Evening edition: Wednesday 11 November

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• The AI Act's first harmonised standard: what EN 18286 changes. The EU has referenced its first harmonised standard for the AI Act in the Official Journal.
• The EU's Digital Fairness Act: rules for AI agents that shop. The European Commission has proposed a Digital Fairness Act to update EU consumer law for online shopping.
• The EU asks for views on election rules for generative AI. The European Commission is consulting until 23 November on revised election guidelines under the Digital Services Act.
• Getting around Lisbon on Wednesday: what operators and the government say. With Web Summit's Day 2 off and a red weather warning for Lisbon, Carris has cancelled its Web Summit shuttle and warns of disruption, Fertagus says it will stop trains on the 25 de Abril bridge if winds pass 90 km/h, and the government's alert closes schools and suspends outdoor events.
• Konecta picks Lisbon for a delivery centre and 700 jobs. Konecta, a customer experience company based in Madrid, is opening a new Global Delivery Center in Lisbon in early 2027.
• Manus 2.0 gives each agent its own email, phone and wallet. Manus, whose co-founder spoke on Web Summit's Centre Stage on Monday, describes Manus 2.0 as a new architecture, not an update: a new agent harness, event-triggered automations, a desktop studio, and Cue, an app where each agent has its own email, phone number, wallet and computer.
• Thursday at Web Summit: a practical guide to the last day. Web Summit's last day, Thursday 12 November, after Wednesday's cancellation: what Web Summit says has changed, the weather, the end of the national alert, transport and side events, each from its own source.
• EU says TikTok's For You feed may breach its platform law. The European Commission has preliminarily found that TikTok's For You feed breaches the Digital Services Act through a 'rabbit hole' effect that can harm users' mental health.
• 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.

The latest

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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