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The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping

Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say

At Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton, leader will accuse Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and ‘tech bros’ to solve problem Ed Davey is to call for a global nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt the development of super-intell…

California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to prevent AI data centers from passing utility costs onto residents, as reported earlier by the Los Angeles Times. The package of laws requires the California Public Utilities Co…

OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

Five days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass + 50% off a second one. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators at San Francisco’s Moscone West, October 13-15. Grab your ticket savings before prices go up on S…

Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch

Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.

AI, Tariffs, Rare Minerals: What to Expect From Trump’s Upcoming Summit With Xi Jinping

Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations.

Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com

Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?

With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete

Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.

Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told

Citizens Advice says providers of essential services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’ Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care and guarantee the “right to talk to a human”, Cit…

What an AI deal could mean for Australian culture – podcast

The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies unrestricted access to Australian content. The sweeping copyright reforms could give AI companies – such as Anthropic and Open AI – permission to train on the open internet here in…

Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now.

In praise of the freshly fried chip | Brief letters

Chippies at risk | Consciousness raising | Cupboard love | Student meals | Death of ties In your article about the plight of fish and chip shops you barely mention the chips ( Can fish and chip shops survive? ‘We made more money by closing…

Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini

Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets, and other parts of the desktop experience.

From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Lean in on this Builders Stage session. Save up to $200 before September 25.

Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, to save up to $200 and to get a front-row seat to one of the most intense star…

Can John Ternus find Apple’s next big thing?

Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the upcoming podcast Power On.  Earlier this month, Apple hosted its annual iPhone hard…

Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem

iPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI settlement

Apple is paying $250 million to settle claims that it failed to deliver an AI-upgraded Siri - and now, eligible iPhone owners can submit a claim for a payout. If you live in the US and purchased an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any i…

Got an Android Phone? Google Thinks You’ll Probably Want a Googlebook Laptop

Apple lovers have long enjoyed seamless connectivity between their iPhones and Macs. Now, Google’s bringing that experience to Android.

Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?

The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Mor…

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results.

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.

How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”

Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of&#16…

4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undet…

The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?

When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses.  As he walked through the desert in so…

She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight

She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost.  It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández crossed the border from the eastern edge of Tijuana into Southern California, sen…

US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats

Officials discussed setting up a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of AI incidents which could threaten national security.

Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030

Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’ The boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said AI will not develop to a point that will lead to the extinction of the human race within a few ye…

UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty

Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face earlier this y…

Building standards for the next phase of AI

OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI agent

Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Cond…

Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths

Explore new OpenAI Academy learning paths for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.

More Australians will be dying than being born in 40 years as major report predicts future of lower growth

Seventh intergenerational report also outlines how Australia is on the brink of an uncertain age of artificial intelligence Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast…

Welcome to September 20, 2026

The Singularity now files progress reports.

tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured

How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory

Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work.

Can Trump and Xi cooperate to guide humanity through the AI revolution? Humanity might depend on it | Alan Finkel

The CEOs of tech firms issue stark warnings over the rate of change, with AI capability doubling every four months Recently, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, quit his job over concerns that AI was on a collision course with humanity.…

6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

On Equity, we debated whether AI executives are serious about wanting to slow down.

No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown

The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there wa…

Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking

Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions.

ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Ella Baron on our evolving relationship with AI – cartoon

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The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that | Editorial

OpenAI claims its agents have solved the Navier-Stokes problem. But questions remain about how useful and independent its work really is On 8 September, OpenAI claimed that its AI agents had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the most…

‘An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical’: meet Trump’s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation

David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial i…

Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’

The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump the brakes on AI devel…

UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars

Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK mus…

Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems

Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving…

An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang

Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.

AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart

Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry Warnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But even amid the omens of apocalypse , it…

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers

The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.

‘People are pissed off’: anger at the elite and the establishment is fueling this year’s midterms

Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’ Brian Leeland, a 79-year-old Democratic voter in Detroit , had enough. Frustrated by the way the US media covers this f…

As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails

It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts Donald Trump ’s sons, through a series of AI -linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon lo…

Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development

Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and pace China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario About two years ago, education entrepreneur Boris…

More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades

Treasury’s latest intergenerational report projects life expectancy at birth will reach 89 for women and 86 for men by 2066 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast…

Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to descr…

Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts

Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.

Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’

After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down , Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of the AI threat In re…

Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel

Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930s Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast There’s nothing like a threat of human extinction t…

Trump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.

Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow

President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled caution Donald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help monitor the technolog…

Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities…

Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.

AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.

Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.

Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4

For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life.

Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.

The Overhang

Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency

AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race

The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team

We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.

Co-creating the future of fashion with Google

Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.

The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a liv…

Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint

OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people.

Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.

On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the…

The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech

In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed. O…

Making global data easier to explore

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.

LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.

Welcome to September 17, 2026

The Singularity is now cheaper to run than the people watching it.

The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wande…

How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT

Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters most.

Meet the innovators under 35 shaping climate tech

Each year, the editorial team at MIT Technology Review puts together a list of 35 innovators under 35—a group of researchers, inventors, and other young minds worth following. The team worked on the newest edition of the list for months, an…

Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack

Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.

Our framework for reporting model misalignment

OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.

Helping older adults use AI in everyday life

OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.

Reimagining advertising with AI

Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.

Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra helps Hex’s data agents turn answers into interactive visualizations that employees are proud to share.

Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?

AI for Societal Impact

Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.

Welcome to September 15, 2026

The Singularity just got a speeding ticket, and the radar gun may have been rigged.

Welcome to September 13, 2026

The Singularity just got its first formal request to slow down from the people building it, and the strangest part is the guest list.

Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on

It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too

Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter

Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI

Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Plus, a machine hermeneutics story

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!

Agency and Agents

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories

Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye

Differential acceleration of cyber, math, and AI

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

The Summer 2026 Edition

The twilight of the chatbots

How work changes along the exponential