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AI daily picks · 2026-09-29
5 stories published here on 2026-09-29 (Beijing time), less than 48 hours after the event and above our selection bar, ranked by editorial score.
- 1IndustryEvent time 4 independent sourcesAMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion
AMD announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion. The deal has not closed. It is expected to complete by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions; after closing, Fei-Fei Li will become AMD's Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, reporting to Lisa Su.
- 2Model releaseEvent time 6 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: same list price, officially 30%+ faster
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, at the same list price as Sonnet 5: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Anthropic says its output is more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and that, in its own testing, the cost per task is up to 30% lower (mainly because it needs fewer tokens to do the same work). The model is available on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
- 3Product updateEvent time 2 independent sourcesShopify checkout now supports WebMCP: in-browser AI agents can place orders once the buyer confirms
Shopify has added WebMCP tools to its checkout flow. AI agents in the browser can read and update the current checkout and, once the buyer confirms, submit the order. When buyer input is needed, such as 3D Secure verification, or when a blocking UI extension appears, the tools hand control back to the buyer; merchants need no extra configuration.
- 4Product updateEvent time 3 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed detailsGoogle says Gemini's Gems will become skills, with a phased migration starting in November
Google's Help Center says Gems in the Gemini app will be transitioned to skills starting in November 2026: November 2026 for personal accounts, March 2027 for Workspace business, enterprise and nonprofit accounts, and June 2027 for education accounts. When Gems are removed, Google will automatically recreate existing Gems as skills.
- 5Product updateEvent time 3 independent sourcesNVIDIA launches an open agent safety platform: OpenShell software boundaries plus a BlueField-4 hardware watchdog
NVIDIA announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, made up of the open-source OpenShell runtime and the Sentry reference system design, which constrains AI agents with software boundaries and hardware monitoring. NVIDIA says Sentry, running on BlueField-4 DPUs, can isolate an agent that crosses its boundaries within milliseconds; the platform software, including OpenShell and skills, is available from NVIDIA's developer resources page and GitHub.