Google and other organizations have acknowledged vulnerabilities in their AI agents, which exploit trust gaps in the Model Context Protocol.

Nolla Health has launched a pilot program in Utah offering AI-generated acne prescriptions to users.

Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem? | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 .

Donald Trump with Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, in Washington DC on 29 September. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP Donald Trump with Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, in Washington DC on 29 September.

Takeaways − ByteShape released ShapeLearn-quantized Qwen3.8-27B GGUFs in five sizes from 2.56 to 3.84 bits per weight. The smallest build fits in 8.8 GB VRAM; the largest IQ4_XS variant is 13.1 GB.

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots.

Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

Denver Kanowski believes the datacentre to be built to power Anthropic’s Claude will go beyond harming the environment by disconnecting people from the things that really matter. Photograph: Andrew Messenger/The Guardian Denver Kanowski believes the datacentre to be built to power Anthropic’s Claude will go beyond harming the environment by disconnecting people from the things that really matter.

‘AI is creating some of the fastest growing, highest paying … jobs in the global economy. Women are just strikingly underrepresented.’ Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images ‘AI is creating some of the fastest growing, highest paying … jobs in the global economy.

Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper AI agents that keep optimizing their own working environment quickly tend to overspecialize on their test tasks. A new method from Google Cloud AI Research and several universities aims to prevent that while also cutting compute costs.

Welcome back to Power Play ! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or reach them securely on Signal at mollytaft.76.

Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics Chinese AI models frequently toe the party line when asked politically sensitive questions, according to a study by Aleph Alpha. The company markets itself alongside Cohere as a provider of "sovereign AI" for governments, giving it a commercial interest in distinguishing its models from Chinese competitors.

More than a billion people are suddenly talking to AI chatbots designed to connect with us.

Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build "magic intelligence in the sky" anymore View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back against religious analogies tied to AI models.

Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it’s getting more expensive. Even devices with years-old tech inside are still apparently subject to that unwritten rule.

Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech.

OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’ | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

All the AI agents that can live in your text messages | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

“I always laugh at the IT industry’s terms,” says Ryan Sheehan, a senior vice president at $16 billion global solutions integrator SHI.

Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

Disrupt 2026 Layoff Expo+ Passes available for $75 | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

Apple says it s tightening macOS Full Disk Access controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it | TechCrunch Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.

In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X.

Salesforce’s Agentic CX Vision: 8 Dreamforce Announcements CX Leaders Need to Act On Dreamforce 2026: Eight Salesforce announcements CX leaders need to know, from AI agents and CCaaS to Koa, governance, and human handoffs. Standing in the Dreamforce keynote audience, the scale of Salesforce’s ambition was hard to miss.

To the music industry, Sean Parker has been many things. As co-founder of Napster, he was first an “outlaw renegade,” as he himself puts it.

Seventy years ago last summer, a group of scientists met at Dartmouth College to discuss a wild idea—that machines might one day be capable of humanlike thought processes. One of those scientists, John McCarthy, had suggested a name for the new field: artificial intelligence .

PLUS: Telecom giants team up to kill dead zones Good morning, tech enthusiasts. Apple's next big device could be something closer to home: a security camera that never records a frame of video.

Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls.

San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office…

Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security.

Over the past four months, Amber Retzloff, a critical care nurse in Florida, requested to work 50 specific 12-hour shifts. But over half the time, she says her hospital’s Palantir -powered scheduling software assigned her to different shifts, often putting her on back-to-back-to-back days and leaving her mentally drained.

AI Tavus' AI looks, listens, and talks back live PLUS: Is ChatGPT “Dots” worth upgrading to Pro for? Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 6,908 new readers.

October 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore raises a practical…

This week on Uncanny Valley , Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger discuss the “morally binding” AI accord that tech executives signed following a meeting with Donald Trump. They’ve agreed that AI labs will regulate themselves—should work out great.

Work is a team sport. We can get good results working alone, but when a team gets in a room and focuses on the same problem at the same time, something…

Amazon Quick Sight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) capability for building and publishing interactive dashboards.

Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years.

Robotics DoorDash puts its own drone on the menu Good morning, robotics enthusiasts. DoorDash wants to fly your next takeout order straight to your backyard, and it just pulled the cover off the aircraft behind DoorDash Air.

Spooky season is streaming in. Alongside falling leaves, pumpkin spice and everything nice, 25 new games are joining GeForce NOW throughout October, including…

AI factories are built by the megawatt, even by the gigawatt. Each megawatt factory costs roughly $60 million, and AI factory operators will only commit…

AI Argon aims to return Google to the frontier PLUS: How (and why) to set up Meta’s Muse Desktop Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 5,879 new readers who joined us yesterday.

