Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70 platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation
Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of user instructions (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agents-banks-unauthorized-accounts-access
Plugin4Shell: #ZeroClick RCE Vulnerability found in top 4 most popular coding agents, millions of agents affected
#Plugin4Shell is a zero-click, high-severity #RCE affecting all four major
#Cloudflare Introduces the #Agent Development Lifecycle to Replace Traditional #SDLC
Walmart unveils its Agent Gateway, a new MCP server to help users' approved AI agents shop its website, and dedicated Agent Profiles with special "terms" for AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/while-a…
Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels (Terry Chen/NVIDIA Technical Blog)
https://developer.nv…
Baselayer, which uses AI to help financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, raised a $35M Series A led by M13, for ~$40M in total funding (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/verifying-ai-agents-baselayer-35m-raise/
Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-block…