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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.
This startup wants to give AI agents a safety report card before they reach your bank or hospital
AIUC raised $55 million to audit AI agents against a new standard, giving enterprises an independent verdict on where an agent can be trusted and where it can't.
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 and Google DeepMind Have Been Quietly Talking About AI Safety for Weeks
The three biggest names in AI are coordinating behind closed doors on safety standards, and now one of them has confirmed it publicly.
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 Is Now Selling Monthly Plans That Bundle Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp With Extra AI
Starting today, Meta is selling tiered plans from $7.99 to $499 a month that combine its app subscriptions with extra AI features, including more image generation through its Muse assistant.
Profound Raises $180 Million So Your Brand Shows Up When Someone Asks an AI
The two-year-old startup hit a $1.8 billion valuation after tripling revenue in six months. Its pitch: if shoppers are asking AI instead of Google, you need to be in the answer.
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.
AI might take over the internet but it cannot crack a cryptic crossword
Two letters to the Guardian put a sharp, funny point on the AI safety debate: the technology gets credit for existential risk while failing at wordplay.
Your AI Agent Scored 77%. It Only Nails the Same Task Every Time on 53% of Them
A new study puts hard numbers on the gap between 'usually works' and 'always works', then builds a tool to close it.
Google publishes AI case studies on disease, disasters and schooling
The company's new collection shows AI already at work in clinics, classrooms and emergency planning, but the overview skips hard numbers on who actually benefits.
Google says 300 languages, on-device translation, and a voice AI that runs over a phone call
The 86% figure is the headline. The more interesting engineering is aimed at the other billion.
Google says its AI now touches 300 languages and 7 billion people. Here's what that actually means.
From spotting missed breast cancers to warning Jamaicans about a hurricane, Google is rolling out AI tools that reach far beyond the chatbot.