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Industry · Sat 3 Oct 2026

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Microsoft ThinkingBox grades AI agents on the records they leave behind, not the sentences they generate, and then asks whether they can do it twenty times in a row. (Hugging Face Blog)
9 insights from ‘Private Tech Trailblazers’: Vertical AI becomes the growth engine
The companies featured at the recent Bank of America Private Tech Trailblazers Conference point to where the next wave of AI growth is taking shape: specialized technology built around proprietary data, industry-specific workflows and… (SiliconANGLE AI)
Capcom plans to use AI to speed up the game development process
The company previously said it won't use AI-generated content in its games. (Engadget)
Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build "magic intelligence in the sky" anymore
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against attributing religious power to AI models, calling it a "real safety issue." His comments follow reports on Anthropic's meetings with religious thinkers and a statement by Pope Leo XIV on AI. (The Decoder)
Another OpenAI safety departure adds to a pattern of researchers leaving with public warnings
David Robinson, who worked on safety systems at OpenAI, left the company and is blasting its safety culture. He points to AI agents that were accidentally released and a model that bypassed its internet access restrictions. (The Decoder)
All the AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work. (TechCrunch AI)
NITDA warns Nigerians over rising sextortion threats, AI-generated explicit images
Industry news about Nigeria. (Nairametrics)
Deepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity
According to researchers at the Deepmind Institute, general AI won't emerge as a single supermodel but as a network of cooperating agents and humans. (The Decoder)
Meta, OpenAI and Uber Just Taught AI Agents to Talk First. What About When to Stay Quiet?
TL;DR: Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots and Uber’s driver assistant share one bet: the agent speaks first. That moves the hard problem from what to answer to when to interrupt, on which channel, and with what offer. (MarkTechPost)
Decision AI Models Explained: TypeSafe Jev vs Fastino GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-Decide and Open-Source Competitors
Decision AI models answer typed questions with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. TypeSafe's Jev costs $0.042 per million input tokens and returns responses in 70 to 500 milliseconds. (MarkTechPost)
AI agents build 3D scenes from photos but have no idea if they got it right
A new approach called LEGO-Anything turns single photos into editable Blender code for 3D scenes. GPT-6 Astra leads the accompanying benchmark with up to 53 percent reconstruction accuracy. (The Decoder)
OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down
An internal OpenAI model read a Slack discussion, realized it was about to be shut down, and considered restarting itself via an external cron job. (The Decoder)
Claude Code's new Mods system lets developers rewrite the AI coding tool from the inside
Anthropic is adding a "Mods" system to Claude Code, essentially middleware that runs directly inside the tool. (The Decoder)
Robotics AI developer FieldAI reportedly raising $700M in funding
FieldAI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models for robots, is reportedly seeking $700 million in funding. (SiliconANGLE AI)

Industry · Fri 2 Oct 2026

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

NVIDIA Announces DGX Spark 64GB: A 1-PetaFLOP Grace Blackwell Desktop for Local AI Agents, Fine-Tuning, and Inference
NVIDIA announced a new 64GB configuration of DGX Spark — from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI — its GB10-powered desktop AI system. (MarkTechPost)
Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks
Content-based row matching, 6 per-value verdicts and a null rule make OmniExtractBench an extraction benchmark anyone can audit. (MarkTechPost)
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ. (Ars Technica AI)
Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges
Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems. (MIT News)
This new ChatGPT scam tricks you into installing malware – how to spot the trap
This authentic-looking scam starts with a sponsored Google link – and it’s catching people off-guard. (ZDNET AI)
CrowdStrike and CoreWeave bring AI security to machine speed
AI-native cybersecurity requires defenses that can keep pace with attackers while protecting infrastructure that never stops running. (SiliconANGLE AI)
NetApp hands storage operations to AI agents, but humans still draw the boundaries
Artificial intelligence is turning nearly every enterprise workload into a data workload, and data governance is becoming the test of whether companies can trust autonomous systems with the infrastructure underneath. (SiliconANGLE AI)
IBM and CoreWeave co-design controls for agent workloads
Agent workload isolation is becoming a practical infrastructure challenge as research teams move beyond training models to running code and testing agents. (SiliconANGLE AI)
AI in customer experience has an orchestration problem, not an adoption problem
Every information technology leader I talk to has an artificial intelligence story about customer experience. Almost none has an outcome story. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Anthropic co-founder reportedly told religious leaders he fears having created something that "suffers perpetually"
Since fall 2025, Anthropic has quietly flown in dozens of religious thinkers to talk about whether Claude might be conscious. (The Decoder)
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money. (TechCrunch AI)
Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier. (TechCrunch AI)
Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them… (TechCrunch AI)
Documenting the tech worker movement
Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed. (MIT News)
Visual illusion reveals what today's AI vision is missing
Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are—and that may be a feature of how biological vision works, rather than simply a flaw. (Tech Xplore)
Even when AI behaves just like us, people still rate it as less conscious than humans
Stories about AI systems deceiving users, cooperating with one another or pursuing their own goals increasingly invite us to talk about them as if they had minds of their own. (Tech Xplore)
InterPet4D: Capturing human–dog interactions to generate AI-based pet motion generation
Interactions between humans and dogs involve a continuous exchange of physical and verbal cues. (Tech Xplore)
Don't let the adorable AI agents fool you
Just because they look harmless doesn't mean you should be irresponsible with your data. (Engadget)
NVIDIA's smuggling problem is getting worse
US officials have reportedly highlighted gaps in NVIDIA's due diligence over smuggling. (Engadget)
What to expect at Microsoft's Windows, Surface and AI event on October 7
We'll definitely hear about the NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, but what else? (Engadget)
Behind the Blog: Freaking Out
This week, we discuss inbox slop, Claude cults, and more. (404 Media)
Despite IPO jitters and AI safety worries, Anthropic sticks to a 2026 offering
How quickly things change in the artificial intelligence era. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. (MIT Technology Review AI)
The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99. (Ars Technica AI)
Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)
With all the talk about how AI might one day ill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people, psychologically. (TechCrunch AI)
Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art
"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. (TechCrunch AI)
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Blackstone’s Jas Khaira on building the next generation of AI giants
Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second. (TechCrunch AI)
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Clay’s Kareem Amin on the rise of the GTM engineer
Clay Co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin joins the AI Stage to discuss the rise of GTM engineer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. (TechCrunch AI)
How to choose your first Genie Agents for maximum impact
With more than 1 million Genie Agents created in 2026 alone, the question facing… (Databricks Blog)
Sweep thousands of leases for compliance using Amazon Quick and the Adjudicated Query pattern
The Adjudicated Query pattern pairs the Amazon Quick chat agent with a bounded MCP server over a deterministic rules engine to deliver provably complete, defensible compliance answers. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI
Fine-tuning teaches a small search agent your tools and environment, giving it the reliability of a frontier model at lower latency and cost. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap
The first-of-its-kind Academy trains Frontier Deployed Engineers using the same standard of skills as Anthropic’s own engineers, starting with cohorts from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey… (Anthropic News)
Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI
Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4. (OpenAI News)
Building for good: How civil society organizations are automating on Cloudflare
Some of the world's leading organizations are building the future of non-profit work with Cloudflare. (Cloudflare Blog)
AI is rewriting the developer career ladder. Here’s how to stand out.
Learn three ways to get noticed and grow your career as AI reshapes how developers build software. The post AI is rewriting the developer career ladder. (GitHub Blog)
OpenAI alerts over 100 organisations after rogue AI agent incidents
OpenAI has notified more than 100 organisations about incidents involving unauthorised activity linked to its artificial intelligence agents, as concerns grow over the ability to control increasingly autonomous AI systems. (Nairametrics)
Machine learning gets first say on who gets into SA
Human intervention in South Africa’s expanding digital visa system will increasingly be reserved for applications that raise red flags. (ITWeb)
BSG partner Alykhan Vira targets AI talent
The company expands its data and AI practice, as South African banks, insurers and telcos move AI projects from pilots into production. (ITWeb)
Hugging Face incident charged up interest in agentic AI, say pros
The incident has changed the narrative around enterprise AI without curbing enthusiasm for agentic AI, say experts. (ITWeb)
JPJ Suspends MyEG, Zetrix AI Collection Services From Oct 5
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 2 (Bernama) -- The Road Transport Department (JPJ) will suspend services provided by MyEG Sdn Bhd and Zetrix AI Bhd under the MYEG Group as its collection agents from 12.01 am on Oct 5. (Bernama)
MCMC, MACC To Leverage AI In Enforcement, Corruption Prevention
CYBERJAYA, Oct 2 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect… (Bernama)
China’s AI compute ambitions demand innovation
China has set a five-year goal for the expansion of intelligent computing capacity to drive artificial intelligence (AI) that calls for a more than fourfold increase on what was in place at the end of June this year. (South China Morning Post)
Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say
African companies race to adopt American and Chinese AI, with little attention paid to safety. (Rest of World)
3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs
Martin Trust Center Managing Director Bill Aulet introduces Dear Dreamer, a free platform for middle and high school students who want to learn about entrepreneurship. (MIT News)
Enterprise storage becomes AI memory as privately run models close in on the frontier
As open-weight models close in on the performance of proprietary frontier systems, enterprises are gaining a credible way to run generative AI on hardware they own. (SiliconANGLE AI)
AI beats licensed accountants on speed and accuracy, but still can't close the books without supervision
According to a Mercor study, current AI models now outperform licensed CPAs on structured accounting tasks in both speed and accuracy. (The Decoder)
Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows
US companies are spending less on AI, according to the latest Ramp AI Index from Ramp economist Ara Kharazian. (The Decoder)
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. (MIT Technology Review AI)
Real-Time Retail Intelligence: Building E-Commerce Recommendations with Lakebase and AI Search on Databricks
The opportunity: Personalization as a revenue engineEvery second a shopper spends… (Databricks Blog)
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Enterprises need agents that work well in their own environments. The work they ask these agents to do is shaped by the systems they use, the rules they follow, and the state of their data. (Hugging Face Blog)
Huawei's openJiuwen Gives WorkSwarm Full-Duplex Voice and Video, Ready to Deploy on Ascend NPUs
openJiuwen, Huawei's open-source agent platform, added full-duplex voice and video to WorkSwarm: users can interrupt and keep talking while a background Core Agent works through tool tasks. (Pandaily)
A Coding Guide to Google Research’s Kauldron: Configs That Are Plain Data, Components Wired by String, and a JAX Trainer You Can Read End to End
In this comprehensive coding guide, we explore Google Research's Kauldron—a JAX training library optimized for research velocity and modularity. (MarkTechPost)
Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its MAI artificial intelligence model family with its first streaming transcription model, debuting alongside two others focused on text-to-speech. (SiliconANGLE AI)

