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Meta's AI now makes the ad and buys the product. At Advertising Week New York on October 6, the company showed brands how the whole funnel collapses into a chat window.

Read more about Meta's AI Ad Tools Go In-Chat: Advantage+ Video GA and Shopify Checkout at Ad Week

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While Washington argues about what to call AI, New Delhi is doing something more consequential: writing the rulebook and buying the chips to enforce it.

India's Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on October 8 that the government will publish an AI regulation consultation paper within thirty days. Speaking at an event in New Delhi, he told his department to produce a document focused primarily on safety — covering AI safety, deepfakes, liability gaps, and skilling — as the foundation for a future techno-legal framework.

Read more about India Targets AI Regulation Paper in 30 Days and 10,000 GPUs for Public AI

Cartoon illustration of a robot agent presenting a passport-style ID card to a shopkeeper at a storefront checkout while a scanner glows.

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