Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media
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UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From Google
The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoption
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Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage
A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quot
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TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Doors open at 9 a.m. ET in Boston
Today is the day to join TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston's SoWa Power Station. Register now to join this founder-focused conference today.
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Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine
Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However, Google's Search revenue growth slowed to 12 p
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AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
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Apple cracks the door open to Siri AI
PLUS: Turn one product photo into three studio shots
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Exit polls show AI ranked last among voter priorities in the 2026 U.S. midterms
In the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, AI ranked last among campaign issues: only 56 percent of respondents cited AI and data centers as an important factor. According to NBC exit pol
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Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
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Schools that turn off Google's AI will lose search too starting in 2027
Starting in 2027, Google plans to turn off AI features in its school products by default, letting schools decide what to enable. The catch: schools that block AI entirely on their
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Tencent WeVisOne-VL Unifies Detection, OCR, Segmentation and Matting
Tencent’s WeChat Vision team released WeVisOne-VL, an Apache 2.0 vision language model in 2B and 4B sizes. It handles detection, OCR, counting, segmentation and alpha matting in on
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The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI
The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used i
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Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop
People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst. I'll tell you what I tell them: If I knew that, I w
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Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity
Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.
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Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-d
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Anthropic Releases FlashProve: Cryptographic Proofs That a Reply Came From Committed Weights
Anthropic released FlashProve, an Apache 2.0 zkSNARK prototype that proves a reply came from a committed model without revealing weights. It proves Llama 4 Maverick at 110 tokens/s
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Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom
Cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
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US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months
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Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal
Palantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.
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Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both famously bald, and that definitely hasn't changed in the last few days. However
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Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
Russia tries to fix exposed digital infrastructure as data center war backfires.
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NVIDIA Shows 3 Ways to Speed Up MoE Inference on DGX Spark, Lifting Ling-3.0-flash Throughput 42.5%
NVIDIA shows how 3 stacked optimizations speed up MoE inference on a single DGX Spark. On Ant Group inclusionAI's 124B Ling-3.0-flash, GSM8K decode throughput rose 42.5% with no de
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Soniox STT v6 Adds Agent Text Input and Echo Filtering for Voice Agents
Soniox has released Soniox STT v6, the latest generation of its speech-to-text API. Soniox STT v6 is a speech-to-text model that reads what a voice agent says while hearing the cal
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Apple starts giving Siri AI access to third-party apps
Apple will now let Siri AI perform actions across third-party apps. As part of the iOS 27.3 update rolling out on Tuesday, Apple announced developers can now integrate Siri AI's ne
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OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week
OpenAI's hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for the Codex coding agent in under a week, handling everything from the enclosure to the circuit board to the firmware.
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Rapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study finds
Stanford researchers tested 50 widely cited claims about LLMs against 20 current models. 44 percent of the findings are already "expired," and another 34 percent have weakened sign
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AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.
