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Google announces Gemini workplace agent, with access still limited
Google announced a workplace Gemini agent designed to carry out assignments across business apps. Background delegation and other features remain in early access. The draft examines integrations and oversight, but publication is on hold pending pricing, approval-control and image-rights verification.
Read the full story →Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-08T21:00:00.000Z Read the story →
California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches
The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times. The fight, which took place on September 18th, pitted a human, Frankie LaPenna, against a humanoid robot owned by a tech startup, Rek, that was being piloted by a human using what the NYT described as a "remote virtual-reality…
The Verge AI · 2026-10-08T20:06:56.000Z Read the story →
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-08T20:04:26.000Z Read the story →
Behind the nanoMuse Headline: Personal Agents, From Answers to Actions
Duration: 2:50
A background explainer on how personal AI agents move beyond generating text to executing tasks, using reporting on Meta’s Muse as a clearly separate example. It explains why permissions and device connections matter while identifying what remains unverified about nanoMuse.
Watch on the site →Read the primary coverage behind "Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website" (TechCrunch AI) directly, rather than relying on this summary alone -- useful for anyone tracking enterprise_market closely. Read: TechCrunch AI →
Reuses this edition's own freshly link-verified Pulse evidence rather than introducing a new, unverified link.
- Whether "California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches" (The Verge AI) develops into a broader pattern worth tracking, or remains an isolated development. Follow: The Verge AI →
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