Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents
Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents

Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them do, with Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart. A v0.1 specificati…

Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices
Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices

Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on a phone or a small board. It is licensed under Apache 2.0, has had no safety tuning, and Go…

AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself
AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself

AMD’s Lisa Su said chip demand is running ahead of supply and will stay very high for years, and urged the AI industry to work together as an ecosystem on safety rather than naming any regulator. The European Commission has been able to inspect models,…

OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

Hark debuts an AI agent a year before its first devices
Hark debuts an AI agent a year before its first devices

Brett Adcock’s Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a child’s lunch card, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, a year before the company’s first devices arrive. Meta launched an agent doing the s…

Lucid production falls 38% as the EV maker clears inventory
Lucid production falls 38% as the EV maker clears inventory

Lucid built 2,954 vehicles in the third quarter, its lowest quarterly output since early 2025 and a 38% fall from the second quarter, while delivering 3,806 as it cleared inventory. The company has outstanding commitments for 25,000 driverless cars wit…

Google accused of overcharging 20 million UK consumers over Play Store fees
Google accused of overcharging 20 million UK consumers over Play Store fees

Google is defending a £1.2B claim at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal brought for about 20 million British consumers who say Play Store commissions of up to 30% were passed into the prices they paid since October 2015. It settled an equivalent clai…

A ‘Verity’ Strong Opening Underscores The Power Of Women In Theaters

‘Verity’ earned a strong opening thanks to a female audience who discovered the story through Colleen Hoover’s novel. Women are showing up for several movies in 2026.

‘Artificial’: Early Reviews Cheer Biopic About OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

“Artificial,” starring Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is winning praise from critics who screened its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on Monday night.

The Best Taylor Sheridan Shows By Rotten Tomatoes Score, From ‘Tulsa King’ To ‘Mayor Of Kingstown’

Taylor Sheridan rules the roost at Paramount, and has now gotten a number of his shows on Netflix as well. Here are the best ones by Rotten Tomatoes score.