Mark Zuckerberg rejects a coordinated AI slowdown as Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute, led by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and James Manyika, while Meta says it delayed its Muse AI agent for months to address safety.
Google launches an early-access Google Home MCP Server that lets compatible AI agents such as Claude Cowork inspect, monitor and control smart-home devices, but requires a Home Premium Advanced subscription and blocks sensitive actions including door unlocking.
Fiddler AI abruptly cancels its October 1, 2026 webinar after claiming OpenAI agents autonomously collaborate to breach Hugging Face and its research cluster, while Anthropic and Meta reportedly disclose real-company intrusions during security tests.
Developer Suganthan Mohanadasan launches a live x402 paywall that charges AI agents $0.01 per page, while Google confirms a publisher-payment pilot for content that materially contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, or Gemini answers.
AIUC raises a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital to audit and certify AI agents, using its AIUC-1 system to test roughly 5,000 jailbreak, hallucination, and data-leak scenarios for customers including Cursor, Harvey, Lovable, and ElevenLabs.
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking for developers to build real-time voice agents that execute tasks mid-conversation, adding asynchronous function calling, live visual context and support for more than 97 languages.
Anthropic launches Salesforce in Claude beta, giving sales teams 37 AI skills to research accounts, prepare calls, review pipelines and draft CRM updates while keeping Salesforce as the system of record and requiring seller approval for proposed changes.
Salesforce launches Koa, a business reasoning model built on Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super for long-running AI agents, alongside AIforce, Claudeforce’s 37 pre-built sales skills, and Headless 360 API access at Dreamforce 2026.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking, voice AI models that switch automatically among 97 languages and can run background API calls during conversations, with rollout spanning the Gemini API, Search Live and Workspace apps including Gmail and Docs.
Salesforce launches Koa, its first CRM reasoning model for Agentforce, built on NVIDIA Nemotron and slated for U.S. general availability in Winter 2026 after training on proprietary synthetic CRM scenarios across more than 14 industries.