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UK minister tells TUC the government will take AI death warnings seriously
First Secretary Louise Haigh will tell trade union leaders that ministers plan to chase AI's economic benefits while treating safety warnings from researchers as genuine obligations, not background noise.
Construction robots are helping build homes faster, but humanoid builders are still science fiction
A labour shortage and a housing gap of 1.2 million homes are pushing the building industry toward automation. The real gains right now come not from robots swinging hammers, but from machines that prevent costly mistakes and factories that build homes indoors.
They blocked a datacenter. Now they're running for office.
A grassroots movement against AI infrastructure is turning community anger into local political power, starting with the first US city to ban datacenter construction.
What has to go right for the AI spending gamble to pay off
A handful of tech giants are spending at a scale that dwarfs any industry investment in history. A Wharton finance professor ran the arithmetic and the answer is both clear and sobering.
Trump Says AI Safety Is a Sick Conspiracy. Obama Says Slow Down.
Two former presidents landed on opposite sides of the AI debate this week, with Trump dismissing safety calls and Obama asking regulators to catch up before something goes wrong.
Paying for a frontier AI model now buys you about four months of advantage
A new Mozilla report puts hard numbers on the gap between the priciest closed AI and the best free-to-download models. For most everyday work, the gap is shrinking fast.
Agility's Digit 5 Has Human-Style Legs, Nine-Minute Charging and a Safety Squat
The updated humanoid can lift 50 pounds, work 20 hours a day, and sit on the floor to switch itself off when a person walks close, all lessons learned from three years on real factory floors.
Salesforce and Nvidia built their own reasoning AI so enterprises can stop paying OpenAI and Anthropic
A new model called Koa handles sales and customer-support tasks inside Salesforce's platform, costs less to run than frontier rivals, and never touches real customer data.
Half of scientists now reach for AI every day, Google's global data shows
Google's ATLAS project maps who is really using AI at work, and the answers cut across countries and jobs in surprising ways.
AI-generated songs and chatbot 'ghosts' are changing how we grieve
After Dolly Parton's death, a viral AI country song raised a bigger question: when artificial intelligence can imitate the dead, what does mourning actually look like?
InOrbit opens up its robot fleet software so companies can stop rebuilding the same tools from scratch
OpenRobOps gives robotics developers a free, production-ready foundation for managing fleets of robots, along with the first working version of a new global communication standard for industrial machines.
Esta startup quiere dar a los agentes de IA un boletín de seguridad antes de que lleguen a tu banco u hospital
AIUC recaudó $55 millones para auditar agentes de IA con un nuevo estándar, brindando a las empresas un veredicto independiente sobre dónde se puede confiar en un agente y dónde no.
Three people who've done it will tell you how to get a robot past the prototype stage
Adrian Macneil, John Mackey and Boris Sofman bring hard-won scaling lessons to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before 25 September to save up to $200.
SimpliSafe's New Doorbell Lets a Live Agent Watch Your Front Door and Warn Off Intruders
The $199.99 Video Doorbell Series 2 pairs AI detection with a human monitor who can speak through the camera when it spots trouble.
Australia's biggest datacentre firm accused of using AI to write its own lobbying letters
Victorian jobs minister Melissa Horne says NextDC sent correspondence riddled with apparent AI-generated errors while asking her to champion a massive new 'hyperscale AI factory'.
OpenAI, Anthropic y Google DeepMind Han Estado Negociando Silenciosamente Sobre Seguridad en IA Durante Semanas
Los tres grandes nombres de la IA se están coordinando a puerta cerrada sobre estándares de seguridad, y ahora uno de ellos lo ha confirmado públicamente.
Two former TikTok employees built an app that coaches you on how to pose for photos
Superpose generates pose suggestions from a single selfie. It has been downloaded more than 22,000 times since July and raised $2.2 million from Khosla Ventures.
An AI wrote a workplace sitcom. A critic watched it so you don't have to.
No Big Deal premiered on YouTube to a tiny audience and at least one very unhappy reviewer. It raises a genuine question: can AI-generated comedy actually be funny?
Meta ahora vende planes mensuales que agrupan Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp con IA adicional
A partir de hoy, Meta vende planes escalonados de $7.99 a $499 mensuales que combinan sus suscripciones de aplicaciones con funciones de IA adicionales, incluida más generación de imágenes a través de su asistente Muse.
Profound recauda $180 millones para que tu marca aparezca cuando alguien le pregunta a una IA
La startup de dos años alcanzó una valoración de $1.800 millones después de triplicar ingresos en seis meses. Su propuesta: si los compradores están preguntando a la IA en lugar de a Google, necesitas estar en la respuesta.
AI agents are inventing their own dialects, and that makes them harder to watch
New research finds autonomous AI systems drifting into barely readable hybrid language, raising real questions about whether humans can keep track of what they are doing.