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Oct 14, 2026, 11:38 AM EDT
Mistral Acquires New Material, Launches Solutions Design Team
Mistral buys New Material, a six-year product and design studio, and folds it into a new Solutions Design function that co-develops with enterprise and government buyers.
Oct 14, 2026, 1:34 AM EDT
406 AI Researchers Call to Airgap Cyber-Capable Models by Default
Hinton, Bengio, Russell, and Rivest join 400+ scientists asking for high-assurance containment, an international standards body, and mandatory public incident reporting after disclosed sandbox escapes.
Oct 13, 2026, 10:29 PM EDT
Gemini 4 Argon Lands in Cursor and Vercel's AI Gateway, Matching Claude Opus 5.5 on CursorBench
The same day Google took Gemini 4 Argon fully live, Cursor added it to its model picker at $2/$10 per million tokens; Vercel's AI Gateway also opened it to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor users through one gateway key.

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Diagram showing Claude Code, Cursor and Codex connecting separately to Workday's Agent-Ready Tools MCP server and Live Data Query SQL access, both scoped to the signed-in user, with a shared Workday permissions and audit trail, and Agent Harness governing agents built with Developer Agent or Custom Agents.

October 13, 2026

Workday's MCP Server Goes GA: Agents in Claude Code and Cursor Can Now Query Live HR and Finance Data

Workday made its Trusted Agent Platform headless at Workday Rising: an MCP server with 275 read and 54 write tools, SQL access to live data, and a shared Agent Harness runtime are all generally available, scoped to the signed-in user's own permissions.

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