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DreamX: Video Diffusion Model is a Universal Latent Action Learner
作者: Jisoo Kim, Chaehyun Kim, Junsu Kim | Learning a universal action representation from video requires modeling dynamics that are consistent across different executions of the sam
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From Autonomous Agents to Cognitive Symbionts: Toward AI-Augmented Human Intelligence
作者: Hao Fei | For a decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by how much a machine can do on its own. Large foundation models now write code and run multistep
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Aligning Language Models with General Preferences: An Empirical Study of Direct Nash Optimization
作者: Austin Tsai, Saurav Nanda, Ganapathy Parthasarathy | Direct Nash Optimization (DNO) aligns a language model to a general preference function by approximating the Nash equilibri
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PolicyIK: High-Precision Inverse Kinematics for Robot Arms with Reinforcement Learning
作者: Yuhan Liu, Xinqi Liu, Zixuan Dong | Inverse kinematics (IK) converts end-effector pose commands into joint motion, and many vision-language-action (VLA) policies rely on it to
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GUILD: Guided Iterative Data Collection for Imitation Learning
作者: Shivin Dass, Kevin Nguyen, Rohan Yelandur | Imitation learning policies in robotics are trained on datasets collected through costly real-world teleoperation. Often, the data-c
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Suppressing Misaligned Behaviors in Language Models, Durably
作者: Luxi He, Pengcheng Jiang, Jifan Zhang | Undesired model behaviors can emerge or re-emerge at any stage of training. Once observed, how effectively can we suppress them? To stud
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Reading Why: Born-Measured Attention with Exact Word Evidence on Light and Qubits
作者: Teerawat Tongloy, Jiraporn Pongsopa, Rangsan Jomtarak | When a language model answers, we can usually only estimate why. We build a transformer in which every step is a Born me
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Agnostic Learning by Imitating
作者: Sílvia Casacuberta, Parikshit Gopalan, Varun Kanade | Given a class of machine learning models and sample access to a data distribution with binary labels, which computational
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Adversarial Speculative Reasoning Improves Long Horizon Agents
作者: Hongyin Luo, Wei Fang, Lijie Yang | Speculative decoding has been treated purely as a systems optimization that speeds up large language model decoding without changing the mod
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A Circuit for In-Context Learning
作者: Andrew Gao, William Gao | In-context learning (ICL) lets a pretrained language model perform a task specified by demonstrations in its prompt, with no parameter updates. With a
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Netflix’s new AI Discover tab helps you find something to watch based on your mood
The first experimental feature under the tab will allow users to get recommendations based on what they're currently in the mood for.
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Apple’s latest watchOS beta includes its new always-on Audio Intelligence features
Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch's mic with Audio Intelligence features that are available in the new watchOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out now. The two new add
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OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search
In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent
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Indie games are missing launch dates because Steam is backed up
Many indie game developers have recently posted on social media about unexpectedly long approval wait times for their game submissions on Steam, with some of the approvals causing
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How I use AI (Oct 2026)
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Netflix will show you themed recommendations through a new ‘AI Discover’ tab
Netflix's TV app is getting a new "AI Discover" tab where the company will show experimental, AI-powered features to help you find new shows and movies to watch. The first of these
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Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
Google will offer schools AI tools that purportedly don't give away the answers.
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Learn the rules: The hacker mindset
Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult probl
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Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of compute
At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.
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Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
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Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AI
Google is completely turning off Search in schools that reject its AI features, the company told The New York Times. The decision was also shared in a broader education-related upd
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AI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence
The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are now using AI agents at the Allen Telescope Array to control the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals. Tasks that used to take
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Bring structured and unstructured data together with Amazon Quick
Amazon Quick brings structured and unstructured data together in one experience. In this post, you connect Amazon S3 as a knowledge base, enrich a dataset, build a Space, and creat
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ServiceNow on-behalf-of token exchange with Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
Learn how to configure Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway for an on-behalf-of (OBO) token exchange with Microsoft Entra ID, so an AI agent can call the ServiceNow REST API while pres
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How Gen Digital built Norton Revamp’s AI-curated News Engine with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search
Gen Digital built Norton Revamp, a generative AI-powered professional reputation management platform, with an AI-curated News Engine grounded by Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentC
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Build a semantic layer for agentic AI with EDB Postgres AI and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Learn how to build a governed semantic layer for agentic AI inside EDB Postgres AI and query it from a Strands Agents agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Business meaning, join path
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Building ultra-low-latency voice AI applications on AWS
Learn how Cartesia, an AWS Partner, uses purpose-built State Space Models and AWS infrastructure to deliver sub-100ms text-to-speech and speech-to-text at global scale, and how to
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Introducing India-based inference for Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers in-country inference in India for Kimi K3, keeping processing within the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions. This post explains the global and geographic cross-
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Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.
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Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The
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AI Is Changing How Semiconductor Fabs Work — and Engineers Are Moving Faster Because of It
Demand for advanced chips is rising. The processes to build them are getting more complex. And the margin for error is shrinking. For engineers, understanding how a process change