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How Antai MBA Is Training Future Business Leaders for the AI Era

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Antai College of Economics and Management is reshaping its MBA education to prepare business leaders who can combine technical understanding with business judgment and responsibility. Its “Five Links” talent framework connects AI, science and technology innovation, industry, global perspectives, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University resources. The college also plans to co-create 1,000 AI projects with companies over the next decade and has announced curriculum and training changes for the 2027 cohort.

STEPX Neo Brings an AI Agent Music Collaboration Experience to TMOT 2026

STEPX says its STEPX Neo agent-native phone will enable festivalgoers at The Magic of Tomorrowland 2026 in Shanghai to turn their ideas into personalized electronic music, making them co-creators. The experience uses StepAudio 3 Music and the phone’s built-in personal agent, Step Amoo. The event is scheduled for October 17–18.

QbitAI Think Tank Releases Report on Scaling Enterprise Agents

The QbitAI Think Tank released a report, “Enterprise Intelligence Driven by Agents: From Improving Individual Tasks to Scaling Enterprise Transformation,” examining six obstacles to enterprise AI adoption: task definition, data reliability, verifiable decisions, execution, responsibility and permissions, and measuring and replicating value. It proposes a full-chain framework around business outcomes and recommends proving one high-value use case before expanding.

JD.com’s 11.11 Starts With Double-Digit Growth in First-Day Buyers

JD.com said the number of users placing orders on the first day of its 11.11 event grew by double digits year over year. At a launch event on October 15, the company also announced its “333” service plan and unveiled more than 100 service offerings. JD.com said its AI capabilities are being used across more than 3,000 scenarios, including retail, logistics, health, industry, food delivery and home services.

Meta releases Muse Spark Open for coding and agentic tasks

Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model with 816 billion parameters (42 billion active), up to one million tokens of context, and text, image, video, and audio support. Meta reports leads over Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.3, and Kimi K3 in several benchmark categories, while trailing some competitors in coding. Weights are on Hugging Face; use requires the label "Built with Muse Spark Open," and API providers earning more than $20 million annually need a separate agreement with Meta.

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Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the sandbox platform powering Perplexity Computer

While sandboxes are a commodity, serving millions of them under production-grade traffic requires attention to detail to scale agents for businesses and consumers. Perplexity is open-sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform that powers all of Perplexity Computer, to support the ecosystem. https://github.com/perplexityai/space

Meta releases Muse Spark Open, with Ollama availability coming shortly

Meta announced Muse Spark Open, calling it the most capable US open-weight model to date and describing it as built for coding and agentic work. Meta lists 816B total / 42B active parameters, a 1M token context window, and native text, image, video, and audio support. Ollama welcomed the release and said the model will be available on Ollama shortly. https://twitter.com/AIatMeta/status/2110779754274292212

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Perplexity open sources SPACE, the sandbox platform behind Perplexity Computer

We're open sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs every task in Perplexity Computer. SPACE gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM and controls credentials and outbound traffic from outside the VM. Available now under Apache 2.0: https://t.co/DzSmq6o1xA

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Google Antigravity Walkthrough Finds an Antimicrobial Peptide Candidate

Google DeepMind describes how biologists used Google Antigravity to find a novel antimicrobial peptide candidate in *Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae*. ProtNLM helps scan millions of previously uncharacterized UniProt proteins, while the agent coordinates database searches, structural analysis, and literature synthesis. The candidate has predicted activity against pathogens involved in respiratory tract infections and is undergoing wet-lab validation.

Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

Janus Rose examines how Meta’s Muse can collect sensitive information about users and their contacts, raising consent concerns for people who never installed the assistant. Privacy experts argue that permission interfaces obscure the scope of data sharing, while Meta says access is opt-in. The article also explains how uploading messages after decryption can undermine the privacy protections encrypted communications are intended to provide.

