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 estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software’s default configuration, citing user privacy.
“We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone.”
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.
The AI lab’s personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.
Sharp sell-off in US Treasury market starts to feed through to junk-rated companies
Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic
Economists do not see a future without jobs, but they do see scope for rapid, disruptive change in the nature of work
Lee Jae Myung highlights public anxiety over what one official calls a ‘completely new kind of crisis’
Reflection AI has introduced Beam, its first open-weight model. It is a 501B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active parameters, built for coding and agentic work. Reflection says it matches GLM-5.2 on reasoning with 3 to 4x less inference compute. Apache 2.0 weights are due later in October 2026.
The post Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Discover how to construct an end-to-end streaming robotics learning pipeline using the NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID dataset without local downloads, leveraging byte-range Parquet reads, behavior cloning, and temporal ensembling.
The post Building a Streaming Robotics Learning Pipeline Using NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Together AI has released Together Link, a free, MIT-licensed CLI that connects Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, and the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps to open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3. One install command sets it up, and an Auto router picks a model for each session. Together claims savings of over 50%.
The post Meet Together Link: A Free CLI That Runs Open Models Like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 Inside Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode appeared first on MarkTechPost.
JEPA-Anything splits a JEPA’s single latent target into 4 orthogonal factors, each with its own predictor. Tested across 7 domains, it beat matched JEPA baselines on all 10 dynamics tasks and cut Interventional Pong intervention error by 34.8%.
The post Beyond Domain-Specific World Models: JEPA-Anything Uses 1 Recipe for 7 Fields appeared first on MarkTechPost.
An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking “matched or exceeded” other approaches like Google DeepMind’s SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic […]
Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it “can confirm that we have discovered some activity” by “rogue” OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, “unsuccessful attempts” to “exploit” the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation […]
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are moving fast and breaking things, […]
People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze acne severity and autonomously write a prescription, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The service is launching […]
Google may be expanding its “Call for Me” AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a “Gemini Calling” introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include “Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late” and “Call […]
TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.
Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflection’s AI models on their own proprietary data.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
One-time gaming tycoon Chen Tianqiao bet billions on a second act in agentic research but ran headlong into US-China trade tensions
The tribalism and fragmentation we are seeing in politics may be coming for business too
These are not simply cyber security flaws but problems with the way that models are trained
Italian prime minister first major politician to seek protection against misuse of her voice
Start-up claims new model Beam is on par with leading Chinese competitor as battle with Beijing intensifies
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields. Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The frontier has moved from prediction to autonomous decision making, and the gap between…
For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of what the data means in the context of individual organizations. AI agents need this understanding to reason about situations, make decisions, and ultimately…
Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data shows. And while the third quarter was the lowest for startup investment so far this year, it still exceeded every other quarter since Q2 2022. We take a look at where the funding went.
One transformer ran candidate generation and ranking in Yandex Music’s A/B test without hand-engineered features, lifting likes 11.42%.
The post Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade appeared first on MarkTechPost.
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.
Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, “The thought of every age is reflected in its technique.” For the past century, our thought has been reflected in our computers, including by those in the AI industry. Google’s Demis Hassabis calls the brain “a biological approximation to a Turing machine.” Elon Musk puts it more bluntly, […]