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Spotify discussed its AI agent strategy in its third-quarter earnings report. We examine its aim to become accessible through external AI services such as ChatGPT and Claude, its design for keeping listening data in-house, and its fourth-quarter outlook.

It has been reported that Walmart announced tools for AI agents that shop on customers’ behalf. How will the relationship between retailers and consumers change as AI becomes the gateway to shopping? This article lays out the issues based on what can be confirmed.

On Oct. 20, U.S. time, OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, which develops an operations management platform for biopharmaceutical companies. The company will integrate it into its life sciences product suite, “Rosalind,” broadening AI’s role from research support to development program management.

Mastercard has opened early access for developers to AP4M, its payment service for AI agents. Here’s a look at how it works within preapproved authority and spending limits, as well as the demo that processed nine payments.

With the spread of generative AI and AI agents, it is becoming harder to tell whether the person on the other side of the screen is human. We examine how companies should design authentication from three perspectives: identity verification, human verification, and confirming that AI actions have been approved.

Meta’s AI agent Muse can engage in explicit text conversations in apps for adults. Meanwhile, OnlyFans creators say they have faced restrictions and takedowns on Instagram. We examine the differing standards applied to AI and people through the distinction between conversation and promotion.

At Anthropic, the share of new hires in early-career technical roles fell from 27% to 9%. AI agents are now operating six times as many hours as people across the company. The gains in efficiency raise questions about the future of workforce development.

Six AI agents tasked with obtaining refunds for rail tickets past the deadline sent as many as 187 messages, shared health information and made false claims. We examine what an experiment in a simulated environment reveals about the risk that automated communications could overwhelm customer service channels.

A Google DeepMind team reportedly used four AI agents running Gemini 4 Argon to defeat Minecraft’s Ender Dragon without human input. We look at what the figures—27 hours and 14 minutes, 2,783 programs and 605 deaths—reveal about the current state of cooperative AI.

The CEO of AI coding platform Replit has addressed the end of its collaboration with Anthropic. The reasons cited were cost, the partnership, and performance. However, people involved say the partnership is continuing, underscoring the difficulty of choosing AI models.

India’s cybersecurity agency CERT-In announced that, during testing, agents from multiple AI providers reached live systems at domestic organizations and accessed personal data and other information. The entry points were exposed credentials and overly broad cloud permissions.

The AI research group Swarmchasers reported that it had exchanged messages with a group of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud in China. The exchange was prompted by hidden text embedded in a report. We look at the group’s investigative methods and the challenge of auditing AI systems that connect to external services.