AI Shopping Agents Get a Front Door at Walmart While Amazon Keeps Them Out
Walmart's Agent Gateway lets approved AI shopping agents search and buy for you, with spending limits and separate profiles, while Amazon keeps agents blocked.
Deployment
OnStar AI Assistant: What GM's New In-Car AI Does, When It Arrives and What It Means for Privacy
GM is turning OnStar into an AI assistant. Here is what the OnStar AI Assistant does, when it reaches cars and phones, and what GM says about your privacy.
OpenAI Models on Google Cloud: What Changes for Developers and Businesses
OpenAI models on Google Cloud arrive in Model Garden within weeks, with Codex and existing spend commitments. Here is what builders and IT buyers should know.
OpenAI Buys Orchestra Bio to Put AI Agents Inside Drug Development
OpenAI has bought Orchestra Bio, whose AI agents manage drug development programmes, and is folding the team into GPT-Rosalind and Rosalind Workbench.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash Launches at $0.15 per Million Input Tokens, Built for Agents and Code
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is out on the MiniMax API at $0.15 per million input tokens and 200+ tokens a second. Here is what it does, what it costs and how it compares.
Meta Muse Gave a Seller's Home Address to a Marketplace Buyer. Here Is What "Always Allow" Really Allows
Meta Muse gave a Toronto seller's home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer after an 'always allow' setup choice. Here is what to check before you delegate.
Mercury 3 Launches: Inception's Diffusion Model Hits 1,000+ Tokens per Second at $0.20 per Million
Mercury 3 from Inception Labs is a diffusion language model that writes over 1,000 tokens per second, with a 1M-token context and prices from $0.20 per million.
Microsoft 365 E7 Gets Tools to Score, Restrict and Shut Down Rogue AI Agents
Microsoft 365 E7 is adding agent risk scores, approval gates and a kill switch for AI agents like Claude Code and Codex. Here is what IT teams get and when.
OpenCode Breach: Stolen API Keys Hit 1.4% of Console Users. Here Is What To Do Now
The OpenCode breach exposed provider API keys for 1.4% of Console users. Here is what happened and the steps developers should take today to stop surprise bills.
Replit Makes OpenAI the Default for Replit Agent, Pushing Claude to an Option
Replit Agent now runs on OpenAI models by default. CEO Amjad Masad cites cost and performance, while Claude stays available as an option for users.
Anthropic Data Center Deal in Nova Scotia Is Its First in Canada
Anthropic has leased data center capacity from EverWind at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, its first Canadian deal, as its compute bill and IPO plans keep growing.
How Itaú Unibanco Is Building Customer-Facing Generative AI at Scale
Latin America’s largest private bank, Itaú Unibanco, is deploying a unified generative AI platform to serve its 70 million customers. By pairing AWS cloud architecture with strict internal governance, the institution is scaling digital-agent services while maintaining enterprise compliance and client trust.
Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Parameter Open-Weight Multimodal MoE Model
Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model featuring 42 billion active parameters and a 1-million-token context window. Optimized for agentic coding and native multimodal processing across text, audio, image, and video, the model introduces hardware optimizations for local and cloud infrastructure.
Black Forest Labs and Hugging Face Launch FLUX.3 Image Klein with Native Diffusers Support
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weight image generation and editing model. Arriving with day-one integration in Hugging Face’s Diffusers library, the architecture combines multi-reference image conditioning, coordinate-based bounding box layout controls, and Qwen3-VL text encoding.
Reflection AI Releases Beam: A 501B Open-Weight Sparse MoE Model for Agentic Workloads
Artificial intelligence startup Reflection AI has released Beam, an open-weight sparse Mixture-of-Experts model boasting 501 billion total parameters and 23 billion active parameters. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, Beam is optimized for code synthesis, complex reasoning, and long-horizon agentic workflows.