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Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.

MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program.

Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic…

Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

Pentagon was right to slap Anthropic with a security supply chain risk label, federal court says

A federal appeals court has upheld the Pentagon's decision to bar Anthropic from military contracts. Defense Secretary Hegseth argues the company's safety restrictions could jeopardize military operations. Anthropic says the designation has…

Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing

The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.

Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s…

Another Google Deepmind researcher quits, says building superintelligent AI soon is "inherently irresponsible"

Google Deepmind researcher Robert O'Callahan has quit, saying AI's "current rate of change is far too high." He worked on chip design tools that helped make AI cheaper and faster, a contribution…

Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.

Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible

Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and…

Microsoft gives Copilot another makeover, adding an Autopilot agent and usage-based billing

Microsoft is splitting its Copilot app into three sections: Home, Code, and a new agent called "Autopilot." Built on OpenClaw, the agent runs continuously in the cloud, where it can monitor Teams…

Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off

Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agent's promotion across its own apps and beyond.

Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s…

For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts

The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.

Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO

Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.

One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks

In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic,…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and chip development. Save up to $200 on…

Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the test

A few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed in my pocket; I ignored it.…

Intelligence doesn't come cheap as AI drives up costs for the NSA, hospitals, and insurers

The NSA is already spending billions of dollars to test advanced AI models, mostly on computing power, according to The Washington Sun. Lawmakers expect full-scale AI oversight to cost tens of billions…

Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office

After teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents.…

Google's "Call for Me" lets Gemini phone businesses for you

Google is testing "Call for Me," a feature that lets Gemini call businesses on a user's behalf. The article Google's "Call for Me" lets Gemini phone businesses for you appeared first on…

Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year

Anthropic has reportedly signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai Technologies and will receive a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai's shares. Its compute deals have reportedly totaled…

Ruby on Rails creator DHH says he's done writing code by hand

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has quit writing code by hand after 25 years. He says he hasn't typed a single line since March 2026. "English is a better…

White House tells OpenAI and Anthropic to let U.S. review new models before sharing them with British testers

The White House wants OpenAI and Anthropic to hold back new AI models from the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute until U.S. agencies get to review them first. The article White House tells…

Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI

The venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.

When Search Becomes Memory: Accelerating Robot Design Discovery with Self-Evolving Skills

arXiv:2605.25832v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proposal generators for evolutionary robot design, yet most loops remain memoryless: simulator results shape the next population but are…

HERMES: A Holistic End-to-End Risk-Aware Multimodal Embodied System with Vision-Language Models for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2602.00993v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models increasingly benefit from large vision-language models for semantic understanding, yet safe and reliable planning under long-tail conditions remains challenging, particularly in mixed-traffic environments…

DEEPO: Dual-Entropy Enhanced Policy Optimization for Hallucination in MLLMs

arXiv:2609.28570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is widely used to sharpen reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet its effect on hallucination is uneven. We trace this to two…

Pistis Technical Report

arXiv:2609.28554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Pistis model family, comprising 27B- and 9B-parameter multimodal large language models built on Qwen3.6 and Qwen3.5, respectively, and developed through a general and scalable…

When Agents Act Unwatched: The Reduced-Supervision Paradox in Agentic AI

arXiv:2609.29547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI is sold on a simple promise: the system keeps acting when the user stops watching. That promise creates an accountability inversion. As stepwise supervision recedes,…

Canopy: Exploiting Piecewise Smooth Tree Priors for Multi-Fidelity Bandits

arXiv:2609.30017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many LLM inference problems, including model routing, prefix-cache management, prompt trimming, and test-time search, can be viewed as optimization over a tree. This structure arises naturally from…

PAWS: Policy-driven Agentic World Simulation

arXiv:2609.28547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policy interventions propagate through public communication, institutional decisions, and stakeholder responses, yet datasets for financial multi-agent simulation rarely connect these processes to temporally aligned historical evidence. We…

Decoupling Knowledge and Privacy: Post-Task Self-Distillation Replay for LLM Continual Learning

arXiv:2609.29711v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Privacy-preserving continual learning (PPCL) must reduce the reproduction of sensitive content while retaining useful knowledge across sequential tasks. Formal privacy guarantees characterize randomized mechanisms, whereas operational output…

To Trust or Not to Trust: Retrieval-Augmented Fact Checking in Speech

arXiv:2609.30227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online misinformation increasingly appears in spoken formats such as news clips, podcasts, interviews, political speeches, and social media videos, creating a need for fact-checking systems that can…

Beyond Surface Style: Aligning Multi-Turn User Simulators with Behavioral Consistency

arXiv:2609.28690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Faithful user simulation is fundamental to building, evaluating, and improving interactive AI at scale. However, plausible individual responses do not ensure that simulated users reproduce the intent…

BaseCamp --- An Agentic AI Framework for Automating DNA Sequencing Data Pipelines

arXiv:2609.28557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: DNA sequencing pipelines, spanning quality control, alignment, variant calling, and annotation, are now reliably executed by workflow management systems that orchestrate established bioinformatics tools at scale. What…

Estimating suicide risk from text

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face

Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial…

Top AI experts badly underestimated how fast the field is moving, study finds

Leading AI experts have consistently underestimated how fast AI is advancing, according to the Forecasting Research Institute. AI reached gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad five years ahead of the median…

PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses

Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have.

Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain

As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of…

Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone

Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI…

Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend

Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion…

Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw

We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta's new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active users in…

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.

How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.

Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.

Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.

How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.

Introducing MentalHealthBench

MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.

ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries.

Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models

Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.

Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia

OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.

Better prompt caching for GPT-6

Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.

Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

Patricia and James Poitras ’63 provide fellowships for graduate students and postdocs who will shape the future of mental health research.

Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.

Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community

How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants

Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments

OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and safeguards.

Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.