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Magic: The Gathering reaches record $600M in quarterly revenue

Parent company Hasbro raised its 2026 financial outlook as it reported its strongest quarter of the year.

Discover tools at runtime with AWS Agent Registry

Hardcoded tool wiring breaks down as an agent's catalog grows from a handful of tools to hundreds. This post walks through a runtime Discover, Instantiate, Execute loop built on AWS Agent Registry, where an orchestrator discovers MCP server

Can Best Buy be the new gaming boss?

The electronics retailer is piloting a gaming hub that brings together content, deals and preorders, and will also open a dedicated gaming hub inside a store in California.

Benchmark diesel price up as market takes a short breather

After months of volatility, the diesel market going into Tuesday appeared to have calmed down, at least for now. The day also featured the release of the weekly benchmark diesel price from the Department of Energy/Energy Information Adminis

FairStress: A deeper evaluation of fairness in LLM decision-making

Accredited official statistics: Government revenues from UK oil and gas production: October 2026

Government revenues from oil and gas production, including payments and repayments of offshore Corporation Tax, Supplementary Charge, Energy Profits Levy and Petroleum Revenue Tax.

Securing AI agent identity with X.509 PKI on AWS

Learn how to secure multi-agent AI systems with cryptographic identity using Keyfactor EJBCA and AWS services. This reference architecture combines signed request envelopes, user-signed delegation assertions, RFC 8693 audience-scoped tokens

Mastercard Debuts Tool to Help AI Agents Purchase Digital Services

Mastercard has launched early access to Agent Pay for Machines, a tool designed to let autonomous artificial intelligence agents purchase digital services. The new offering builds on x402, an open protocol that allows digital services to re

Synchrony: Broad-Based Consumer Spending Drives Q3 Purchase Volume to Record High

Consumer financing company Synchrony saw record third-quarter purchase volume, with both discretionary and non-discretionary out-of-partner spend on its consumer co-branded cards growing by double digits, Synchrony President and CEO Brian D

Enable the analytics queryable capability on metafield and metaobject definitions from your app's TOML

You can now enable the analytics_queryable capability on metafield and metaobject definitions that you declare in shopify.app.toml. Merchants can then use those metafields and metaobjects as dimensions and filters in Shopify Analytics and S

SAMR Releases a Batch of Typical Cases of False Advertising in Online Food Sales (Second Batch)

Official industry reference index; publication dates differ from statistical periods; please read the original text for scope of application and detailed data.

How Eon built multi-cloud investigation with an MCP Gateway on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how Eon replaced per-tool credentials and local MCP processes across AWS, GCP, and Azure with a single authenticated Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway, giving more than 100 developers and autonomous agents unified access to production

Treasury Stablecoin Proposal Draws Questions Over Foreign Access

Treasury’s effort to regulate payment stablecoins hinges on questions on when a coin has actually been issued, who issued it and how a stablecoin created outside the country can legally reach a customer in the United States. The department’

China Warns UK of Firm Retaliation over Electric Vehicle Tariffs

British Trade Minister Anas Sarwar confirmed ongoing talks with European partners as London seeks access to the EU’s Made in Europe program.

Google Offers Gemini Agent to Government Workers

After introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for workers in the private sector, Google is shifting its focus to public employees. The tech giant on Tuesday (Oct. 20) announced the preview of its Gemini agent for government servic

Build a semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with Denodo and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Build a governed semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with the Denodo Platform and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It federates Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and an on-premises PostgreSQL database into a single customer 360 view an agent querie

Build a semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with Strategy Mosaic and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

The third post in our semantic-layer series builds a customer 360 across Amazon Redshift and Amazon Aurora with Strategy Mosaic, exposes it to a Strands agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore through the Mosaic MCP server, and enforces per-user

Build a semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with AtScale and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

The third post in our semantic-layer series builds a governed customer 360 model on Amazon Redshift with AtScale, then exposes it to a Strands agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore through the AtScale MCP server. Identity propagation, RBAC, row

Utah’s Healthcare AI Sandbox Tests Limits of Regulatory Oversight

Utah is expanding its artificial intelligence sandbox with three healthcare pilots. At the same time, regulators are developing answers to questions about patient protection, such as who bears liability when an automated system causes harm,

ALTK-Evolve: How learned memory tops the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without a frontier model

Guidance: Open general export licence (export of dual-use items)

Licence permitting a wide range of dual-use listed items to a variety of destinations, including EU member states, the United States, and others.

Guidance: Open general export licence (military goods, software and technology: government or NATO end-use)

Licence for the export of military goods to a government or a NATO organisation in any of the destinations or countries listed in the OGEL.

Guidance: Open general export licence (military goods, software and technology)

Licence for the export of a wide range of military equipment to low-risk destinations.

Finsei Picks Thredd to Help Launch New Debit Offering

London-based payments firm Finsei has picked issuer processing platform Thredd to power its new Mastercard debit offering. “The partnership reflects a shared focus on simplifying an increasingly complex payments environment,” Thredd said in