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Walmart Welcomes AI Agents as Anthropic Launches Its Own

AI shopping agents are changing how consumers discover products and make online purchases, with Walmart opening its retail platform to external AI assistants while Anthropic introduces its own personal agent. The developments signal a shift towards AI systems that can do more than recommend products: they can search, compare, organise and help complete purchases with […]

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Recursive Launches Flint, a Laptop Coding Model It Says Was Largely Built by AI

Recursive Flint is a coding-focused language model built to support AI agents working on software projects. Rather than simply completing a line of code, it is intended to handle more involved programming activities, including investigating existing codebases, identifying bugs, implementing features and writing tests. The model uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture. It contains approximately 40 […]

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Mark Wahlberg AI Clone: Could AI Keep the Hollywood Star on Screen Forever?

Mark Wahlberg AI clone technology could eventually allow the Hollywood actor to continue appearing in films and television projects long after his traditional acting career ends. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 16, 2026, Wahlberg discussed using artificial intelligence in filmmaking and expressed openness to the possibility of a digital version of himself carrying on […]

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Meta Unveils New ‘Open’ AI Model to Rival Chinese Competition

Meta’s Muse Spark Open is the most capable US open-weight model yet, but Chinese open-weight models from Moonshot, Z.ai, Alibaba and Xiaomi still lead on coding and the overall index. We compare benchmarks, the Muse Model License, safety, Mac Studio hardware and price, and what it means for UK businesses.

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Facebook Will Let You Customize Your Feed Algorithm Using AI

Facebook Will Let You Customize Your Feed Algorithm Using AI

Social media platforms have traditionally relied on recommendation algorithms to decide which posts, videos and other content appear in a user’s feed. These systems learn from behavior such as likes, comments, shares and viewing activity, gradually building an understanding of what each person may want to see. However, recommendation algorithms do not always get it […]

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Flox Intelligence AI system detecting wildlife near railway tracks and transportation infrastructure

Flox Intelligence Is Building AI to Keep Wildlife Away From Trains, Airports and Roads

Wildlife collisions are a persistent problem for transportation operators. Animals wandering onto railway tracks can cause delays and damage trains, while birds and other wildlife near airports create aviation safety risks. Roads present another challenge, with animals crossing traffic corridors and sometimes becoming trapped between fences, highways and other infrastructure. Traditional prevention methods include physical […]

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Kylon AI agent harness connecting multiple AI agents, business applications and automated workflows

Kylon Launches Multi-Platform Agent Harness with 3,000 Integrations

AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of handling research, software development, customer communication and repetitive business operations. However, deploying several agents across different applications can create a new problem: each agent may have its own context, tools, permissions and working environment. Kylon is addressing this challenge with a platform it calls a company harness—a shared […]

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ChatGPT web traffic share reaches 56.4% as Google Gemini falls to 25% in AI chatbot website traffic statistics.

ChatGPT Web Traffic Share Hits 56% as Gemini Slips to 25%

ChatGPT web traffic share has climbed to approximately 56% of worldwide generative AI chatbot website traffic, while Google Gemini has slipped to 25%, according to September 2026 figures attributed to Similarweb. The latest numbers suggest OpenAI is regaining ground after a period in which Google’s AI assistant made significant gains against its biggest rival. (OfficeChai) […]

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Amazon Shuffles Alexa Leadership Following High-End Tablet Release

Amazon is changing its Alexa leadership a day after launching its first premium Alexa Tablets. Daniel Rausch steps away in November and Fire TV chief Aidan Marcuss takes over. We explain what Amazon confirmed, what the tablets cost in the US and UK, why the Fire line was dropped, what Alexa+ really costs, and what the shake-up means for businesses.

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