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Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, an app where Claude acts as a proactive agent. Access is by waitlist, starting with US Pro and Max subscribers. Here is what Anthropic says it does and where it stops.
22 Oct 2026A DHS order published on 20 October bars federal civilian agencies from buying DeepSeek products. It also requires them to remove DeepSeek products and third-party products built using DeepSeek implementations.
22 Oct 2026Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent on 8 October, a single agent for work that runs on Gemini and Claude models. Here is what Google says it does, and what has been reported about its status.
22 Oct 2026PHP has released fixes for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two critical flaws rated CVSS 9.2. Sources differ on who found them first and on whether attacks are under way.
21 Oct 2026Politico reported on 16 October that Anthropic has pitched lawmakers a draft frontier AI safety bill. Reuters, TechCrunch and Tech Insider set out its thresholds, evaluators and court route.
21 Oct 2026Google's TorchTPU and Amazon's TorchNeuron let existing PyTorch code run on the companies' own AI chips. Here is what each announced, what is in beta, and whose claims they are.
21 Oct 2026Meta says it has paused sharing in its Muse AI assistant after security firm Claroc reported that shared-conversation links could be found through public DNS records.
21 Oct 2026SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue and $4.4 billion in net income, with its AI segment, now called Super Intelligence, the largest by revenue. Musk also discussed a possible Tesla merger.
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