Apple will launch its smart home push on 13 October, Bloomberg reports
Apple will launch its smart home push on 13 October, Bloomberg reports

Apple plans to launch its long-delayed range of smart home devices on 13 October, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The launch would be a key product expansion for the company under John Ternus, who became chief e…

OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud
OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud

Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. OpenAI and Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The …

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with a second safety test result from OpenAI and a customer quote from Salesforce. OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, compu…

OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with the regions where dots is available and a quote from an early tester. OpenAI said Pro users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK will not get dots for now. OpenAI has launche…

Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet
Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet

Manus, the AI agent startup founded in China and now based in Singapore, launched Manus 2.0 on Monday. It also released Cue, a standalone app for personal AI agents. In Cue, each agent gets its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer, the …

Meta launches Muse for small businesses, linking its AI agent to Shopify
Meta launches Muse for small businesses, linking its AI agent to Shopify

Meta is bringing its Muse AI agent to small businesses, letting owners connect it to the software they already use to run their companies, the company announced today. The new version, Muse for Small Business, works with Shopify, Stripe, Canva and Intu…

Nvidia launches agent safety platform backed by over 100 companies
Nvidia launches agent safety platform backed by over 100 companies

On Monday, Nvidia introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform. This includes open software and a hardware reference design to help keep AI agents within the boundaries set by their operators. Over 100 organizations are already using this technology, incl…

OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model

OpenAI is preparing to preview GPT-6 Cyber, a model built for cybersecurity work, in the coming weeks, Fortune reported on Thursday, citing multiple people familiar with the plans. Alongside the model, OpenAI plans to launch a new product that helps cu…

UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it
UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it

“Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,” UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines said on Wednesday. Dines used his keynote at FUSION, UiPath’s annu…

Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you
Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you

Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launchin…