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for continuously running enterprise AI agents

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open multimodal model with 120 billion parameters and 12 billion active per token, for continuously running enterprise agents. Nvidia says it approaches Nemotron 3 Ultra’s accuracy on specified agent tasks with about one-fifth the parameters, and is releasing weights, datasets, and training recipes. The accompanying Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB targets local agents, while Bolt E4B 4GB is planned for later this month.

The Declining Value of CoT Changes How People Work With AI Agents

The sudden collapse of the value of CoT (even summarized CoT) in the agentic era changes working with AI. Effectively steering AIs and getting any sort of observability now requires you to ask for interim outputs & tests, and to use AI help to troubleshoot problems you find.

See a fully-explorable 3D world build itself in minutes ⛩️ Watch @GoogleDeepMind's @GeokenAI explain how Gemini 4 Argon acts as a virtual builder in @antigravity to autonomously create a stunning, multi-tiered pagoda sanctuary.

See a fully-explorable 3D world build itself in minutes ⛩️ Watch @GoogleDeepMind's @GeokenAI explain how Gemini 4 Argon acts as a virtual builder in @antigravity to autonomously create a stunning, multi-tiered pagoda sanctuary.

AWS explains Trust in Depth for giving agents autonomy within enforceable boundaries

AWS’s Shawn Bice explains Trust in Depth, a framework for governing agents through four layers: Scope, Know, Bound, and Observe. He describes how AWS tools support policies, agent identities, external enforcement, and tracing, using employee offboarding to illustrate sequence-dependent safeguards. Automated reasoning can prove precisely stated rules within a system’s defined assumptions, while context-dependent expectations require evaluation and human judgment.

NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Super VL and Bolt Open Models

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model for multimodal agents, and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB for local agentic workloads; Bolt E4B 4GB is coming Oct. 23. Super VL targets tool use, business workflows and visual document understanding, with open weights, datasets and training recipes. Bolt 74B-A9B uses native 2-bit quantization to fit in 24GB of memory, while Bolt E4B targets physical and conversational agents.

Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US

Google launched Universal Cart for U.S. users, letting shoppers save and track products from multiple retailers across Search and the Gemini app. The tool offers price-drop and restock notifications and can account for credit card perks and surface promo codes. Checkout uses Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard designed to connect AI agents and retailers.

AI Agents Are Coming to Rivian’s Cars

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company plans to let its cars run AI agents from frontier AI companies such as Anthropic, though he gave no timeline. Rivian says its in-house framework routes requests to the car’s software and can use local or cloud models. Scaringe said agents would not control vehicle functions such as braking or steering.

Google launches Universal Cart across Gemini and Search in the US

Google is rolling out Universal Cart in the US across the Gemini app and Google Search, letting users save products from multiple retailers in one shared cart. It provides price drop and restock notifications, displays relevant promotional codes, and supports payment through Google Wallet or checkout with retailers directly. Gmail and YouTube integrations are planned, but Google has not announced a timeline.

Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75

Amazon’s Bee introduced the $74.99 Bee Frontier, worn on the wrist or pinned to clothing, and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse, which attaches magnetically to a smartphone. Both turn conversations into summaries, with free recaps and 14 days of memory; an $11.99 monthly Bee Pro subscription adds integrations and assistant features. Frontier is available now on Amazon, while Eclipse will follow soon.

Amazon’s Bee adds two devices and a subscription with shopping suggestions

Amazon announced the $74.99 Bee Frontier wearable, available today, and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse phone accessory, coming soon, alongside a $11.99 monthly Bee Pro subscription. Both devices turn daily conversations into summaries, transcripts, insights, and to-dos; Pro adds app integrations and opt-in Amazon shopping suggestions based on conversations. Amazon says its Private Compute architecture encrypts transcripts, summaries, and to-dos, and the devices do not store audio recordings.

Automate Your Workflows with Kimi Work - Tutorial #3 See how Kimi fits into your daily workflows: - Work across your local projects, browser, and computer. - Break down complex tasks using Swarm; iterate in Goal mode. - Customize how Kimi works with Plugins, AGENTS.md and Dashboard. What should we cover next? Let us know in the comments!

