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ProductsPerplexity Brings Its Local Portable Computer Agent to Windows PCs
Perplexity made Portable Computer, the local on-device version of its Perplexity Computer agent, available in the Perplexity app…
ProductsAI Didn’t Create New Security Problems. It Just Sped Them Up.
Every year around this time, I get some version of the same question from clients: “What’s the new AI threat we need to worry…
IndustryFully Driverless Robotaxis Now Operating in Europe
The trial is the first of its kind on the continent.
ProductsPerplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the…
Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says
Abigail Bradshaw says ‘enormous’ amounts of money required to update systems that people now expect to be constantly…
Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
If you’re building an AI company, the question isn’t whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It’s whether your company…
IndustryThe Guard Dog That Won’t Look at the Burglar: When AI Guardrails Protect the Attacker
The weekend Barings died, I was at UBS, working out what a suddenly insolvent 233-year-old bank might do to the rest of us. By…
Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work
The notetaker offers a generous free plan, and that has resulted in over 400,000 monthly active users. The company said that over…
ResearchDeepfake Detection Accuracy Falls 49% in a Year of AI Video Progress
I note with interest a new Ukraine-led paper indicating that the older generation of deepfake video detectors perform very poorly…
IndustryUniversal Robots Debuts Gen 7 Cobot Platform for Physical AI
Universal Robots, a Teradyne Robotics company, introduced Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform at the IMTS tradeshow…
Hear how AI can engineer nature’s comeback at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Not long ago, bringing an extinct species back to life belonged to science fiction. Today, it’s the mission of a billion-dollar…
IndustryInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal…
IndustryResponsible AI for Higher Education
This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching…
ProductsUKAEA and PPPL Agree to Explore Linking Fusion AI Supercomputers
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)…
FundingTemporal Raises $550M Series E at $12.55B Valuation to Expand Operations
Temporal announced a $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation on September 14, 2026, in a round co-led by Lightspeed…
ResearchHow OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of…
OpenAI urges UK lawmakers to rein in technology amid growing safety fears
Company behind ChatGPT tells ministers to seize ‘political window’ on regulation as cross-party committee warns of rising threats…
5 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The last day to apply for an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Sept 18. Just 5 days left. Secure your spot on the Expo…
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup from a former Spotify leader for making music apps
Former Spotify exec’s company releases experimental “singles” that involves users in music making.
ProductsCopado extends Agentia agentic AI DevOps platform for Salesforce with headless automation
Copado Inc., a low-code DevOps solution provider for Salesforce, today announced it’s extending its Agentia platform with…
PolicyAdversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms
AI-powered cameras dot streets across the world, equipped with the power to identify faces or vehicle license plates. But a…
ResearchMicrosoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
Microsoft is publishing a 37-page “humanist AI code of conduct” today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress.…
AI models are becoming the ‘most potent cyber weapon’ ever created, Cohere CEO says
Cybersecurity concerns are feeding a broader AI safety debate, with industry leaders calling for measures to slow frontier AI…
AI safety fears, rising oil prices, a big season for prediction markets and more in Morning Squawk
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
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