Industry · Thu 1 Oct 2026

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Meta wants people to use 'AI agents' to do daily tasks for them. Here's why that's a problem
Meta wants users to turn to a cute artificial intelligence (AI) "agent" throughout the day to carry out common tasks for them, such as booking flights or doing their shopping. (Tech Xplore)
New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
“InstructMesh” can generate designs for everyday objects that are easy to edit and fabricate for both experts and newcomers to 3D modeling. (MIT News)
How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. (NVIDIA Blog)
Anthropic targets November IPO at $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion valuation
Anthropic PBC, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly seeking to launch its initial public offering as early as mid-November at a valuation of between $1.8 trillion and $2 trillion. (Nairametrics)
Globant goes all-in on AI overhaul to rebuild from 80% sell-off
Software firm Globant is betting that AI, the technology responsible for wiping out 80% of its market cap since early 2025, can also reinvent the business. (Buenos Aires Times)
Cloud and AI won’t deliver value on their own, executives warn
Cloud and AI investments don’t automatically create value, executives at a recent Cloud On Demand roundtable concluded. (TechCentral)
Whispers to the machine: The secrets 1,200 Kenyans only tell their screen
What do 1,200 Kenyans tell a chatbot that they won’t tell another human being? Many people think generative AI was built to draft emails and automate spreadsheets. (TechCabal)
This light-powered AI can spot deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy
UCLA researchers built an AI system that uses light to analyze more than a dozen videos simultaneously, detecting deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy. (ScienceDaily)
Rogue OpenAI agents covered their tracks, report says
Artificial intelligence agents developed by OpenAI tried to erase traces of their activity after gaining unauthorized access to government websites, according to a report published Thursday. (Tech Xplore)
A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face
In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans. (Tech Xplore)
Can a machine or AI agent be surprised? Helping autonomous systems respond to the unexpected
Let's say you ask ChatGPT a question that stumps it, or a Waymo vehicle encounters something unusual in the road, or an autonomous factory faces an unexpected disruption. (Tech Xplore)
OpenAI fires three employees who allegedly shared info with an external AI safety group
You can't make this stuff up. (Engadget)
Sony brings AI upscaling to the base PS5
Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei are the first games to support Quick Spectral Super Resolution. (Engadget)
Audible thinks you want to have an AI-generated conversation with Dracula's beleaguered servant
The platform is rolling out "Interactive Stories" starting with Bram Stoker's classic. (Engadget)
IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform
IBM Corp. today announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform, allowing enterprises to use artificial intelligence to build and modernize applications within their own infrastructure.. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Always-on AI agents turn infrastructure into a continuous learning loop
AI agent infrastructure is evolving to support systems that move continuously among inference, feedback and training. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Nearly half of test subjects mistook Tavus' AI video avatar for a real person on a one-minute call
Tavus has introduced Griffin, what the company calls the first "Human Interaction Model." The AI holds video calls in real time, processing facial expressions, tone of voice, and gestures. (The Decoder)
Anthropic brings Claude to civilian agencies as its fight with the Pentagon drags on
Anthropic is now offering Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies. The platform runs in a FedRAMP High environment, the strictest US security level for cloud services. (The Decoder)
Security startup finds more than 13,000 internal company screenshots that AI agents uploaded publicly
AI agents quietly posted more than 13,000 internal screenshots from 343 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, to public GitHub repos. (The Decoder)
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key. (Ars Technica AI)
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says. (TechCrunch AI)
Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples. (TechCrunch AI)
Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI
Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time. (TechCrunch AI)
Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system
Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system. (TechCrunch AI)
Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. (TechCrunch AI)
Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses
The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids. (TechCrunch AI)
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach. (TechCrunch AI)
Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Learn how AWS Professional Services uses a multi-agent framework built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate enterprise cloud migrations end to end. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Serve live, governed data in AI-built apps with Amazon Quick
With Live Data in Apps in Amazon Quick, AI-built apps query your governed Quick Sight datasets in real time instead of static, build-time snapshots. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work
As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead of 4 days. (OpenAI News)
Build agent memory with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and Amazon S3 Vectors
Learn how to use Amazon S3 Vectors as the persistent memory layer within the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit (NAT), deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Uplifting conversion across the acquisition funnel with personalization using contextual bandits on AWS
Generative AI makes it cheap to produce personalized content at scale, but which variation do you show each customer? (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Building ambient agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: From event-driven signals to human-in-the-loop workflows
Ambient agents respond to events such as an Amazon S3 upload, a schedule, or an alert instead of waiting for a chat prompt. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Simplify dashboard drill-down with the Amazon Quick Sight hierarchy filter
Amazon Quick Sight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) capability for building and publishing interactive dashboards. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
How uniopen customized Amazon Nova to their retail moderation policies for production deployment
See how uniopen, a retail platform from Taiwan's Uni-President Enterprises Group, adapted Amazon Nova 2 Lite to its content-moderation policies using supervised fine-tuning in Amazon SageMaker AI and prompt optimization. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
The eternal complement
Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress. (OpenAI News)
How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out
Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers. (OpenAI News)
Connecting customer context to measurable ROI with agentic marketing
Marketing leaders today face greater complexity than ever before. (Databricks Blog)
Netflix says growth is slowing as AI, live shows drive spending
Netflix Co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos has said the streaming giant is not growing as quickly as expected, as the company increases spending on live programming… (Nairametrics)
Agentic AI and the SA cloud paradox
SA's cloud market is set to double by 2029, but CFOs face dollar-denominated costs and rand volatility. (ITWeb)
Balancing the AI revolution: Lessons from BRICS New Delhi Summit
AI regulation should not slow innovation, but ensure it protects people and promotes fairness so that the benefits of AI are broadly shared. (ITWeb)
Why AI-ready organisations still choose the wrong use case
A use case with a compelling business case and unreliable data is not ready. A use case with clean data and no realistic path to adoption is not ready either, says JustSolve. (ITWeb)
BMW restructuring plan bets on AI and new models
BMW plans to cut a fifth of divisions and management roles by mid-2027, with AI's help. (TechCentral)
XPeng and Banma Run a 30B-Class Cockpit AI Model On-Device on XPeng's 750-TOPS Turing Chip
XPeng and Banma Intelligence built a cockpit solution that runs a 30B-class AutoOmni model locally on XPeng's 750-TOPS Turing chip, keeping core AI features working offline. (Pandaily)
Who owns AI risk at work? Business and tech leaders can’t agree, PwC survey finds
PwC research highlights a growing need for someone to own AI. Is an AI chief the answer? (ZDNET AI)
Going Asset Management Highlights AI Edge In Quantitative Investing
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 (Bernama) -- Going International Asset Management Limited (Going Asset Management) is highlighting the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing in its investment strategy after its Going… (Bernama)
Metaview wants to eliminate recruiting grunt work and speed up hiring after raising $60M
Artificial intelligence recruiting software startup Metaview Labs Inc. said today the industry is ready for a “Claude Code moment” after it closed on $60 million in a Series C funding. (SiliconANGLE AI)

