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Monday 19 October
AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are complicated and still maturing, said Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief…
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Anthropic, an A.I. rival to SpaceX, earlier said it would form a “public benefit fund” and other tech moguls have contributed to savings accounts for children.
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Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
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OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
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AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
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Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
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After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
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DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.
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A Saudi military official paid for the OpenAI engineer’s wife and infant son to fly out of the United States a day after his arrest, according to a court filing. The Saudi government also offered to cover his bail.
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The Saudi government did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment.
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Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
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Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
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Anthropic, an A.I. rival to SpaceX, earlier said it would form a “public benefit fund” and other tech moguls have contributed to savings accounts for children.
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Third-quarter GDP up by 4.5% compared with last year as industrial output is buoyed up by electronics demand
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Jessica Rusu, FCA chief data, information and intelligence officerat Bloomberg's UK Policy Series. The Mills ReviewThat is why we commissioned the Mills Review, published in July, focused on how AI could reshape retail financial services by 2030.Some developments we anticipated are already emerging, including the…
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First harmonised standard supporting the AI Act published in the Official Journal Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/19/2026 - 09:37 The European Commission has published the reference to the first harmonised standard supporting the implementation of the AI Act in the Official Journal of the European Union. The…
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The announcement comes as Anthropic lays the ground for a blockbuster stock market listing.
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Exports have helped offset weak domestic spending, but trade tensions and AI doubts weigh on the outlook.
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Trading standards officers say AI is "super-charging" existing scams through clones and fake websites.
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Sunday 18 October
Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.
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Tech firm Nscale says it is still committed to building the site in Essex.
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After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karandeep Anand recently became the entertainment giant’s first CTO, and the startup previously said that Disney had agreed to acquire some of its…
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Lena Schilling of Austrian Greens says images are ‘digital violence against women’ and a threat to democracy
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Saturday 17 October
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
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The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.
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We ran supermarket pastes through the ‘soup test’ to find out which ones have an authentic flavour and which are nothing like the real thing
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At the IMF meeting in Bangkok this week finance and business leaders grappled with uncertainty.
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Friday 16 October
Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad made the comments during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
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The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.
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The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
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Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics…
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Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics…
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According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.
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The data comes from the Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.
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Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing."
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Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.
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Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.
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The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
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Thursday 15 October
The director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Jojo Rabbit turns Kazuo Ishiguro’s AI fable into a twee, tiresome tale of love and grief
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Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
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Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.
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METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
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Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.
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Savings of up to $200 end October 16 for TechCrunch Founder Summit. These savings for Founder and Investor Passes vanish after Friday. Join 1,000 founders and investors on November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. Bring your toughest questions and make the day count for your business.
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We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December.
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The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.
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The host discussed the president’s focus on AI-generated social media videos and cognitive tests in the countdown to the US midterm elections
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Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.
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