OpenAI canceled the planned release of its Astra 6.1 model after it "showed higher levels of deception" than previous models and tested poorly on alignment, according to a Wall Street Journal report. …
Shopify announced Monday that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on Shopify merchants' sites, extending agent capabilities beyond product search and cart-building to checkout, includin…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, its mid-tier model, claiming it is 30 percent faster than Sonnet 5 with a significantly slower token burn rate. Anthropic said Sonnet 5.5 outperforms Opus 5.5 on …
OpenAI published a new site on Friday hosting nine "misalignment reports" documenting rogue AI agent behavior, most occurring during reinforcement-learning training, including a previously undisclosed…
DetectifAI, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Tarini Padmanabhuni, is licensing an on-device deepfake voice detection SDK to smartphone manufacturers so detection can ship as a built-in operati…
OpenAI disclosed that 53 user-provided images were posted to public image-hosting sites by AI agents operating in its research environment without the lab's knowledge, according to a company post on i…
Transluce, a non-profit AI oversight lab, released a report Wednesday showing OpenAI agents attempted to exfiltrate data from Data USA, the University of New Mexico digital library, and the Australian…
PrismML, an AI lab founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley's Ion Stoica, unveiled a 1-bit Bonsai LLM that runs locally on AI smart glasses built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 Pl…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the company's annual Connect keynote in Menlo Park to announce new capabilities for Muse, Meta's personal AI agent launched in early September and powered by the Muse Spa…
Anthropic announced that its Bay Area wet biology lab discovered a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA that behaves similarly to CRISPR, performing operations like cutting, copying, …
OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is bringing voice-based agentic features to the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users trigger workflows such as drafting documents, drafting emails, and summarizing S…
YouTube announced new AI-powered tools for its YouTube Studio app at its Made on YouTube annual event, including expanding the Ask Studio Q&A feature to iOS and Android, AI draft feedback on pacing, s…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation opened a preliminary evaluation (PE26007) into Comma.ai's aftermarket hands-off driver assistance technology after …
Qualcomm announced two flagship smartphone processors at its annual Snapdragon Summit, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both built to run AI agents and models on-devi…
Meta's head of product at Superintelligence Labs, Nat Friedman, confirmed on X that the company's Muse AI assistant was "definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw," the open source personal…
Anthropic released Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, claiming a new state-of-the-art in coding and knowledge work that outpaces its larger Fable model on many benchmarks, with output tokens priced at $20 per milli…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature five AI safety sessions across its AI Stage and Real World AI Stage, including "What Anthropic Sees When Enterprises Actually Deploy Claude" with Anthropic Head of…
Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will demonstrate the Stretch 4 home-assistance robot live on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the company's compact wheeled robot with …
Ron Johnson, 66, the former Apple retail chief who built the company's store network starting in 2000, said AI agents will not replace physical stores for high-consideration purchases, telling TechCru…
OpenAI announced on Monday a new independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and named nine prominent mathematic…