Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Monday, 21 September 2026 Reading Room

AI

Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Amazon says it has cut off Meta's new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers …

geekwire.com ·

We haven't written up this one. Techmeme has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at geekwire.com →

More in AI

Agents in the database, not in the repo: a tour of apowerb

The usual way to define an agent is to write it: a Python file that declares a model, attaches tools, carries the instruction. You commit it, you deploy it.

  • Agents are stored as database rows, not in the repository
  • Python code for agents is generated and disposable
  • Repair function ensures agent modules are up-to-date

·dev.to

The AI model your business runs on is being retired: the 2026 shutdown calendar

OpenAI already shut down the Assistants API on 26 August 2026. The next cutoffs are 24 September, when it retires the Videos API and sora-2 ; 28 September, for the last legacy completion snapshots…

  • Assistants API, Responses API, and Conversations API retired on 26 August 2026
  • Older completion-style snapshots retired on 28 September 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-terra
  • gpt-3.5-turbo-0125, gpt-4-0613, and gpt-4-turbo retired on 23 October 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol

·dev.to

More from Monday 21 September →