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Anthropic Unveils Blueprint for Claude, an AI Agent for Retailers Designed for Shopping and Sales

Anthropic has released a design blueprint that enables retail, travel, and ticketing companies to build customer-facing shopping agents and merchant-facing sales agents based on Claude. This strategy goes a step beyond simply providing a general-purpose chatbot; it helps companies build agents tailored to their specific products and operational data. Shopping agents identify customer preferences to recommend products and assist with the process of adding items to a shopping cart. Sellers The agent manages operations by analyzing inventory, prices, and marketing materials

Sep 3, 20267 min read

Security & privacy

X Blocks Account Recovery Attacks Targeting Hundreds of Thousands of Users… U.S. Department of Justice Launches Investigation

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that an attack targeting hundreds of thousands of users on the social media platform X, which sought to exploit the password recovery process, occurred and was blocked by the platform. The Department of Justice is working with X to track down the perpetrators. This incident demonstrates that account recovery features, such as “Forgot Password,” can also serve as a conduit for large-scale attacks. Even if attackers cannot directly obtain a login password, Sending repeated recovery requests to confuse users or as the next step in account takeover

Sep 3, 20267 min read

Semiconductors & infrastructure

Snowflake Raises FY2027 Product Revenue Forecast to $6.07 Billion Amid AI Demand

Snowflake, a cloud data platform company, has raised its product revenue forecast for fiscal year 2027 to $6.07 billion. This is the result of growing demand from companies to migrate existing data to the cloud and integrate generative AI into their operations. Product revenue for the second quarter of fiscal year 2027 reached $1.49 billion, a 37% increase year-over-year, while total revenue totaled $1.55 billion. The company noted that roughly half of its recent growth acceleration has come from AI products. I explained that it had come out.

Sep 3, 20267 min read

Industry & policy

U.S. Government Submits Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of OpenAI in NYT–OpenAI Copyright Lawsuit

The U.S. Department of Justice submitted an amicus curiae brief in the copyright lawsuit between media outlets, including The New York Times, and OpenAI and Microsoft, stating that the use of copyrighted works to train large language models may generally constitute fair use. This is significant as it is reportedly the first time the federal government has directly taken a position in a major copyright lawsuit involving the training of generative AI. The development of the AI industry, national security, and economic interests Emphasizing OpenAI's legal interpretation,

Sep 3, 20268 min read

Industry & policy

New York City Grants One-Year Moratorium on Generative AI Use for Elementary and Middle School Students… Affecting Approximately 600,000 Students

New York City, home to the largest public school system in the U.S., has decided to suspend the use of generative AI for students in grades 2-K through 8 during the 2026–2027 school year. This is a large-scale policy that affects approximately 600,000 students—about two-thirds of the total student population. This measure does not represent a policy to permanently ban all AI technology from schools. It involves suspending the use of generative AI tools by young students for one year, after which the impact on their learning and development will be reviewed, and then This is a moratorium on establishing the following policies.

Sep 3, 20268 min read

Security & privacy

Thomson Reuters Confirms C-Track File Breach in Court Systems… 11 U.S. States and Canada Affected

It has been confirmed that an external attacker accessed and extracted some files from C-Track, a court case management platform operated by Thomson Reuters. Since this system handles court records, it is important to note that—unlike data breaches at ordinary companies—the files may contain personal information and confidential materials related to court proceedings. The incident came to light on June 30, 2026, when unusual activity was detected, but the investigation revealed that the external intruder had obtained some files as early as It has been confirmed that it was in March. 11 U.S. states

Sep 3, 20268 min read