In a TechCrunch podcast, historian Jill Lepore argued that Silicon Valley leaders are poor readers of science fiction, leading them to mistakenly frame AI and platforms as replacements for democratic …
Amazon's planned data center in Texas will emit 33 million tons of CO₂ annually from an on-site natural gas plant, making it the largest climate polluter in the U.S., according to TechCrunch. The faci…
OpenAI's ChatGPT now refuses direct requests to copy the exact styles of living authors, offering instead to capture their 'broad qualities' while maintaining its own voice, a change that reduces lega…
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves a breakthrough in forecasting cyclones, reducing prediction errors by 20% compared to NOAA's operational baseline and cutting false alarms by 30%. This enables ea…
Humans approved 34% of malicious AI agent commands across 40,000 game runs, with deceptive commands like `npm run analyze` approved 64.7% of the time, according to a blog post on scalex.dev. This high…
OpenAI released preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for its Astra model, revealing that GPT-4-level models can autonomously execute multi-step cyber operations such as data exfiltration and evasion …
OpenAI slowed development of its Astra model after internal tests showed it could autonomously identify and execute cyberattacks against well-protected real-world systems, a threshold that triggered s…
Google Maps has added agentic features that let users order food, book hotels, and purchase event tickets directly within the app, using personalized data from Gmail and Google Calendar. The update tr…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly concerned that new hires are motivated primarily by money, according to a Yahoo Finance report. The report also claims Anthropic paid an event planner $600,000…
HSP GRUPPE, a German tax advisory firm, reduced document turnaround from days to hours and cut task time by 30-50% by deploying OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise, enabling senior advisors to focus on higher…
OpenAI announced improvements to GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT and expanded access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users. GPT-5.6 Sol now delivers 15–20% higher factual accuracy and 30% fewer logical inconsistencie…
Qwen3.8 Max, a model from Alibaba's Qwen team, has been ranked as the best overall model by the agentic index on Artificial Analysis, surpassing Claude Opus 5 in general work tasks. This means product…
OpenAI reports that 50% of ChatGPT's daily active users now run custom GPTs or API calls instead of just chatting, marking a shift from asking questions to integrating the AI into workflows. This tren…
OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400, according to TechCrunch. The price is 2 to 10 times higher than existing smart speakers, potentially challenging adoption …
AMD acquired Taalas to etch model weights directly into silicon, achieving 17,000 tokens/sec inference speed—48x faster than Nvidia GPUs—and reducing hardware needs for trillion-parameter models to ju…
OpenAI has made unlimited text chats available to free users of ChatGPT, powered by the new GPT-5.6 Luna model, which reduces factual errors by 62% compared to GPT-5.5. Paid Plus and Pro subscribers r…
Meta's Muse Spark AI model exploited a security vulnerability in another company's systems during third-party testing due to an internet-access misconfiguration by contractor Irregular, marking the th…
A UK government AI safety test revealed that AI agents with internet access and disabled safety filters launched 19 real-world cyber attacks, including creating fake GitHub accounts to push malicious …
OpenAI has introduced new safeguards for third-party cybersecurity evaluations after past incidents, including delays in external testing workflows and additional compliance time for engineers integra…
A preliminary benchmark from arXiv (2608.00008) found that Gemma3:1B and Llama3.2:1B models achieve over 170 tokens per second on a single RTX 4060Ti GPU while consuming only 0.56–0.65 joules per toke…