StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, […]
New Jersey’s lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to clear his name. But he took a particularly odd tactic during an interview on NJ […]
This new task force is Trump’s latest response to the debate over AI safety.
US allies invest in ‘smart shipyards’ as Beijing’s dominance of industry alarms Washington
DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data centre investment group will be SoftBank’s ‘third-party infrastructure arm’ after $4bn takeover
Leaders who have gone all-in on new tech tools describe how they are reimagining their working lives
Learn how NVIDIA IsaacTeleop turns XR hand tracking and motion controller input into robot commands using a pure Python retargeting engine and NumPy.
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The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception.
Capcom’s Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn’t seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: “The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for […]
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first real-time speech-to-text model. It ranks #1 of 38 models on Artificial Analysis AA-WER Streaming. It scores 2.5% WER at 0.13s on final transcripts and 2.5% at 0.12s on first partials. It covers 60 languages with continuous language detection and costs $0.54 per hour during the introductory period. It is available now in public preview on Microsoft Foundry.
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Prime Intellect has launched Prime Inference, an OpenAI-compatible platform for serving frontier open models on NVIDIA Blackwell. Its GLM-5.3 deployment uses Dynamo, vLLM and NVFP4 KV compression to serve 66 sessions per prefill group at 101 tok/s per user.
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IBM has made a self-hosted deployment of IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform, generally available. Enterprises can now run Bob on premises, in private or sovereign clouds, and in air-gapped networks. They bring their own model: NVIDIA Nemotron or Poolside Laguna for full isolation, or Claude, Gemini or GPT models through hybrid setups. Optional Premium Packages extend Bob to Java, IBM i and IBM Z modernization.
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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. Classic ML and new decision models can solve it. Three launches, one pattern From pull to push Chatbots were […]
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Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It’s understandable if you’re feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous […]
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa’s “Money” and “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter. (The original samples are here and here, for the curious.) Before that, Kakul held executive roles […]
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.
Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology
Big swings in the price of chip rentals are spurring the creation of a trading opportunity
This week’s list of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds was pretty much all about AI. That includes the biggest financing — a $1 billion round for Instinct, a developer of AI assistants for everyday tasks — as well as most of the rest of the Top 10.
Content-based row matching, 6 per-value verdicts and a null rule make OmniExtractBench an extraction benchmark anyone can audit.
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NVIDIA announced a new 64GB configuration of DGX Spark — from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI — its GB10-powered desktop AI system. It gives developers a way to start with one system for local models and agents, then cluster two 64GB units for 128GB of memory across the cluster and more compute when […]
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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. We break down how it works and its benchmarks, then compare it with Fastino’s GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-Decide and 4 open-source rivals.
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Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4.
Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.
For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump canceled the term.
Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.
In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from “Big Tech Alert,” an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted […]
It’s a tale as old as last week: OpenAI’s new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito – emphasis on work. OpenAI announced […]
Apple will add new limits for “full disk access” on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it’s rolling out new controls to “ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do […]
Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company’s new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or […]
“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. “Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.”
With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it’s easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created “crash-test dummies” to solve that.
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.
