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English-language AI news, collected automatically every day. Click a headline to read the original article. (Last updated: September 12, 2026)
September 12, 2026
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Read article →Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs…
Read article →OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
Read article →Chinese AI chip developer Enflame raises $912M in IPO
Shares of Shanghai Enflame Technology Co. closed 179% higher today following an initial public offering that raised 6.12…
Read article →One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.
Read article →Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events
The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11…
Read article →Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis
Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity.…
Read article →Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue
While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion…
Read article →ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
Read article →Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-…
Read article →An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improvin…
Read article →Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
Read article →Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity
After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anth…
Read article →One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous…
Read article →September 11, 2026
The hard physics and complex economics of AI’s insatiable hunger for power
Data centers, the windowless, anonymous, boxy structures that few people even notice, have become a rare unifying force…
Read article →Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for perso…
Read article →AI’s existential crisis explodes but AI companies plunge ahead anyway
The resignation this week of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambl…
Read article →Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.
Read article →Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion Ch…
Read article →Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside b…
Read article →Extreme Networks’ Agent ONE Coworker moves AI networking from dashboards to answers
Operating a network has not changed in decades. Every network engineer knows the drill. An alert fires. You open a dashb…
Read article →DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash, says it outperforms flagship V4-Pro
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. tod…
Read article →OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a s…
Read article →Adobe shares slip as Q4 revenue guidance falls short despite a Q3 beat
Shares of Adobe Inc. fell more than 1% in after-hours trading today after a third-quarter beat from the creative softwar…
Read article →Anthropic says AI now lets lone operators run state-level hacking campaigns
Individual hackers are now sustaining campaigns that would have needed many skilled operators a year ago, because artifi…
Read article →Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, i…
Read article →Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building b…
Read article →Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats
A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites,…
Read article →OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand
The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capaci…
Read article →Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which h…
Read article →Chipmaker Positron nabs $875M to speed up inference with consumer-grade memory
Positron AI Inc., a developer of inference appliances that don’t include high-bandwidth memory, today announced that it…
Read article →Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from…
Read article →Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to…
Read article →Amazon makes its agentic AI platform Quick generally available for desktop on Windows and macOS
Amazon.com Inc. announced today that Quick, the company’s artificial intelligence assistant and enterprise platform for…
Read article →Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”
Read article →Arlequin AI raises €28M to build novel AI models that learn complex relationships at scale
Paris-based Arlequin AI SAS today announced it raised €28 million, about $32 million, in new funding to accelerate devel…
Read article →Atlassian upgrades AI coding agents for always-on software development
Identifying the next phase of software development as always-on agentic artificial intelligence, Atlassian plc today ann…
Read article →How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fig…
Read article →3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search
Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.
Read article →Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed…
Read article →Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out
I turned my Muse assistant into a purple cat. | Screenshot: The Verge Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking…
Read article →Now everyone can put data to work
Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI us…
Read article →September 10, 2026
Why the current tech backlash feels different
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show ab…
Read article →Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center. | Bloomberg via Getty…
Read article →Powering AI is an architecture problem
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—kn…
Read article →Everything New You Can Do With Siri AI
When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone.
Read article →Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social acco…
Read article →Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, an…
Read article →Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments
OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and exp…
Read article →Sales automation startup Clay boosts valuation to $7.1B in $115M funding round
Clay Labs Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make business-to-business sales teams more productive, today…
Read article →Build more natural voice experiences with GPT‑Live‑1 in the API
GPT‑Live‑1 brings natural, full-duplex voice conversations to the API, with stronger instruction following, custom voice…
Read article →Introducing the Agents API
Build and launch cloud agents with the Agents API, a managed service powered by the Codex harness for orchestration, lon…
Read article →The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI l…
Read article →Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help
Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge t…
Read article →OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) Open…
Read article →San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The c…
Read article →Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy
At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including…
Read article →MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines
A weeklong summer workshop brought higher education faculty to campus to explore how AI and machine learning materials c…
Read article →Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
Read article →Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI
Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Referenc…
Read article →I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again
After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household device…
Read article →Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI align…
Read article →Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could "kill us all"
"We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"
Read article →Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change
Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant.
Read article →Get ready for the game with new football features in Search
Track live game feeds, explore detailed stats, and get custom fantasy recommendations directly in Search this season.
Read article →Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame
Discover how filmmakers and Google DeepMind used AI to recreate a couple's unrecorded past in the short film "Love, Rend…
Read article →September 9, 2026
The AI policy window is open. We need to act.
Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy…
Read article →A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks tha…
Read article →Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
Read article →GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work
Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing…
Read article →What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its ag…
Read article →Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.
Read article →Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It
Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a…
Read article →“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.
Read article →Update to Google’s AI weather model improves forecast accuracy
Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.
Read article →How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results…
Read article →September 8, 2026
The Work Now Within Reach
Explore how more capable, affordable AI can expand the work people and businesses can accomplish—and make growth more ec…
Read article →This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mo…
Read article →September 7, 2026
September 5, 2026
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Read article →Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accel…
Read article →September 4, 2026
September 3, 2026
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment
MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.
Read article →Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
The Fairwind Program is a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our cyber defense tools.
Read article →System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes
A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable c…
Read article →September 2, 2026
Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset.…
Read article →Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and…
Read article →The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
Read article →Try Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace
Built on our latest Nano Banana model, Google Pics — our image creation and editing tool — is now available.
Read article →September 1, 2026
August 28, 2026
Looking beyond natural sequences
A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from…
Read article →3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.
Read article →August 27, 2026
Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light s…
Read article →When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer
Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems witho…
Read article →The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to commun…
Read article →August 26, 2026
Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice,…
Read article →Raised on AI
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birt…
Read article →AI helps design new materials that work in the real world
The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening out chemically unsta…
Read article →AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smart…
Read article →Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The tem…
Read article →5 ways to upgrade your home decor with Google Search
Learn how to use Google Search tools to find home decor inspiration, shop for furniture, and tackle DIY projects.
Read article →August 25, 2026
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VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our…
Read article →When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what…
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