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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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you) (opens TechCrunch in a new tab) With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.
- 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…
- Dots get up in Muse’s business (opens The Verge in a new tab) OpenAI's answer to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a whole lot like Muse dressed up in a suit and tie. Dots is a business-first product - for now, at least - costing a minimum of $100 per month. And sure, you can make a cute little Dot…
- Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art (opens TechCrunch in a new tab) "There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. "Algorithms lack the spark of…
- Don't let the adorable AI agents fool you (opens Engadget in a new tab) Just because they look harmless doesn't mean you should be irresponsible with your data.
- 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.
- Apple is reportedly building a smart home camera that won't record video footage of you or anyone else (opens Engadget in a new tab) The device will apparently use AI to analyze activity in your home without actually filming it.
- What to expect at Microsoft's Windows, Surface and AI event on October 7 (opens Engadget in a new tab) We'll definitely hear about the NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, but what else?
- 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…
- A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data (opens WIRED in a new tab) While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.
- AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue (opens WIRED in a new tab) A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.
- 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…
- ChatGPT can now help you virtually try on clothes (opens Engadget in a new tab) Images are generated with OpenAI's latest model and you can save clothes you like for later.
- Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This (opens WIRED in a new tab) Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.
- Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment (opens NVIDIA Blog in a new tab) AI factories are built by the megawatt, even by the gigawatt. Each megawatt factory costs roughly $60 million, and AI factory operators will only commit capital on that scale with a clear view of the return on investment. Three key things…
- The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries (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. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool…
- An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan (opens MIT Technology Review in a new tab) A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way, too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In…
- AI didn’t fix our construction data problem. It exposed it. (opens Construction Dive in a new tab) One contractor’s data director has documentation tips for construction firms adopting artificial intelligence tools.
- From Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI (opens NVIDIA Blog in a new tab) Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple generations of deployment. Now, CoreWeave is…
- The Robot Report parent Arrowfly launches AI for Engineers platform, events for engineers navigating AI (opens The Robot Report in a new tab) The initiative for engineers includes a news desk, a conference, research, and an advisory board, grounded in trusted editorial brands. The post The Robot Report parent Arrowfly launches AI for Engineers platform, events for engineers…
- The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response (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. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research…
- State of Robots in Manufacturing (opens The Robot Report in a new tab) The Robot Report looks at recent advances in automation for manufacturing, from improvements in technologies and use cases to the potential of humanoids and AI. The post State of Robots in Manufacturing appeared first on The Robot Report .
- Unveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog (opens IEEE Spectrum in a new tab) Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle. Key Takeaways Explore four critical technologies enabling silicon…
- A New IEEE STEM Book Series for Tweens from TryEngineering (opens IEEE Spectrum in a new tab) IEEE TryEngineering is dedicated to inspiring intellectual curiosity in children. The technologies shaping our world, including in the realms of artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and ocean exploration, are evolving rapidly…
- 3 Skills That Will Matter More in the Age of AI (opens IEEE Spectrum in a new tab) This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox…