Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse Agent From Shopping Site

AI security requires engineering discipline across the full agent stack, from models through runtime environments, with enforceable controls at each layer rather than relying on agent reasoning alone. Saša Zdjelar argues that organizations must apply established security principles to new AI operating conditions, implement traceable identities and bounded permissions, and gather evidence that protections work before deployment. NVIDIA's OpenShell and partner tools like Cisco's DefenseClaw demonstrate how to enforce policies outside an agent's reach.

NVIDIA highlighted five companies using AI to accelerate clean energy adoption at New York Climate Week, addressing historical bottlenecks in grid modernization, research timelines, and infrastructure costs. ThinkLabs AI reduced grid interconnection evaluation from 30-45 days to two minutes using digital twins, while Atomic Canyon is applying AI to nuclear plant operations and Redwood Materials is deploying recycled EV batteries with AI control to power data centers without waiting for grid expansion.

AWS launched Amazon Connect Talent, an AI-powered hiring platform designed to accelerate recruitment at scale for industries like retail, logistics, and hospitality. The tool uses AI agents to conduct interviews and assessments, while providing recruiters with scored candidates, transcripts, and evaluation reasoning for final decision-making. The solution aims to address bottlenecks in hiring workflows where applications pile up and strong candidates move on before contact.

The United Nations has partnered with Google to restructure its global development data for use by AI agents, following a UNICEF assessment that found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics. The initiative addresses a critical gap where AI systems cannot reliably access or interpret UN data at scale. This partnership aims to make UN datasets machine-readable and optimized for AI-driven queries and analysis.