Artificial Inteligence feed for Wednesday, September 30, 2026
- Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
- Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
- Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now
- Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
- OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
- AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
- The AI Tamagotchis are coming
- Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
- The ugly economics of consumer AI
- Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
- Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
- DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
- Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page
- Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick
- All the latest news on Meta’s cute, creepy Muse AI agent
- MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
- Introducing SynthID Bio
- This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
- Google reportedly tests paying publishers for AI search results
- Instagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post
- Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
- Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
- 3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
- Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal
- Airbnb adds AI search, more social features
- “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
- Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
- Helping small businesses put AI to work
- Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
- Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning