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Unity Launches Official Plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex
Unity Technologies has shipped official plugins for Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, giving both coding agents a set of skills built and maintained by Unity's own teams rather than pulled from random forum threads.
OpenAI Investigates Mathematician's AI Obsolescence Claims
Tristan Buckmaster spent months chasing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of math's seven Millennium Prize puzzles carrying a $1 million bounty.
Manus Targets USD 4B Valuation in USD 500M Fundraise After Meta Separation
Manus is back on the market, and this time Meta isn't in the picture. The Chinese AI startup is in talks to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the...
Salesforce Agentforce Generates Synthetic Tests to Pressure-Test AI Agents
Salesforce rolled out new testing infrastructure inside Agentforce this week, aimed at a problem enterprise buyers keep running into after the demo ends. Building an AI agent prototype now takes an afternoon.
Microsoft internal docs reveal AI scraping details in NY Times lawsuit
A federal court in New York unsealed a batch of internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents on Thursday, filed as part of a motion for summary judgment by news plaintiffs led by The New York Times.
Google's experimental CC AI agent for families evolves from 2025 project
Google has a data advantage over rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, and its newest experiment is built to squeeze more use out of it.
Claude Code Projects Coordinate Multiple AI Agents in the Cloud
Anthropic is giving Claude Code a rewrite of its Projects feature, and the pitch is less "chatbot" and more "engineering team." Starting today, select Claude Pro and Max subscribers can run a beta version that lets one project juggle multiple AI...
Base Labs Launches Open-Weight AI Safety Partnership
Baseten rolled out a new safety infrastructure standard on Wednesday, tied to Base Labs, the research arm it spun up earlier this year.
AI Agents Raise Ownership Questions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Josh Reeves hired his first ten people at Gusto years before anyone talked seriously about AI agents doing engineering or customer support work. That calculus has changed.
Zuck Absent as AI Products Launch at Tech Event
Mark Zuckerberg didn't show up at last week's push for a coordinated AI slowdown, and now we know why.
OpenAI Proposes Standards for Disclosing AI Model Misbehavior
OpenAI on Wednesday published a new framework for disclosing cases where its AI models behave in ways researchers didn't intend or expect, a category the industry calls misalignment.
DeepMind Launches Institute for Arts, Humanities to Guide AGI
Google DeepMind has set up a new institute to answer a question its own leadership can't fully agree on: what artificial general intelligence actually is, and what happens once someone builds it.
AI Agent Translates CUDA Tile Operations From Python to Rust
An engineering team just ported 24 GPU operators, roughly 40 kernels in total, from Python to Rust without a human rewriting a single one by hand.
Musk Launches AI Company After Calling for Regulation
Elon Musk founded xAI in July 2023. Four months earlier, he signed an open letter urging a pause on advanced AI development, calling the technology a risk to civilization. He's not alone in that contradiction.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Innovation and Safety Aren't a 'False Choice
Jensen Huang left the stage at Dreamforce and walked straight into the crowd. Mic in hand, Nvidia's founder and CEO moved through Moscone Center on Tuesday with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff beside him, the two trading lines like a double act rather...
Meta's AI Agents Can Now Set Up WhatsApp Business for You
Meta announced Tuesday that developers can now hand off WhatsApp Business setup to an AI agent instead of doing it themselves.
Salesforce and Nvidia Release New AI Model to Challenge Proprietary Labs
Salesforce used its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week to unveil Koa, its first reasoning model, built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron architecture.
AIUC Raises USD 40 Million to Develop Rogue AI Controls
Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani are brothers-in-law with a shared résumé in AI safety, and on Tuesday they announced $40 million to bet that enterprises will pay to keep AI agents in line.
Musk antitrust suit against OpenAI proceeds after Apple resolves ChatGPT dispute
Elon Musk quietly dropped his fight with Apple this week, but he's not letting OpenAI off the hook.
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Questions AI Builders' Beliefs
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk spent the weekend agreeing, at least loosely, that AI development needs to slow down.
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