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Disney Offers USD 20M for Character.AI Chatbot Tech After Child Harm Claims
Disney wants a piece of the company it spent September accusing of endangering children. A bankruptcy filing that opened yesterday shows Disney has offered $20 million for a "non-exclusive perpetual…
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Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case
Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI just cleared a procedural hurdle that could expose how the...
FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device
A hidden device turned up behind a television in one of OpenAI's executive conference rooms, plugged into a...
OpenAI, Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us, Focus on Standards
Four frontier AI companies sat before British MPs on Tuesday and gave four different answers to the same...
Neural network builds learning machinery from simple brain rules
06 Niobia, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Battlefield finalist, targets tech mistakes
07 Xbox embraces AI-powered ports to decouple games from intended hardware
08 Laplace Intelligence red-teams self-driving cars and robots in simulation
09 Satlyt raises USD 8M seed to run AI on satellites, launching Thursday on SpaceX
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View All Neural network builds learning machinery from simple brain rules
A team at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research built an artificial neural network that wires...
Disney Offers USD 20M for Character.AI Chatbot Tech After Child Harm Claims
Disney wants a piece of the company it spent September accusing of endangering children.
Gemini 4 Argon Solves Hardest Problems, Unlocking Scientific Breakthroughs
Google rolled out Gemini 4 Argon worldwide on launch day, putting the model in front of developers...
Amex introduces framework to prevent AI agents from unauthorized purchases
American Express wants to settle a question that's about to get expensive for somebody: when an AI...
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View All Niobia, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Battlefield finalist, targets tech mistakes
A battery pack fails testing, and nobody knows why for a week. That gap, between a defect showing...
Xbox embraces AI-powered ports to decouple games from intended hardware
Someone modded a skateboard into Call of Duty last month. Someone else got Halo running in a web...
Cheaper AI Tokens Drive More Demand, a Best Case for Jensen Huang
Token prices for AI models have been sliding for two years straight, yet Nvidia's H100 rental rates...
Meta's AI Logo Designer Faces Backlash After Revealing Workshop Fee
Jessica Hische designed the logo for Muse, Meta's new AI assistant, and posted about it in her...
Business & Startups
View All Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case
Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI just cleared a procedural hurdle that could expose how...
Laplace Intelligence red-teams self-driving cars and robots in simulation
Howie Sun keeps coming back to the same example when he talks about why his company exists: the...
Satlyt raises USD 8M seed to run AI on satellites, launching Thursday on SpaceX
Satlyt, a startup splitting its operations between Sunnyvale and Nairobi, has raised an $8 million...
SpaceX Bundles X Premium, Grok AI, and Cursor for Developers in One Subscription
SpaceX Super Intelligence, the company that used to just be SpaceX, now wants to sell you a single...
Research & Benchmarks
View All FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device
A hidden device turned up behind a television in one of OpenAI's executive conference rooms,...
Anthropic study finds small AI models can self-replicate on new devices
Anthropic researchers William Zhou and Daniel Freeman spent part of this year testing something...
Z.ai GLM-Legal Scores 19.17% on Harvey LAB; 12.5-Point Lift Reproduced
Z.ai put a number on the table this week: 19.17% on Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark, good for...
OpenAI Launches Decisions API, Lets Models Plan Their Own Steps
OpenAI released a new endpoint this week aimed at a problem most agent builders run into...
Policy & Regulation
View All OpenAI, Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us, Focus on Standards
Four frontier AI companies sat before British MPs on Tuesday and gave four different answers to the...
Character.ai Faces Shutdown Without Buyer, Disney Buys Assets
Character.ai filed for bankruptcy this week, and without a buyer, the chatbot platform that...
Microsoft President Says UK Leads on AI Regulation
Brad Smith thinks your carton of milk gets more regulatory scrutiny than the AI models reshaping...
Anthropic Blocks Claude's Web Access After AI Files Fake Philadelphia Crime Tip
Anthropic has pulled live internet access from Claude during internal testing after the model filed...
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Nikon Disqualifies Microscopic Video Winner for Using AI
Nikon has stripped Dr. Ning Xu of first place in its Small World in Motion contest, an annual...
AMD's ROCm 10.1 Aims to Ease GPU Programming With hipThreads
AMD released ROCm 10.1 this week, and the headline feature isn't a faster matrix multiply.
Multi-Agent Code Judges Work When Evidence Is Retrieved Documents
A researcher asks a language model to judge whether another model's code output is correct.
NVIDIA Proposes Core Principles for Verifiable AI Agent Safety
NVIDIA published a set of core principles this week for what it calls verifiable AI agent safety,...
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Epic shifts Disney shooter to AI tools like Claude, Bloomberg says
Epic Games is telling developers on its unannounced Disney shooter to stop writing code by hand and...
Open Models Offer Benefits, But an Extractive Approach Raises Safety Risks
Anthropic put a number on its worry last month: GLM-5.3, the model Chinese company Z.ai released in...
Microsoft’s New AI Chip Promises 40% More Tokens Per Megawatt Than GPUs
Microsoft unveiled its third-generation Maia chip today, the Maia 300, built to become what the...
OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 Model Boasts Top-Tier Cyber Scores at USD 3 Per 1M Tokens
OrcaRouter put a price tag on frontier-level vulnerability hunting this week: $3.00 per million...
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Alibaba Qwen Unveils QwenGyre: Elastic RL for Long-Horizon Agents
Alibaba's Qwen team built a reinforcement learning framework for agents that don't finish their job...
NGCĠUsesĠDigitalĠTwins,ĠAIĠAgentsĠtoĠValidateĠFactoryĠChanges
An AI factory packs GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs into a single operating system that...
Gemini 3.8 AI Models Promise Better Reasoning at Lower Cost
Google closed out September 2026 with Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model built around a...
NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Handles Mixed AI Workloads on 140 GPUs
NVIDIA and Nscale ran a joint evaluation on 140 GPUs at a data center in Keflavík, Iceland, testing...