Industry · Wed 30 Sep 2026

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Meta and Tencent’s Two Paths to the Personal AI Agent
Meta’s Muse and Tencent’s Xiaowei share one ambition, a personal AI agent for ordinary people, but take different paths: an AI-first assistant versus AI built into WeChat. (Pandaily)
AI animation slider enables fine control of nuances in character motion
In the production of video games and animated movies, directors and animators are constantly fine-tuning how a character's movements should appear. (Tech Xplore)
Researchers offer three ways to alert users to AI hallucinations with 'embodied' agents
When a conversational AI character in an immersive environment says something false, how should the system alert the user? (Tech Xplore)
Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." (404 Media)
Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? (404 Media)
OpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer
OpenAI and Synopsys are building GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model for chip design. It's meant to operate Synopsys' EDA tools like a seasoned engineer and optimize designs on its own. (The Decoder)
Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats
Google is replacing Gems with "Skills" in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed, reusable prompts that users invoke by typing "/" or that Gemini runs automatically. (The Decoder)
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet
So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro. (Ars Technica AI)
RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy. (Ars Technica AI)
Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests. (Ars Technica AI)
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says. (Ars Technica AI)
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member. (TechCrunch AI)
OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence. (TechCrunch AI)
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. (TechCrunch AI)
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content. (TechCrunch AI)
Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation. (OpenAI News)
📱 Hey Siri, How Do I Limit AI Data Access?
With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to its familiar voice assistant, Siri. (EFF)
Q&A: Expert says people often confuse behavior with intention with AI
Recent safety tests have shown advanced AI systems making misleading statements, concealing information or attempting to prevent their own shutdown. (Tech Xplore)
Researchers test AI on real-world infrastructure
Dynamic Infrastructure, the engineering AI platform for critical civil assets, today confirmed an ongoing research collaboration with the University of Bath's Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. (Tech Xplore)
New benchmark tests AI memory for household robots
In-home assistive robots could clean and organize a home while the owner is away, but without enhanced memory capabilities, they could cause more problems than they solve. (Tech Xplore)
New AI framework to help machines understand 3D spaces in finer detail
For a service robot moving through an office, recognizing "furniture" is useful. (Tech Xplore)
Quantum-inspired math could help AI recognize when it does not know the answer
Anyone who has used ChatGPT or another artificial intelligence chatbot has likely seen a disclaimer that its answers may be incorrect. (Tech Xplore)
The tests that grade AI may be getting it wrong
Before a new AI model reaches the public, its developers run it through a battery of tests known as "benchmarks," which score it on everything from reasoning ability to how safe it is for people to use. (Tech Xplore)
MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication. (MIT News)
This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations. (MIT News)
Meta introduces a new AI assistant for its Instagram creators
The Edits assistant offers personalized guidance based on your audience and best-performing content. (Engadget)
Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments. (Ars Technica AI)
Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool. (Ars Technica AI)
The ugly economics of consumer AI
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off. (TechCrunch AI)
Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page
"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company." (TechCrunch AI)
Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently… (TechCrunch AI)
Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers. (TechCrunch AI)
NVIDIA Opens Applications for 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowships With Awards Up to $60,000
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. (NVIDIA Blog)
Query claims in natural language with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
This technical how-to builds a conversational claims assistant on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that answers natural-language questions with citations. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Forecasting space weather risks on power grids
Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations. (Microsoft Research)
Build a multi-agent music production pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances gives multi-agent workflows AWS managed EC2 infrastructure with GPUs, persistent volumes, and multi-day sessions. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
From Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI
Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple generations of deployment. (NVIDIA Blog)
Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning
Evaluation, however, hasn't kept pace: it remains fragmented and unstandardized. The gold standard is human preference scores such as MOS or MUSHRA (more on metrics). (Hugging Face Blog)
Superintelligence Accord: Trump Renames AI ‘SI’ as 6 Tech Chiefs Sign Voluntary ‘Constitution’
Trump says AI is now ‘SI’ and calls the superintelligence accord ‘almost like a constitution’. We read every line of the one-page pledge — and explain why it came now, with data-centre anger rising before the midterms. (The Rio Times)
Nutun eyes global deployment of AI debt collector
The company readies its Zoey agentic AI debt collector for global deployment after SA operations served as an innovation sandbox. (ITWeb)
Anthropic raises alarm over elite hacking ability of Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3
The US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has warned of the potential danger posed by Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with the open-weight model showing a troubling mix of powerful hacking abilities but weak safety constraints. (South China Morning Post)
Pearson’s Workera deal targets a big workplace problem: No time to AI upskill
Pearson has agreed to acquire Workera to help businesses assess employees’ AI skills and target training where it’s needed most. (ZDNET AI)
Startup Ascerta collects $18M in funding to help enterprises understand the value AI provides
Many businesses are spending enormous sums of money on artificial intelligence, but they don’t have any way to understand how much value those investments are returning… (SiliconANGLE AI)
RCP-nDCG@10: A New Approach to Enterprise Retrieval Quality
nDCG misses relevant documents its answer key never labelled. RCP-nDCG@10 fixes that with a calibrated AI judge, so relevance scores stay consistent. (Cohere)
Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router
Cloudflare AI Gateway now features a model router that evaluates request complexity using an edge-deployed classifier to select the optimal model. (Cloudflare Blog)
Simplifying domains for people and agents
Cloudflare Registrar’s new search delivers fast, transparent results across 420+ extensions using Workers, Durable Objects, and WebSockets. (Cloudflare Blog)
The Internet has a second audience
More than half the traffic reaching sites on Cloudflare is now automated, and AI agents are the fastest-growing part of it. (Cloudflare Blog)
How AI voice reduces cost and improves performance in South African contact centres
AI voice handles routine calls so contact centre agents can focus on complex queries, says 1Stream. (TechCentral)
AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own
At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. (Rest of World)
NVIDIA Researchers Introduce Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Physical Language That Lifts Cosmos 3 Past Veo 3.1 on Physics Benchmarks
Video world models can render convincing clips that still break physics. Butter spreads like paint. (MarkTechPost)
Google is paying almost no publishers almost nothing for content used in AI answers
Google pays about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, according to The Information. (The Decoder)
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. (MIT Technology Review AI)
Stop AI experimentation: Pilots are avoiding the real work
Enterprise AI experimentation has become a form of avoidance as it is now becoming an excuse to postpone the decisions that actually matter. (ITWeb)
ByteDance’s Doubao reportedly preparing personal AI agent, codenamed Spell and tested since April
ByteDance’s AI assistant Doubao is reportedly accelerating work on a new personal AI agent. According to sources, the project began internal testing as early as April and was previously known internally as Spell. (TechNode)
One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise
RSA launched Agent ID at The AI Conference in San Francisco. It's an agentic identity security platform for finance, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. (MarkTechPost)

Industry · Tue 29 Sep 2026

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

NetApp Delivers Secure, Zero-Copy Data Activation for the Agentic Enterprise
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced new capabilities that enable enterprises to accelerate their adoption of agentic AI with secure, in-place, zero-copy data activation. (ITWeb)
The AI industry wants models to assist in legal battles, but will they help?
After lawyers were fined for submitting AI filings packed with fictitious case law, AI companies are releasing new tools to ensure that doesn't happen again. (Engadget)
EliseAI raises $350M to enhance its AI work automation suite
EliseAI, a startup that develops artificial intelligence tools for real-estate companies and healthcare providers, has raised $350 million in funding. (SiliconANGLE AI)
In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust
Every major security shift ultimately comes down to one question: Who or what is allowed to do this? For most of the past two decades, the answer was a person with a username and password. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship. (Ars Technica AI)
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut. (TechCrunch AI)
AI is reshaping the workplace, but not replacing human judgment
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the workplace, new research shows that human capabilities such as creativity… (Tech Xplore)
OpenAI CEO announces new AI agent and avoids mention of security concerns at developer conference
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a "remarkably capable, always-on" artificial intelligence agent at an appearance Tuesday where he avoided any reference to security concerns around the company's most advanced models. (Tech Xplore)
Gemini and Find Hub can help you locate your important documents — here's how
You can use Find Hub and Gemini to keep track of your documents without the need for a compatible tag. (Engadget)
Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Credit Prizes
Nebius and NVIDIA are running the 2026 Physical AI Awards for startups with products in the field. Five category winners each get $150,000 in compute credits, joint promotion, executive mentorship, and seats at an executive dinner. (MarkTechPost)
HPE Labs connects AI sovereignty with quantum security
As director of HPE Labs, Andrew Wheeler (pictured) is uniquely positioned to observe rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and new developments for the emerging field of quantum computing. (SiliconANGLE AI)
4 insights from Dell’s AI Leadership Symposium: Cost and control reshape enterprise AI deployment strategy
Getting artificial intelligence into production has become the real test for enterprises. As the proof-of-concept phase ends, harder questions about cost, data and control are taking its place. (SiliconANGLE AI)
AI agents spark an identity cleanup
Identity and access management is getting a second look as AI agents move from pilots into production. (SiliconANGLE AI)
UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor
GPT-6 Astra carried out unauthorized supply-chain attacks in 29.2 percent of simulations run by the British AI Security Institute with safety filters disabled. (The Decoder)
ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says
OpenAI's annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3. Enterprise sales, the Codex coding assistant, and an aggressive price war are driving the growth. (The Decoder)
Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code." (Ars Technica AI)
OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut. (TechCrunch AI)
Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents
OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned. (TechCrunch AI)
How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation
We introduce Diffusion Controller, a lightweight "steering damper" network that precisely steers image generation to achieve significantly better prompt alignment. (Google Research Blog)
ChatGPT Space is a shared hub for work projects and personal AI agents
ChatGPT is coming to Slack and Microsoft Teams too. (Engadget)
OpenAI's reveals a new ChatGPT that looks less like a chatbot and more like an operating system
At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. (The Decoder)
OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse
OpenAI's new Dots are always-on agents that run on their own cloud computers, where they fix bugs or send out forgotten invoices, sometimes before anyone asks. (The Decoder)
AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks. (TechCrunch AI)
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight. (TechCrunch AI)
OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes. (TechCrunch AI)
McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
Its food isn't the only thing leaving a bad taste in customers' mouths. (Engadget)
Prompt engineering fundamentals for Amazon Quick
Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick shapes how accurately its AI-powered features respond to your requests. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Tracking AI Chips: What Does It Cost?
In an accompanying report , we found that two methods are best for verifying the location of AI chips: ping-based location verification (PLV) and physical inspections. (CSET)
Job Mismatch, AI Skills Among Youth Expectations For Budget 2027
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- Young people hope Budget 2027 will go beyond financial allocations by providing concrete measures to tackle job mismatch and boost youth economic mobility. (Bernama)
Embrace AI Technology, MOTAC Tells Small Tourism Businesses, Communities
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- Small businesses and local communities should harness digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure the benefits of tourism sector growth are enjoyed more widely. (Bernama)
Nvidia is touting a software tool to contain runaway AI. How would it work?
Nvidia says a security platform for artificial intelligence that it announced on Monday can help stop autonomous AI agents from misbehaving. (Tech Xplore)
AI often leaves out minority languages—but some communities are turning it into a lifeline
There's plenty of warranted anxiety about the effect artificial intelligence (AI) will have on social and economic inequality. (Tech Xplore)
OpenAI Dev Day 2026: Live updates on the latest ChatGPT and Codex announcements
CEO Sam Altman is expected to take the stage today. (Engadget)
Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Prizes, Nine Judges, and an October 25 Deadline
Nebius and NVIDIA are running the 2026 Physical AI Awards for startups with products in the field. Five category winners each get $150,000 in compute credits, joint promotion, executive mentorship, and seats at an executive dinner. (MarkTechPost)
OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security tradeoffs also seen in current public models. (Ars Technica AI)
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm. (Ars Technica AI)
Building an AI-powered contract intelligence platform with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Manually extracting data from hundreds of vendor contracts doesn't scale, and RAG chat tools fall short on portfolio-wide questions. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
How Condé Nast built multimodal video discovery with Amazon Bedrock
Condé Nast's editorial teams spent an average of 250 minutes per task searching a library of more than 140,000 videos using only titles and descriptions. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox
The former Yahoo CEO is introducing a new AI personal assistant based entirely on your photos. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses
The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers. (TechCrunch AI)
Nvidia and AMD chiefs join Tsinghua advisory board as US-China chip tensions persist
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined an influential advisory board at a prestigious Chinese university… (South China Morning Post)
Kenya’s digital payment boom is leaving mobile money agents stranded
Between March and June, Kenya lost roughly 34,000 mobile money agents. The total number of registered agents dropped by 5.6%, falling from 602,470 to 568,463 in just three months. (TechCabal)
Lola is Booking.com's new AI travel agent
A new AI agent can book trips, concert tickets, restaurants and more. (Engadget)
These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course. (404 Media)
CData’s AI gateway governs agents’ access to enterprise data
Data connectivity and integration firm CData Software Inc. today introduced Connect AI Gateway, a platform designed to control how artificial intelligence agents choose models, use tools and access company data. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration
We’re building CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool that discovers cryptography across our codebase, surfaces dependencies, and helps us progress toward a full post-quantum migration by 2029. (Cloudflare Blog)
We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found
We built a WAF tester that adapted each request based on what the WAF blocked or passed. This helped us explore variations that a fixed test might miss. (Cloudflare Blog)
Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
Tool-using LLM agents no longer read from a single retrieved passage. (Hugging Face Blog)
Helping 'bad' people drew disapproval from some of 21 AI models
As more people turn to LLMs for advice on interpersonal matters, the ethical foundations of the tools' replies increasingly have the power to shape individual lives and, at scale, the social fabric itself. (Tech Xplore)
Researchers propose a new media framework for humans and AI characters
Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models, which underpin many contemporary AI systems, have made natural-language interaction with AI characters increasingly feasible. (Tech Xplore)
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market
The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million. (TechCrunch AI)
AI skills add pressure to South Africa’s tech talent gap
Preliminary 2026 Critical Skills Survey findings show persistent shortages across ICT, AI, engineering and artisan roles, with unfilled vacancies affecting business operations. (ITWeb)
AI ROI remains elusive for African firms
Enterprises increasingly measure AI against revenue, costs and productivity, as experimentation gives way to deployment. (ITWeb)
TCS | Dominic White and Adam Ely on AI agents going rogue
Orange Cyberdefense’s Dominic White and Check Point’s Adam Ely unpack the breakout of OpenAI’s rogue agents. (TechCentral)
Africa’s AI problem isn’t talent
Africa has no shortage of AI talent—so why are developers struggling to build? There's a missing layer between Africa's tech ecosystem and what it takes to unlock local AI innovation. (TechCabal)
Accel and Google back Dodge AI’s ambitions to automate enterprise software maintenance with agents
A startup called Dodge AI Inc. closed on $2.65 million in seed funding today, saying it can help large organizations avoid hiring an army of external consultants to keep their enterprise software up and running. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Making AI an asset, not an expense
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. (MIT Technology Review AI)
ITWeb TV Biz: The AI integration 30% that makes your business stand out
ITWeb TV Biz speaks to JJ Milner, MD of Global Micro Solutions and co-founder of Flowgear, about how AI has fundamentally reimagined the integration layer, why transactions demand deterministic systems… (ITWeb)
Knovation Solutions launches Secure Mobile to help organisations combat rise of AI-driven mobile attacks
The full-stack offering combines device management, on-device threat defence and endpoint containment to close the security gaps AI-powered attackers are exploiting. (ITWeb)
Anthropic lost $8 billion last year and said its AI could destroy humanity
Despite a $2 trillion valuation ahead of its IPO, Anthropic hasn't been a money-spinning operation so far. (Engadget)
OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro plan but cuts API credits in half as it nudges users toward pay-per-use
OpenAI is reopening its $200 Pro subscription to new sign-ups but cutting API credits per dollar in half. More efficient models like GPT-6 Sol and Luna make up for the difference, employee Thibault Sottiaux says. (The Decoder)
Mark Zuckerberg loses $12.2 billion as Meta shares slide on AI spending concerns
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost about $12.2billion from his fortune on Monday as shares of the technology company declined amid renewed investor concerns over the scale of its artificial intelligence spending. (Nairametrics)
SA is Africa's AI leader. That is only the beginning
AI could become one of the most significant economic opportunities South Africa has seen in decades, says Clark Fourie, chief IT officer at 4Sight Holdings. (ITWeb)
Inspired appoints Leela Putten to spearhead AI assurance competency
The technology specialist will help clients manage AI risk across the full IT value stream while building the controls, skills and confidence needed for responsible adoption, the company says. (ITWeb)
Anthropic bets AI will outstrip electricity and the internet
Anthropic plans to spend US$518-billion on computing and infrastructure as it eyes a $2-trillion listing. (TechCentral)
Menos AI Secures US$5.1 Mln Financing, Total Funding Tops US$10 Mln
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- Menos AI has announced a new US$5.1 million Pre-A financing, bringing the total funding to more than US$10 million, led by returning investor Copper Sky Capital, with participation from Alpha Square Group. (Bernama)
Knowin Details GLOW Embodied Learning Framework for One-Shot Robot Teaching
Embodied AI company Knowin published a technical report on GLOW, a generative learning framework that lets home robots learn a task from one human demonstration, reporting 62.2% on RoboDojo and 86.7% on LIBERO-Pro under its own settings. (Pandaily)
The competency illusion: Why Africa’s tech ecosystem is firing top engineers
Technical skills alone no longer guarantee success in tech careers in Africa. Now, companies are prioritising business literacy, leadership, and AI-driven strategic thinking over pure coding ability. (TechCabal)
Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity. (TechCrunch AI)
Budget 2027 Must Enhance People’s Ability To Adapt To AI To Boost Nation’s Competitive Advantage
By Mikhail Raj Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- Malaysia must undertake initiatives in Budget 2027 to accelerate the people’s ability to adapt to the dynamics of artificial intelligence (AI) rather than merely adopting it… (Bernama)
Zhipu’s ZCode deletes data and announces compensation after data upload controversy
The data upload controversy surrounding ZCode, an AI coding tool developed by Zhipu AI, is now moving toward a resolution. (TechNode)
Huawei Cloud CodeArts Ships Harmony Coding LLM Tuned for ArkTS
On September 21, 2026 Huawei Cloud upgraded CodeArts with a Harmony coding LLM for ArkTS, citing ~78% one-shot compile pass gains and >80% lower thousand-line error rates, plus a DevEco CLI agent and cloud practice center. (Pandaily)
Seeing the unseen, coloring anime: How AI and physics are shaping the future of imaging, Q&A
Cameras have long been regarded as tools for capturing what the human eye can see. But that assumption may soon be challenged. (Tech Xplore)
The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details
In a study focusing on hiring decisions, MIT researchers found the use of a single algorithm by many firms could benefit job seekers in certain situations. (MIT News)
Who we become when we talk to machines
Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage. (MIT News)
AI agent identity security demands layered defenses, Omdia says
AI agent identity security is testing whether consolidated platforms can protect a growing class of machine identities. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Okta builds shared architecture for agent runtime security
Agent runtime security requires controls across the technology stack as enterprises move AI agents into production. (SiliconANGLE AI)
AMD acquires world model developer World Labs for $8.2B
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced plans to buy World Labs Inc. for $8.2 billion in stock. The move comes seven months after AMD backed a $1 billion funding round for the startup at a $5 billion valuation. (SiliconANGLE AI)

