Walmart embraces AI shopping agents as MCP standard moves to Linux Foundation

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1. Simon Willison TIER_1 English(EN) · 2026-10-22 18:09

   Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

   <p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation">Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation</a></strong></p> News today from Anthropic:</p> <blockquote> <p>We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven…

2. The Verge — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Emma Roth · 2026-10-21 19:30

   Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you

   Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect your own AI agent to the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits. The embrace of AI agents stands in stark contr…

3. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Oleksandr · 2026-10-22 06:51

   How to connect a Currency API to your AI Agent (using MCP)

   <p>AI agents (like Claude and ChatGPT) are powerful, but they often lack access to real-time data. If you ask an AI "What's the USD to UAH rate?", it might hallucinate a number or give you outdated data.</p> <p>In this quick tutorial, I'll show you how to connect a real-time Curr…

4. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · rene · 2026-10-23 06:43

   How to Migrate Your AI Agent from One LLM Provider to Another Without Losing Functionality

   <h1> How to Migrate Your AI Agent from One LLM Provider to Another Without Losing Functionality </h1> <h2> The Problem </h2> <p>You’ve built an AI agent that works seamlessly with your current LLM provider, but now you want to switch. Whether it’s due to cost, performance, or ven…

5. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Jessica Williams · 2026-10-21 07:57

   How to Rescue a Failing AI App Before You Decide to Rebuild It

   <h2> Quick Answer </h2> <p>When an AI app keeps breaking, a rebuild is rarely the right first move. Turn the failures into a test set, close the security holes, make every model call safe to retry, validate every model output, put a ceiling on cost, and only then compare what is …

6. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] · 2026-10-22 19:32

   MCP currently free on WordPress.com The MCP feature gives you the ability to talk to your site using AI tools, like my current favorite, Claude Code. You can as

   MCP currently free on WordPress.com The MCP feature gives you the ability to talk to your site using AI tools, like my current favorite, Claude Code. You can ask it to fact check and fix things, for example. It will remain free until December. I normally only let myself use AI fo…

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7. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] · 2026-10-22 15:21

   Accenture to clients: Use as much AI as possible. Accenture to employees: You won’t be promoted unless you are using AI. Accenture to employees also: Oh, you ca

   Accenture to clients: Use as much AI as possible. Accenture to employees: You won’t be promoted unless you are using AI. Accenture to employees also: Oh, you can only use $29 of AI per month (basically nothing). Irony. Hypocrisy. Absurdity. https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=I-agGi…

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8. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] · 2026-10-22 12:32

   📰 AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary. Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal

   📰 AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary. Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich ... 📰 Source: The Verge 🔗 L…

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9. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] · 2026-10-22 12:30

   Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily

   Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful. In practice, at least for buying things, it's more like sending an an…

   LINKS theverge.com/…/ai-shopping-agents-blocked…
10. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] · 2026-10-21 19:43

    📰 Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to conn

    📰 Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect your own AI agent to the site, with systems in place to let you approve and revie... 📰 Source: The Verge 🔗 Link: htt…

    LINKS theverge.com/…/walmart-ai-shopping-agents
11. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 Suomi(FI) · juuhaa · 2026-10-21 09:20

    So, does this mean that nowadays you have to know how to use AI to write about AI in a way that convinces readers that you are an AI expert? #AI

    Onko se siis niin että nykyään pitää osata käyttää tekoälyä kirjoittamaan tekoälystä tavalla joka vakuuttaa lukijat siitä että olet tekoälyasiantuntija? # tekoäly # AI

12. r/cursor TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/yetisushi · 2026-10-22 13:28

    Where to next?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Does anybody else here use Grok extensively for grunt work, and OpenAI models for more complex tasks, code reviewing, planning, etc? I feel like I'm really in a pickle here. With my Ultra Plan, I always use 100% of my &quot;Other Models&quot; usa…