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Meta updated its commercial terms of use to state it could "use any content from a business account's domains, web pages, or URLs" to provide, develop, improve, research, train and maintain its products and services. Legal experts quoted by Nieman Lab read this as a "remarkable provision" that could let Meta scrape any publisher with a Me…
Meta said on its Q3 earnings call that its board approved a new class of non-voting Class C common stock, effective in January (techcrunch.com). The plan was first reported by Semafor. CFO Susan Li said the shares are meant for capital raising, employee compensation and acquisitions, including the AI push, while preserving the voting powe…
Meta's AI companion app Muse has reached 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, 10.2 million of them in the United States, according to Sensor Tower. Only 11 other apps have reached 10 million U.S. downloads within 40 days of launch. The most recent was Threads in July 2023, and most of the others were mobile games. Muse is ava…
Meta said on its Q3 earnings call that its AI agent app Muse has more than 10 million users, with about 25% of those who set it up using it daily. Shopping is a leading activity, and over a quarter of engaged shoppers had an average purchase above $200. Muse uses the Plaid connector to enable agentic shopping and can also connect to users…
Spotify reported 788 million monthly active users and nearly €5 billion in Q3 revenue. On the earnings call, co-CEO Gustav Söderström said AI agents will help the business because entertainment is not a chore people want to delegate. Spotify wants to be the music service agents choose, and it already integrates with ChatGPT, Claude and Me…
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that automates and manages tasks. It competes with Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, Hark, Instinct, Grok Bot and Fo. Duet runs on the Claude Opus 5.5 model and works in the background in its own virtual machine, returning to the user when it needs approval. It …
Design platform Canva released Canva Craft, its first image generation model, built by its research team to compete with models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance and Meta. The article describes a product launch and contains no security incident, vulnerability or threat activity. The model is available to all Canva users through the Dream Lab…
Yelp has added a Check for Me feature to its app. An AI voice agent calls a restaurant on the user's behalf to check wait times and texts the result back, based on the party size and phone number the user enters. Yelp is also updating its Yelp AI assistant with an OpenTable booking integration, memory of preferences, 30 days of chat histo…
1Password launched 1Password for Agents on 22 October 2026. It lets users delegate logins to AI agents without exposing passwords or secrets to the agent. The launch coincides with an Axios report that U.S. banks are detecting agentic activity inside customer accounts and often cannot tell whether it was user-requested. The article presen…
Walmart announced an Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets approved AI agents search its inventory and make purchases for shoppers, covering Walmart and Sam's Club. The announcement came as Amazon began blocking AI agents from making purchases, and as various travel and booking sites lock agents out entirely. CEO John Furner presented th…
Microsoft AI published a study in Science showing its MAI-DxO diagnostic system, which coordinates several AI agents acting as a panel of doctors, correctly diagnosed 83% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases in simulation. Primary care doctors and general internists working alone scored 36%, though specialists and physician te…
On Tuesday Google released TorchTPU as an open-source project. It lets PyTorch AI applications run on Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and Google Cloud through a configuration change, with no application rewrite. A day earlier Amazon announced TorchNeuron, which ports PyTorch apps to its Trainium chip and AWS. Amazon is also submit…
Nirva, a startup founded in 2025 by ex-Meta Reality Labs employees Wei Lyu and Jason Chen with Hanying Hu, announced a $25 million pre-Series A round, bringing total funding to $33 million (earlier backers include Lightspeed and South Park Commons). Its first product is a roughly 8 g pendant, also wearable as a bracelet, priced at $249, w…
Tolan, an AI companion app that helps users manage daily tasks, relationships and emotions, raised $30 million from Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew, according to Upstarts Media. The round doubles its total funding. The company did not disclose its valuation; PitchBook estimates it at more than $268 million with medium …
This is a business and finance item with no cyber threat content. Blackstone executive Jas Khaira, who leads the firm's San Francisco AI hub Blackstone N1 (BXN1), said at TechCrunch Disrupt that concerns over AI infrastructure debt are overblown. Rising interest rates, wider credit spreads and the roughly $50 billion in CoreWeave debt hav…
Recursive, an AI startup led by CEO Richard Socher, released its first model, Flint, on 21 October 2026. It is a free coding model that runs locally on a laptop. The company says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, contributed to nearly every stage of development, which let a small team build the model in under four months.…
At its first Config conference in India, Figma announced 20 new model context protocol (MCP) partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode and Sarvam Agents. Co-founder Dylan Field said MCP is "not a perfect protocol" and favors frontier labs. He also criticized Anthropic, MCP's cr…
