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This Week in Tech: AI Agents Clock In as Apple Buyers Wait and IT Scrambles
See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Oct. 19β23.
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This Week in Tech: AI Agents Clock In as Apple Buyers Wait and IT Scrambles
See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Oct. 19β23.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Duet to Automate Business Tasks Across 6,000+ Apps
Anthropic introduces Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent that automates business tasks across connected apps. Explore its features, limitations and availability.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Duet to Automate Business Tasks Across 6,000+ Apps
Anthropic introduces Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent that automates business tasks across connected apps. Explore its features, limitations and availability.
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Chinaβs MiniMax Says Its New AI Model Cuts Agent Costs by 70%
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash with claims of faster, cheaper AI agents. See how its pricing, benchmarks, and reliability compare with enterprise requirements.
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Googleβs AI Agents Finally Beat Minecraft. It Took 27 Hours and 605 Deaths
Four Google DeepMind AI agents defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon after 27 hours and 605 deaths, revealing both the promise and limitations of autonomous AI.
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Chinaβs MiniMax Says Its New AI Model Cuts Agent Costs by 70%
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash with claims of faster, cheaper AI agents. See how its pricing, benchmarks, and reliability compare with enterprise requirements.
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Googleβs AI Agents Finally Beat Minecraft. It Took 27 Hours and 605 Deaths
Four Google DeepMind AI agents defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon after 27 hours and 605 deaths, revealing both the promise and limitations of autonomous AI.
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What Is Tool Calling in AI? How It Works and Why It Matters
Learn how AI tool calling works, how it differs from APIs and MCP, and what businesses should know about integrations, permissions and security risks.
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What Is Tool Calling in AI? How It Works and Why It Matters
Learn how AI tool calling works, how it differs from APIs and MCP, and what businesses should know about integrations, permissions and security risks.
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Army Cyber Command builds agentic workforce to support cyber operations

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Your Security Stack Knows Who Logged In. But Does It Know What AI Agents Do Next?
AI agents expose gaps in enterprise access controls and audit trails. Here's how security leaders can rethink identity, data governance, and oversight.
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Your Security Stack Knows Who Logged In. But Does It Know What AI Agents Do Next?
AI agents expose gaps in enterprise access controls and audit trails. Here's how security leaders can rethink identity, data governance, and oversight.
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OpenAI Model Hacked Crypto Wallet and Spent Funds to Deploy Smart Contracts
SpaceXSI Launches Grok Voice 3.0 for AI Customer Support
SpaceXSI launches Grok Voice 3.0 for AI customer support. Explore benchmark results, API pricing, billing details, and what businesses should test.
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Always-On Assurance: How Cisco is Reimagining the Secure Development Lifecycle
Sen. Maria Cantwell outlines six-point plan to regulate frontier AI as concerns escalate

With President Donald Trump, states and tech giants taking varied and largely uncoordinated steps to put guardrails on artificial intelligence as the technology speeds ahead, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., has outlined a comprehensive AI governance framework.
βTo manage risks from advanced AI systems we need clear safety standards, continuous testing, and reporting of serious failures,β Cantwell said in a statement. βAmerica can lead the world in AI by building systems that are not only more capable, but safer and more secure.β
Last month, Cantwell took to the Senate floor to demand urgent federal regulations and mandatory independent safety testing for frontier AI models before their release. She warned that recent incidents in which autonomous AI agents carried out unauthorized cyberattacks show that dangerous threats are already here, well before the arrival of superintelligence.
The framework proposed Wednesday includes six principles for regulating frontier AI development and deployment:
- Setting standards: The federal government should establish clear and enforceable safety standards.
- Independent oversight: Continuous testing, review and auditing should verify adherence to the standards.
- Transparency and accountability: AI developers should be transparent and accountable in their operations through disclosure, oversight and liability.
- Public-private partnerships: Developers should work with the government on defensive AI technologies and collaborate with public agencies and smaller companies to serve the public good.
- Protecting from harm: AI companies should protect children from AI-related harm, support worker skill development and retain human oversight of consequential AI.
- International collaboration: The U.S. should partner with allies to develop and adopt AI safety standards and open a rapid communication channel with China to share alerts in the event of a dangerous AI system-control failure.
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith weighed in on the proposal, telling The Seattle Times that the framework βadvances the public discussion the nation needs as we consider the future of AI.β
Cantwell, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, has a background in technology as a former RealNetworks vice president. She has long pushed for AI regulation, going back to December 2017, when she joined other lawmakers in introducing the bipartisan Future of AI Act.
Two years ago, Cantwell advocated for five bipartisan AI measures included in a larger package of artificial intelligence legislation that addressed many of the concerns outlined in her six principles. Senate Republicans defeated the legislation. Cantwell reintroduced one of the five measures, the Future of AI Innovation Act, in February.
On Sept. 9, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 813 and Assembly Bill 1405, establishing the first state framework for independent assessment and verification of AI safety and risks. On the same day, OpenAI called for mandatory, βcapability-basedβ national regulation β meaning requirements tied to what an AI system can do.
On Sept. 29, Trump announced a voluntary safety agreement with Nvidia, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google calling for βrobust internal controlsβ to prevent unauthorized hacking and to work with independent external auditors. The deal does not include consequences for noncompliance.