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Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.
“When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us,” Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. “And we are wired to care for it in return.”
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access […]
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access […]
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
Nvidia-backed Firmus abandons plan to list in Sydney, blaming ‘recent market volatility and prevailing market conditions’
Manipulated images are filling the airwaves in the run-up to November’s midterm elections
Founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son has held talks with senior figures in the UAE in recent weeks
The architect of Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo on building machines that can teach themselves — and why he feels a moral obligation to advance the technology
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
Explore a comprehensive coding guide to Google Research’s RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), detailing how noise bands, cost rules, and leakage screens enable safe, efficient, and self-improving AI agents.
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Google Cloud has introduced the Google Cloud Gemini agent, a single agent for enterprise work. The Gemini agent is a cloud-hosted agent from Google Cloud that answers questions, does knowledge work, creates media, and writes and runs code. It does all of this from 1 prompt box and 1 API. For developers, the agent is […]
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Underdog Saluki 27B is a 7.89 GB, 2-bit GGUF of Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. It beats the 54 GB original on tool calling but gives up ground on competition math and reasoning.
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LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.
Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.
In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.
Anthropic’s offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get “thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.” That could mean open-source projects get alerted about possible security issues sooner, but the trade-off is that OSS Scanner’s […]
OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed “a significant breach of trust.” In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni were dismissed for violating “clear policies on handling sensitive information.” It insisted the decision was […]
A shortage of domestic capital and the lure of the US threaten the benefits of Britain’s biggest AI research success
Race to develop new services has moved into high gear with a series of launches
AI group recently told investors the critical figure was nearing $50bn in September, far less than the $70bn widely reported
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Join senior AI reporter…
European startup funding reached $25 billion last quarter, well above the $14 billion invested in Q3 2025 and up slightly from the $24 billion invested in Q2. Quarterly funding was up 77% year over year, per Crunchbase data.
Gudea has raised $7 million in seed funding, co-led by Mudita Venture Partners and Silicon Road Ventures, to help companies anticipate which online narratives will go viral and understand who is driving them, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
JetBrains released Mellum2.1, an Apache 2.0, 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model with 2.5B active parameters. RL in real repositories lifted its SWE-bench Verified score from 2.0 to 47.0.
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OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – better known as ICANN – is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications […]
My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now — homebrew OpenClaw setups led to a surge in Mac Mini sales earlier […]
At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that “[when] someone wants to play God, that’s very interesting to me.” The idea of playing God, and power in general – who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will do anything to get […]
