Artificial Inteligence feed for Thursday, October 15, 2026

• When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
• ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now
• Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch
• The tech backlash is now in theaters
• Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
• State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behind
• AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate
• Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint
• Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
• Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
• Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps
• Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
• Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
• Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more
• Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs
• Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends Oct. 16
• Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
• Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity
• AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars
• How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops
• Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US
• Nobody is safe from celebrity AI deepfakes
• Benn Jordan on Flock, privacy, and the new surveillance backlash
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Last day
• Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays
• Teaching students to think and learn through questions
• Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75
• Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff
• Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked
• Apertus 1.5 Release Notes
• Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
• Q&A: The “collision” between AI, your brain, and society
• Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
• Sullivan & Cromwell brings legal expertise into agreement review
• Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers
• Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta
• Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt