Evening edition: Tuesday 10 November

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• Glovo's restaurant partners meet 80 AI agents on WhatsApp, GetVocal says. GetVocal, a French startup on Web Summit's featured list, says the delivery platform Glovo uses its AI agents on WhatsApp to check restaurants are open, keep them online and bring new ones on board.
• AI agents are spreading faster than their security, Gravitee's survey finds. A survey by Gravitee, which sells tools to secure AI agents, finds most teams already testing or running agents, while few have full security approval for them.
• Web Summit calls off Wednesday on the government's advice. Web Summit says Day 2, Wednesday 11 November, will not take place, after Portugal's government formally advised against it because of Storm Charles.
• Speed where it's safe, control where it matters. A reader asked whether our hundred-plus agents face deterministic authority checks at each step, or rely on other agents' validation.
• What failed first as Teamworks builds an AI assistant for coaches. Teamworks is building an AI agent that answers coaches' football questions from PFF's data.
• Web Summit's cancelled Day 2: what is known about refunds. Web Summit says Day 2, Wednesday 11 November, will not take place.
• What Lovable deleted: its CEO on rebuilding an AI coding agent. In a post on Lovable's new technical blog, its co-founder and CEO Anton Osika, a speaker at Web Summit, describes how the team deleted almost all of its agent code, swapped planned fine-tuning for short written notes, and built sandboxes that save and restore a whole running computer.
• How WPP turns call transcripts into reviewed Jira plans. WPP built an internal platform that turns technical calls into project plans, with a person reviewing every plan before it goes into Jira, according to a case study by Mastra, a startup on Web Summit's featured list.

The latest

1. How Zalando rolled out AI coding agents across its engineering teams. In a post on its engineering blog, Zalando describes two and a half years of agentic engineering: one proxy for every model, no single mandated tool, no secrets in configuration files, and a bot that approves the low-risk third of its pull requests.
2. Sports tech at Web Summit: IBM's startup challenge ends in Lisbon. IBM's year-long challenge for sports tech startups ends at Web Summit Lisbon: a showcase of six startups on Tuesday 10 November, and an invitation-only prize challenge on Wednesday 11 November.
3. Portugal on the programme: a masterclass, a meetup and three announcements. Five Web Summit sessions for anyone following Portugal's startup scene, from Startup Portugal's masterclass on Tuesday to a meetup for founders who moved to Portugal on Thursday, with three press conferences in between.

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Tomorrow

Five things to plan around tomorrow.

• 10:30 New Unicorn in Lisbon: Discord Announces Expansion (Press conference) until 10:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
• 11:00 Press conference with Web Summit CEO and Founder Paddy Cosgrave until 11:20 · Stage 2 · Press conference
• 11:30 Press conference with Qualcomm SVP & General Manager, Durga Malladi until 11:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
• 12:30 Open or Closed AI models: which types of future do they represent? (Press conference) until 12:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference
• 14:30 Campus Tejo, the science and technology ecosystem of Santarém (Press conference) until 14:50 · Stage 2 · Press conference

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