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28 October 2026 · 5 stories

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The code your agent writes can no longer touch your machine

Akamai, the network that speeds up access to websites in more than 4,300 cities, is shipping two services for AI agents. The first isolates the code an agent writes: it runs in a separate room, cut off from the internet by default, capped in memory and computing power. Like an...

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IBM wants a single dashboard for every agent in the company

At its annual conference, IBM presents a single command centre for a company's AI agents, including those built on rival cloud platforms. The new part is not governance in general: it is an inventory that automatically finds the agents already in place, an identity of its own...

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Hex threw out millions of lines of code to make room for agents

Hex, the data tool used by more than 2,500 companies, has cleared out the cupboards. Its team deleted millions of lines of code — the old chart-building and query-writing tools — then rebuilt the software around a simple idea: it is now AI agents, not people, who handle the...

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NVIDIA puts $3 billion into Meta and moves up to the agent oversight layer

NVIDIA is committing 3 billion dollars to Meta. But the money is not the point: the deal is about two products. OpenShell is for deploying agents safely, Sentry is for watching what they do. In other words, the maker of the graphics cards that sold the machine steps up onto the...

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Agents that fit in a gigabyte and run on your phone

Liquid AI publishes a family of models of about two billion parameters whose compressed weight fits in one gigabyte. They run on a phone, a Raspberry Pi 5 card, a laptop or a plain processor. The simplest model holds 256,000 words of text in mind at once. All the weights have...

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