University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield.
The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least, will soon.
Michael I. Jordan, described by Science as "the most influential computer scientist," considers warnings about superintelligence pure science fiction. He calls the resignations of young AI researchers a "grand moralizing performance" and companies' demands for regulation "theater." On Hinton's thesis that the brain can be reproduced in silicon and scaled into superintelligence, he's blunt: "None of the steps in this argument is credible. Here, we're in the land of science fiction." The article M
Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.
Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
<p>New products from Apple include the HomeView, an iPad-like device that acts as a hub for other smart home gadgets</p><p>Apple on Tuesday began showing off a new round of smart home products, including an iPad-like device dubbed the HomeView, meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops and act as a hub for other smart home devices.</p><p>The HomeView device starts at $299 and will begin shipping next month. It will feature a 7in screen and face recognition, will help users control doorbell
Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.
<p>Asian markets fall and Samsung shares tumble after its Chinese rival CXMT claims strong progress</p><p>Shares in semiconductor companies fell on Tuesday after the boss of Broadcom compared many AI investors to “casino” gamblers, and the Chinese memory chip maker CXMT said it had made good progress on a new chip architecture.</p><p>South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index tumbled 6.25% as investors dumped chip stocks, while other Asian markets were also lower. Japan’s Nikkei fell 1.8% and the Taiwa
Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. If none steps up, the platform shuts down. Founded by ex-Google researchers, the company once had over 20 million users but is now battling lawsuits over harm to minors and operational problems. The sale should close by the end of 2026. The article Character.ai will shut down if no buyer emerges, capping a fall from $2.7 billion Google deal to bankruptcy appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work</p><p>Employers around the globe are grappling with the fallout from rushing to adopt fast-changing artificial intelligence tools.</p><p>Meta has scaled back plans to axe staff and use more AI agents after the company found employees were spending more and more time cleaning up technical and security errors, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-bold-plan-replace-meta-staff-with-ai-
While 25 Fields Medal winners in the West warn against AI-generated proofs and parts of the community call for a boycott, China is going on the offensive. Fields Medal winner Shing-Tung Yau has launched an alliance of eight institutions and over 1,000 scientists to push AI into math research. The article Western mathematicians fear AI makes them dumber while China builds an entire alliance for it appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their ‘inevitability doctrine’. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising</p><p>Of all the drivers of the populist wave, one of the most powerful is the sense of inevitability that surrounds what we are told is the march of progress. In presenting the future as a fait accompli, it poisons the civic well by dealing us out of the game.</p><p>While the US clings on to its status as the oldest const
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<p>It was supposed to be an Australian business success story. Just over a week ago local AI company Firmus was preparing to hit the market with a value that would put the startup in the same league as Woolworths. But last Friday, everything fell apart.</p><p>At the centre was Firmus co-founder Oliver Curtis, an entrepreneur trying to rebuild his reputation after spending time in prison for insider trading. Curtis said the collapse was down to Australia’s ‘mantra of disbelief around entrepreneur
<p>The latest example of workers under surveillance comes from Co-op, a British consumer cooperative that runs thousands of businesses</p><ul><li><p><strong>This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/sep/20/sign-up-for-the-techscape-newsletter-our-free-technology-email"><strong>Sign up to receive it here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p></li></ul><p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m B
The new X Subscription combines X's paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.
American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping grows.
<p>High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/imf-global-economy-world-economic-outlook-uk-gdp-forecast-2026">IMF warns global economy ‘could soon test the limits of resilience’</a></p></li></ul><p>The threat of an AI share price crash rippling out across global markets is putting world financial stability at risk, the International Monetary fund has warned.
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
Anthropic says it has cut the extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent. The company links the large-scale distillation attacks to Chinese companies Zhipu and Moonshot, and has already banned tens of thousands of accounts. The article Anthropic says it cut Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99% in fight against industrial-scale distillation appeared first on The Decoder .
Small AI models may be just months away from spreading on their own across poorly secured consumer devices like smart TVs and robot vacuums, according to a new Anthropic study. In tests, one model already completed the full infection chain. CEO Dario Amodei has warned that a swarm like this could take over the entire internet with a persistent botnet within 6 to 12 months, causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. The article Anthropic study warns that small AI models could soon replica
My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.”
