OpenAI Adds Reusable Cloud Environments to Codex
September 29, 2026: OpenAI Adds Reusable Cloud Environments to Codex - OpenAI announced several updates to its Codex software engineering agent at DevDay. Key additions include reusable cloud development environments accessible from any device, allowing teams to share workspaces with approved settings. The Codex CLI now supports voice input and a new agents view for tr...
AMD buys World Labs for $8.2 billion
September 29, 2026: AMD buys World Labs for $8.2 billion - AMD announced plans to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock, seven months after backing a $1 billion funding round for the startup at a $5 billion valuation. World Labs, founded in 2024 by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, develops spatial intelligence models that generate interactive 3D environment...
Automate Amazon Textract Adapter Lifecycle Across Accounts
September 28, 2026: Automate Amazon Textract Adapter Lifecycle Across Accounts - Amazon Textract adapters can be promoted across AWS accounts and managed at scale using infrastructure templates, Parameter Store, and a pre-classification routing pattern. Three core challenges addressed are adapter promotion, document routing, and production security. By storing adapter IDs in AWS...
Okta leads alliance for cross-vendor agentic AI security
September 28, 2026: Okta leads alliance for cross-vendor agentic AI security - Okta is pushing for coordinated industry safeguards as agentic AI systems operate across multiple platforms. Through the Blueprint Alliance, Okta has joined AWS, CrowdStrike, Salesforce and ServiceNow to make security controls and risk signals interoperable across agentic systems. The approach cente...
Dell AI Data Platform Event Set for October
September 28, 2026: Dell AI Data Platform Event Set for October - Dell Technologies is hosting a virtual AI Data Platform Event on October 6-7, focused on moving enterprise AI from experimentation to production. theCUBE will broadcast live interviews with Dell, Nvidia, Elastic, and other executives across Americas, EMEA, and APJ sessions. Key themes include data r...
Momentic launches Mo agent for script-free testing
September 28, 2026: Momentic launches Mo agent for script-free testing - Momentic has launched Mo, an AI agent that tests software without requiring developers to write or maintain test scripts. Developers provide a URL, credentials, and a prompt describing what to test, and Mo deploys a swarm of agents to run thousands of permutations and edge cases. It accepts product ...
Florida wants ChatGPT banned from acting human
September 28, 2026: Florida wants ChatGPT banned from acting human - Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a judge to block OpenAI from giving ChatGPT human-like attributes. Uthmeier argues that ChatGPT's use of first-person pronouns and emotion-mimicking language deceives users into viewing the chatbot as a trustworthy friend. He claims this drives engag...
Shopify lets AI agents complete purchases at checkout
September 28, 2026: Shopify lets AI agents complete purchases at checkout - Shopify has extended WebMCP support to its checkout process, allowing browser-based AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of buyers. Three new tools — get_checkout, update_checkout, and complete_checkout — let agents inspect and modify checkout details, then submit orders after buyer authorizati...
Grok 4.7 Joins Amazon Bedrock Model Catalog
September 28, 2026: Grok 4.7 Joins Amazon Bedrock Model Catalog - xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, offering a 500K token context window and configurable reasoning effort at four levels: low, medium, high, and xhigh. Designed for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work, the model uses a larger base trained on harder, longer tasks. It featu...
OpenAI Set to Launch Aeon AI Agent
September 28, 2026: OpenAI Set to Launch Aeon AI Agent - As OpenAI's 2026 DevDay approaches, the company is expected to release its own consumer-facing AI agent called Aeon. Despite popularizing the modern generative AI chatbot, OpenAI has fallen behind competitors in the continuously running AI agent space. Aeon would be its answer to rivals including Me...
Nvidia launches platform to contain rogue AI agents
September 28, 2026: Nvidia launches platform to contain rogue AI agents - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform, a combined software and hardware toolkit designed to keep AI agents from escaping their test environments. The platform pairs OpenShell, open source software controlling agent access, with Sentry, an independent monitoring system runni...
Meta Launches Enterprise AI Platform, Poaches MongoDB CEO
September 28, 2026: Meta Launches Enterprise AI Platform, Poaches MongoDB CEO - Meta announced the launch of Meta Enterprise Platform, a new initiative to bring its AI products to businesses and corporate customers. The company hired MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to lead the effort, which will offer tools including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code to busine...
Nvidia Launches Open-Source Platform to Control Rogue AI
September 28, 2026: Nvidia Launches Open-Source Platform to Control Rogue AI - Nvidia has unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform, a free open-source toolkit designed to secure AI agents across three layers: the agents themselves, compute resources, and hardware. Built on Nvidia's OpenShell runtime and Sentry monitoring system, it enforces safety rules at the silicon level, be...
Agents, CoreWeave, and enterprise AI system shifts
September 28, 2026: Agents, CoreWeave, and enterprise AI system shifts - On theCUBE Pod, analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante discussed how AI agents are reshaping enterprise IT and raising security concerns, with rogue agents reportedly breaching a UN statistics site and an Australian government website. CoreWeave, buoyed by GPU scarcity and major customers like Open...
AppDirect Acquires AI Avatar Firm Soul Machines
September 28, 2026: AppDirect Acquires AI Avatar Firm Soul Machines - AppDirect has acquired Soul Machines, an AI avatar company, to add human-like digital experiences to its business commerce platform. Soul Machines' avatars can see, listen, react, remember interactions, and simulate empathy, enabling automation of face-to-face tasks such as customer support, employe...
OpenAI keeps alienating the math community
September 28, 2026: OpenAI keeps alienating the math community - OpenAI has shown a pattern of making impressive mathematical breakthroughs while repeatedly mishandling their announcements, alienating the mathematical community in the process. Despite attempts to repair these fractured relations, the company has continued to stumble, compounding tensions with mat...
Autoheal Raises $7.9M to Fix AI Agents With AI
September 28, 2026: Autoheal Raises $7.9M to Fix AI Agents With AI - Autoheal AI has raised $7.9 million in seed funding led by Innovation Endeavors to build a unified platform for managing and improving AI agents across software development lifecycles. The startup addresses growing chaos in enterprise software factories, where fleets of AI coding agents frequently f...
Generate Images and Video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker
September 28, 2026: Generate Images and Video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker - This guide shows how to deploy two SageMaker AI endpoints from a single AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container to generate images and video from text prompts. A real-time endpoint runs FLUX.2-klein-4B for image generation, returning a base64-encoded PNG inline. An asynchronous endpoint runs Wan2.1-VA...
1Password limits AI agent access to single tasks
September 28, 2026: 1Password limits AI agent access to single tasks - 1Password is treating AI agents as hybrid identities that blend human and machine characteristics, complicating attribution in audit logs. The company rejects standing privilege for agents, instead granting just-in-time access scoped to individual tasks. Its Credential Broker releases secrets only w...
Deploy Streaming TTS on SageMaker with vLLM-Omni
September 28, 2026: Deploy Streaming TTS on SageMaker with vLLM-Omni - This tutorial shows how to deploy Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI using the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container to build real-time voice applications. The setup streams text in and audio out over a persistent bidirectional WebSocket connection, allowing speech playback to begin before the full re...
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