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  1. English text is being prepared.Product release
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    Walmart Launches Its Own Agent Gateway, Allowing AI to Place Orders and Shop on Users' Behalf

    Walmart announced the launch of its own agent gateway, a new MCP server that lets vetted AI agents connect to the Walmart platform, check online inventory, and place orders on users' behalf, with support for Sam's Club as well. Walmart has also developed technology to distinguish agent orders from users' own orders, and next month it will launch an agent profile feature that lets users authorize each agent individually, view its orders, and set either manual confirmation for every purchase or automatic authorization within a spending limit. Walmart has also introduced terms of use for AI agents, stipulating that agents must not act beyond the user's intent, cannot access payment information, and that violating agents will be banned from accessing the website.

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  2. Modal Official Engineering BlogFirst-partyProduct release
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    Modal Releases LLM Training Library Modal Dojo

    Modal has released Modal Dojo, a training library that provides tuned default recipes, modifiable parameters, and an out-of-the-box metrics observability dashboard, supporting models from 500 million to trillions of parameters. The library is built on open-source frameworks such as Miles and Slime, can load datasets from Hugging Face, and lets agents query run status, logs, and trajectories via a CLI. Axiom Bio says it has used it to launch training of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with a 64k context, running on 64 B300s.

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.#Open-source ecosystem

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    Anthropic launches proactive AI agent Claude Duet, which can handle tasks in the background and seek approval before key actions

    Anthropic launches proactive AI agent Claude Duet, which every morning compiles a briefing of important matters from connected apps, checks accounts every few hours during the day, and notifies users only when attention is needed. Duet has its own virtual machine and browser, and can handle tasks such as scheduling meetings, organizing emails, building dashboards, forecasting sales data, and building web apps, and calls more than 6,000 connectors and plugins through Claude Marketplace. When it involves sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting content, it first shows the proposed action and waits for approval; securities trading and transfers between accounts are not executed even with approval. The product is currently available as a research preview, requires application through a waitlist, is first aimed at Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States, offers standalone iOS and Android apps and a web version, and shares usage quotas with existing plans.

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    Anthropic launches AI agent Claude Duet, based on Claude Opus 5.5

    Anthropic releases AI agent Claude Duet, benchmarked against Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, launching as a research preview via standalone iOS and Android apps and the web version of Claude. The agent is based on Claude Opus 5.5, can call on Claude's memory, skills and connected apps, and comes with a virtual machine with a browser to complete tasks; before key operations such as payments and deletions, it first sends a message requesting user approval. Anthropic says it comes with new dedicated classifiers and safety system prompts to refuse to share information at the strictest tier, such as credit card numbers, while stating that this is still an early version that may misread conversations or misjudge urgency, and is not yet strong enough for personal matters such as booking tickets.

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    Anthropic launches proactive AI agent Claude Duet

    Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent that can send reminders and complete tasks before the user asks. Duet is based on Opus 5.5 and sends a briefing of important matters every morning, after which it checks connected apps every few hours and issues reminders when needed; it can run in a cloud virtual machine with its own browser, and obtains user approval before sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting files. Duet reuses the memory, skills, and connected apps of the Claude account, with interactions concentrated in a single continuous thread; it does not see account passwords, and is equipped with dedicated classifiers and safety system prompts that check messages and prevent the leakage of sensitive information.

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  6. Unite.AIProduct release
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    Anthropic opens Claude Duet research preview to Pro and Max users in the US

    On October 21, 2026, Anthropic opened the Claude Duet research preview. Built on Claude Opus 5.5, the app turns Claude into a proactive agent that can proactively surface to-dos, continue executing tasks after the user leaves, and confirm before acting on the user's behalf. Access is available through a waitlist, starting with Pro and Max users in the US, and is offered via standalone iOS and Android apps and the claude.ai entry point. During the preview period it is included in the Pro and Max plans and is subject to the same usage limits. The app can call on more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace; user approval is required before sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting content, while securities trading and transfers between accounts are not permitted even with approval.

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  7. Unite.AIProduct release
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    Walmart Launches Agent Profiles and Agent Gateway to Set Permissions for AI Shopping Agents

    Walmart announced the launch of Agent Profiles, the Walmart Agent Gateway, and terms for AI agents, enabling customers to shop at Walmart and Sam's Club through apps and agents of their choosing, with built-in permissions, controls, and protections. Agent Profiles will launch next month; customers can authorize a separate profile for each agent, choose per-transaction approval or set spending limits such as $50, $100, or $200, and can revoke permissions or delete profiles at any time. The Agent Gateway is built on MCP and is currently available as an invite-only beta for enterprises and developers; it claims to provide real-time product and fulfillment data, reduce requests and token consumption, and includes safeguards such as category restrictions and rate limits.