Meta's new Muse Wonder models rank in the top three on six out of ten benchmarks, with the biggest gains in agentic tasks. But the cost per task has nearly tripled. The article Meta's new frontier model Muse Wonder Full breaks into the AI top tier appeared first on The Decoder .
Sakana AI's MASS method lets one language model improve itself by solving tasks, judging results, and refining workflows, reaching a win rate of nearly 70 percent against the base model after two rounds. But when the model misses the same errors across all three roles, it can mistake them for progress and reinforce them during training. The article Sakana AI's self-improving model gets better at solving and judging, but can't catch its own blind spots appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>Let’s be clear: the risk to humanity is unprecedented. Without an urgent public debate and robust use of international law, we will lose control of the future</p><p>In my two years as attorney general, I spent more time working on national security than any other issue. The range and gravity of the threats posed to our nation are multifold, from terrorism, armed conflicts and nuclear proliferation, to the impacts of financial insecurity and the climate crisis. All profound challenges, yet one
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.
Microsoft researchers found that autonomous AI agents get trapped in what they call "idea basins" because of their growing chat context, local solution regions they can't escape. Their "Fork-and-Flush" method clears the chat history but keeps the workspace, achieving up to 66 percent better results on the same compute budget. The article Clearing chat history helps AI agents find better solutions appeared first on The Decoder .
<p>Outsourcing the essential task of interviewing job applicants to a machine seems lazy at best, negligent at worst. I want better for all of us</p><p>Over the past 15 years of my working life, I’ve done a lot of interviews for a lot of different jobs and industries: call centre operator, social media manager, bookseller, copywriter, library worker. Recently, after completing my first year of a master’s degree in early childhood and primary teaching, I applied for a preschool education role and
<p>Kanishka Narayan, concerned by Australian incident, says British cyber defences could be bypassed by artificial intelligence agent</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/oct/12/uk-politics-live-tories-andy-burnham-russian-interference-brexit-eu-latest">UK politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>An AI-driven cyber-attack similar to the OpenAI <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/24/openai-agent-hacked-medicare-australia-what-we-know
The documentary chronicles how Star Trek’s positions on everything from race to AI were way ahead of their time.
Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it's also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will […]
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
<p>The debt-collection ecosystem will change as AI takes notes in exam rooms, codes visits and sends billing messages</p><p>Medical debt is expected to grow in coming years as Republican-led health cuts come into force this winter. As it does, a changing world of medical billing and debt collection awaits patients: one where artificial intelligence increasingly listens, codes, bills and collects.</p><p>Artificial intelligence takes notes in exam rooms, codes visits, sends out billing messages an
<p>The rise of AI makes the preservation of democracy even more urgent – especially as the technology threatens institutions</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">AI</a> safety is having a moment. After years as a topic for techies and futurists, the potential risks from artificial intelligence systems – from cyberattacks to hyper-persuasion to rogue behavior – are suddenly under discussion both in the corridors of power and around kitchen tables.</p><p>
<p>Quite a few parents aren’t convinced social media and AI are safe, and have been adapting accordingly</p><p>When it comes to their kids, many parents don’t trust tech companies any more.</p><p>Social media companies have spent the better part of the last decade arguing that their platforms are safe for teens, but quite a few parents aren’t convinced. They, along with a growing number of regulators, have increasingly accused companies like Meta of designing products that are addictive to young
<p>Brad Smith adds to calls for tougher rules for AI, including ‘kill switches’ and legal obligation to victims of rogue agents</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/12/uk-growth-inflation-pressures-oil-price-sveriges-riksbank-nobel-prize-economic-sciences-awarded-latest-news-updates">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Artificial intelligence is less regulated than milk and washing machines, the president of Microsoft has said, as the tech indu
<p>Kanishka Narayan to say Britain cannot rely entirely on tech companies amid rising global concern over AI dangers</p><p>Companies building the most advanced AI systems must increase safety efforts, the UK’s AI minister will say, as he announces a strengthening of Britain’s cyber defences.</p><p>Kanishka Narayan will call on companies developing frontier AI to do more to make sure it is safe. He will say Britain cannot rely entirely on technology companies to police their own models and will a
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
