NEWS/20 OCT

AI news for small business, Tuesday, 20 October 2026

5 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.

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Microsoft extends Project Perception to treat AI agents as insiders, with a permission set up per task and a risk score that changes

Microsoft's design rule for agents: start with no permissions, give each its own identity, and tighten access when its behaviour changes.

MICROSOFT SECURITY BLOG|19 OCT
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These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit

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Duck.ai

DuckDuckGo's chat assistant, which since 16 October offers OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna model. It needs no account, DuckDuckGo says prompts are anonymized and chats are not used for training.

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