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The U.S. Treasury Department wants to close the door on American money flowing to AI developers in China and other “countries of concern.” On October 22, 2026, Treasury issued a proposed rule under the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security (COINS) Act (the name the fact sheet uses; the press release body calls it the Comprehensive … Read more
Walmart wants AI agents to shop on your behalf, and it is building the rules to make that happen. On October 21, 2026, the retailer announced Agent Profiles, a developer-facing Agent Gateway, and formal terms that AI agents must follow when buying from Walmart and Sam’s Club. It is a public outline of how Walmart … Read more
OpenAI says it no longer lets its most capable models touch the live internet while they are being trained. In a post published October 23, 2026, the company said frontier training now happens against an “offline world” of cached web content, and that the policy will stay in place until safety tools catch up. It … Read more