Tony Fadell on why the first wave of AI gadgets failed — and what comes next
Tony Fadell on why the first wave of AI gadgets failed — and what comes next. The “father of the iPod” says the first generation of AI gadgets failed to solve r...
Google experiments with an AI-powered gaming platform
Google experiments with an AI-powered gaming platform. Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build br...
OpenAI's Alexander Embiricos is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — days after the launch of Dots
OpenAI's Alexander Embiricos is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — days after the launch of Dots. OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos is coming to the AI Stage at Tec...
Get hands-on: The full lineup of interactive roundtables at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Get hands-on: The full lineup of interactive roundtables at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. From Nvidia and Chime to Obvious Ventures and Anthropic, explore the entire...
Google's new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media
Google's new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media. Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an i...
How AI decision models could change content moderation
How AI decision models could change content moderation. On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-...
AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO
AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO. Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of ...
The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in. Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you.
Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy
Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy. The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with ...
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model' of human behavior
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model' of human behavior. Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model bu...
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits. "We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most pe...
LibreOffice says ‘no AI' is now a software feature
LibreOffice says ‘no AI' is now a software feature. The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default config...
Mistral's new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals
Mistral's new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals. French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to le...
Pinterest's AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans
Pinterest's AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans. Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estim...
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EU
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EU. OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act.
Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost. Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and so...
Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to create a ‘virtual cell
Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to create a ‘virtual cell. Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly...
AI could upend food delivery
AI could upend food delivery. DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion i...
ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,' says Common Sense Media
ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,' says Common Sense Media. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment w...
OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs
OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs. OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unrelea...
We can't just change the definition of ‘recording
We can't just change the definition of ‘recording. With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording.
Google is about to remove free access to Gemini Flash and Pro
Google is about to remove free access to Gemini Flash and Pro. Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash L...
Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you're running late
Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you're running late. Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send...
This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions
This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions. People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment.
All the drama around AI's takeover of mathematics
All the drama around AI's takeover of mathematics. This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing math...
OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me
OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me. Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture.
Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic
Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic. Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books author...
‘Artificial' Roasts AI's Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
‘Artificial' Roasts AI's Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers. From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altm...
OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again. “There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as Op...
Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China. With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hop...
Kevin Roose Didn't Use AI to Write His Book About AI
Kevin Roose Didn't Use AI to Write His Book About AI. The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human...
The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike. The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI.
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family. Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse.
These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open. Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away.
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services. Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized ...
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic. The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of. Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to anoth...
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents. Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages.
Your uncle's frozen Mac says it's infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what
Your uncle's frozen Mac says it's infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what. Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts. EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easi...
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
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.
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang. Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner cir...
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used. SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop. “Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”.
Four groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit
Four groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit. A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.
Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware
Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware. An ongoing survey tracks the latest AI accelerator systems to keep hardware relevant for Lincoln L...
MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country
MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country. The effort aims to help U.S. learners from kindergarten to commun...
New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
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...
MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
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 Hu...
This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
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 decis...
The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities
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 technol...
MIT welcomes David Siegel SM '86, PhD '91 as its next Innovation Fellow
MIT welcomes David Siegel SM '86, PhD '91 as its next Innovation Fellow. Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schw...
New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise
New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise. This patient-specific method, called xvr, helps doctors use X-rays for surgical...
New method enables AI for safety-critical situations
New method enables AI for safety-critical situations. The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict req...
Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. The handheld catheterization device AI-GUIDE, created by Lincoln Laborat...
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines. A weeklong summer workshop brought higher education faculty to...
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment. MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production syst...
System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes
System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes. A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s ...
AI helps design new materials that work in the real world
AI helps design new materials that work in the real world. The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening o...
When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can't be traced to training data
When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can't be traced to training data. A new method for surgically removing training examples from a mo...
With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios. “GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate...
The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise
The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise. Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong,...
Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center
Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center. An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Pro...
Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize
Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize. Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial in...
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83. Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas s...
A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping
A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping. Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs mo...
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design. Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse ...
Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering
Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering. MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI c...
New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content
New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content. Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capa...
Kore.ai launches Autoloop to keep tuning enterprise AI agents after they go live
Kore.ai launches Autoloop to keep tuning enterprise AI agents after they go live. Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Kore.ai Inc.
Atlassian lays groundwork for humans and AI agents to work side by side
Atlassian lays groundwork for humans and AI agents to work side by side. Atlassian Corp. today announced Agentic Multiplayer Protocol, a platform update designe...
Caterpillar and CoreWeave shorten the learning loop for physical AI
Caterpillar and CoreWeave shorten the learning loop for physical AI. Demand for new data centers, power plants and highways is fueling a construction boom, even...
Meta teams up with Bret Taylor's Sierra Technologies on new standards for AI agent commerce
Meta teams up with Bret Taylor's Sierra Technologies on new standards for AI agent commerce. Meta Platforms Inc. is partnering with Walmart Inc., Stripe Inc. an...