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  8. 9to5GoogleProduct release
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    Anthropic launches proactive AI agent Claude Duet, opening a waitlist for Pro and Max users

    Anthropic releases proactive AI agent Claude Duet, which combines the user's historical context with Claude and connections to external apps, pushes a morning briefing of important matters every day, and sends message reminders when attention is needed. The product can handle tasks ranging from scheduling meetings to building dashboards, creating financial or sales forecasts, prototyping, and building web apps. It is currently available as a research preview for Pro and Max plans, and users must first join the waitlist. This comes weeks after OpenAI launched its proactive agent Dots and Meta's Muse gained momentum.

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  9. 9to5MacProduct release
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    Anthropic Launches Proactive Agent App Claude Duet

    Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app that works as a proactive agent, handling tasks across connected apps, tracking email and calendar, and continuing to run in the cloud after the app is closed. The feature costs nothing extra but counts toward existing plan usage, and background work may cause users to hit limits sooner; it is currently invite-only and not yet available on Team and Enterprise plans. Claude Duet is powered by Claude Opus 5.5 and is available on iOS, Android, and the web, supporting Stripe unpaid invoice checks, Link and Shop Pay payments after user approval, as well as plugins and a cloud browser.

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  10. PyTorch BlogFirst-partyProduct release
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    TorchTitan Update: Support for Multiple New SOTA Models, TitanRL, and Large-Scale Performance Improvements

    PyTorch's native training platform TorchTitan has released an update that adds full training-stack support for Muse Spark Open, Muse Glimmer, Qwen3-VL, Qwen3.5, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, and DeepSeek-V4, and introduces the reinforcement learning component TitanRL. TitanRL lets pretraining, post-training, and vLLM inference share the same model code, and supports asynchronous rollout as well as agent-task training such as long-context and code execution. On performance, FlexShard on 256 H100 GPUs reduces DeepSeekV3 optimizer time by up to 79%, and reduces end-to-end training step time on Llama3 405B by up to 20%.

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.#Open-source ecosystem

  11. TechCrunch AIProduct release
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    Walmart launches Agent Gateway, opening shopping to AI agents

    Walmart has released Agent Gateway, an MCP-based server that lets approved AI agents search Walmart's online inventory and place orders on users' behalf, covering Walmart and Sam's Club. Next month it will also launch Agent Profiles, letting users create a separate profile for each agent, view its spending records individually, and choose per-transaction approval or set spending limits. Walmart has also drafted dedicated terms for AI agents, defining their operating boundaries, with non-compliant agents banned from accessing the site; this contrasts with Amazon's move to start blocking AI agents from making purchases on users' behalf.

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  12. The Verge AIProduct release
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    Walmart to Open Its Site to AI Agents Shopping on Users' Behalf Next Month

    Walmart announced that starting next month it will allow users to connect their own AI agents to its website to shop on their behalf, and will offer Agent Profiles features including purchase approval, budget caps, and separate views of agent orders. Walmart connects agents through an Agent Gateway based on the Model Context Protocol, saying this avoids obstacles in browser-based operations and does not expose users' full shopping history or personal information to agents. Walmart also stipulates that agents must not act beyond the user's intent and must not change payment methods, and violators will be banned—a contrast to Amazon's blocking of the Perplexity shopping agent and Meta Muse.

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  13. Claude BlogFirst-partyProduct release
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    Anthropic Opens Claude Duet Research Preview: An Agentic App That Can Proactively Execute Tasks

    Anthropic has opened the Claude Duet research preview, an agentic app built on Claude Opus 5.5 that can proactively advance tasks. It is now available on iOS, Android, and claude.ai for Pro and Max users in the United States, who must join a waitlist. Every morning it pushes a cross-app highlights briefing, and it can continuously execute tasks in the background; it requires user approval before sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting, and securities trading and transfers between accounts are not permitted even with approval. Claude Duet can invoke more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, and it follows the credential-handling approach of Claude Managed Agents, never directly touching users' passwords or login tokens.

