router pairs open-weight models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 with a 99.9% uptime SLA, zero data retention, and built-in web search. - You.com launched Inference Router, an O

Offer your subscriptions to businesses and schools October 22, 2026 Starting today, organizations and educational institutions can purchase subscriptions to apps in volume with multiseat purchasing. This makes it easy for organizations that use Apple Business or Apple School Mana

For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now “it is finally here,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose con

Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman said two geopolitical conflicts — the Ukraine-Russia and Iran wars — along with elevated inflation and interest rates are holding back an otherwise "booming market environment." "Once the overhang of the war is done — and it sounds like we're also

Brook underlines status as world's best all-format batter in remarkable defeat - Published Just under a year ago, Harry Brook was left wondering if he would be sacked as England white-ball captain and what damage he had done to his international career. What a turnaround in 12 mo

President Donald Trump’s alliance with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. helped deliver Make America Healthy Again voters. But the movement Trump spent years cultivating is showing signs of splintering. Now the question is whether Kennedy could reconsolidate the same voters

Storage news ticker - 22 October Data protector Acronis has a new CEO Prakash Panjwani, joining this month. A prior CEO Ezequiel Steiner left a year ago. He was replaced by Jan-Jaap Jager, coming from being President and CEO at Virtuozzo. Panjwani previously served as CEO of Watc

Warm welcome to Basil Chatha, our newest cohost from the Forward Deployed side of the AI Engineering world! We’ll be ramping up a new show with him and couldn’t pass up an interview with Modal’s CEO Eric on the occasion of their monster Series D! Two years ago, we spoke with Erik