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October 13, 2026

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Orchestration

Your AI agents can execute every tool call correctly and still break every enterprise rule

Gabe Monroy

October 12, 2026

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Technology

Meta's new Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models achieve frontier performance, but only the weaker one is available via API

October 12, 2026

Orchestration

AI agents can be unpredictable. Your control layer shouldn't be.

Shuhua Xu

October 10, 2026

Orchestration

How enterprises coordinate and scale AI in production.

Partner Content

Agents need more than business process knowledge. They need to understand how your company actually works

Presented by SAP

October 13, 2026

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Why giving AI agents more compute isn't enough—and what Meta proposes instead

AI agents often struggle to assess their own progress and decide what to do next. They can waste compute resources following failed approaches, or they might overlook promising results or stop before completing a task. These problems become more costly as agents take on longer and more complex workflows.

Ben Dickson

October 9, 2026

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Magnific One launches to give teams an image generator that avoids the 'AI look' and automatically upholds their brand kit

A system that centralizes those guidelines, identifies deviations and allows employees to correct the results could make AI generation more practical for campaigns requiring large numbers of creative assets.

October 8, 2026

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The share of enterprises trusting AI agents to make production changes on their own has fallen from 75% to 56%, VB Intelligence finds

Those findings suggest unresolved gaps in the systems enterprises rely on to judge agent reliability.

Taryn Plumb

October 8, 2026

Infrastructure

The hardware and platforms underneath enterprise AI.

Partner Content

AI agents can’t fix infrastructure failures they can’t diagnose

Presented by Virtana

October 6, 2026

Partner Content

If you are not truly sovereign in 2027, you might not make it past 2028

Presented by EDB

Max Romanenko, EDB

September 30, 2026

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Nvidia's OpenShell controls what AI agents can access, even when they ignore instructions

Nvidia's open-source OpenShell enforces agent permissions on existing hardware, while Sentry adds protection for higher-risk workloads.

Sam Witteveen

September 28, 2026

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Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights AI robotics model that tops the leaderboard at half the size of its competition

The company says it trained task-specific FLUX 3 Action policies to fly drones in real life and even successfully beat the hit computer game Doom with no in-game deaths.

September 23, 2026

Events

Conferences and summits where enterprise AI strategy gets made.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 - Thu, Oct 29, 2026

Terra Gallery, San Francisco

Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit

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Token Economics: Why Cost Kills More AI Projects Than Hallucinations

Wed, Sep 30, 2026

New York City

Token Economics: Why Cost Kills More AI Projects Than Hallucinations

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Ending the hallucination tax: Governing the backbone of enterprise AI

Fri, Oct 9, 2026

New York City

Ending the hallucination tax: Governing the backbone of enterprise AI

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Data

Neeraja Rentachintala, Google Cloud

Pipelines, architecture, and governance for AI-ready systems.

Partner Content

The next-gen AI stack: Unifying data and knowledge without borders

Presented by Google Cloud

October 13, 2026

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Companies are building governed semantic layers. Most say their AI agents are getting context somewhere else

Nearly twice as many companies now name live-system queries as their AI agents' main context source. OpenAI, Keewano and Snowflake supply the missing context differently.

Sean Michael Kerner

October 6, 2026

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Shouldn’t customer service AI remember you? Siena to expand 'Agent of Record' combining purchase history with support and social

Siena's website describes agents that can update delivery addresses, create return labels, process refunds and arrange replacements

October 6, 2026

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Exclusive: Google expands pilot program that pays developers and small businesses for proprietary, offline code (and other data)

Google has not specified which products will use code obtained through this pilot, how much it pays, or what rights it receives under a typical agreement. Those

September 30, 2026

Security

Protecting AI systems and the data behind them.

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Anthropic’s Cyber Mission starts with 6,157 findings reported to maintainers and 516 patched

Anthropic’s new program sends frontier models to 11 critical infrastructure providers while its own dashboard shows 516 of 6,157 reported open-source findings patched.

Louis Columbus

October 9, 2026

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Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday shows why severity can't decide what gets patched first

Two actively exploited Windows flaws were rated only Important. Security teams are increasingly ranking patches by reachability, exploitation and impact instead of severity alone.

Louis Columbus

October 5, 2026

Partner Content

Your vibe-coded apps are a ticking time bomb for your business. Here’s how to secure them.

Presented by Retool

David Hsu, Retool

October 5, 2026

Partner Content

AI agents need more than access control — they need identity at runtime

Presented by Cisco

October 1, 2026

Technology

Enterprise tech coverage through the lens of AI adoption.

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H-JEPA teaches world models to plan at multiple levels of abstraction

Researchers at Yann LeCun’s Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs and academic institutions have developed H-JEPA, a world-model architecture that learns to plan at different timescales using separate representations of the environment.

