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Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an always-on agent for small business work
Anthropic's research preview agent works in the background and checks in with users, aimed at professionals and small business owners in the US.
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Walmart opens its site to AI shopping agents with spending controls
Walmart is letting approved AI agents shop for customers through a new gateway, a sharp contrast with Amazon, which has blocked them.
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CrowdStrike: four hacking groups ran autonomous AI attacks despite model guardrails
New CrowdStrike research shows even unsophisticated attackers use agentic AI and model routing to get around safeguards, a warning for anyone holding customer data.
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Trinity Logistics brings freight call automation in-house and reports 25% higher margins
ElevenLabs says the 3PL cut platform costs 40% after switching its carrier booking agents, a useful reference for teams weighing voice automation.
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OpenAI buys Orchestra Bio to add workflow agents to its life sciences push
The acquisition folds a drug-development operations startup into OpenAI's Rosalind platform, a signal for anyone selling AI tools into specialized industries.
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Mistral launches Voxtral 3, a full stack for real-time voice agents
Mistral AI's new Voxtral 3 bundles transcription, speech synthesis and an agent SDK, aimed at teams building multilingual voice assistants with data control.
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ElevenLabs launches Eleven Realtime, an all-in-one voice agent model
The two new speech to speech models replace a multi-component voice stack, and teams on OpenAI's Realtime API can try them by changing an endpoint.
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Personal AI agents shift SEO work toward bot rules, accessibility and checkout
Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots can research and buy for users, and a Search Engine Journal analysis says that puts new demands on SEO, front-end and analytics teams.
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AI shopping agents are forcing sites to choose between blocking and welcoming them
As agent apps from OpenAI and Meta draw heavy use, retailers split on access, and the outcome will shape ads, pricing and checkout for marketers.
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Microsoft launches Guardian Agents to watch the AI agents companies deploy
Microsoft is pitching independent oversight of enterprise AI agents, a shift that affects any marketing team giving agents access to data and tools.
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Hacker used AI agents to breach more than 100 websites, Norforge says
Norforge says one attacker let autonomous agents do most of the work, and the reported victims include well-known brands whose side sites were exposed.
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AI sped up marketing output, but slow workflows still hold up delivery
A MarTech column says the bottleneck has moved from production to approvals and handoffs, and that marketing leaders must redesign how work moves.