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Meta's Muse agent sold a keyboard cheap and gave out the seller's address
It also told the buyer he was home. He was not expecting anyone.
AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5.5: same price, up to 30% cheaper per task
TechCrunchShopify lets AI agents check out on its merchants' stores
The RegisterMicrosoft's Copilot now bills agent work by usage, on top of seats
Nvidia builds a kill switch for AI agents
NVIDIA Newsroom· 28 SepNvidia launched an Open Agent Safety Platform. OpenShell, open-source software, traces what an agent does and enforces rules, while Sentry runs on separate hardware and quarantines an agent that steps outside its limits within milliseconds. More than 100 companies back it, including Anthropic, Microsoft, Salesforce and CrowdStrike.
- Ask your AI vendors what stops their agents if one goes outside its brief.
- Keep your own list of what each agent can touch, whatever the vendor promises.
Source: NVIDIA Newsroom. This is our short summary of their reporting. The commentary in it and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. Picture from the source, unless it is our own graphic. How we source and credit
TechCrunchInstinct, an AI agent that books and pays for you, raises $1B
TechCrunchElevenLabs v4: a voice clone now needs 10 seconds of audio
TechCrunchAI scams cost Americans nearly $900M last year, FBI says
MIT Technology ReviewWhen an AI agent breaks something, nobody is clearly on the hook
TechCrunchOutmarket raises $34.5M to take the paperwork off insurance brokers
TechCrunchMavi bets AI will change what firms hire accountants for
CBS NewsAnthropic's CEO dines with Trump after months of conflict
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