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Your AI agent is about to walk into a store. Meta and Sierra want to make sure it knows how to knock.

On October 6, at Sierra Summit in San Francisco, Sierra and Meta announced the Personal Agent Protocol — PAP, an open standard for how a person's AI agent signs in to a business and gets a task done there. Sierra co-founders Bret Taylor, the former Salesforce co-CEO, and Clay Bavor published the announcement with founding partners Walmart, Stripe, Shopify, Genesys, Rocket, and Instinct.

Read more about Meta and Sierra Draft the Personal Agent Protocol, an Open Sign-In Standard for Agents

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The industry's own insiders say a catastrophic AI incident is coming within six to twelve months. The industry's executives are rehearsing what to say the day after.

Read more about Axios: OpenAI and Anthropic Execs War-Game the Day After a Catastrophic AI Event

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Google just made its boldest move in the race to sell AI that does work, not chat: a single universal agent for the workplace, announced at its Gemini at Work 2026 event on October 8.

Read more about Google's Gemini Agent: One Universal Workplace Agent, Now in Private Preview