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Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and businessTuesday, October 13, 2026

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"OUR AI TOOL HAS ACCESS TO _THAT_?"

AI adoption is outpacing security knowledge - and some companies are already paying a price for it... publicly 🤦♂️ How can you keep moving fast with AI, [5] without becoming the next cautionary tale? This Thursday, Oct 15 [6], two AI advisory firm founders, Lauren Pearl & Glenn Hopper, will share the inside scoop on how to keep your AI pace - along with practical steps to mitigate security issues such as data breaches and deletions.

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ONLY 25% OF TEAMS ACHIEVE AI ROI. THEY GET 1 THING RIGHT

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FORGE: THE CONFERENCE FOR COMPANIES MAKING THEIR OWN FRONTIERS

The most ambitious companies are training specialized models to outperform the frontier on their domain. Join Jensen Huang, Lin Qiao, and more at Fireworks Forge on November 3 in San Francisco.

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CURIOUS ABOUT OPEN INTELLIGENCE? JOIN HACKTOBERFEST.

Hacktoberfest is back with 300+ events, in person and online. Attend a Fest to learn about, experiment, and build with open-source AI and open-weight models. Select Fests will give away Arduinos and T-shirts. FIND A FEST NEAR YOU [22].

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WEBINAR: BUILDING RELIABLE WORKFLOWS AND AGENTS WITH AI CODING ASSISTANTS

Modern business processes span APIs, services, and AI models, demanding reliable workflow coordination. Conductor is an open-source orchestration platform that manages these multi-step processes, tracking state and handling failures. This webinar [5]shows how Conductor Skills let AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor turn natural language into executable workflows, then evolve them into agentic workflows with AI decisions and human approvals. REGISTER NOW

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BEHIND THE SCENES: HOW GOOGLE BUILDS, TESTS, AND SCALES AGENT SKILLS

After passing 15,000+ GitHub stars, how does Google keep open-source agent skills reliable at scale? READ THE ENGINEERING BREAKDOWN [13] on designing skills with remote MCP tools, ADK authoring loops, and continuous evals for accuracy and token efficiency. Building your own agent stack? Register for HARNESS ENGINEERING: CRUCIAL SCAFFOLDING

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RAG ON AWS WITHOUT THE INTEGRATION WORK

Deploy a RAG pipeline to your AWS with one Terraform template. Sign up for Elastic Cloud free [19], upload documents to S3, then query

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GIVE YOUR AGENT VOICE-MODE WITH LIVEKIT

Over 1M developers use the open-source LiveKit [5]Agents framework (Python or TypeScript) to build voice agents. In less than 10mins, you (or your coding agent) can get a voice agent built and deployed to the cloud for free. Included for free: * VOICE AI TOKENS: one-line swap between models from OpenAI, Google, xAI, and more * A PHONE NUMBER: get your agent to take phone calls in seconds * ONE-COMMAND DEPLOY: ship to LiveKit Cloud from the CLI LiveKit is the dev platform for real-time voice, video, and robotics, powering billions of minutes for companies like Spotify, Headspace, and SpaceXAI. TRY IT FOR FREE

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TOMORROW: SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SECURITY BECOMES PART OF THE AI SDLC

AI coding tools _haven't_ transformed software delivery... yet. Messy handoffs are largely to blame. In tomorrow's webcast [12] and the follow-up lab on Thursday, see how GitLab Duo Agent Platform triages security findings, filters out false positives, and proposes remediation merge requests, all with human approval built in. Save

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META'S MUSE AGENT IS ALREADY ON YOUR SITE

Muse signs in and acts like a real user without identifying itself. Can you see it? Fingerprint labels it with _meta_muse_ in one API

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22 MILLION REASONS TO RETHINK YOUR 2027 THREAT INTELLIGENCE PLAN

Over six months, Flashpoint tracked 22 million illicit posts [5] in which threat actors discussed, shared, or advertised AI toolkits built for criminal deployment. Before finalizing your 2027 plans, join Flashpoint experts on Wednesday, October 14th [6] as they take a data-driven dive into the state of threat intelligence today, where it's headed, and what you can do to protect your business from AI-enabled adversaries. Join to discover: * Proprietary data and insights on the growth of AI-enabled threats * New benchmark data on AI spending and adoption * What these findings signal for the future of threat intelligence

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⚡️THIS AI AGENT RESOLVES T1 & COMPLEX T2 INCIDENTS FROM END TO END

Robin by Atera securely takes complex IT tickets from "hello" to "fixed". It verifies users, resolves issues, and verifies results so

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THE ROADMAP YOU SET TODAY DEFINES WHAT YOUR BUSINESS CAN DO TOMORROW.

Commercial payments, stablecoin backed cards and money movement — every new capability rides on the infrastructure beneath it. And that infrastructure has to hold up. Marqeta gives the world's most innovative companies a modern card issuing platform built to scale globally, adapt fast, and stay dependable as your ambitions grow, with seamless API integration, multi-currency support, real-time fraud detection, and the reliability high-volume programs depend on.

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WHAT ARE YOU REALLY FIXING?

Your dashboard says this was a good year: error clicks down, post-error exits down. Meanwhile rage clicks rose 77% year-over-year. FULLSTORY'S 2026 DIGITAL BENCHMARK REPORT [10] breaks down the numbers and includes a prompt to use in your favorite LLM to benchmark your own data.

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YOU'VE SQUEEZED ALL THE EFFICIENCIES OUT OF MEDIA, BUT YOU'RE STILL PICKING CREATIVE ON VIBES

Marketing teams target and optimize for channel-specific performance everywhere except creative. Unsurprisingly, that's where a huge amount of budget waste happens.

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AD-HOC AI USE ISN'T JUST RISKY, IT SLOWS YOU DOWN

Microsoft says 78% of all AI users bring their own AI tools to work. They're trying to resolve workflow bottlenecks you don't even know about with tools you can't even see. This 12-question assessment [5] from BrainStorm shows you the missed opportunities and compliance gaps that result from ad-hoc AI usage. Take it to see: * What's already exposed * Your risk scores across 3 areas: approved use, information protection, and sustained practice * The manual bottlenecks that you could have automated but didn't because you lacked visibility 📑 You get a 30-day custom plan [6] to address gaps.

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