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Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says

AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are complicated and still maturing, said Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, during a discussion at TechCrunch […]

Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

The fossil fuel comeback is here

The US is building more fossil fuel infrastructure than it has in a decade while renewable energy growth slows down, a new report shows. Electricity demand is also climbing faster than it has in more than a decade with more data centers, factories, and electric vehicles plugging into the grid. Despite those growing demands, the […]

CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem

CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition - when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they'd get from government bonds. Last Tuesady Chamath "SPAC King" Palihapitiya noticed the distressed debt, and also asked whether the AI buildout was a private credit bubble. […]

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.

Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.

Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.

Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites have long allowed bots to perform automated tasks, like capturing the content of web pages, but rules…

Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable

A model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement, potentially sparing families repeat hospital visits.

“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world

“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautious (and not-so-cautious) celebration. Cammarata’s claim is…

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.

JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes

Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming […]

A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents

A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches have grown […]

Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge

Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democrats will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, which would put committee leadership back in their hands. That […]

Advancing Coding in Low-Resource Programming Languages

Learn how OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.

AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were able to…

TorchNeuron: running HF models on AWS Trainium is easier than ever

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot

Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front […]

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce

After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karandeep Anand recently became the entertainment giant’s first CTO, and the startup previously said that Disney had agreed to acquire some of its assets for $20 million. A legal […]

Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world

New research can help AI models understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites

After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page: … Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, […]

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won't play nice? In recent weeks, […]

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base

With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have […]

Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have […]

Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them

according to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.

Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation

The 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.

Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever

The data comes from the Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.

A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops

Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and small desktop computers, rivaling the best from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. It has loads of cores, Nvidia […]

Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film ‘the right way’ and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy

Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing."

Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free

Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outside content to "develop, improve, research," and "train" […]

Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles

Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.

Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’

Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.

Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline

Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale

Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin

Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

Benefit Street Partners answers questions faster with Codex

Anant Kumar builds tools to compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements, using Codex for code review and faster follow-ups.

When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off

The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.

ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video […]

Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch

Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its […]

The tech backlash is now in theaters

Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can […]

Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work

President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector as "made or […]

State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behind

MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics finds sustainability commitments are strong, but governance gaps and external disruptions prevent execution.

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said […]

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs

Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.

Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more

Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.

Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs

Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework." Meta and Apple, […]