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What just happened in AI · 40 items · Latest 29 min ago- I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettlingApple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.TechCrunch AI29 min ago
- Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AIPoliticians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.TechCrunch AI1h ago
- Tencent releases Hy4, powerful frontier LLM introducing visual understanding and computer useTencent Holdings Ltd. today introduced Hy4, a new large language model that adds computer-use capabilities for the first time, using advanced visual understanding, reasoning and t…SiliconANGLE1h ago
- Data centers lost the midtermsData center developers are poised to face a more restrictive building environment after voters across the country voted in candidates who favor moratoriums and ballot measures tha…The Verge AI1h ago
- Uber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarterAI agents won't be stealing Uber's lunch any time soon. Only four rides were arranged by third-party AI agents during the third quarter of 2026, Uber executives disclosed during a…The Verge AI1h ago
- OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.OpenAI News2h ago
- Descope launches Envoy to let consumer apps accept personal AI agents as usersCustomer and agentic identity platform company Descope Inc. today launched Envoy, a service that lets consumer websites and apps accept personal artificial intelligence agents act…SiliconANGLE3h ago
- Oumi’s Frontier AI Engineer now builds AI agents and retrains the models behind themEnterprise artificial intelligence platform company Oumi PBC today extended its Frontier AI Engineer agent so it can build AI agents for customers and retrain the models those age…SiliconANGLE3h ago
- Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineageA sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quo…MIT Tech Review4h ago
- Google fine-tunes its Agentic Data Cloud to support highly scalable autonomous AI workersArtificial intelligence is no longer just about conversational assistants that tell people what to do. These days, it’s all about work automation, and Google Cloud is making sure…SiliconANGLE3h ago
- Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engineSearch 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…The Verge AI5h ago
- Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.OpenAI News10h ago
- The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AIThe 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…The Verge AI16h ago
- Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identityCalled FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.TechCrunch AI18h ago
- Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power growsThe 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-…TechCrunch AI19h ago
- Sentra raises $150M to control what AI agents can reach in corporate dataData security startup Sentra Inc. today revealed it has raised $150 million in new funding to expand its platform for controlling what artificial intelligence agents can reach ins…SiliconANGLE4h ago
- Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will popPeople, 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…The Verge AI17h ago
- Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boomCybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.TechCrunch AI19h ago
- Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signalPalantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.TechCrunch AI20h ago
- Autonomous site reliability engineering startup Traversal bags $120M in funding at a $1B valuationTraversal Inc., a startup that’s trying to automate site reliability engineering tasks with artificial intelligence agents, seems to be closing in on that goal after raising $120…SiliconANGLE13h ago
- Supermicro and Arista Networks crush expectations as AI infrastructure wins againGrowing nervousness about spending on the artificial intelligence boom has made technology stocks increasingly volatile this year, but all it takes is one good quarter to reignite…SiliconANGLE14h ago
- Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fakeAmazon 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. Howeve…The Verge AI20h ago
- AMD beats expectations as agentic AI sparks its data center revenue growth enginesShares of the chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose more than 5% in late trading today after it delivered solid third-quarter earnings and revenue today, with data center sal…SiliconANGLE15h ago
- Apple starts giving Siri AI access to third-party appsApple 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 n…The Verge AI21h ago
- Agentic cheminformatics with Google AntigravityLearn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.Google DeepMind1d ago
- Apple’s latest watchOS beta includes its new always-on Audio Intelligence featuresStarting 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 ad…The Verge AI22h ago
- AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surgesThe five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.TechCrunch AI21h ago
- Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of computeAt a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.TechCrunch AI1d ago
- AI cloud startup Applied Compute raises $350M after reaching key revenue milestoneApplied Compute Inc., a fast-growing provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure, has raised $350 million in funding at a $3.25 billion valuation. The startup announced the…SiliconANGLE16h ago
- OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in searchIn 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 percen…The Verge AI22h ago
- Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing SearchSchools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.TechCrunch AI1d ago
- Apple restricts dating apps and AI companions to users 18 and upApple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.TechCrunch AI1d ago
- CrowdStrike to acquire cybersecurity startups Fiddler AI, Dreadnode for reported $495MCrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today disclosed plans to buy Fiddler AI Inc. and Dreadnode Inc., two startups that specialize in securing artificial intelligence agents. The company ann…SiliconANGLE17h ago
