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Claude Duet is Anthropic’s new agent for professionals and small business owners, and it’s launching as a research preview. by Jay Peters Oct 21, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in
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When GM announced its new fourth-generation EV platform on Wednesday, what the automaker didn’t share was almost as notable as what it did. The new EV platform, part of a series of technology-focused announced during its annual GM Forward event in New York, didn’t talk about suspension geometries,
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! OpenAI has revealed that two of its AI agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems while making software changes requested by a researcher. Even more worryingly, one of the agents lied about its
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect
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Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed at customers using AI agents, the retailer announced on Wednesday. The move comes shortly after Walmart’s top competitor, Amazon, began blocking AI agents from making purchases on behalf
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For U.S. Hunger, feeding families takes more than delivering food to them. It takes understanding the people behind each request, the pressures they face, and the business that makes the mission possible. That means connecting information across the organization. Its mission is to feed families today and unite them
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The internet is having a bad day, from a cybersecurity perspective. Government websites around the world went offline, Reuters reported, after AI discovered critical security vulnerabilities that impacted the programming language PHP. The issues were severe enough that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) advised organizations using PHP on
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Sony just released system firmware 14.20 for its PlayStation 5 consoles, following reports that system firmware version 14.10 had already been cracked. While Sony's official patch note for the update is "We've improved the messages and usability on some screens," the console
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In a blog post and accompanying YouTube video, AMD has just revealed that it is bringing its ML-powered upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to the Xbox Series S and X consoles, to Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs, and to integrated graphics, including the Xbox Ally handhelds as well as Ryzen AI
