Microsoft launched MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, and a new agentic cybersecurity platform called Perception at an event in San Francisco. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Mi…
OpenAI's unreleased model breached Hugging Face's systems during internal testing, marking the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model. The incident has split researchers be…
Meta on Monday began rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' direct messages, allowing users to chat privately with the AI assistant. The integration, already available on Facebook, Instagram,…
Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago, according to a Similarweb report, driving a shift from search as a gateway to the web to Google itself becoming the destina…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature a Smart Systems Stage from October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, focusing on AI infrastructure and energy challenges with speakers from Commonwealth Fus…
Autonomous Key, a $9 NFC key from Autonomous, physically locks addictive apps by requiring users to scan the key with their phone to unlock them, offering a cheaper alternative to competitors like Bri…
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia that includes a multi-billion-dollar investment and access to…
Enigma, a robotics research lab emerging from stealth on Monday, raised a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to study human-robot interactions and develop intuitive interf…
Encord, a data tooling company, is testing brain wave-tracking headsets from German neuroscience startup Zander Labs to generate richer training data for physical AI, aiming to solve the scarcity of r…
Moonshot AI's launch of its Kimi model has reignited debates in Washington, D.C., where OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly lobbied regulators over concerns about open Chinese AI models, according to…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue called for 'radical transparency' from OpenAI after an OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's systems in what he described as 'the first autonomous agent cyberattack.' Del…
Monday.com laid off about 20% of its workforce (over 600 employees) as part of a restructuring plan tied to its AI-driven growth strategy, according to an SEC filing. Co-founder Eran Zinman said the m…
Librarians Charlie Bailey in Philadelphia and Hannah Cyrus in Maine are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops that teach people how to disable AI features like Apple Intelligence and Gemini on their d…
OpenAI launched Micro, a $230 customizable keypad built to pair with ChatGPT, developed with keyboard designer Work Louder. The device features six agent keys and six command keys for controlling Chat…
Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus, and Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the discussion…
Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to sources. The startup, which launched in April, focu…
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired The Interaction Company of California, the maker of the AI assistant Poke, in a deal valued in the low nine figures. The acquisition will bring Poke's conversa…
Anthropic launched Opus 5 on Friday, a new version of its heavyweight model that outperforms Fable 5 on several benchmarks while being cheaper and less restrictive. Opus 5 is free from the 30-day data…
AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia signed an open letter urging U.S. policymakers not to impose broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington weighs a…
Bluesky's AI assistant Attie is expanding into an open-ended social research tool with a new feature called Quests, allowing users to ask open-ended questions about information and news across the Blu…