Palantir CEO Alex Karp said a top executive told him to stop hyping Foundry because it sounded out of touch to employees. He pointed to Q2 U.S. commercial revenue growth of 149% year over year to $764 million. As a result, Foundry became central to Palantir’s fastest-growing business and Karp’s messaging shifted away from constant hype while AI-driven execution and competitive advantage remained a focus.
Harness acquired Augment Code’s Cosmos software factory, including Auggie CLI and the Code Context Engine, and is folding it into its software delivery platform to add autonomous coding agents. The acquisition was announced on Thursday, and Harness says Cosmos is available today even though the key capabilities—using delivery-history failures and downstream feedback in integrated workflows—have not shipped yet. The integration will let agents draw on past deployment failures and security or test results to revise code with failure context, while human approvals and agent permissions are expected to be governed through Harness’s Agent Harness identity and policy controls.
Anthropic released Claude Dashboards in beta, letting Claude generate live dashboards that reveal the underlying queries and refresh as data changes. Claude Dashboards is available in beta on paid plans. It adds new enterprise reporting capabilities (including query transparency and exports) alongside Claude Motion and new default availability for Docs, Slides, and Design on October 15.
Google announced a unified “agent” in Gemini that can answer questions and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf through a single interface. It will start with businesses first, after citing that Gemini has over 1 billion monthly active users and that nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies use Gemini Enterprise. Google says the agent can be given objectives (not just instructions) and connect to business tools like Workspace and other internal systems, with added controls such as model selection and cost-management options.
Martha Stewart said Kmart paid her up to $65 million a year in royalties through a licensing deal that funded her businesses and helped drive the success leading to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia going public. She cited about $20 million as the first-year advertising budget and about $2 billion a year at the line’s peak. Kmart’s nonrenewal in January 2010 ended the deal, and Stewart later shifted to other partnerships and launched newer businesses including an AI home-management startup.
Most AI SRE incident tools still require human involvement, because they can help troubleshoot but largely stop short of deciding on their own when an incident needs attention. The New Stack is hosting a live webinar on October 22 with Raaz Dwivedi about what it takes to move from invoked or background assistance to fully proactive, self-healing incident response agents. The change is that agents in the final phase choose when to act without waiting for an on-call request or scheduled triggers.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is presented with a reference multi-tenant design so multiple internal teams can share one GPU cluster while keeping workload isolation, fair scheduling, and per-team cost visibility. The example architecture shows two teams sharing a single HyperPod EKS cluster using separate Kubernetes namespaces plus per-team identity and governance controls. This shifts operations from unmanaged, cross-team usage to a setup where access is tied to IAM Identity Center groups and namespaces, and spend can be attributed per team via namespace-level cost allocation.
SalesRep.com launched a virtual sales rep that sells for businesses 24/7 across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email, and SMS by pulling live product data from Shopify and other sources. The full service starts at $39 per month with a 21-day free trial requiring no credit card. This adds automated product card sending, quotes, multi-language customer responses, and ongoing follow-ups with a human takeover option at any time.
U.S. nuclear reactor operators and vendors have begun integrating AI into plant operations, including a virtual assistant and document-search tools for regulatory and maintenance work. Nearly the entire fleet of 94 U.S. nuclear reactors has been offered the chance to integrate AI this year, and Atomic Canyon trained NIVA using 53 million pages of NRC data. AI adoption is shifting nuclear work toward faster knowledge retrieval and streamlined paperwork while keeping AI in a human-in-the-loop role for inspections and avoiding direct autonomous control.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is taking place at Moscone West in San Francisco five days from now, and discounted passes are still available ahead of the Oct. 13 doors-opening time. Discounted rates end at 8 a.m. PT on October 13, with savings up to $100 and second passes discounted by 50%. After that, prices are set to increase, and the article also offers a limited-price Expo+ Layoff ticket for $75.
Thravik launched as a native Mac web browser built on system WebKit with a private memory feature that encrypts the text of pages you read on your Mac. It’s available on macOS 26 or later. It adds encrypted page recall (via ⌘K and a Remember search), plus Mac features like separate Spaces tabs, Split View up to 4 pages, Focus Mode, tab hibernation, and an on-device Ask Page using Apple Intelligence.
env zero says autonomous AI agents stall because they lack cross-domain cloud infrastructure context, leading to shadow infrastructure and failed operations. It claims an example failure mode where an agent completes 90 API queries, fails on the 91st, and restarts the sequence, compounding the “API tax.” The company’s fix is a shared context layer plus an “EZ Control” autonomous control loop that correlates declared intent with discovered state, remediates under policy, and verifies resolution, targeting general availability by the end of December 2026.
A bold AI developer is challenging Adobe with open-source clone versions of its software tools under the slogan “Software is over.” The article does not provide any concrete number, benchmark, or date. As a result, Adobe faces open-source alternatives, though the piece offers no details on adoption or impact.
Amazon is launching “Alexa Tablets,” a new tablet lineup positioned around Alexa with full Google Play-supported Android. Amazon previously used the Fire name for tablets for 15 years, and this launch drops that naming in favor of Alexa. The change is that the new tablets run Android with access to standard Android apps rather than Amazon’s older Fire-style tablet software approach.
Amazon is launching its Alexa Tablets, a new Android lineup with Google Play access and Alexa+ built in. The tablets come in 8.7-inch, 11-inch, and 12-inch sizes, with an optional Nanomatte display on the 12 Pro. As a result, Amazon adds on-screen AI assistance, live conversations, and a distraction-free Kindle reading mode across the new devices.
TODAY raised €2.8M seed funding to scale its AI-powered sales operating system for financial and insurance advisors. The round brings in €2.8 million from HTGF and Insurtech Gateway, with participation from Seed X, Lucid Capital, and angel investors. The funding will be used to expand across the DACH region and extend the platform to cover more of advisors’ front- and back-office operations.
Verso raised a $6 million seed round to expand its AI-powered consumer intelligence platform for business decision-making. The funding led by Angular Ventures also includes support from multiple venture firms and startup studio Hexa. The company will use the money to integrate more consumer data sources, add interfaces for AI agents, and expand beyond France into the US while hiring.
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