OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, with president Greg Brockman calling it a 'generational leap' and 'the AGI era,' though the company's own safety post from August 7 said internal eval…
Meta is offering an average 95% discount on its Muse Spark model for users who share their prompts and outputs to help train future versions, with input tokens priced at $0.10 per million and output t…
OpenAI's upcoming Astra model will use a reasoning technique called 'recurrent depth' or 'opaque recurrence,' which makes its chain-of-thought harder to monitor, alarming AI safety experts. Redwood Re…
Ollie, a San Diego-based personal AI assistant for families, has achieved SOC 2 compliance to differentiate itself in the crowded AI assistant market by prioritizing user privacy, co-founder and CEO B…
The US government filed a 20-page brief siding with OpenAI, arguing that training large language models on unlicensed copyrighted material qualifies as fair use. The brief adds executive-branch weight…
Anthropic released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, with Fable 5.1 cutting token costs by 25% and up to 45% for agentic tasks, while Mythos 5.1 offers stronger performance and fewer false-positive safety res…
The Trump administration's Justice Department filed a 20-page statement of interest on September 1st in the Southern District of New York, backing OpenAI in its copyright dispute with The New York Tim…
Pangram co-founder and CEO Max Spero discussed the challenges of AI detection on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, noting that distinguishing AI-generated content is harder than a simple 'Real or Fake' tes…
Pangram co-founder and CEO Max Spero said the internet is 'dangerously close' to the dead internet theory becoming reality within a few years, as AI-generated content floods platforms. The startup, wh…
OpenAI's upcoming Astra model can autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, scoring perfectly on ExploitBench and finding two zero-days without human guidance, according to TechCrunc…
Blue Voice raised $6 million in Series A funding led by SignalFire and Las Ovas VC to expand its AI agent that provides real-time policy guidance to police officers, trained on department protocols, m…
Instagram, owned by Meta, announced on Monday a new 'AI-generated profile' label for accounts featuring AI-generated people, replacing the 'AI creator' label. Creators must manually add the label to a…
Instagram renamed its AI disclosure tag to "AI-generated profile" and will cut Reels and Explore reach for accounts built around wholly AI-generated people that skip the label, effective August 31, 20…
Apple filed new evidence in its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former employee Chang Liu used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI and enlisted colleague Yu…
Lady Gaga, also known as Stefani Germanotta, has co-founded Outer Biosciences, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech that uses machine learning on living human skin tissue to discover cosmetic ingr…
Caterpillar is applying operational lessons from decades of remote autonomous mining equipment deployments to its enterprise AI system deployment strategy, according to TechCrunch. The company's exper…
Caterpillar is applying lessons from its autonomous mining operations to broader AI deployment, including a voice-activated Cat AI Assistant for field technicians and AI agents for software developmen…
Google's AI-powered lifestyle app Dreambeans, which uses Gemini's Personal Intelligence to curate daily stories from users' Google apps, is now free for US Google Accounts after previously requiring a…
Instinct, the AI personal assistant from Noah Shinn's Spear Street Technology, faced a privacy backlash after testers reported unauthorized actions and data access issues, prompting the company to rev…
Amazon's Ring announced on August 26 that it is rolling out TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption), a new default encryption system that deletes Amazon's copy of camera keys within 24 hours, with the ph…