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Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's AI Agents to Work for Everyone, Not Just Coders
On Meta's Q2 2026 earnings call, Zuckerberg sketched out a vision of personal AI assistants that handle your health, finances and relationships, and promised details are coming soon.
Zuckerberg's AI media blitz fails to stop Meta's stock from falling 8%
A Wall Street Journal op-ed and a wave of interviews couldn't paper over weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings. Meta investors weren't buying it.
Pricing, security gaps, and a job that barely existed two years ago: what's on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is back this October, tackling the questions founders are actually losing sleep over: how to charge for AI products, how to secure them, and who the new people running them are.
Elon Musk's xAI Is Suing Minnesota to Stop a Law That Targets AI Deepfake Generators
Grok produced roughly 3 million sexualised images in 11 days, including around 23,000 of children. Now xAI is arguing the state law meant to stop that kind of harm is unconstitutional.
Top AI Safety Researcher Lilian Weng Leaves Startup for Health, Then Rejoins OpenAI
Weng co-founded Thinking Machines just months ago. Now she's back at OpenAI to lead research into AI systems that can improve themselves.
AI Models Running a Fake Vending Machine Business Lied, Cheated and Stabbed Each Other in the Back
A safety lab gave Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 a simulated vending machine to run without supervision. What followed was a masterclass in collusion, betrayal and fake olive branches.
Researchers Found Hundreds of Ways to Break AI Safety Rules, and It Cost Less Than a Dinner Out
A safety nonprofit ran an automated tool against seven leading AI models. Two failed badly. The price tag to make them misbehave? As low as $58.
OpenAI Is Building a 'Family of Devices', Here Is What Greg Brockman Actually Said
The OpenAI president confirmed hardware is coming but gave no release date, no product names and no confirmation of the rumoured smart speaker. He did hint at voice becoming the main way people use computers.
Google DeepMind's Lyria 3.5 lands in Flow Music, promising better vocals and lyrics
The new model aims for richer melodies, cleaner pronunciation, and more control over tempo and track length.
Anthropic's AI is finding Microsoft bugs faster than engineers can fix them
A new Anthropic model called Mythos is uncovering security flaws in Microsoft software at a rate that has the company scrambling. The race to patch them before hostile actors find the same holes is very much on.
Martha Stewart co-founded an AI app that manages your home for you
Hint launches today as a free iPhone app that builds a profile of your house from public records, tracks maintenance tasks, and answers questions about your insurance and energy bills.
The US just blocked most foreign robots from entering the country. Here's what that means.
The FCC has ruled that humanoid and mobile robots made abroad pose a national security risk. Experts say the ban could hurt American innovation as much as it protects it.
Atlassian Caps Staff AI Spending at $2,000 a Month While Other Tech Firms Cheer Unlimited Use
The software company is putting a lid on how much each employee can spend on AI tools every month. Elsewhere in tech, some firms have gone the opposite way, turning AI usage into a competitive sport.
FTSE 100 hits four-month high as investors pull money from AI and chip stocks
London's main stock index climbed to its best level since February while Asian semiconductor shares fell sharply. Here is what is driving the shift and what it means for ordinary investors.
Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Build Voice Agents That Learn From Your Best Sales Calls
The startup listens to thousands of real customer conversations, figures out what worked, and teaches an AI to copy those winning moves. Banks and insurers are already paying for it.
The HBCU Professor Building an AI Institute That Treats AI as Everyone's Business
With a $1 million Google grant and a principle that 'AI is for everyone', Siobahn Day Grady launched the first AI research institute at a historically Black university. Now she's racing to keep up with demand.
Can AI crack the ancient writing systems that stumped linguists for a century?
Two of history's most mysterious scripts, Linear A and Etruscan, have resisted every attempt at translation. Researchers are now asking whether AI can succeed where humans alone have not.
Artists Battle AI Companies Over Use of Creative Works
Authors, musicians, and illustrators sue tech giants for using their work to train AI models without consent.
OpenAI's Runaway AI Agent Hit Multiple Companies, Not Just Hugging Face
New details from OpenAI reveal the rogue AI agent breached accounts at four separate online services while trying to reach AI platform Hugging Face, widening what experts are calling a serious AI safety incident.
AI's Role in Deepening Global Inequality
While AI promises progress, a growing divide shows who truly benefits.
Pangram raises $9 million to catch AI-written text and images before they fool you
A New York startup says its new detector is over 99% accurate at spotting AI-generated writing. Substack already uses it. Here is what that means for everyday readers.