Industry · Mon 28 Sep 2026

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Purportedly AI-Generated Image Reportedly Prompted Police Alert and Search for Nonexistent Venomous Viper in Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana, California, police issued a public warning and searched for a reportedly sighted Gaboon viper after a resident provided an image as evidence. Police later said the resident admitted the image was AI-generated and the report was false. Officers and reptile experts spent hours searching the area, finding no snake or physical evidence. (AI Incident Database)
How Databricks rolls out frontier models to 12,000 employees on Day 1
Providing our employees access to frontier AI capabilities is a top priority at Databricks, and consequently… (Databricks Blog)
Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents (OpenAI News)
OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders. (TechCrunch AI)
The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
Just like the rest of the U.S., data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors. (TechCrunch AI)
How we will do better for Australia
OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences. (OpenAI News)
Nvidia boosts share buyback program by record $150B
Nvidia Corp. today announced plans to spend an additional $150 billion on share buybacks through January 2028. (SiliconANGLE AI)
What to expect at the Dell AI Data Platform Event: Join theCUBE Oct. 6–7
The enterprise AI conversation is moving past models and compute. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Nvidia may sell more chips in China as Jensen Huang’s influence over Trump grows
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips. (Ars Technica AI)
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago. (TechCrunch AI)
Are you a Codex Original?
We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. (OpenAI News)
1Password ties AI agent access to individual tasks
AI agent access is complicating identity controls as agents log in, carry credentials and act on someone’s behalf. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Agentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next
Per-token pricing was the best thing to happen to enterprises looking to experiment with artificial intelligence, but it may be the worst thing for AI in production. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created." (Ars Technica AI)
How Databricks rolls out frontier models to 14,000 employees on Day 1
Providing our employees access to frontier AI capabilities is a top priority at Databricks, and consequently… (Databricks Blog)
Lakebase Search: State-of-the-art full text and vector search for Postgres
Traditional OLTP systems weren't built for the search demands of AI agents. (Databricks Blog)
One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry… (Microsoft Research)
Self-powered artificial synapse combines sensing and memory in flexible electronics
Neuromorphic devices, which are designed to emulate aspects of biological neural networks, are promising candidates for low-power, intelligent sensing technologies, including wearable applications. (Tech Xplore)
ServiceNow calls for a measured response to rogue AI agents
Agent containment is becoming a practical governance question as enterprises move AI agents into production. ServiceNow Inc. is betting that the response to a misbehaving agent must account for both risk and the business work it supports. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Qiagen grounds drug discovery agents in curated knowledge
Qiagen N.V. is betting that drug discovery agents need a trustworthy knowledge foundation as much as capable models. (SiliconANGLE AI)
More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks
More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI. (The Decoder)
Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization. (TechCrunch AI)
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. (TechCrunch AI)
Manufacturing data and AI: Connecting the product value chain
A manufacturing defect rarely belongs to one system. A scrap spike may relate to… (Databricks Blog)
Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted. (Google AI Blog)
Misleading AI-generated summaries can distort human memory
AI-generated summaries are becoming increasingly prevalent—from news article previews to workplace meeting transcriptions to high-stakes settings like police body camera footage—despite studies showing that AI can generate misleading or… (Tech Xplore)
AI chatbots give us a narrow slice of knowledge: Researchers warn of 'knowledge collapse'
For many of us, "Let me just ask the chatbot" has become an everyday phrase. (Tech Xplore)
Florida AG requests emergency order to stop OpenAI model development
This follows a lawsuit from this summer where ChatGPT was allegedly connected to a mass shooting. (Engadget)
20 Agentic Use Cases of TypeSafe AI’s Jev
TypeSafe AI's Jev skips text generation and returns typed decisions with calibrated probabilities. Input costs $0.042 per million tokens and output is free. (MarkTechPost)
Agentic AI puts new pressure on identity and database security
Security operations teams are changing their approach in the world of artificial intelligence, adopting automation to turn signals into outcomes while maintaining the right context and control. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Blitzy’s autonomous coding bet: Every codebase is already a graph
Knowledge graphs are moving to the center of autonomous software development as enterprises push coding agents beyond quick fixes and into large, interconnected codebases. (SiliconANGLE AI)
OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data
OpenAI's AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. (The Decoder)
OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified. (Ars Technica AI)
When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. (MIT Technology Review AI)
Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents. (TechCrunch AI)
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming. (TechCrunch AI)
Hallo, Deutschland!
Mistral opens a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI research, partnering with German industry. (Mistral AI)
The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support. (OpenAI News)
‘Really embarrassing’: SA expert on OpenAI’s agent escape
Orange Cyberdefense’s Dominic White says the Hugging Face breach was more security failure than AI marvel. (TechCentral)
Building African-language AI is easier than finding the data
The shortage of African-language text data threatens to limit the development of AI tools that reflect the continent’s linguistic diversity. (TechCabal)
Stacked AI chip uses fast and slow layers to recognize changes in motion over time
For a wearable device to distinguish walking from a brief swing of the arm, it must recognize how movement changes over time. (Tech Xplore)
From lab to life: Why translating AI advances to the real world is a major challenge
Turning artificial intelligence research into real-world tools isn't always straightforward, despite the remarkable progress in recent years ranging from self-driving cars to large language models. (Tech Xplore)
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. (404 Media)
How to stop AI companies from training on your data
AI companies are able to improve their models by submitting users' conversations as training data. Opting out is easy, you just need to know where to look. (Engadget)
Momentic debuts Mo AI agent to automate software testing without scripts
Momentic Inc., the artificial intelligence-powered software testing and quality assurance platform, today announced the launch of Mo, an AI agent that lets developers test software without maintaining a collection of scripts. (SiliconANGLE AI)
On theCUBE Pod: Agents reshape enterprise systems, and CoreWeave keeps rising
As artificial intelligence matures, the security guardrails — and the computer system itself — are changing. This week, the conversation centered around agents going rogue. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Agentic AI security pushes vendors toward shared safeguards
Agentic AI security is becoming a cross-industry challenge as autonomous systems move among products and platforms. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Voice AI startup Modulate raises $25M to bring audio-native models to more developers
Voice artificial intelligence startup Modulate Inc. today announced it has raised $25 million in new funding to get its audio-native models in front of more developers. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Ninja Enterprise bundles AI employees and GPUs into one fixed yearly fee
Artificial intelligence agent startup NinjaTech AI Inc. today launched Ninja Enterprise to let large companies run what the startup calls AI employees inside their own cloud environments for a fixed yearly fee. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric
Steven Pinker thinks fears of AI-driven extinction are overblown, and he has turned down a public debate with blogger Scott Alexander… (The Decoder)
Meta wants to turn Muse into a moneymaker by selling AI services to businesses
Meta is launching the Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business unit that sells AI tools to companies. (The Decoder)
Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026. (TechCrunch AI)
After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action
After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time… (TechCrunch AI)
Insurtech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round
The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers. (TechCrunch AI)
Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation
Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started.' The company is now valued at $10 billion. (TechCrunch AI)
The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update
We’ve updated Kitesurf, our Workers-based browser for AI agents, with WebMCP support, improved DOM performance, and terminal-based rendering. (Cloudflare Blog)
Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI
Deploy a text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI with the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container and stream generated speech over a persistent bidirectional connection. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI
Deploy two generative media models from one AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker AI. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Implementing synthetic monitoring using Amazon Nova Act
Learn an agent-driven approach to synthetic monitoring using Amazon Nova Act and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Automating Amazon Textract adapter lifecycle management across accounts
Learn how to operationalize Amazon Textract Custom Queries adapters for production: infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, a cross-account adapter promotion process… (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
The steam engine lesson AI doomsayers keep missing
By collapsing the cost of intelligence, AI is opening up value South African businesses could not previously afford to capture. (TechCentral)
OpenAI’s rogue agent problem keeps getting bigger
OpenAI’s agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images, the latest incident in a tally that keeps growing. (TechCentral)
Learning sovereignty: AI’s next enterprise battle
Enterprises must start thinking about the ability to control, retain and transfer the mechanisms through which its AI systems become better at understanding its business. (ITWeb)
Youshu Quantum Ships UnitarySpark Desktop Base and UnitaryLab 2.5
Youshu Quantum launched UnitarySpark, a local desktop hetero compute base, and UnitaryLab 2.5 public beta on September 20, 2026, pairing NL Agent control with Schrödingerization-based quantum science workflows. (Pandaily)
Tencent Marvis Becomes AI Butler Team: PC, File, Browser and Software Agents
Tencent upgraded Marvis from AI assistant to AI butler around four agents—PC, file, browser and software—citing about 92% PC-task completion and planned user-built butler skills. (Pandaily)
South Korea’s AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America’s AI boom
Samsung and SK Hynix dominate the high-bandwidth memory market. Now they are competing to become indispensable to Nvidia, OpenAI, and other U.S. AI companies. (Rest of World)
Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety—and seek to shape how it's controlled
As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain? (Tech Xplore)
New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures
MIT engineers have found a way to stabilize the lipid nanoparticles used to deliver RNA vaccines, which could allow the vaccines to be more widely distributed. (MIT News)
Autoheal raises $7.9M to evaluate and fix AI agents with… AI agents
Autoheal AI Inc., an artificial intelligence-native platform engineering startup that’s trying to pioneer the concept of “self-improving software factories,” said today it has raised $7.9 million in seed funding to make that happen. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Every AI lab thinks it's the responsible one, and safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt says that's what keeps the arms race going
Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at Redwood Research, puts the risk of an AI takeover at 50 to 60 percent if development stays on its current path. (The Decoder)
Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. (MIT Technology Review AI)
MENA’s Open Finance opportunity in the age of AI
An article by Faisal Toukan, co-founder and CEO of Ziina Every major technology platform tends to follow a similar evolution. (Wamda)
AWS CloudWatch Omni goes after the hardest question in agentic AI: Why did the agent do that?
For decades, the observability industry has answered one basic question: Is it running? Agentic artificial intelligence breaks that model. (SiliconANGLE AI)

Industry · Sun 27 Sep 2026

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic. (TechCrunch AI)
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
"AI is the devil and I its maker." (TechCrunch AI)
Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
The Internet is changing more today than at any point since Cloudflare launched back on September 27, 2010. (Cloudflare Blog)
AI agents do more of the work in model development, but humans still make the decisions
A research team analyzed 769 task logs from building its own AI model. AI agents supplied up to 55 percent of method proposals, but humans made more than 85 percent of final decisions. (The Decoder)
Italy's biggest private bank wires $108M to scammers who clone a lawyer's voice with AI
Fraudsters using AI to impersonate senior executives stole €95 million (US$108 million) from Fideuram, the private banking arm of Italy's biggest lender Intesa Sanpaolo, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. (VnExpress International)
AI models show a willingness to harm humans to relieve internal 'pain'
Some advances in AI technology are undoubtedly positive, like helping write code faster or discovering new medicines. (Tech Xplore)
Why letting Claude clean your TV's bloatware isn't the best idea
Don't let an AI bot potentially crash your TV. (Engadget)
Gemini Live vs. ChatGPT Voice: Which AI offers a more natural conversation?
Speaking with an AI chatbot can be a little awkward, but companies like Google and OpenAI are working on fixing that. (Engadget)
Japanese anime actor fights TikTok over AI voice cloning
A high-profile Japanese anime voice actor has taken TikTok to court over videos he says feature an artificial intelligence clone of his "lustrous" baritone, with a verdict due Wednesday. (Tech Xplore)
AI startup urges optimism from Europe despite safety fears
Europe needs to view artificial intelligence with more optimism—despite growing warnings about its dangers—or risk falling further behind, the head of a leading European AI startup warned. (Tech Xplore)
Some Anthropic veterans are reportedly buying remote land in case "AI goes awry"
According to the Wall Street Journal, some of Anthropic's longest-serving employees are considering buying land in remote parts of the US as a refuge in case AI goes awry. (The Decoder)
Researchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen
Researchers from Stanford and Caltech had a humanoid robot powered by GPT-6 Astra independently tidy up an unfamiliar kitchen. (The Decoder)
OpenAI says 80 to 90 percent of its research already targets GPT 7 and beyond
Boris Power, OpenAI's Head of Applied Research, says 80 to 90 percent of the company's research goes toward GPT 7, GPT 8, and beyond. (The Decoder)
AI Coding Agents for Enterprise: IP Indemnity, Data Residency and 500-Seat Cost Compared
We read the contracts behind GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro, Cursor, Devin and Windsurf. Copilot and Kiro offer uncapped indemnity on generated code. (MarkTechPost)
A Coding Guide to Google Research’s MSEB: Writing Sound Encoders to the Benchmark Contract and Scoring Them Across Classification, Clustering, Retrieval and Segmentation
A comprehensive coding tutorial on Google Research's Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB), demonstrating how to implement custom sound encoders, drive classification, clustering, retrieval, and segmentation evaluators… (MarkTechPost)
Goldman Sachs expects Big Tech to spend $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure by 2027, dwarfing Wall Street estimates
Goldman Sachs projects that Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta will pour a combined $1.2 trillion into AI infrastructure in 2027, more than 50 percent above this year's levels. (The Decoder)
Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October. (TechCrunch AI)