Vinci reels in $250M for its engineering simulation platform
Vinci reels in $250M for its engineering simulation platform. Vinci4D Inc. today announced that it has closed a $250 million funding round at a $1.5 billion val...
Google expands EmbeddingGemma beyond text to images, audio and video
Google expands EmbeddingGemma beyond text to images, audio and video. Google LLC today released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model small enoug...
Cline Bot makes the case for an open AI coding harness
Cline Bot makes the case for an open AI coding harness. Open-weight models keep multiplying, and the AI coding harness around them is becoming just as important...
Transforming the data path: Dell's new releases move enterprises closer to the agentic data center
Transforming the data path: Dell's new releases move enterprises closer to the agentic data center. AI is taking shape, moving from models that answer questions...
Mistral launches open-source Mistral Large 4, details AI roadmap
Mistral launches open-source Mistral Large 4, details AI roadmap. Mistral AI SAS today opened access to Mistral Large 4, its most capable large language model t...
CoreWeave targets GPU utilization in continuous AI post-training
CoreWeave targets GPU utilization in continuous AI post-training. GPU utilization during post-training depends partly on how efficiently infrastructure moves da...
Three key insights you may have missed from theCUBE's coverage of the Supermicro Open Storage Summit interview series
Three key insights you may have missed from theCUBE's coverage of the Supermicro Open Storage Summit interview series. AI storage strategy is taking on a larger...
MasterClass bets AI teaching agents can broaden access to tutoring
MasterClass bets AI teaching agents can broaden access to tutoring. AI teaching agents could make personalized instruction available to more learners by reducin...
Vast uses tiered storage to ease AI agent memory demands
Vast uses tiered storage to ease AI agent memory demands. AI agent memory is creating new demands on infrastructure as agents run longer sessions and spread acr...
NetApp aims to make legacy data AI-ready without a rebuild
NetApp aims to make legacy data AI-ready without a rebuild. Enterprises sitting on decades of legacy information face a pressing question as artificial intellig...
Exclusive: Gamma revamps presentation platform to make output look more human
Exclusive: Gamma revamps presentation platform to make output look more human. Gamma Tech Inc., a maker of artificial intelligence-powered services for presenta...
Antseed launches a decentralized marketplace for AI inference that dramatically lowers developers' costs
Antseed launches a decentralized marketplace for AI inference that dramatically lowers developers' costs. Developers now have a much cheaper way to access cutti...
Anaconda expands beyond Python with agent swarms and AI security testing
Anaconda expands beyond Python with agent swarms and AI security testing. Artificial intelligence development firm Anaconda Inc.
SAP expands Joule into an agentic work layer as Autonomous Enterprise goes live
SAP expands Joule into an agentic work layer as Autonomous Enterprise goes live. SAP SE today announced a shift from promising agentic artificial intelligence a...
Utah gives startup Nolla Health permission to start issuing AI automated prescriptions for acne treatments
Utah gives startup Nolla Health permission to start issuing AI automated prescriptions for acne treatments. Utah has become the first state in the U.S.
Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters
Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters. Reflection AI Inc. today introduced Beam, an open-source large language model with 501 billion...
AI agent hardware startup Ghost, led by its 19-year-old-founder, raises $11M
AI agent hardware startup Ghost, led by its 19-year-old-founder, raises $11M. Artificial intelligence hardware startup Ghost AI said today it has raised $11 mil...
NetApp's Novus tackles metadata bottlenecks in AI data infrastructure
NetApp's Novus tackles metadata bottlenecks in AI data infrastructure. AI data infrastructure must support growing GPU clusters while making enterprise data usa...
NetApp puts sovereign storage at the center of European infrastructure decisions
NetApp puts sovereign storage at the center of European infrastructure decisions. Sovereign storage is becoming an architectural and operational consideration f...
What to expect during the AI Cybersecurity and Resilience Summit
What to expect during the AI Cybersecurity and Resilience Summit. AI trust increasingly determines whether enterprise AI scales.
Exclusive: Iterate.ai's Lifeboat runs up to six times more AI agent sessions per GPU
Exclusive: Iterate.ai's Lifeboat runs up to six times more AI agent sessions per GPU. Enterprise artificial intelligence software company Iterate Studio Inc.
Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps
Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps. Artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc.
Equs launches a personal AI platform with private storage to give users greater control over data
Equs launches a personal AI platform with private storage to give users greater control over data. Equs Inc., a startup developing a trust layer for artificial ...
The modern F1 pit crew: AI engineers who race the deadline, not the car
The modern F1 pit crew: AI engineers who race the deadline, not the car. AI providers increasingly embed forward-deployed engineers inside customer operations, ...
Physical AI's bottleneck shifts from what robots can do to whether factories trust them
Physical AI's bottleneck shifts from what robots can do to whether factories trust them. AI is moving beyond the data centers where models are trained and onto ...
9 insights from ‘Private Tech Trailblazers': Vertical AI becomes the growth engine
9 insights from ‘Private Tech Trailblazers': Vertical AI becomes the growth engine. The companies featured at the recent Bank of America Private Tech Trailblaze...