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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2026-10-22 Keep credentials out of your agent's context (Sponsor) An agent that reads a web page, a Jira comment, or an inbox can pick up instructions an attacker wrote. If a Slack or Salesforce token is sitting in that same process, it's exposed too. Here's how you can keep credentials away from agents with WorkOS: >> Pipes handles OAuth, token refresh, and encrypted credential storage behind a drop-in widget. >> Relay, now in early access, routes your agent's API calls through WorkOS, which attaches the credential server-side and restricts requests to allowed provider hosts. Permissions and other outbound paths still need their own controls. See how Relay works → 📱 Big Tech & Startups Anthropic Joins the AI Agent Race With Claude Duet (3 minute read) Anthropic's Claude Duet joins a fast-growing field of AI assistants that take actions and perform tasks on their own. Unlike OpenAI's dots and Meta's Muse, Anthropic's agent was built for work and is less capable at personal errands. It can connect to more than 6,000 outside apps and make purchases through Link, Stripe's digital wallet, and Shopify's Shop Pay. The agent shows users exactly what it plans to do before performing actions, and some actions, like trading stocks or moving money between accounts, are blocked even with user approval. The wait list to use the agent is now open to Anthropic's Pro and Max plan subscribers. Musk Tries to Lock In His Tesla-SpaceX Dream Before Trump's Exit (11 minute read) Elon Musk is fully behind a combination of SpaceX and Tesla, his two most valuable companies. He is pushing to announce a deal by the first half of 2027 so it closes during the Trump administration. The timing will depend on when Tesla's board gets comfortable with the details - SpaceX shareholder approval is less of an obstacle, as Musk controls more than 80% of the voting power. Combining the companies before the end of this administration would consolidate Musk's corporate power before a potentially less accommodating political and financial environment takes hold. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Tesla starts Optimus robot production in California as profit falls 43% (3 minute read) Tesla has started production of its Optimus humanoid robot at its factory in Fremont, California. While the company admits there is still more work to be done before the robot is fully safe and reliable, it says it has proven that the current manufacturing process for Optimus is suitable for a commercial product. Elon Musk says Tesla will be able to make 20,000 units per week by the end of 2027. Tesla's profits fell 43% in the third quarter due to heavy investments in its Optimus robots, AI, and autonomous driving. Physicists trap and tame single particle of antimatter for months (12 minute read) Physicists at Northwestern University have coaxed a single positron (the antimatter counterpart of an electron) into an exquisitely controlled quantum state for the first time. The scientists cooled the fast-moving particle to nearly absolute zero after capturing it from radioactive decay, and then suspended it in a near-perfect vacuum, resulting in a state where the positron behaved much like an artificial atom with quantum energy levels scientists can precisely control and observe. The technique could enable the most precise test yet of a fundamental symmetry between electrons and their antimatter counterparts. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Build and scale a winning agent strategy (Sponsor) As teams move agents from experiments into production, many of the hardest problems sit outside the model. Someone has to own each agent. It has to be evaluated and governed, and it has to keep getting better once it's live. Join us at 10 AM PT on Nov 5th for a live session on the Agentic Operating Model, a framework for aligning the people, processes, and technology it takes to run AI across an organization. The Topolo