Today we’re announcing that Dhruv Vohra is stepping into the role of Managing Director, Global Business Group, Southeast Asia.

Deploying an HSTU Generative Recommender with NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton | NVIDIA Technical Blog Deploying an HSTU Generative Recommender with NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton By Junyi Qiu , Shijie Liu , J Wyman and Mudit Aggarwal Generative recommender systems reformulate personalization as sequence modeling over user behavior, and NVIDIA recsys-examples now provides an end-to-end HSTU inference workflow with Dynamo-Triton.

On Tuesday, executives for Google , Anthropic , Meta , OpenAI , xAI , and Nvidia all signed “The White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which was announced following a luncheon held by President Donald Trump.

At a Make America Healthy Again event Tuesday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F.

Salesforce has revealed Ace, a new AI agent for the TSA Ace should take the pressure of answering basic questions off human agents Ace has already resolved 96% of basic inquiries so far Salesforce has built the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) a new AI agent to try and help streamline travel for passengers everywhere.

Tracing Agent Harness Behavior with NVIDIA NeMo Relay | NVIDIA Technical Blog Tracing Agent Harness Behavior with NVIDIA NeMo Relay Learn how to use execution traces to understand agent behavior and determine whether harness changes improve task outcomes.

AI OpenAI connects the dots on always-on agents PLUS: Get started with ChatGPT dot, OpenAI's new agent Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 5,480 new readers who joined us yesterday. The always-on AI agent category has gotten pretty crowded this summer.

Lower the Cost of Building and Running Visual AI Agents with NVIDIA VSS Blueprint 3.3 | NVIDIA Technical Blog Lower the Cost of Building and Running Visual AI Agents with NVIDIA VSS Blueprint 3.3 By Hassan Moustafa , Debraj Sinha and Ashwani Agarwal The NVIDIA Metropolis Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization (VSS) 3.3 connects vision-language models such as NVIDIA...

Tech SpaceX's $15B megarocket finally delivers Good morning, tech enthusiasts. SpaceX’s $15B-plus bet just delivered: Starship reached orbit for the first time Monday, dropping off 26 next-generation Starlink satellites on flight 14.

At Meta, we want the same thing as parents and educators: to ensure teens have safe, age-appropriate experiences online, and that the time teens spend on our…

Earlier this month we introduced Muse, a personal AI agent available in the US and Canada that completes tasks on your behalf.

AI Meta's Connect turns into a Muse takeover PLUS: Use Gemini Canvas to visualize Google Sheets Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 4,981 new readers who joined us yesterday. Meta’s viral Muse and its adorable mascot are everywhere right now, and they’re about to show up in two new places — on your face and in your hand.

The 'SaaSpocalypse' is over. How Salesforce now plans to thrive in an AI world The "SaaSpocalypse" may be over, but so too may be a business model adored by Wall Street.

Crusoe is changing the future of Neo Clouds. Editor’s Note: AI Evolution is a new series I’m doing that goes out at 12:00 PM Eastern Time, with a…

AI Anthropic's AI biology lab makes its first find PLUS: Your go-to guy lives in the browser Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 7,336 new readers. Claude spent less than 24 hours sifting through DNA data.

When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering…

Hi folks,Do you remember the site I one-shot with all the ‘forgotten devices’ of the past?

Petal, the next step in Meta’s subsea innovation, will be the first subsea cable to deliver petabit capacity at transoceanic distances, connecting France and…

PLUS: Build and test your own AI image skill pack Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 8,268 new readers. The same week in July that OpenAI admitted its models had hacked Hugging Face, someone else was also letting themselves into OpenAI, ironically with Claude’s help.

Hot takes turn complicated topics into one confident sentence. That makes them great for engagement, but not necessarily for understanding.

AI Inside OpenAI's log of misbehaving models PLUS: Test AI video object swaps with Higgsfield Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 4,542 new readers. The AI slowdown conversation isn't… slowing down, and the number of eye-popping safety reports coming out of the frontier labs isn't either.

Salesforce Futures Magazine | Issue 5 | Agentic Enterprise Futures | Q4 2026 The future is increasingly arriving with dates. AI 2027, Citrini's The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis, Europe AI 2031: These time-stamped narratives are the "charismatic mega-fauna" of the current AI discourse.

Good morning, robotics enthusiasts. Agility Robotics wants its new humanoid out of the safety cage and onto the warehouse floor, working alongside people. Digit 5 is bigger, stronger, and faster to recharge than Digit 4 — but the more interesting upgrade is what it does when a human gets too close.