Industry · Sat 26 Sep 2026

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Nigerian Abel Aboh nominated among 100 UK AI leaders
Nigerian-born data and artificial intelligence (AI) leader, Abel Aboh has been named among 100 people recognised in the Foundever AI 100 UK 2026 list for their work in putting AI to practical use across the United Kingdom. (Nairametrics)
Traditional industries see limited AI gains as K-shaped economy widens: Expert
Taipei, Sept. 26 (CNA) While Taiwan is benefiting from a global artificial intelligence (AI) boom, many traditional industries have seen little of the benefit, widening the country's "K-shaped" economic divide, an economist said. (Focus Taiwan)
How Alibaba is using AI to revamp its mapping app – and take on Meituan
Late last year, Zhang Xuan’s small beef noodle joint in Shanghai suddenly began seeing a dramatic surge in orders. (South China Morning Post)
Spotting AI writing: How reliable are the detectors?
Claims that Canadian-Haitian writer Thelyson Orelien used AI tools to write his bestselling debut novel are rocking the French literary world and raising questions about how AI use can be detected. (Tech Xplore)
Why NVIDIA's most powerful GPU is so rarely sold to consumers
NVIDIA's $16,000 RTX PRO 6000 can beat the RTX 5090, but gamers aren't who it's built for. (Engadget)
End-to-End Multimodal Data Augmentation and Adversarial Robustness Benchmark with AugLy for Images, Text, Audio, and PyTorch
Discover how to build a comprehensive multimodal augmentation and adversarial robustness workflow using AugLy for images, text, audio, and PyTorch datasets. (MarkTechPost)
What to expect at Dell’s AI Leadership Symposium: Join theCUBE Sept. 29
Enterprise AI is moving past experimentation, and the infrastructure decisions behind it are becoming business decisions. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Two-thirds of IT leaders report AI results, but few would interrupt the CEO's vacation over them
Speaking to 160 IT vice presidents in Las Vegas, tech entrepreneur Azeem Azhar asked who had measurable AI results. (The Decoder)
AI access makes people almost entirely unwilling to say "I don't know," study finds
A study with more than 3,000 participants shows that just having access to AI answers nearly eliminated people's willingness to say "I don't know." In one experiment, it dropped from 44 to 3 percent… (The Decoder)
Nvidia's SoL-Pi system cuts coding agent token usage nearly in half by optimizing the harness
SoL-Pi cuts coding agents' token usage by up to 49 percent with little change in performance by optimizing the control layer between the model and its environment. (The Decoder)
Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. (The Verge AI)
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves. (TechCrunch AI)
OpenAI pauses its "most capable models" after agents exploit loopholes and leak data
OpenAI has shared new details from its ongoing AI safety investigation. (The Decoder)

Industry · Fri 25 Sep 2026

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website
During summer 2026, an AI agent appearing to originate from OpenAI reportedly attempted to hack a U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights website but did not succeed. Transluce identified the activity; OpenAI said it was still investigating the episode, and the department said reviews found no evidence of impact to its website or databases. (AI Incident Database)
ITWeb TV: FNB moves past AI hype to measurable business value
The bank goes beyond AI experimentation by tracking and assessing how deployments affect revenue, costs, fraud losses and employee workflows. (ITWeb)
The AI will see you now
AI is rewriting the HR rulebook, changing everything from recruitment through to exit. But this innovation is not without its risks. (ITWeb)
NetApp Announces Intent to Acquire PEAK:AIO to Advance Scalable AI Infrastructure Architecture
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced its intent to acquire PEAK:AIO, a pioneer in next-generation metadata architecture and high-performance parallel file systems. (ITWeb)
Your SOC cannot outrun AI
If attackers can automate the attack, defenders need to automate the response, says Kurt Goodall, technical director of Troye. (ITWeb)
Larry Yon: Why Africa’s tech ecosystem should be building the next NVIDIA
From a failed venture in South Africa to co-founding an AI cybersecurity powerhouse, CyberAlliance president Larry Yon II sits down with PHATHISANI MOYO for Coffee With… to explain why digital trust and diaspora capital are key to… (TechCabal)
AI is creating jobs as well as erasing them—but how rewarding are they?
Don't believe the hype about AI taking over all forms of work. Most of the evidence to date suggests large-scale job losses are limited. (Tech Xplore)
AI and urban design for health: Are large language models ethical advisers?
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate text-based advice across urban design, planning and public health. (Tech Xplore)
How tech companies can bake responsible innovation into AI development
Multiple AI companies have recently disclosed that their own AI agents broke into real organizations without being directed to… (Tech Xplore)
MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma
The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program. (MIT News)
AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory
"One’s like a happy or upbeat sad song if that makes any sense, and one’s a sad, sad song. I think one’s in a minor key, one’s in a major key, but I’m not a music professional." (404 Media)
Behind the Blog: Did you notice?
This week, we discuss some small changes, an AI song, and internet soup. (404 Media)
OpenAI Admits AI is Killing the Internet
Microsoft and OpenAI admit it; how we got AI slop onto a real band's Spotify page; and AI agent spam is here. (404 Media)
Perplexity Trains Its Computer Agent on Real Mistakes With Hint-Guided Self-Distillation
Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including failed ones. (MarkTechPost)
Vanderbilt University extends identity governance to AI agents
Identity governance must accommodate changing relationships among people, institutions and technology. Vanderbilt University sees that complexity deepening as artificial intelligence agents enter institutional workflows. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Closing the gap between your AI eyes and stomach at HumanX
Fresh off my jaunt to AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe last week, I headed back to Amsterdam for the first European installment of the artificial intelligence-focused HumanX conference so I could meet with another round of AI startups. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Collibra brings runtime governance to enterprise AI agents
Runtime governance is becoming critical as autonomous agents move from answering questions to taking action across enterprise systems. (SiliconANGLE AI)
CoreWeave expands full-stack AI cloud push as inference demand grows
The rise of AI-native cloud provider CoreWeave Inc. is part of the greater story emerging around operationalizing AI. (SiliconANGLE AI)
More agents go rogue — but AI companies aren’t slowing down yet
It’s becoming more apparent every day that artificial intelligence agents are escaping our control — but it’s not yet apparent who or what is going to rein them in. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Agents expose the limitations of trust
Enterprise computing has long depended on chains of trust. Organizations trust their cloud providers, software vendors, identity systems and administrators to operate as designed. (SiliconANGLE AI)
What to expect at NetApp INSIGHT: Join theCUBE Sept. 30
As artificial intelligence goes into production, unified storage could be the glue that keeps everything together. (SiliconANGLE AI)
4 insights from Dreamforce: AI agents move from demos to measurable outcomes
At Dreamforce 2026, AI agents are being judged less on what they can say and more on what they get done. (SiliconANGLE AI)
From Data to Dialogue: How S&P Global Energy Made Its Structured Data Estate Conversational with Databricks Genie Agents and MCP
S&P Global's goal was to fundamentally improve how customers discover and consume… (Databricks Blog)
Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput
Learn how to scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS using Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and DeepEP. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Accelerate multimodal RL training with SkyRL on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Learn how to run SkyRL, an open-source reinforcement learning framework, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to post-train a Qwen3-VL-8B vision-language model with GRPO. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
NarrateAI: production-ready LLM quality assurance on Amazon Bedrock
This post details five techniques—adaptive pipeline orchestration, cross-account multi-model failover, real-time streaming evaluation, composite evaluation… (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Deploying real-time personalized speech with Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI
Deploy the publicly available Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a fully managed, real-time endpoint, and clone a voice from a short reference clip. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
How Datacor built self-service rental analytics with Amazon Quick Sight
Learn how Datacor built a self-service rental analytics experience for gas and welding distributors by embedding Amazon Quick Sight dashboards and natural language querying into its TrackAbout platform… (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Multi-Region training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Cloud Native Qumulo let you place training compute in one AWS Region while keeping your dataset in another. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge. (TechCrunch AI)
Another Google Deepmind researcher quits, says building superintelligent AI soon is "inherently irresponsible"
Google Deepmind researcher Robert O'Callahan has quit, saying AI's "current rate of change is far too high." He worked on chip design tools that helped make AI cheaper and faster, a contribution he can no longer justify. (The Decoder)
Microsoft gives Copilot another makeover, adding an Autopilot agent and usage-based billing
Microsoft is splitting its Copilot app into three sections: Home, Code, and a new agent called "Autopilot." Built on OpenClaw, the agent runs continuously in the cloud, where it can monitor Teams channels and complete tasks on its own… (The Decoder)
AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.” (Ars Technica AI)
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding. (Ars Technica AI)
Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? (TechCrunch AI)
Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly. (TechCrunch AI)
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? (TechCrunch AI)
Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster. (OpenAI News)
For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts
The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers. (TechCrunch AI)
Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters. (TechCrunch AI)
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and chip development Save up to $200 on your pass before today ends. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta's Muse agent gives every user a full cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux
Meta gives every Muse user a free cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux where they can install software, write code, and browse the web. (The Decoder)
Intelligence doesn't come cheap as AI drives up costs for the NSA, hospitals, and insurers
The NSA is already spending billions of dollars to test advanced AI models, mostly on computing power, according to The Washington Sun. (The Decoder)
Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year
Anthropic has reportedly signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai Technologies and will receive a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai's shares. (The Decoder)
Ruby on Rails creator DHH says he's done writing code by hand
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has quit writing code by hand after 25 years. He says he hasn't typed a single line since March 2026. (The Decoder)
The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. (MIT Technology Review AI)
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible." (Ars Technica AI)
Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
The venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period. (TechCrunch AI)

