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IndustryWhat Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI’s potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to…
ProductsDisney Names Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand Chief Technology Officer
The Walt Disney Company announced on September 18, 2026 that Karandeep Anand, most recently the chief executive of Character.AI,…
AI safety debate meets reality at Dreamforce as business leaders say last year’s models are enough
At Salesforce’s annual mega-conference in San Francisco, attendees said they get enough value from older AI models.
IndustryA new chapter for MIT Reads
A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social…
ProductsPrismML launches Bonsai 2 27B, a high-intelligence AI model so small it fits on consumer hardware
Prism ML Inc. announced Thursday the launch of Bonsai 2 27B, the second generation of its ultra-compact multimodal generative…
Policy404 Media x The Intercept Live: How AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill
404 Media and The Intercept talk about how private companies empower government surveillance, and how AI is used in warfare.
ProductsAWS Reworks Bedrock AgentCore Runtime for Elastic Memory, Fast Cold Starts
Amazon Web Services announced the new AgentCore runtime on September 18, 2026, a reworked version of the managed compute layer in…
ResearchSecurity researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI…
Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch…
Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer
Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.
Policy‘AI is inevitable’: Fetterman, McCormick back AI, balk at calls for regulation
U.S. Sens. Dave McCormick and John Fetterman on Friday roundly rejected calls to regulate artificial intelligence, pushing back…
PolicyMicrosoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman does not agree with Anthropic’s approach to treat AI as a human, says that it is ‘essentially seeding a new Silicon species’
Tech News News: Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, has issued a warning over how rival artificial intelligence (AI)…
PolicyNewsom creates panel on AI safety regulation, suggests possible ‘kill switch’
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered the formation of a panel to come up with safety regulations for the state’s artificial…
IndustryAI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race
The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors…
ResearchIf the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to…
‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks
Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off government’s radar Towards the end…
IndustryEnterprise AI is becoming an operations problem
As AI gets more capable, enterprises are running into a different set of problems: managing models, data, permissions and…
KDE turns 30 and someone’s brought an AI-native desktop proposal
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
IndustryAmodei, Anthropic’s Leader, Exposed A.I.’s Dangers. It’s Time to Act.
Times columnist Kevin Roose sees reasons for optimism — and worry — as the world wakes up to what Silicon Valley has been talking…
Rep. Chip Roy doesn’t want to regulate AI, but says Congress should have an oversight role
In an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said he supports congressional hearings on AI, but wasn’t keen…
IndustryIran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns,…
IndustryFor AI agents, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times
And in a desperate attempt to turn a cliche into a sharper analogy to today’s AI era, let’s complete Charles Dickens’ first line…
Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and…
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