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English-language AI news, collected automatically every day. Click a headline to read the original article. (Last updated: October 15, 2026)
October 15, 2026
McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an…
Read article →Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the p…
Read article →Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
But the new "Preview" app "will have some bugs," Epic warns.
Read article →Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids
OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading…
Read article →AI cloud startup Modal raises $750M at $15.75B valuation
Modal Labs Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure, today announced that it has raised $750 million i…
Read article →The AI race is back on
Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful…
Read article →Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?
New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now…
Read article →YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms
The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as AI involved in…
Read article →YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs
YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar appro…
Read article →AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science
AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT re…
Read article →Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence
Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scamme…
Read article →Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins
AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
Read article →My AI doppelganger tells me what to eat
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the lat…
Read article →OpenAI claims an ex-employee took its product plans and presented them to Apple
OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a documen…
Read article →Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.
Read article →Microsoft has a new machine learning tool to improve weather forecasts
Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a p…
Read article →Square’s new kiosk lets you talk to AI for help with your order
Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It'…
Read article →Android is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages
Begone, Bot. | Image: Google / Android Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for u…
Read article →Deezer will soon let you filter out AI-generated music
Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.
Read article →Save 50% on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket and join the last 2 days in San Francisco’s Moscone West
Get a 50% discount on the last two days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, October 14-15, in San Francisco. Register now and jo…
Read article →Zenzap raises $44M for its AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp in the workplace
Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell.
Read article →Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to
The problem Floqer is trying to solve is familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations.
Read article →Researchers improve weather forecasts looking two to six weeks out
A new machine-learning approach broke records for weather forecasting for an important time frame in emergency planning.
Read article →October 14, 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 2
Day 2 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, full of all themes across AI, as well as an investor-only session, more roundtables, S…
Read article →Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.
Read article →Harmonic Security raises $50M to govern how employees use AI tools
Workplace artificial intelligence security startup Harmonic Security Inc. today announced it has raised $50 million in n…
Read article →Offensive security startup CodeWall launches with $4M for AI agents that attack enterprises
London-based offensive security startup CodeWall Ltd. officially launched today with $4 million in new funding to give e…
Read article →Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models
See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.
Read article →SentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours
With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts weeks of malware analysis to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats…
Read article →OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.
Read article →Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI
Scimplify's annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion.
Read article →My Friend Has No Soul
The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.
Read article →Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fic…
Read article →AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity
“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed t…
Read article →How Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours
With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days a…
Read article →How Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI technology
Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in…
Read article →Chainguard puts Claude Mythos on flaw hunting, secures coding agents and widens Libraries
Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today unveiled a vulnerability-hunting service that uses…
Read article →Pluto Security nabs $42M to help enterprises secure their AI agents
Pluto Security Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence security software, today announced that it has raised $42 mil…
Read article →The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic
New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use co…
Read article →Intel bets the next phase of AI belongs to the rightsized system, not the biggest one
For three years, artificial intelligence infrastructure has been dominated by one idea: Bigger is better. Bigger models,…
Read article →An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a…
Read article →Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient
Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's wo…
Read article →Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances…
Read article →Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks
Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.
Read article →Scuba launches with $34M to help teams and AI agents manage business data
Scuba, the developer of an eponymous productivity service, today announced that it has received $34 million in funding.…
Read article →How artificial neural networks build their own learning machinery
Machine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into…
Read article →OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of…
Read article →Apple debuts new smart home devices, partner-developed hardware
Apple Inc. today expanded its product lineup with a smart display, a new iteration of its HomePod speaker and an upgrade…
Read article →Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents
CANADA - 2025/07/20: In this photo illustration, the Shopify logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illus…
Read article →OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us
AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters aw…
Read article →Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech
Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.
Read article →Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store
Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.
Read article →Ubitium raises $14M to build universal processor for machines that perceive, think and act
Ubitium GmbH, a German semiconductor startup developing a universal processor for machines that perceive, think and act…
Read article →Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.
Read article →Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.
Read article →Cisco’s OCP message: The network is now AI’s critical path, and openness is the price of admission
For most of its history, Cisco Systems Inc. won by building vertically integrated network products and asking customers…
Read article →Workday makes Sana its new home for AI-driven HR and finance
Enterprise management software company Workday Inc. today announced that it wants to turn its existing knowledge of peop…
Read article →They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.
Solar geoengineering simulation shows what happens when geopolitics takes over.
Read article →October 13, 2026
Trellix Wise for Private Cloud runs AI security operations inside customer environments
Cybersecurity company Trellix today launched Trellix Wise for Private Cloud to let enterprises run its artificial intell…
Read article →Higgsfield takes AI video from 1 minute to over 10
Higgsfield brings creators longer videos with GPT-6 Astra, precise visuals with GPT-Image-2.5, and a path to voice filmm…
Read article →Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong
In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic…
Read article →Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you…
Read article →The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies
Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of th…
Read article →AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users…
Read article →Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model
"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.
Read article →Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.
Read article →Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him
Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.
Read article →Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
Read article →Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier
Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.
Read article →October 11, 2026
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October 9, 2026
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been…
Read article →Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capa…
Read article →Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases w…
Read article →Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with…
Read article →How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with C…
Read article →October 8, 2026
Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI
With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic…
Read article →LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed
LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to t…
Read article →AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates a…
Read article →Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advance…
Read article →Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers
By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data cen…
Read article →Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations
OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopol…
Read article →October 7, 2026
Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games
Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.
Read article →Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware
An ongoing survey tracks the latest AI accelerator systems to keep hardware relevant for Lincoln Laboratory staff and sp…
Read article →October 6, 2026
October 5, 2026
Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that…
Read article →People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider v…
Read article →EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure,…
Read article →October 3, 2026
Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges
Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multif…
Read article →Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster…
Read article →The latest AI news we announced in September 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026
Read article →October 2, 2026
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board i…
Read article →New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
“InstructMesh” can generate designs for everyday objects that are easy to edit and fabricate for both experts and newcom…
Read article →October 1, 2026
September 29, 2026
The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details
In a study focusing on hiring decisions, MIT researchers found the use of a single algorithm by many firms could benefit…
Read article →Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
Read article →September 25, 2026
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September 18, 2026
New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.
Read article →Co-creating the future of fashion with Google
Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYF…
Read article →Making global data easier to explore
Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessib…
Read article →September 17, 2026
September 16, 2026
AI for Societal Impact
Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the…
Read article →Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives
The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced…
Read article →AI for everyone in every language
We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exac…
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