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  14. PyTorch BlogFirst-partyProduct release
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    PyTorch integrates FlyDSL backend on AMD GPUs

    The official PyTorch blog introduces that users of AMD MI350 series GPUs can now use FlyDSL through existing operator APIs, covering dense and grouped GEMM, MXFP8/MXFP4 scaled GEMM, RMSNorm, TopK, and attention kernels provided via the AOTriton 0.14b series, without calling custom kernels. On MI355X, BF16 dense GEMM achieves a 1.10x geometric mean speedup over the faster baseline among ATen and Triton, MXFP8 and MXFP4 achieve 1.58x and 1.68x over ATen respectively, and grouped GEMM achieves 1.20x over Triton. In vLLM end-to-end A/B tests, whole-request speedups are BF16 1.13x, MXFP8 2.04x, and MXFP4 3.01x, depending on the model and concurrency.

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.#Open-source ecosystem

  15. Pydantic AI official articleFirst-partyProduct release
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    Pydantic AI integrates E2B sandbox as a native capability

    Pydantic AI integrates E2B as a native sandbox provider. After adding E2BSandbox() to the agent's capability list, all shell commands and file operations are executed in an isolated E2B microVM, and environment variables and SSH keys do not enter the sandbox. The sandbox can be paused after a run ends and resumed on the next run, with the filesystem and memory remaining unchanged, and can be reused across processes via a credential-free reference identifier. The article gives two examples: one is a two-round run of diagnose, pause, then fix; the other is killing a worker in a Temporal workflow and having a new worker continue and complete the fix in the same sandbox.

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  16. ZhidxProduct release
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    OpenAI API adds a 12-hour cache retention option; caches for logged-in Codex and Work users are retained permanently

    The API service for OpenAI models will offer a 12-hour cache retention option, and caches for logged-in Codex and Work users will be retained permanently. On the API side, this option applies to GPT-5.6 and later models, with a default retention of 30 minutes; when 12 hours is selected, the cache write price rises from 1.25 times the input token price to 2.5 times, while the cache read price remains unchanged. OpenAI's documentation states that the 12 hours specifies the minimum lifetime corresponding to eligibility for cache-read billing; it does not guarantee that the stored KV tensors can be reused on every request, nor does it guarantee reduced latency.

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  17. ZhidongxiProduct release
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    NVIDIA releases DSX full-stack AI factory architecture and DSX POD container

    At the GTC conference in Berlin, NVIDIA released the DSX full-stack AI factory reference architecture and the DSX POD compute container; the latter pre-installs 7 Vera Rubin NVL72 liquid-cooled racks into a container, ready to plug and play upon arrival on site. Jensen Huang said that adopting this solution can compress the time from compute arriving on site to going into production from 4-5 months to about 1 month, while NVIDIA's press release said partners can shorten deployment time from 6 months to as short as 14 days. The conference also introduced the OpenShell secure agent reference architecture, the Nemotron Retriever retrieval model series, the Kumo structured data prediction model series, and, in collaboration with Agile, the Agile ONE SN humanoid robot reference design; the robot itself will be available in early 2027.

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  18. ZhidongxiProduct release
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    Tencent Yuanbao Search Opens Three Access Methods: Skill, MCP, and API

    Tencent has opened up its Yuanbao Search capabilities, offering three access methods: Skill, MCP, and API. There is a limited-time free quota of 2,000 calls per month, and in October and November, users can enjoy up to 6,000 calls per month via invitation codes. Yuanbao Search has built a hundred-billion-level index, covering 13 vertical industries such as finance, government affairs, and healthcare, and connecting to 157 authoritative sources. Its average daily call volume reaches hundreds of millions, supporting more than 50 core businesses such as WorkBuddy and ima. Tests by Zhidongxi show that a single API call takes an average of about 0.42 seconds, and after integrating DeepSeek Harness, it can complete tasks such as policy queries and paper organization.

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  19. Unite.AIProduct release
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    Anthropic adds continuous scanning and remediation tracking to Claude Security

    On October 21, 2026, Anthropic released the updated public beta of Claude Security, adding continuous scanning, automatic remediation tracking, per-project threat models, and a new API for Claude Enterprise customers. After the initial baseline scan, continuous scanning runs at irregular intervals based on the risk and complexity of code changes; the official documentation states that scanning is stochastic, and two scans of the same code may produce different results. Issues found are automatically marked as fixed once the remediation lands, and are automatically reopened if they reappear. The product is billed directly by token with no additional platform fee; eligible customers can receive up to $25,000 in promotional credits per month for two months, with the offer running through December 31, 2026.

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