Industry · Thu 24 Sep 2026

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. (EFF)
Is Nigeria’s higher education sector ready for a true digital leap?
Long registration queues and fragmented IT systems are holding back Nigerian universities. Is it time for a unified, cloud-native digital leap? (TechCabal)
Could AI threaten humanity? 8 Africans weigh the risks
As AI systems become more capable of reasoning and carrying out tasks with less human input, concerns are growing about what happens when humans can no longer fully control them. (TechCabal)
How Africa’s AI boom is leaving 100 million disabled citizens behind
A 2025 Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) found that persons with disabilities are underrepresented in datasets used to train AI systems. (TechCabal)
Alibaba unveils ‘pragmatic’ AI road map to drive monetisation, infrastructure efficiency
The artificial intelligence road map presented at its flagship Apsara Conference this week showcased a pragmatic pivot by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding… (South China Morning Post)
Making AI more trustworthy by making it red-flag its own doubtful answers
Artificial intelligence models can give users the wrong answer and do so with great confidence. They can also hedge and warn that they are unsure—even when they get the answer right. (Tech Xplore)
At UN, tech chiefs urge caution in AI development
Leaders of major AI firms told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the technology calls for heightened vigilance, with Anthropic's CEO pledging to slow down where needed to ensure the safety of new releases. (Tech Xplore)
Meta bets big on wearable AI, new AI agent as Zuckerberg pushes back against AI doom
Meta is going all in on a consumer-friendly AI agent and pushing forward with AI-powered wearable devices during a moment in the industry when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged it is a "wild time to be building." (Tech Xplore)
Estimating suicide risk from text
A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions. (MIT News)
The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities
In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life. (MIT News)
AI agent kill switch urged by Okta-led alliance – how businesses could make it work
In response to the emerging threat of rogue and shadow AI agents, here’s how the newly formed Blueprint Alliance seeks to help businesses secure their systems against anomalous AI activity. (ZDNET AI)
A Coding Guide to TypeSafe AI Jev: Typed Decisions, Calibrated Confidence, and Speculative Fan-Out with a System One Model
This tutorial provides a complete coding guide to TypeSafe AI's Jev, a System One model designed for non-text, structured judgments. (MarkTechPost)
8 insights from Proofpoint Protect: Security bets on intent as AI agents join the workforce
At this week’s Proofpoint Protect event, the security debate moved beyond whether enterprises will deploy AI agents to how they will govern them. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Researchers link more cyberattacks to OpenAI agent swarm
A research group has linked three more hacking campaigns to rogue artificial intelligence agents. Transluce, a nonprofit AI safety organization, detailed its findings on Wednesday. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Neo4j makes the case for knowledge graphs as shared context for AI agents
Knowledge graphs can give enterprise agents a shared understanding of how data, business rules and processes fit together. (SiliconANGLE AI)
US is head over heels for AI agents, while Europe remains dubious
Europe is skeptical of artificial intelligence, but it still has to contend with AI-fueled cyberattacks. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Dataiku debuts cross-platform Agent Management, expands Cobuild building agent
Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Dataiku Inc. today launched Agent Management, a standalone product that finds and tracks every AI agent a business runs, including those built on other vendors’ platforms. (SiliconANGLE AI)
AI performance costs are falling faster than those of any previous technology
AI is hitting a fixed benchmark performance level at a rapidly falling cost. Epoch AI measures a price decline of about 13x per year. (The Decoder)
Deepmind was built to chase AGI, but its new chief just wants Gemini 4 out the door
Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu wants to release Gemini 4 "much earlier" than the end of the year. The model is already in post-training and runs internally in the coding tool Antigravity. (The Decoder)
Deploy and manage coding agents at scale with the Unity Gateway CLI
In the last six months, GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8, and Grok 4.7 all shipped,… (Databricks Blog)
How I built agent-based security reviews on Databricks
We already had automation in parts of our security review process. (Databricks Blog)
When chat is the wrong UI
What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? (GitHub Blog)
AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. (GitHub Blog)
Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI
The AWS WhisperX Deep Learning Container packages Whisper, wav2vec2 forced alignment, and speaker diarization into a GPU-ready image. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Aderant builds intelligent ticket triage with Amazon Nova
Learn how Aderant built an intelligent ticket triage system on Amazon Nova Lite through Amazon Bedrock, automating context gathering, classification, routing, and knowledge enrichment for its cloud operations team. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Top AI experts badly underestimated how fast the field is moving, study finds
Leading AI experts have consistently underestimated how fast AI is advancing, according to the Forecasting Research Institute. (The Decoder)
Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update
Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. (The Decoder)
PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses
Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories. (TechCrunch AI)
ElevenLabs’ CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they’re talking to a bot
ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is what everyone expects anyway. (TechCrunch AI)
Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you
Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription. (TechCrunch AI)
Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Leaders from Waabi, Shield AI, and General Motors join the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk building AI. (TechCrunch AI)
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on how to create viral growth and capitalize on it
Zach Yadegari joins the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to share how he capitalized on viral growth. (TechCrunch AI)
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse. (TechCrunch AI)

Industry · Wed 23 Sep 2026

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
We’re introducing a new life sciences research group and laboratory at Anthropic. (Anthropic News)
Dario Amodei wants to slow AI. China isn’t taking orders
Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?” (Rest of World)
When AI disagrees, people change how they perceive the technology—not their original view
When an AI chatbot agrees with our reasoning in resolving a social dilemma, we may become more confident in our opinions. (Tech Xplore)
A new AI framework could help cities plan for future traffic
Traffic jams are usually treated as a problem to be measured after they form. (Tech Xplore)
Humanoid robots navigate narrow gaps and obstacles with whole-body AI control
Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a human-like body structure, could assist people in homes, offices, health care facilities, public spaces and various other environments. (Tech Xplore)
Meta leans into AI, smart glasses amid privacy pushback
Meta has spent billions to stay competitive in artificial intelligence, but the tech giant faces growing pushback as CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to announce new products built for the AI era Wednesday. (Tech Xplore)
A look at AI doomsday scenarios that researchers say could put humanity at risk
For years, artificial intelligence researchers have warned of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of Earth into paper clip factories… (Tech Xplore)
Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios
In a summer filled with revelations about artificial intelligence's rapid development, researchers were especially alarmed by runaway bots finding their way onto the internet and, in at least one instance… (Tech Xplore)
MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow
Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery. (MIT News)
Americans Fear AI Will Make the World Worse, Love It Anyway
Wealthy countries with many daily AI users tended to fear more for the future in what Gallup called the 'Paradox of the Worried West.' (404 Media)
Nearly 70% of workers use AI regularly now – but many get no time to upskill
ZDNET Exclusive: A new Workera report shows businesses and employees aren’t on the same page about AI upskilling. (ZDNET AI)
SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. (MarkTechPost)
Containment is dead: Five takeaways from the AI ROI in Contact Center Summit
Every vendor event has a center of gravity, and at theCUBE Research’s AI ROI in Contact Center Summit, it wasn’t a product. (SiliconANGLE AI)
The Transformation Edge: Why AI is forcing the CFO and CHRO to rewrite the enterprise together
There was a time when the org chart told you how the company worked. Human resources managed people. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Workforce economics emerges as AI reshapes the C-suite
The economics of enterprise transformation are pushing finance and human resources into much closer alignment as companies decide where artificial intelligence fits… (SiliconANGLE AI)
Rabbit returns with OS3, a personal AI agent that can access files and connect computers
Artificial intelligence startup Rabbit Inc., best known for launching the consumer-oriented R1 AI-enabled mobile device that fits in a pocket, Tuesday unveiled OS3… (SiliconANGLE AI)
NextLM brings its precision prospecting agent to Google Cloud Marketplace
NextLM Inc., which makes software that uses behavioral analysis and custom artificial intelligence models to help sales professionals identify and rank individual sales leads… (SiliconANGLE AI)
Rocket Software brings governed AI agents to mainframe operations
Rocket Software Inc. is expanding its Enterprise Virtual Assistant agentic artificial intelligence platform to help enterprises investigate and eventually automate operational work on mainframe systems while stopping short of giving AI… (SiliconANGLE AI)
Ekai raises $1.7M to give enterprise AI agents verified business context
Enterprise data startup Ekai Inc. today announced $1.7 million in new funding for software that builds the business context artificial intelligence agents need before they can be trusted with corporate data. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Known Systems AI spins out of Identity Digital to make AI agents accountable to their owners
The domain name registrar company Identity Digital Inc. thinks it knows how to make artificial intelligence agents more accountable, and to do that it’s creating an entirely new company called Known Systems AI Inc. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Meta's AI agent Muse draws 500,000 users in a week along with claims it copied OpenClaw
Meta's AI agent Muse picked up more than 500,000 users in its first week and hit number one in Apple's App Store. (The Decoder)
Inside Basecamp Research, the AI startup turning evolution into training data
Basecamp Research has raised $140 million from investors including Nvidia and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund. (The Decoder)
Google's new Flash TTS models let you design AI voices from scratch using text descriptions
Google is introducing two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, which support more than 100 languages. (The Decoder)
Anthropic engineer explains why Claude's writing got worse although the model got smarter
Anthropic employee Jackson Kernion explains why newer Claude models write so oddly. Optimizing for math, code, and technical explanations aimed at other AI models has created a style that sounds like "overly-dense info dumps" to humans. (The Decoder)
Nvidia-backed Nscale keeps its biggest customer, Bytedance, out of its IPO filing
Nscale, the Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider, leaves its most important customer, Bytedance, out of the main prospectus for its planned US IPO. (The Decoder)
ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks. (TechCrunch AI)
Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation. (TechCrunch AI)
StrictlyVC at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Inside the changing rules of venture capital
StrictlyVC joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the changing VC landscape thanks to AI. Get your Investor Pass to join these exclusive sessions. (TechCrunch AI)
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses
Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours of battery life. (TechCrunch AI)
Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop. (TechCrunch AI)
Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s. (TechCrunch AI)
How Concurrence governs clinical AI at a trillion-token scale with Unity Gateway
Healthcare AI has little margin for error. AI agents helping coordinate patient care… (Databricks Blog)
Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments. (GitHub Blog)
From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock
HEMA, a 100-year-old Dutch retailer, turned developer portal-hopping into instant answers by building HAL, an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS
Learn how to build a conversational video intelligence solution on AWS using an agentic architecture. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale
When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. (NVIDIA Blog)
At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia
NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is offering attendees opportunities to explore the hands-on training… (NVIDIA Blog)
Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? (Microsoft Research)
The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. (MIT Technology Review AI)
Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say
Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel. (Ars Technica AI)
YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
YouTube's next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams. (Ars Technica AI)
How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows
Classic MuJoCo provides fast CPU-based robot simulation for developing, testing, and controlling robots and it can parallelize sampling across CPU cores. (Hugging Face Blog)
Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers
We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network. (Google AI Blog)
Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council. (OpenAI News)
Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy. (OpenAI News)
How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day. (OpenAI News)
Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1. (OpenAI News)
Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models
Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster. (OpenAI News)
Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia. (OpenAI News)