Ben Dickson

October 9, 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with 90% API price reduction, matching GPT-6 Luna

Anthropic calls Haiku its fastest model at standard speeds, while acknowledging that Opus in Fast Mode runs faster. It does not supply a tokens-per-second figure in the materials reviewed for this article.

October 7, 2026

You can now open Claude directly in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides (and vice versa, open and edit the files in Claude)

Anthropic’s move means Google Workspace customers no longer have to choose Gemini simply because it is the AI sitting closest to their files.

October 7, 2026

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TwelveLabs debuts Pegasus 1.6 to improve robotics training data from first-person video

For an enterprise early in robotics, a useful starting point would be one bounded workflow, such as packing a particular product or assembling a specific part.

October 6, 2026

Newsroom

Daversa Promotes Hannah Doherty and Lisa Stenson to Managing Director, Expanding Leadership Across Consumer and Technology

Soufflé Therapeutics™ Announces Oversubscribed $135 Million Series B Financing to Advance Lead Clinical Programs and Continued Pipeline Progress

ZoomInfo Launches Native Integration With n8n Through GTM.AI

Study Shows I2Pure’s Molecular Iodine Formulations Rapidly Kill Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens without Residual Staining

Video

VB Transform 2026

Zendesk's 20 Billion Conversation Problem

Agentic infrastructure: How legacy stacks create the bottleneck to AI autonomy Multi-agent systems fail in production if the infrastructure underneath them isn't designed for autonomous, long-running loops. Token costs compound across chained tasks, latency bottlenecks surface inside orchestration layers, and agents drift from their original intent with no mechanism to catch this drift before downstream damage is done. This panel brings together agentic AI leaders who have moved past first-generation agentic deployments to deconstruct four key drivers of success: Inference Economics: How teams are managing cost-per-task in long-running agentic loops, including where speculative decoding and purpose-built small language models actually reduce spend versus where they add complexity. Physical Infrastructure decisions: Compute density, storage, memory, GPUs, inference processing units Orchestration Design: When a central master agent creates a single point of failure versus when a decentralized mesh or hybrid approach introduces coordination overhead and how to make that call based on your workload. Governance at the Infrastructure Layer: How teams are embedding rate limits, kill switches, and audit trails directly into the infrastructure stack to contain runaway API calls and prevent cascading failures before they reach production users.

VB Transform 2026

220 Million Miles. Zero Driver.

VB Transform 2026 Highlights Intelligence at Scale: How Waymo Builds Safe, Efficient AI for the Physical World The Waymo Driver represents the most mature application of AI operating in the physical world. With over 200 million fully autonomous miles driven and an expansion plan for 20+ cities, the company’s pioneering work serves as a roadmap for how to build AI systems that are reliable and safe, even in the most unpredictable scenarios. In this session, Waymo’s director of systems intelligence and machine learning, Manasi Joshi, reveals the key engineering approaches behind their operation and how data systems are improving Waymo's already exemplary safety record. This session will provide lessons for technology leaders in all industry verticals who are scaling their own agentic deployments.

VB Transform 2026

The 'Two Poisons' Problem in AI Testing

VB Transform 2026 Highlights LLM-as-a-judge vs. human-in-the-loop oversight: The great debate on model validation As agents move from prototype to production, the evaluation bottleneck has become one of the biggest hurdles. Can we truly trust an LLM to grade another LLM, or are we simply building a hall of mirrors? In this session, panelists weigh all sides of model validation, testing and putting trusted agents into production. They’ll get into the necessity of LLM-as-a-judge for real-time, automated observability at scale vs. the real world challenges of poor agent responses and the indispensable role of golden-set validation and human-in-the-loop oversight.

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Google Cloud unveils persistent Gemini Agents for long-running tasks, and they get their own Gmail, Calendar, and Drive storage

While Google supplies its own Gemini models, the agent can already use Anthropic's Claude models, with support for additional proprietary and open-weight AI models planned.

October 8, 2026

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Atlassian deepens its OpenAI partnership with a spend commitment — but its platform stays firmly multi-model

The strategic signal is that Atlassian is deepening its OpenAI relationship — with real dollars behind it — while deliberately keeping its platform model-agnostic, with Anthropic and others very much in the mix.

October 6, 2026

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Mistral debuts Large 4 ‘Le Chonk', a 1-trillion parameter text output model with high benchmarks planned for open weights release

Mistral executives said the Le Chonk name deliberately nods to the community that had been rooting for the company to build a massive frontier model.

October 6, 2026

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Agentic security: Enterprises rely on OpenAI most to secure AI agents, and those that do are nearly three times as likely to say attackers are ahead

OpenAI's guardrails secure 40% of enterprise AI agents, but 43% of these organizations say attackers are ahead. 59% have faced security incidents or near-misses.