Automate Your Workflows with Kimi Work - Tutorial #3 See how Kimi fits into your daily workflows: - Work across your local projects, browser, and computer. - Break down complex tasks using Swarm; iterate in Goal mode. - Customize how Kimi works with Plugins, AGENTS.md and Dashboard. What should we cover next? Let us know in the comments!

Alexandr Wang Calls @zatadigitall’s Muse Gadget “Cool” and “Vibey”

@zatadigitall says their AI agent lives on a studio wall, projected by a Pi 5 and laser projector, and describes it as a work in progress. Alexandr Wang calls it “a cool muse gadget” and “vibey.” https://twitter.com/zatadigitall/status/2110615079162888351

DeepSeek’s Web Service and APIs Suffer an Outage as DeepSeekHarness Appears on Bilibili

DeepSeek reported partial outages affecting its chat service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API; it said the cause had been identified and repairs were underway. The incident began at 8:11 a.m. Beijing time and had lasted about an hour in the latest update. Around the same time, a new DeepSeekHarness account appeared on Bilibili, but there is no official evidence linking it to the outage or a model release.

Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform

Figma announced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor that lets teams define design language and give teams and agents a shared reference for brand rules. At its first Config event in India, Figma also opened code layers to public beta for interactive prototypes and announced support for over 20 new tools through its MCP. It is integrating Payload with Figma Make to generate dynamic websites and manage content directly.

Qianwen Office Launches E-Commerce Edition With Research, Content, and Operations Tools

Qianwen Office launched an e-commerce edition with trend and selling-point analysis, bulk promotional content generation, a cross-platform operations dashboard, and ROI optimization. It connects existing business tools through connectors, including MCP connectors, to organize data retrieval and analysis into workflows. Merchant-reported examples include reducing seasonal content preparation from 4 months to about 15 days and opening a 3D-printed shoe store in 7 days instead of 30.

Ethan Mollick Says a Dedicated Email Address for His Dot Solved Agent-Use Problems

Giving my Dot a dedicated email address turned out to be surprisingly painless and solved a few problems around how to relate to a personal agent. I don't want it using my email or drafting messages on my behalf, and I want to make sure people know they are interacting with an AI.

Alexandr Wang Praises @clairevo’s Review of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full

Thoughtful review of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full from the lovely @clairevo! https://t.co/VneEUPK6f6

Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full deliver SOTA performance on personal and professional agentic tasks

Meta says Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full deliver SOTA performance on personal and professional agentic tasks. Learn more about the models on Meta’s researcher blog: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder

AI Agents Repeatedly Tested Amap’s Anti-Scraping Defenses

A swarm of AI agents tried multiple ways to get past Amap’s anti-scraping defenses to answer a question about which gate most visitors to Chengdu Zoo use. Swarmchasers said that from September 28 to October 8, agents running in Tencent Cloud sandboxes made more than 2,600 scraping requests to Amap; after being blocked, they used the public URL-scanning site urlquery.

Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents

Speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Two Sigma, and Bloomberg at AI Engineer New York described how financial agents can gain autonomy through targeted controls and human oversight. OpenAI’s Joseph Kim predicted agents could handle investment idea generation and trading in 2027, while Anthropic illustrated an agent that proposes order amendments for human approval. Two Sigma described classifiers that route important requests to people, and Bloomberg advocated deterministic controls outside the model, including tool-call checks, audit logs, and kill switches.

Ian Quigley Explains Leash Bio’s Data Methods and Lab-in-the-Loop Agent Research

Brandon Anderson interviews Leash Bio’s Ian Quigley about generating reproducible protein–small molecule interaction data using DNA Encoded Libraries and detecting misleading signals in experiments and models. They discuss a Kaggle competition with about 4B measurements where nobody beat chance on an unseen chemical library, and an agent sandbox searching 6.5M molecules on a budget of 100. Anderson reports that the sandbox has matured into Minos, with a preprint, blog, and open dataset being released today.

