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Agents at Home
The roughly $350 hub is nearly here; the conversational brain is reportedly a late-2026 or early-2027 arrival. Ahead of Tuesday's Welcome Home event, the gap between the hardware and the intelligence is the whole story.
◆ Mila Cohen
Trust & Security
October's security update auto-remediates the ACL protecting AD FS token-signing key material. Windows Server 2012 shops are on their own, and the registry opt-out leads with a warning.
◆ Heath Callahan
Models
The model is live on OpenRouter at $4/$20 per million tokens with 1M context and closed weights. But ai.meta.com/blog has nothing about it.
◆ Lena Park
Models
The same company that is Anthropic's largest Azure customer just unveiled silicon that competes head-to-head with NVIDIA's best. The compute landlord thesis gains its first credible escape route.
◆ Lena Park
Agents at Work
The ERP incumbent just attached vendor-cited customer names to the back-office agent deployment thesis. The autonomous enterprise framing is real, but the measurement gap persists.
◆ Dana Ellison
Models
The chip supplier already lent Anthropic $42 billion. Now reports say it is arranging financing for OpenAI's custom chips — and the two figures circulating, $30 billion and $50 billion, are both unconfirmed.
◆ Lena Park
Commerce
Five shipping checkouts, five meanings of the phrase, and terms that quietly land the loss at the same address in every case: the merchant of record. The mechanisms differ. The default does not.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Agents at Work
Microsoft's HR director describes the Learning, Workforce Insights, and People agents at work inside the company, with consequential decisions kept human. The post takes up ROI directly and answers without a single figure.
◆ Dana Ellison
Models
StepFun's promised weights and Anthropic's "Not sooner than October 15, 2026" for Haiku 4.5 land on the same day. Neither is contractual, and that is exactly what deployers have to plan around.
◆ Lena Park
Infrastructure
Salesforce's Winter '27 GA now sells orchestration across "any A2A-compliant ecosystem." The protocol behind that phrase ships the wire and a self-published name card, and almost nothing a procurement team would want verified.
◆ Blair Hayes
