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‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers

Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure

Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy

Microsoft publishes Nobel economist's bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade

OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again

Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior

We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’
- OpenAI (ChatGPT)ChatGPT
- Anthropic (Claude)Claude
- PoeMulti-bot chat
- Google (Gemini)Gemini
- DeepSeekDeepSeek Chat
- xAI (Grok)Grok
- Microsoft (Copilot)Copilot Chat
- PerplexityPerplexity
- OpenAI (ChatGPT Images)Image generation
- MidjourneyText-to-image
- Stability AI (BrandStudio)Stable Diffusion
- Adobe (Firefly)Text-to-image

Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control

Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits

LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature

Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals

Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work

Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans

Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed

Google is about to remove free access to Gemini Flash and Pro

Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
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Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models

South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

Reflection's Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China

Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey

Researchers stretch LeCun's JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology
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ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk." ChatGPT for Teens, introduced in August, has guardrails for teens and is designed to help s…

OpenAI dumps 372 AI-generated math proofs on GitHub, telling the academic world to keep up
OpenAI has published 372 AI-generated mathematical results on GitHub, including Lean formalizations for machine verification. Each result consumed about three hours of ChatGPT Pro compute on average. But 25 Fields Medal winners warn that mass-producing mathematical truths could d…

Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’
Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.…

OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled…

Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product
Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.…

How AI decision models could change content moderation
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.…

AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO
Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.…

The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.…

Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size
Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs on-device, needs only about 191 MB of RAM, and outperforms some competing models twice its size, according to Google. Paired with a…

Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money
Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost. But its predecessor also scored well in tests, while Pro often produced better images in practice. The article Google's new image model Nano Banana …

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.…

‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.…

Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. Wikimedia says AI companies need to take responsibility for…

Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy
The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.…

Microsoft publishes Nobel economist's bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade
Microsoft published a bearish AI outlook from Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu. He predicts about 1.5 percent GDP growth over ten years and at most five percent of jobs replaced. Bigger models won't move the needle, he argues. What's missing are practical apps that change how work …

OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.…

Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.…

We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’
With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it'd be reasonable to assume that a device with a microphone or camera is either recording you or it isn't; it's either on or off, without much…

Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control
Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei could be personally on the hook for the fallout. The article Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control appeared firs…

Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."…

LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.…

Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.…

Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work
Mistral's Large 4 is the company's biggest model yet, with one trillion parameters trained on its own European infrastructure. In the independent Intelligence Index, the model makes a big leap forward but still falls well short of Claude, GPT-6, and Chinese competitors. Mistral's…

Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.…

Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
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Google is about to remove free access to Gemini Flash and Pro
Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you'll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. Ho…

Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.…

Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models
Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost. Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across their most critical workloads — from autonomous networks to customer care. NVIDIA’s …

South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best
South Korea wants to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion). The article South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best appeared first on The Decoder.…

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.…

Reflection's Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China
Reflection has released Beam, its first open-weight model. The mixture-of-experts system activates just 23 billion of its 501 billion parameters per token and aims to match GLM 5.2 on coding and reasoning while using three to four times less compute. The strategy against Chinese …

Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.…

Researchers stretch LeCun's JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology
Researchers at PhAI Labs have expanded Yann LeCun's JEPA architecture to work across seven fields, from robotics to biomedicine. The effort also produced a liver cancer treatment candidate that showed promise in lab tests, though the study doesn't establish whether it could becom…
