Microsoft's 2T-parameter MAI-Base-2 lands as AI agents face a trust test - AIskimIQ Daily Brief - 2026-10-17

AIskimIQ — Daily AI News Brief · Oct 17, 2026 · 7m

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Base-2, a 2-trillion-parameter language model, while American Express introduced a framework to verify purchases made by AI shopping agents. A separate finding that 17 of 40 teams claiming to enforce agent permissions still share the underlying credentials underscores the security gap around agents. — Podcast voice is synthetic and episodes are produced with AI workflows.