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Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay
Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater model capabilities bring greater risks, and shareholders eager for returns may …
Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.
Firefox’s Smart Window adds AI form filling and webpage monitoring
Mozilla is updating Smart Window - Firefox's AI-powered browsing experience - with a new feature that can help you fill out online forms based on your open tabs. As an example, Mozilla says Smart Window can pull information from your online portfolio or LinkedIn page to paste your work history into a job application. You …
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.
Google’s next Genie AI model generates more realistic experiences
Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience in real time with a natural language prompt, can generate audio, and uses Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood to help …
Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
Apple is adding an AI chatbot to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers
Apple is bringing an AI assistant to its suite of productivity apps, including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The assistant, which is built on AI models from Apple and OpenAI, can understand a document's context to perform tasks like designing, animating, and refining slides in Keynote. In Pages, Apple says the AI assistant can draft, restructure, …
Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data
Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.
Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.
General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.
Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing
Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover. The machine settings matter, but so does knowing how a particular material behaves, what happened during the previous shift, and when an apparently minor…
Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
Data center backlash is uniting America
If there's one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it's data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server storage facilities - and the infrastructure construction and expenses that come with them - has sparked local opposition in communities across the country and become a major issue in many congressional …
OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT
OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings.
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
How Check Point accelerates vulnerability research with Daybreak
With OpenAI Daybreak, Check Point speeds up the research behind new security protections, enabling its analysts to turn vulnerability intelligence into customer defenses faster.
OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What's different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as "shepherds" guiding the results in …