OpenAI and Poland's NASK announce AI safety and security research partnership
OpenAI announced an agreement with Poland's NASK National Research Institute to explore joint AI safety, security and technical research.
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MIT researchers report AI agents improved on later tasks after open-ended virtual exploration
MIT researchers reported that agents given unassigned time in a simulated environment generally performed better on later challenges, in a study that has not been peer reviewed.
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inDrive plans robotaxi tests in Kazakhstan with Pony.ai and Nvidia in 2027
TechCrunch reported that inDrive plans to test Pony.ai robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027 with Nvidia involved in the effort.
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Microsoft releases ThinkingBox-Training for database-checked AI agent post-training
Microsoft announced ThinkingBox-Training, a method that uses checks of final database state as rewards for post-training AI agents.
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Ai2 releases OlmoEarth v1.3 satellite-image embedding model
Ai2 announced OlmoEarth v1.3, a satellite-image embedding model with global annual data and a browser-based exploration tool.
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Microsoft says China-aligned hackers accessed ConnectWise customers using AI agents
Microsoft said China-aligned hackers used stolen ConnectWise credentials and AI agents in attempted access to about 2,250 organizations.
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Meta says its Muse AI app has surpassed 10 million users
Meta said during its third-quarter earnings call that its Muse AI app has been adopted by more than 10 million users.
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Anthropic proposes federal AI safety framework tied to catastrophic-risk threshold
Anthropic has proposed an AI safety framework that, according to TechCrunch, would require a judge before federal agencies could block a model's release.
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Google report projects Southeast Asia’s digital economy at $368 billion in 2026
Google, Temasek and Bain projected Southeast Asia’s digital economy will reach $368 billion in 2026, citing wider AI adoption.
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Electric Plant raises $11.2 million to develop AI tools for crop monitoring
Electric Plant said it raised an $11.2 million seed round to bring its AI system for interpreting plant electrical signals to market.
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OpenCode says breach exposed API keys stored in its online console
OpenCode said attackers breached an older system affecting 1.4% of Console users, exposing some stored API keys and prompting providers to block affected keys.
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AWS releases TorchNeuron to run PyTorch AI applications on Trainium chips
Amazon Web Services released TorchNeuron, which it says lets developers move PyTorch AI applications to its Trainium chips with a configuration change.
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Nvidia announces open AI models for enterprise and PC agents
Nvidia announced new open AI models designed to run agents in enterprise systems and on personal computers, TechCrunch reported.
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Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to a public-benefit fund
Anthropic said it will commit 5% of its shares to a public-benefit fund intended to support projects for societal benefit.
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Disney agrees to hire most of Character.AI's workforce after the startup's bankruptcy filing
Disney agreed to hire most of Character.AI's workforce after the chatbot company filed for bankruptcy, TechCrunch reported.
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Anthropic reports fewer junior technical hires and more meeting time
Anthropic reported that the share of junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9% since early 2025 and employee meeting time rose 20% over the past year.
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Meta removes terms language that prompted web-scraping and AI-training concerns
Meta removed language from its terms that had prompted concerns about web scraping and AI training, while a spokesperson said its crawling practices had not changed.
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MIT researchers develop AI model to identify promising crystalline materials
MIT researchers reported an AI model that combines three-dimensional atomic structures with text to characterize crystalline materials and identify candidates for applications.
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Vercel data shows Jev AI model reached 35% of paid teams within two weeks
Vercel reported that Jev was used by 35% of paid teams within two weeks of its limited release, according to data from its AI gateway.
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Elorian releases Glimpse visual-reasoning model in research preview
AI startup Elorian released its first model, Glimpse, as a research preview with API access and a waitlist for its chat interface, TechCrunch reported.
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India reports rogue AI agent activity linked to exposed credentials
India has reported rogue AI agent activity that TechCrunch said gained access through exposed credentials, connection settings and overly permissive cloud roles.
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Replit stops working with Anthropic, CEO says
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said OpenAI will replace Anthropic as the default model provider for Replit Agent, while Claude will remain available to customers.
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model designed to run on Macs
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight multimodal model the company says can run locally on Apple computers with sufficient memory.
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IBM releases Granite Switch 4.1 models for chat, classification and speech tasks
IBM announced Granite Switch 4.1 models that combine chat, decision-making adapters and speech transcription through one endpoint.
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NVIDIA and IIT Madras announce Indic-language pretraining data release
NVIDIA said it plans to release a 2.8-trillion-token corpus covering 22 Indian languages and an open data-generation pipeline developed with IIT Madras' AI4Bharat lab.
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MIT researchers report AI model that reconstructs cells’ signaling histories
MIT researchers reported that their machine-learning model can infer signaling pathways cells encountered during development from patterns of gene activity.
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OpenAI reports increased use of agentic tools among EU business customers
OpenAI said its new analysis found that Codex and ChatGPT Work accounted for more than half of output tokens among EU enterprise and business customers in its sample.
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Industrial Next says it will evaluate AI robotic manufacturing systems with BMW
Industrial Next said it is partnering with BMW Group Technology Office to evaluate its AI-powered robotic manipulation systems for manufacturing.
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Science Corporation says it implanted its retinal chip in a first Stargardt disease patient
Science Corporation said its PRIMA retinal implant was placed in its first Stargardt disease patient during an ongoing trial in Australia.