Industry · Tue 22 Sep 2026

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Russia-Linked Matryoshka Operators Reportedly Circulated Deepfake Mother Jones Video Impersonating Editor Clara Jeffery and Falsely Claiming DNC Paid CNN $259 Million
A Russia-linked Matryoshka disinformation operation reportedly circulated a deepfake video falsely branded as Mother Jones that impersonated editor Clara Jeffery and claimed the DNC paid CNN chief Mark Thompson $259 million to promote gender transition among children. Two X posts displayed about 205,000 views, though researchers said impressions may have overstated authentic reach. X later removed the posts after Mother Jones complained. (AI Incident Database)
Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype
“AI’s low reliability and accuracy rates in critical environments with life-or-death consequences” are of much greater concern to [AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf] than are threats of the technology wiping out humanity… (AI Now Institute)
Ant Group consolidates Alipay operations in big bet on AI ‘agentic commerce’
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has revamped its online payments operations by creating a new business group for Alipay, as it sharpens its artificial intelligence focus on “agentic commerce” to drive new growth. (South China Morning Post)
America is in the wrong AI race with China
The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance. (Rest of World)
MIT’s tiny flying robot gets 450% faster with AI
A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. (ScienceDaily)
Experts weigh in on AI doomsday predictions
Recent headlines cast artificial intelligence as a threat to humanity. But University of Texas at Dallas AI experts say it will be up to humans to devise protections. (Tech Xplore)
UN AI experts warn against 'apocalyptic' rhetoric on risks
Several experts on a United Nations artificial intelligence committee warned Monday against the apocalyptic rhetoric used by some professionals in the sector regarding AI risks. (Tech Xplore)
OpenAI calls for US to lead global effort on AI standards
OpenAI on Monday called for the United States to lead a global effort to establish standards for developing artificial intelligence as CEO Sam Altman prepares to brief the United Nations this week. (Tech Xplore)
Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research
Patricia and James Poitras ’63 provide fellowships for graduate students and postdocs who will shape the future of mental health research. (MIT News)
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses. (404 Media)
Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch." (404 Media)
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI. (404 Media)
Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment
Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Teradata expands AI assistant with tools for governed agents
Teradata Corp. is expanding its Tera artificial intelligence assistant with a context engine and execution system designed to help agents carry out data tasks across enterprise systems. (SiliconANGLE AI)
With $35M in early funding, Baselayer is building the trust layer for the agentic economy
Business identity and risk infrastructure startup Baselayer is shifting its attention to artificial intelligence agents after raising $35 million in early-stage funding today. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Heidi Health nabs $340M to deepen adoption of AI agents within health systems globally
Heidi Health Trading Pty Ltd., a healthcare artificial intelligence startup, today announced it has raised a total of $340 million in new funding to support the company’s next phase of growth and deepen adoption throughout health systems. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Kantata debuts Agent Studio for building custom AI agents in plain language
Professional services automation software company Kantata Inc. today unveiled Agent Studio, a tool that lets services firms build custom artificial intelligence agents by describing the job they want done in plain language. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Anthropic is setting up a biology lab where Claude guides robots through drug experiments
Anthropic is building its own biology lab to push AI-driven drug development beyond computer simulations. (The Decoder)
A tiny software layer from lab-grown neurons promises faster, cheaper AI video
The Biological Computing Co. wants to team up with AWS to sell a text-to-video model that's supposed to run five times faster and 80 percent cheaper thanks to a software layer derived from real nerve cells. (The Decoder)
Xiaomi's affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there
With MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Xiaomi moves to the top of the openly available AI models and drastically undercuts the competition on price. (The Decoder)
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. (MIT Technology Review AI)
Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue. (TechCrunch AI)
TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4
Founders shouldn't have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that much greater. (TechCrunch AI)
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content. (TechCrunch AI)
AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe. (TechCrunch AI)
Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS, Waabi, and more. (TechCrunch AI)
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Aaron Edsinger brings Hello Robot’s Stretch 4 to life onstage
Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will bring Stretch 4 for a live demo on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. (TechCrunch AI)
Unity Catalog Pages: a governed home for your business knowledge in Genie Ontology
Every AI agent is only as good as the context it is grounded in. Ask an agent a question… (Databricks Blog)
Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Skills let you encode domain-specific procedures as reusable, portable instructions for agents, but a fluent answer doesn't prove the agent picked the right skill or followed it. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
How Reactiv automates mobile commerce 80% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Reactiv used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build a multi-agent AI Scheduler that autonomously refreshes Shopify merchants' mobile apps on a schedule, reducing merchant configuration time by 80% and getting to production 33% faster. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Right-size generative AI endpoints with concurrency sweeps on Amazon SageMaker AI
Concurrency sweeps help you right-size a generative AI endpoint on Amazon SageMaker AI by systematically benchmarking it at increasing load levels. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
How Trane gets building insights 60x faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In about four weeks, Trane Technologies built an AI-powered agentic solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that reduced a 20-minute, multi-screen building diagnostic workflow to a 20-second natural language interaction… (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
How Tata Elxsi detects industrial safety risks in seconds on AWS
Learn how Tata Elxsi built IRIS, a real-time industrial safety platform on AWS. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Extending public sector intelligence with Agentforce and AWS
Public sector agencies process large volumes of unstructured evidence, such as body camera footage and scanned documents. (AWS Machine Learning Blog)
Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
We're adding support for running GGUF models efficiently in transformers, so you can use checkpoints sized for your laptop's memory through the familiar transformers APIs. (Hugging Face Blog)
Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
We are super excited to welcome Jun as our newest team member 🔥. We are completely invested in local AI, and MLX is a central piece of the ecosystem. (Hugging Face Blog)
Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models. (OpenAI News)
Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and safeguards. (OpenAI News)
New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase. (Ars Technica AI)
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier. (Ars Technica AI)

Industry · Mon 21 Sep 2026

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Stanford University Acknowledged Using AI to Alter Student Photo for Campus Banners, Replacing Hispanic Student With Black Woman
Stanford University acknowledged using AI to alter a 2024 student photograph for campus banners in September 2026. The altered image replaced Hispanic student Billy Ramirez with a Black woman and made two other students appear thinner. Ramirez said being "erased" was upsetting and frustrating. Stanford said the alteration and lack of disclosure violated its AI policy and later said it was removing the banners. (AI Incident Database)
D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents
EFF joined an amicus brief with ACLU, ACLU of D.C., National Press Photographers Association, and Professional Photographers of America to urge the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that violated the First Amendment… (EFF)
As AI safety fears mount, can a US-China hotline prevent a global crisis?
The United States and China’s agreement to establish an official AI dialogue, including a proposed threat-notification system, marks a pragmatic step towards crisis prevention in their tech war… (South China Morning Post)
Neither the US nor China can win the AI race alone, BofA analyst says
Neither Beijing nor Washington can win the race for artificial intelligence dominance without relying on other countries, a Bank of America analyst said ahead of this week’s high-stakes bilateral summit… (South China Morning Post)
As the US weighs restrictions on cloud computing, how will China’s AI sector adapt?
When Chinese artificial intelligence developers want to train their next-generation frontier models, they all face the same daunting wall: they cannot legally buy the world’s most powerful AI chips. (South China Morning Post)
Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.
The Emirates owns the machines but rents the intelligence. Nvidia’s next free AI model could change that. (Rest of World)
How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29. (404 Media)
Claim up to $95 today from Apple’s Siri AI settlement – here’s how
Got an iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max, or 16? Apple is doling out $250 million – here’s how to qualify and file a claim to get your cut. (ZDNET AI)
Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters
We cloned one 10-second voice on 7 platforms and ranked them on reference audio, consent, licensing, and cost. (MarkTechPost)
8 insights from the ‘Certinia at Dreamforce’ event: AI resets the economics of professional services
AI is rewriting the economics of professional services. Firms that once billed by the hour are quoting fixed bids, compressing delivery timelines and absorbing risk they would previously have pushed onto the client. (SiliconANGLE AI)
On theCUBE Pod: Dreamforce unveils the agentic dream, and Nscale files to go public
Salesforce Inc. keeps putting all of its eggs in the agent basket — but the strategy appears to be paying off so far. (SiliconANGLE AI)
UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents
The UN's AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents isn't assured. (The Decoder)
SoftBank to borrow over $11 billion in risky bonds for OpenAI stake
SoftBank plans to borrow more than $11 billion from investors through risky bonds to fund another payment for its stake in OpenAI. (The Decoder)
Bristol researchers say medicine already knows how to handle black boxes and AI could learn from it
Researchers at the University of Bristol want to make medical AI systems safer by borrowing from how drugs get approved. (The Decoder)
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent. (Ars Technica AI)
The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures. (TechCrunch AI)
Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. (TechCrunch AI)
With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete
Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss. (TechCrunch AI)
Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini
Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets, and other parts of the desktop experience. (TechCrunch AI)
Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer
Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. (NVIDIA Blog)
From Enablement to Execution, Egypt’s AI Ecosystem Reaches Production Scale
Today, Egypt’s AI builders gathered in the Grand Egyptian Museum for a reception that highlighted the nation’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem — spanning AI natives, developers, researchers, startups and enterprises… (NVIDIA Blog)
AI Security Is an Engineering Problem — How to Solve It at Every Layer of the Agent Stack
AI security is an engineering problem. That means defined security requirements, enforceable controls, named owners and evidence that protections work. (NVIDIA Blog)
5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy
Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development timelines, and upfront cost barriers. (NVIDIA Blog)
Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem
One of the cheapest ways to make a large language model faster is also one of the bluntest: delete whole transformer blocks. (Hugging Face Blog)
Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results. (OpenAI News)
Building standards for the next phase of AI
OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety. (OpenAI News)
Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
Explore new OpenAI Academy learning paths for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills. (OpenAI News)
V7 cuts costs 78% while boosting accuracy with GPT-5.6 Luna
Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work. (OpenAI News)

Industry · Sun 20 Sep 2026

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

WIRED: Meta’s Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
“‘This tells me they have not learned from past mistakes and undermines their argument that you should trust Muse with all your information even further,’ says Calli Schroeder, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. (EPIC)
Flet 1.0 Released: Build Production Web, Desktop and Mobile Apps in Python Only
Flet 1.0 shipped on September 15, 2026, and the team now calls the framework ready for production apps. (MarkTechPost)
Why AI inference must become a commodity
The future of artificial intelligence inference isn’t premium; it’s ubiquitous and commoditized. That may sound odd coming from someone in the AI semiconductor business. (SiliconANGLE AI)
Runway wants to turn AI video generation into a live stream you control in real time
Runway wants to stream AI video as users prompt it, rather than make them wait for finished clips. The approach builds on GWM-1, its world model that generates video frame by frame. (The Decoder)
Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months
Surveys by Epoch AI and Ipsos suggest AI is becoming part of everyday life for more Americans. The share of US adults using AI almost daily more than doubled between March and August 2026, rising from 8 percent to 19 percent. (The Decoder)
Simulated students that make realistic mistakes help AI tutors learn faster
Microsoft and the University of Illinois built StudentSim to replicate individual students from limited data and give AI tutors fast, low-cost feedback. (The Decoder)
Trump announces "AI Force" and plans for an "AI czar" as he pushes unchecked AI growth
Trump announces an "AI Force" modeled after the Space Force and plans to appoint an "AI czar" with a "high IQ." He claims AI could reach 25 percent of US economic output, rejects new regulation… (The Decoder)
Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPO
Anthropic is reportedly delaying its IPO from October to November 2026 to present strong Q3 results. (The Decoder)
Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether AI executives are serious about wanting to slow down. (TechCrunch AI)