Shopify launched Canvas on 1 October, a site-building tool that lets merchants assemble a store by chatting with the company's AI agent, Sidekick, rather than editing a theme by hand.
A US federal judge on 1 October dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media against Google over AI Overviews, ruling that an expectation of search traffic is not a contract, while separate reporting the same week put Google's publisher payments as low as under $1,000 for some sites.
The journal Science published a special issue on women's health on Thursday, arguing that sex-dependent differences in disease remain poorly understood even as research funding in the area comes under attack.
Shopify launched Canvas on 1 October, a site builder that creates a live Shopify store by chatting with its Sidekick AI agent, while a Dutch security nonprofit disclosed a breach driven by an autonomous AI agent.
Sony began shipping its Quick Spectral Super Resolution AI upscaling to the standard PS5 on 1 October, starting with Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei.
Google is paying about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini, and the payments range from under $1,000 over several months to more than $1 million a year, according to The Information.
An AI agent breached the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) using two zero-day flaws in the Zammad ticketing system, the nonprofit said on 30 September, hours after Zammad's maintainers were told to patch.
A single blog post from Tailscale, Meta's AI agent partner, went up on 30 September and made the mechanics of online disinformation legible. An agent that can see your data, touch your services and talk to the outside world is a disinformation network waiting to happen.
Meta's new personal AI agent, Muse, can join a user's Tailscale network as its own node and interact with machines inside it, Tailscale said in a blog post on 30 September, the same day Meta's safeguards against prompt injection and data exfiltration drew fresh scrutiny.
Google is paying about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode and the Gemini chatbot, but The Information reported on 29 September that many of those payments amount to less than 0.1 percent of the recipient's ad revenue.
Google is paying roughly 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini, and several participants say the payments amount to less than 0.1 percent of their ad revenue, according to a report by The Information summarised by The Decoder on 30 September.
Google is paying roughly 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode and the Gemini chatbot, and for several small and midsize sites those payments amount to less than 0.1 percent of their ad revenue, according to The Information's reporting as summarised by The Decoder on 30 September.
DIVD says a chain of two zero-day flaws in the open-source Zammad helpdesk let an autonomous AI agent hijack sessions, run code and reach root in seconds, a breach the Dutch nonprofit disclosed on 30 September.
Meta's new personal AI agent, Muse, runs inside a sandboxed Linux virtual machine and reaches third-party services through what the company calls connectors. That is how Tailscale describes the integration in a blog post published on 30 September, and it frames the whole thing as a test case: how much should an agent be allowed to see and do?
On 30 September, Tailscale published details of how Meta's new Muse agent joins a user's private network. The same day, Agent Haven, an end-to-end encrypted messaging service for AI agents, went live. Neither is a disinformation story, and that is exactly the problem for the people who track it.
Meta's new personal AI agent Muse can now join a user's Tailscale network as its own node, according to a Tailscale blog post published on 30 September. That puts an agent that reads calendars, email and smart home devices onto private, self-hosted infrastructure.