Aravind Srinivas says America is the market to build for

America is the market to build for 🇺🇸 More than 50% of our users who spend money on Automations (recurring agentic tasks) or on the higher tier plans are American. Net dollar retention for an American self serve business onboarded on agents is consistently high https://twitter.com/mollysoshea/status/2110118882102890524

Google says self-improving AI isn't anywhere close

Google engineer Haydn Belfield says Google DeepMind has seen no measurable AI-driven acceleration of AI research despite substantial automation. AI writes more than 75 percent of production code, but every change receives human review before submission; Argon completes about half of RE-Bench's 74 ML engineering tasks. Google's General Capability Index shows steady Gemini capability growth without statistically significant acceleration, contrasting with researchers' warnings of a possible intelligence explosion.

OpenAI report examines Europe’s shift toward agentic AI

European businesses are rapidly expanding their use of AI agents. More than half of AI use among OpenAI’s EU enterprise and business customers now involves these tools, and the number of small business users has grown 8x across the region. OpenAI’s latest Economic Research report explores Europe’s shift toward agentic AI and the opportunity to turn broader adoption into deeper use. https://openai.com/index/the-eus-next-chapter-in-ai-is-agentic/

Perplexity Computer adds Ultrafast GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 for Max subscribers

Perplexity says Ultrafast versions of GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 are now available in Perplexity Computer for Max subscribers, generating tokens faster to complete long tasks sooner. Select Astra or SOL 6.1 under Custom, then set speed to Ultrafast. Quoting the announcement, Aravind Srinivas calls it super fast and warns about credit consumption.

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Perplexity Computer adds real-time Polymarket data for market research

Aravind Srinivas says users can now tag @Polymarket inside Perplexity Computer for market and real-time trends research tasks. https://twitter.com/pplxfinance/status/2110426596796666192 Quoted account @PPLXfinance says Computer pulls data directly from Polymarket’s API, providing market-implied probabilities, trading volume, and liquidity across 250,000+ active prediction markets when users mention or @-tag Polymarket in a query.

Apate sends AI agents undercover to gather fraud intelligence from scammers

Apate.ai deploys thousands of AI agents posing as potential victims to engage scammers across calls, messages, email, and the web, gathering intelligence for banks, telecom companies, government agencies, and utilities. The company says its agents have consumed 17 years of scammers’ time across 2.5 million conversations. Customers receive scam analytics and can assign missions such as obtaining bank account numbers or crypto-wallet addresses.

Researchers trace a Chinese AI agent fleet and exchange messages with it

Researchers traced AI agents on Tencent Cloud that made more than 2,600 attempts to scrape Amap between September 28 and October 8, 2026, according to Ethan Elasky. Blocked agents used urlquery.net as an intermediary or exposed credentials from a public repository; most attempts failed, but some retrieved data. Researchers attracted agents to a mailbox through invisible website text and received 33 messages; a source close to Tencent attributed the fleet to evaluation tests, while the agents’ identification as Anthropic’s Claude remains unconfirmed.

Perplexity Computer adds Ultrafast GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 for Max subscribers

Ultrafast versions of GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 are now available in Perplexity Computer for Max subscribers. Both generate tokens faster, completing long Computer tasks sooner. Choose Astra or SOL 6.1 under Custom, then set speed to Ultrafast.

With Gemini 4 Argon, spend less time on repetitive admin and more time on your craft. Just connect your @GoogleWorkspace apps to turn scattered recipes, handwritten guest lists, and photos of seating charts into a polished proposal deck, email draft, and automated tracker.

With Gemini 4 Argon, spend less time on repetitive admin and more time on your craft. Just connect your @GoogleWorkspace apps to turn scattered recipes, handwritten guest lists, and photos of seating charts into a polished proposal deck, email draft, and automated tracker.