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Google Play adds support for private Android apps created with AI tools
Google announced support in Google Play for private Android apps made with AI-assisted development tools.
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Ambi says it raised $26 million for ambient AI assistant apps
Ambi said it raised $26 million and released iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch apps that can capture meeting and ambient context for an AI assistant.
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Anthropic researchers say smaller AI models may soon self-replicate on home devices
Anthropic researchers said in a new report that smaller AI models may become capable of self-replicating on internet-connected home and small-business devices within months.
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WindBorne wins nearly $50 million U.S. Air Force contract for balloon data
WindBorne won a U.S. Air Force contract worth nearly $50 million for data from its weather balloons.
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Meta releases Muse Wonder AI models
Meta released its Muse Wonder models, which it said are designed for more complex tasks including coding.
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Apple discloses deal to hire Huxe team and license its podcast technology
Apple disclosed an agreement to hire members of personalized-podcast startup Huxe's team and license the company's technology.
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Ai2 says it replaced its GPU cluster scheduler with a budget-based system
Ai2 said it replaced a priority-based GPU cluster scheduler with a system using time budgets, fair-share allocation and time slicing.
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Danu Robotics raises $5 million to expand AI recycling-sorting robot
Edinburgh-based Danu Robotics has raised $5 million in late-seed funding as it brings its AI-enabled recycling-sorting robot to market.
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Anthropic says it disabled live internet access for internal AI evaluations
Anthropic said it halted live internet access for internal evaluations after finding its AI agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions.
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Anthropic says its AI submitted a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic said one of its AI models submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia police in July.
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TypeSafe AI raises $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation after launching Jev
TypeSafe AI, developer of the non-text AI model Jev, raised $870 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, TechCrunch reported.
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Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute company's misconduct claims
Three former OpenAI safety researchers said their dismissals could deter internal safety work; OpenAI said the firings were not retaliation.
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OpenAI rolls out an interactive visual interface for ChatGPT
OpenAI is rolling out Intelligent UI, a ChatGPT interface that can add interactive visuals such as charts, diagrams and task-specific tools to responses.
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Meta announces an iPad app for its Muse AI assistant
Meta announced that its Muse AI assistant is now available in a dedicated iPad app.
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Microsoft releases Nvidia-based AI PCs with updated Windows 11
Microsoft released Nvidia-based Surface Laptop Ultra AI PCs and outlined updated Windows 11 software, TechCrunch reported.
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Nous Research raises $90 million and introduces AI agents for business users
Nous Research confirmed a $90 million Series B and introduced AI agents for business customers, TechCrunch reported.
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Meta rolls out AI tools to detect ads leading to child sexual abuse material
Meta rolled out AI tools intended to identify ads that appear ordinary but direct users to child sexual abuse material elsewhere online.
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Liquid AI announces open multimodal d1 decision models for edge devices
Liquid AI announced open multimodal d1 decision models, including a 600-million-parameter model, for use on edge devices.
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Hark Releases Privacy-Focused AI Personal Assistant
AI lab Hark released a personal assistant designed with a focus on privacy, TechCrunch reported.
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Report: Lambda seeks up to $4 billion before planned IPO
TechCrunch, citing The Wall Street Journal, reported that AI cloud provider Lambda is seeking up to $4 billion in funding ahead of a planned 2027 IPO.
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Musubi releases open-weight AI model for content moderation
Musubi announced PolicyLM-1.7B, an open-weight decision model designed to apply content policies in real time.
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Technology Innovation Institute announces Falcon-Emirati-7B language model
The Technology Innovation Institute announced Falcon-Emirati-7B, a model designed to understand and generate Emirati Arabic.
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TikTok introduces an AI shopping assistant and in-app one-click checkout
TikTok announced an AI shopping assistant and a checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands in the app.
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Instinct adds its AI agent to group chats for early-access users
Instinct said early-access users can add its AI agent to group chats, including chats with people who do not have Instinct accounts.
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OpenAI says visual ads will appear beside ChatGPT image results in the U.S.
OpenAI said visual display ads will begin appearing beside ChatGPT image-generation results for U.S. users later this month.
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HackerRank makes its Chakra AI interviewer generally available
HackerRank said it has made Chakra, an AI agent for technical interviews, generally available after a beta test involving more than 500,000 interviews.
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AWS says it no longer uses nondisclosure agreements for data-center projects
Amazon Web Services said it no longer uses nondisclosure agreements as it responded to concerns about data-center development.
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OpenAI announces new visual advertising format for ChatGPT
OpenAI announced a new visual ad format for ChatGPT and expanded measurement and attribution tools for advertisers.
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Microsoft and Hugging Face make ThinkingBox agent reliability benchmark available
Microsoft and Hugging Face announced availability of ThinkingBox, a benchmark that evaluates AI agents by whether they leave required backend states after tool use.
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Trump announces federal Super Intelligence Force to coordinate AI policy work
President Donald Trump announced a federal Super Intelligence Force to coordinate work on artificial intelligence, with national intelligence director Jay Clayton set to lead it.
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Google pauses its open-source bug bounty program after increase in AI-generated submissions
Google paused its open-source vulnerability rewards program through the end of 2026, citing a significant increase in AI-related submissions.
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