n8n explains how small businesses can run common AI jobs, such as drafting emails, summarizing calls, reading invoices or searching their documents, on an NVIDIA DGX Spark machine. The local setup suits firms that cannot send customer data to a cloud API, often for privacy reasons.
Motive Technologies has launched Agents, autonomous AI agents for fleet operations. They are designed to anticipate problems and act before they occur.
Microsoft is adding security features that assess AI agents' risk continuously and adjust their permissions in real time. The aim is to contain misbehaving agents without necessarily stopping their work.
AI agents are increasingly using Link, Stripe's payment service, to shop on behalf of their users, Upstarts Media reports. Stripe has not disclosed any figures.
A hacker breached more than 100 websites using AI agents that mostly worked on their own, according to security firm Norforge. Reuters reports the victims included John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins.
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a mixture-of-experts model with 428 billion parameters, about 23 billion of them active, and a 1M-token context window. API pricing is $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, and the weights are due on October 23.