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Web Summit 2026 Opens in Lisbon as AI Agents Take Centre Stage

Web Summit 2026 opened in Lisbon on November 9, with China's robots, AI agents and the Nvidia probe among the themes shaping the gathering, Euronews reported .

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Web Summit 2026 opened in Lisbon on November 9, with China's robots, AI agents and the Nvidia probe among the themes shaping the gathering, Euronews reported .

The AI agent theme arrives with momentum: DeepSeek's AI agent push is gaining speed as Harness topped 1.5 million daily users, SCMP reported .

The summit opens while the industry weighs those three themes at once: Chinese robotics, AI agents in daily use, and the Nvidia probe .

What is known is that the summit has opened, that the three themes named by Euronews frame its opening day, and that AI agents already count daily users in the millions .

What is not yet known is what the summit's speakers will say about those themes, or what the Nvidia probe concerns in detail: no outlet in today's intake described the probe's scope or any findings .

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