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Apple tightens Mac full disk access as AI agents raise risks

Mac apps will soon need very explicit user action before they can gain full disk access, Apple says.

OpenAI announces Dots agent platform for high-tier ChatGPT accounts

The workplace-focused agents can run apps in a cloud virtual machine and order food, but OpenAI limits access to its priciest plans.

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Apple tightens Mac full disk access as AI agents raise risks

Mac apps will soon need very explicit user action before they can gain full disk access, Apple says.
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OpenAI announces Dots agent platform for high-tier ChatGPT accounts

The workplace-focused agents can run apps in a cloud virtual machine and order food, but OpenAI limits access to its priciest plans.
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Amazon SageMaker AI adds multi-turn RL to fine-tune search agents

AWS says the method trains agents across full multi-turn trajectories using outcome rewards and serverless execution.
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Clay CEO Kareem Amin will speak on GTM engineering at Disrupt 2026

Clay coined the GTM engineer role in 2023, and companies now post roughly 100 listings for it each month.
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Microsoft adds gardens and native trees to ease data center backlash

Microsoft says the approach will make its hyperscale facilities quieter and less disruptive to neighbors and ecosystems.
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Younger contest challenges 500 people to reverse biological age in six months

The six-month competition uses multiple aging clocks and a leaderboard to track changes in participants' biological age.
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OpenAI launches virtual try-on and Favorites in ChatGPT shopping

Two features roll out globally, letting users preview clothing on photos and save products to a Library in the app.
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NVIDIA publishes DOCA AI agent skills on GitHub for BlueField builders

The release includes verified API signatures, hardware requirements, and build constraints for DOCA developers.
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Airbnb rolls out AI search as Chesky questions chatbot design

Airbnb rolled out AI-powered search this week, and CEO Brian Chesky explores multiplayer AI interfaces for group trip planning.
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Photon raises $4.5M to help developers replace mobile apps with agents

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps and now has seed funding to build agents that work over iMessage and WhatsApp.
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AI tool reconstructs images that a person views from brain scans

The model from Israel's Weizmann Institute can also predict brain activity from images a person sees.
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NVIDIA fine-tunes Nemotron 3.5 ASR for Saudi Najdi and Hijazi speech

NVIDIA reports that fine-tuning on 133.7 hours cut word error rate from 55.05% to 29.96% on the target test split.
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