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Affected by layoffs? Don’t miss this $75 deal for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ Pass | AI News

Your next opportunity could be one conversation away. Get your Expo+ Pass for just $75. Limited to the first 100 qualifying people....

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents | AI News

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to use...

It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House) | AI News

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among the...

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you) | AI News

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 ...

Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it | AI News

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among the...

Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI | AI News

Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4....

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI | AI News

Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can ab...

A model guide for the GPT-6 family | AI News

Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production....

Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art | AI News

"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based o...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Blackstone’s Jas Khaira on building the next generation of AI giants | AI News

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 seco...

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Clay’s Kareem Amin on the rise of the GTM engineer | AI News

Clay Co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin joins the AI Stage to discuss the rise of GTM engineer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register for your ticket and ge...

The latest AI news we announced in September 2026 | AI News

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026...

Last 24 hours: Exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and reach 10,000+ tech leaders | AI News

Today is the very last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. On October 13–15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech...

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason | AI News

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to i...

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president | AI News

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro....

The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work | AI News

As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead o...

ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you | AI News

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save produ...

Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground | AI News

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers. ...

OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports | AI News

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says....

Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells) | AI News

Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples....

The eternal complement | AI News

Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progres...

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web | AI News

Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B....

Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI | AI News

Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the...

How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out | AI News

Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers....

Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system | AI News

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system....

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents. | AI News

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will in...

Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses | AI News

The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditio...

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites | AI News

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-o...

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet | AI News

Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work. ...

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation | AI News

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member....

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents | AI News

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence. ...

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B | AI News

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price....

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | AI News

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content....

The ugly economics of consumer AI | AI News

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough....

Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign | AI News

Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation....

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission | AI News

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his ...

DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food | AI News

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub. ...

Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page | AI News

"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."...

Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick | AI News

Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for...

Helping small businesses put AI to work | AI News

OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small ...

Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure...

Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents | AI News

Founded by Apache Flink veterans, the startup is taking on workflow heavyweight Temporal....

3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | AI News

Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, investors, ope...

Airbnb adds AI search, more social features | AI News

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations....

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer | AI News

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Fa...

OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation | AI News

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut....

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch | AI News

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry. ...

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch | AI News

Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the ...

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model | AI News

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered ...

OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation | AI News

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut....

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

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OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US

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