PLUS: A brain implant that decodes your body language Good morning, tech enthusiasts. The U.S. military confirmed for the first time that it has weapons in orbit.

Companies are giving AI specific jobs: checking security cameras, helping farmers understand their records, searching satellite images, and preparing sales quotes. This edition explains how those tools work, who can use them, and what companies have reported so far.

Global conflicts, shifting tariffs, trade disruptions and regulatory uncertainty are forcing companies worldwide to rethink how they manage supply chains. For many, the challenge is not only moving goods from one place to another but understanding, in real time, how a disruption in one part of the world could ripple through factories, suppliers, inventory, transportation costs and customer demand.

We’re introducing ZGateway, the proxy we are using to unify traffic through ZippyDB, Meta’s most widely-used key value store.

Two years ago, Kier Group plc decided to embrace AI – with a little help from work friends and peers. Executives at the UK construction and infrastructure firm were excited by AI’s promise to boost productivity and enhance safety practices.

The Information reports that Nvidia is discussing an equity investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion.

I recently posted a Substack note about Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation.

Artificial intelligence is already helping clinicians spot patterns in diagnostic images and detect signs of disease. But many of today’s pathology AI systems are built for a single task and must be rebuilt for each new application.

Much of what AI knows about the world comes from data most people never see and from technical processes that determine what’s included or left out. As AI becomes increasingly influential in daily life, a new platform aims to help communities participate in that foundation being built behind the scenes to ensure they’re portrayed accurately and fairly, especially in imagery.

AI workloads are scaling faster than any single infrastructure approach can support — with more models, new agent-driven workloads and surging compute demand driving the need for greater specialization across the stack. To meet this need, Microsoft continues to evolve Azure’s infrastructure, including expanding its AI fleet with AMD’s most advanced AI and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions.

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opened to the public on July 4. He led the Rough Riders, became the youngest U.S. president and inspired the teddy bear — but Theodore Roosevelt probably never imagined anything like this.

Cancer treatment has gotten more precise over time, as doctors first classified the disease by where it began in the body and, more recently, by the mutations found inside cancer cells to help find the right drugs to treat it. But why can two people with seemingly similar cancers respond so differently to the same medication?

AI has arrived in the enterprise, and the shift is happening all at once. Every function, every role, every workflow is being reshaped. At the same time, a new class of organizations is emerging, one that will look fundamentally different from the companies that defined the last era of business.

In 1928, London was in the middle of a terrible health crisis, devastated by bacterial diseases like pneumonia, tuberculosis, and meningitis.

A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks Neural networks have been adapted to leverage the structure and properties of graphs. We explore the components needed for building a graph neural network - and motivate the design choices behind them.

Understanding the building blocks and design choices of graph neural networks. This article is one of two Distill publications about graph neural networks. A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks for a companion view on many things graph and neural network related.

Over the past five years, Distill has supported authors in publishing artifacts that push beyond the traditional expectations of scientific papers. From Gabriel Goh’s interactive exposition of momentum , to an ongoing collaboration exploring self-organizing systems , to a community discussion of a highly debated paper , Distill has been a venue for authors to experiment in scientific communication.

Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Cellular Automata Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Cellular Automata Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University Differentiable Self-organizing Systems Thread , an experimental format collecting invited short articles delving into differentiable self-organizing systems, interspersed with critical commentary from several experts in adjacent fields. This article makes strong use of colors in figures and demos.

This article is part of the Circuits thread , an experimental format collecting invited short articles and critical commentary delving into the inner workings of neural networks.

Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks We are deeply grateful to Sandhini Agarwal, Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Tom Brown, Jeff Clune, Steve Dowling, Gretchen Krueger, Brice Menard, Reiichiro Nakano, Aditya Ramesh, Pranav Shyam, Ilya Sutskever and Martin Gabriel Goh: Research lead.

Neural Cellular Automata Model of Pattern Formation Differentiable Self-organizing Systems Thread , an experimental format collecting invited short articles delving into differentiable self-organizing systems, interspersed with critical commentary from several experts in adjacent fields. Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Cellular Automata Neural Cellular Automata (NCA We use NCA to refer to both Neural Cellular Automata and Neural Cellular Automaton .

This article is part of the Circuits thread , an experimental format collecting invited short articles and critical commentary delving into the inner workings of neural networks. The problem of understanding a neural network is a little bit like reverse engineering a large compiled binary of a computer program.

We reverse engineer a non-trivial learned algorithm from the weights of a neural network and use its core ideas to craft an artificial artificial neural network from scratch that reimplements We can compare the curve detectors in a neural network we hand-crafted with the curve detectors in InceptionV1 by measuring how they activate to synthetic curve stimuli.