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- Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music (opens TechCrunch in a new tab) Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
- Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets (opens The Verge in a new tab) Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI…
- Kia sweetens EV deals with up to $10,000 off (opens Electrek in a new tab) With the new EV3 now arriving at dealerships, Kia is throwing some extra savings into the mix with up to $10,000 off in customer cash on select EVs. more…
- Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk (opens The Verge in a new tab) Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it's rolling out new controls to "ensure that users who genuinely wish to…
- Ford backs a big new solar farm for its Michigan factories (opens Electrek in a new tab) Detroit-based energy company DTE Energy has completed construction of a 100-megawatt (MW) solar farm near Coldwater, Michigan, that will help Ford power its home-state factories with cleaner electricity. more…
- Samsung and Google are raising prices on their budget phones (opens Engadget in a new tab) Line go up (bad version).
- Jeep’s off-road electric SUV managed just 160 miles in a real-world highway range test (opens Electrek in a new tab) The Jeep Recon EV has removable doors and packs 670 horsepower combined, but it’s less efficient than advertised. more…
- Apple sounds the alarm on AI agents and 'Full Disk Access' (opens Engadget in a new tab) There's an increasingly high cost to convenience.
- Podcast: Tesla Roadster delay, EV deliveries, battery swap comes back, and more (opens Electrek in a new tab) In the Electrek Podcast , we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Tesla Roadster delay, EV deliveries in the US, battery swap coming back, and more. more…
- Granite JV wins $325M Big Creek Tunnel job in Ohio (opens Construction Dive in a new tab) The 20-foot-diameter tunnel in Cleveland will help divert 550 million gallons of combined sewer releases annually from Lake Erie.
- Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics (opens The Robot Report in a new tab) When Runway does release Praxis-1 publicly, it plans to ship it with open weights rather than as a closed model. The post Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics appeared first on The Robot Report .
- This Shoe Company’s Instagram Ad With a Frat Is Pissing People Off (opens WIRED in a new tab) A collaborative Instagram post between footwear line HEYDUDE and a University of Florida frat is sparking backlash due to sexual cyberharassment allegations against two former members.
- Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents (opens TechCrunch in a new tab) Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.
- OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner (opens The Verge in a new tab) It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to…
- iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: Comparing their displays and batteries (opens Engadget in a new tab) Not much else differentiates them, which isn't a bad thing.
- It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House) (opens TechCrunch in a new tab) This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed…
- Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do (opens The Verge in a new tab) In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from "Big Tech Alert," an account that, among other…
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Blackstone’s Jas Khaira on building the next generation of AI giants (opens TechCrunch in a new tab) Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra vs Apple iPad Pro: Here's how they stack up (opens Engadget in a new tab) Choosing between these two powerhouse tablets is probably simpler than you think.
- 3 contractors tout military project wins in September (opens Construction Dive in a new tab) Turner, Granite and Tutor Perini wrapped the last week of the third quarter with project awards from the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard.
- These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open (opens WIRED in a new tab) Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.
- Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI (opens MIT Technology Review in a new tab) Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to…
- Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked (opens WIRED in a new tab) For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term.
- Cities, states sue EPA over power plant emissions rollback (opens Utility Dive in a new tab) Chicago, Denver and New York City joined multistate lawsuits challenging the agency’s move to end greenhouse gas emissions standards and failure to enforce requirements on existing gas-fired plants.
- 4.5-foot-thick walls needed to absorb data center noise: researcher (opens Construction Dive in a new tab) Ultra-thick walls aren’t practical, so setbacks should be at least 1,500 feet, says Kasey Fowler-Finn of Saint Louis University.
- Calling robotics startups: Submissions for the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar close soon (opens The Robot Report in a new tab) Submit now to be part of the Robotics Startup Radar, which brings together some of the most promising robotics startups. The post Calling robotics startups: Submissions for the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar close soon appeared first on The…
- Data center construction spending raced further ahead in August (opens Construction Dive in a new tab) “Frankly, it’s becoming difficult to contextualize the size and speed of this boom,” said Anirban Basu, ABC chief economist.
- FERC rejects TransAlta 202(c) cost-recovery plan for Centralia unit (opens Utility Dive in a new tab) Only utilities in the Northwest should pay the nearly $20 million in expenses for a 90-day order covering the Centralia unit, and despite the unit’s lack of output, payment is due, the agency said.
- NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI (opens NVIDIA Blog in a new tab) Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally. Coming this month…
- The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason (opens MIT Technology Review in a new tab) This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth —Jessica Hamzelou This…
- Amazon Says It’s No Longer Using NDAs for Data Centers (opens WIRED in a new tab) The company announced it has stopped using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledged that community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums across the country.
- Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason (opens MIT Technology Review in a new tab) On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some…
- How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast (opens NVIDIA Blog in a new tab) GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models that tap into the capabilities of the…
- Top 10 robotics stories of September 2026 (opens The Robot Report in a new tab) In September 2026, live events such as IMTS, ROSCon, and iROS brought a flood of robotics developments. The post Top 10 robotics stories of September 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report .
- Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data (opens Ars Technica in a new tab) It has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity.
- Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand (opens The Robot Report in a new tab) Boston Dynamics engineers taped their pinkies and ring fingers together for a day to learn what they weren’t able to do. The post Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand appeared first on The Robot Report .