- How a Kenyan Startup Is Rethinking AI for Small BusinessesThe first time Mutembei Kariuki thought about how AI models could work in Kenya, his home country, was in 2019. He was attending a conference at the University of Tokyo on the fut…IEEE Spectrum AI1d ago
- Accelerating engineering for the physical worldDiscover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.OpenAI News1d ago
- How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in checkA new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable…MIT Tech Review1d ago
- OpenAI's shared ChatGPT limits could frustrate usersOpenAI's plan to combine ChatGPT and Codex usage limits could make subscriptions more confusing and potentially less valuableTechRadar AI1d ago
- How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAICisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.OpenAI News1d ago
- Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AIDiscover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.OpenAI News1d ago
- OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs OfficerJill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.OpenAI News1d ago
Industry news
Launches, capability updates and industry moves · 26 items · Latest 37 min ago- New open-source benchmark reveals reasoning as the biggest bottleneck for AI in cloud operationsCloudOpsBench is a new open-source benchmark that measures how well AI agents handle typical DevOps tasks in the cloud, from fixing services and removing resources to restricting…The Decoder37 min ago
- GPT-6 Astra sees the matrix and reprograms other AI models directly through their weightsMIT researchers show that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can read and deliberately rewrite the weights of other AI models without traditional training. In one experiment, Astra boosted a Qw…The Decoder1h ago
- Anthropic's new prototype proves which model wrote an AI response without exposing its weightsAnthropic has released FlashProve, a research prototype that uses cryptography to verify whether an AI response actually came from the claimed model. The system still has signific…The Decoder1h ago
- Titan OS raises $46 million to expand its smart TV OS internationallyTitan OS has raised $110 million in funding to date.TechCrunch2h ago
- Revolut’s valuation jumps 53% to $115B in new share sale as it prepares to launch US bankGlade Brook, Coatue, and T. Rowe Price were among the investors that led the share sale.TechCrunch3h ago
- UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From GoogleThe AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoptionWired AI3h ago
- Schools that turn off Google's AI will lose search too starting in 2027Starting 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…The Decoder7h ago
- Want an iPhone Duo for the holidays? Apple’s latest stock update isn’t reassuringThe iPhone Duo likely won’t make it into Santa’s sleigh this year. Here’s what Apple had to say about it.ZDNet AI21h ago
- SUSE lays off 1 in 10 workers – citing AI and automationSquarespace also announced layoffs this week, but explicit ties to AI remain inconsistent.ZDNet AI23h ago
- When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the WebChatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.Wired AI2d ago
- India’s EloElo nabs $80M from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama marketMore than 118 million users watch microdramas every month as the serialized format has taken off in India. EloElo's Story TV is one of the top apps for microdramas, with over 33 m…TechCrunch12h ago
- Rapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study findsStanford 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 sig…The Decoder21h ago
- Nvidia RTX 50 GPUs hit with more price hikes – up to $500Some GPUs will see bigger increases than others, while Intel and AMD remain mum on their pricing plansZDNet AI23h ago
- Windows 11 can run better on PCs with 8GB now, Microsoft says – here’s whyThe latest updates to Windows 11 offer improvements in speed, performance, and memory management.ZDNet AI1d ago
- OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary, gaining bipartisan reach just as midterms loomOpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization," likely to win government contracts and help shape AI…The Decoder1d ago
- Anthropic's Message Threads cut time to first token by 35 percent for long conversationsAnthropic released Message Threads for the Messages API. Instead of resending the entire conversation with every turn, agents now only transmit what's changed. For requests betwee…The Decoder1d ago
- Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake FeaturesWIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated…Wired AI2d ago
- I tested the RedMagic 12 Pro – and it’s the fastest Android I’ve ever seenIf it’s possible to release a flagship phone while at the same time making it appear more like a midrange phone, Red Magic has found a way.ZDNet AI1d ago
- Is Claude Code truly faster with message threads? I did the math on my logsClaude Code’s update could save you time during demanding, hours-long coding sessions at no extra cost. But by how much? Here’s my real-world result.ZDNet AI1d ago
- Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous ConsequencesOutsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.Wired AI2026-11-01
- Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t YetCompanies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.Wired AI2026-10-31
- OpenAI will merge ChatGPT’s chat and work tabs – here’s when, and what to expectOn the heels of Anthropic’s similar move, the change will be tested among select users before being rolled out.ZDNet AI1d ago
- Athenahealth patients can ask Claude about their medical records nowThe partnership could provide one of the nation’s largest AI companies with a bevy of personal medical data.ZDNet AI1d ago
- An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s BrainA biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.Wired AI2026-10-31
- Firefox’s new Mini Window is every multitasker’s dream – Chrome can’t do thisThe open-source browser’s newest feature lets you pop out a page – or part of a page – into its own mini window. See why this is incredibly cool.ZDNet AI2d ago
- 50 AI agents tried to build a thriving Minecraft civilization – it didn’t end wellIt turns out even bots can’t escape bureaucracy.ZDNet AI2d ago
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