PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875 million worth of AI
A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies.
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as …
Advanced AI Society joins the Linux Foundation, launches open verification ecosystem as Congress moves on agent security
New York, NY, September 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire As bipartisan legislation demands verifiable agent controls, the Advanced AI Society releases the Proof-of-Control v1.0 draft fo…
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warn…
Andrew Ng calls the AI extinction warnings science fiction
Andrew Ng, who helped start Google Brain and Coursera, told Bloomberg TV that warnings of human extinction from AI are much more science fiction than science, and that the industr…
Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power
“Getting there means controlling the infrastructure from electrons to tokens,” said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and chief executive of Crusoe. He was describing what he called an…
Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls
Tesla will install more than 100 megawatt-capable charging stalls at 21 sites in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Benelux to support the Semi, its Semi development head told th…
Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring
“Security software shouldn’t just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk changes,” said Lewis Carhart, chief executive and co-founder…
Waymo restarts San Antonio service 5 months after flooding troubles
The company suspended service in the city in April after one of its robotaxis got swept away.
Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads at its advertiser summit
“Traditional search advertising has long relied on keywords, but in an AI-driven world, people are expressing themselves in much richer ways,” said Bill Ready, chief executive of …
Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year
Jensen Huang told reporters at King Charles III’s AI summit in Scotland that he expects to sell twice as many chips in the coming year. Nvidia’s own August guidance was 70% revenu…
Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing
“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind…
Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and UK government.
Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a deepfake of a UK councillor
Meta’s rules on AI deepfakes are “consistently and fundamentally inadequate to address the rapid rise of AI-generated content”, the Oversight Board said on 17 September. The board…
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting and other changes in photos of their own rooms — potentially helping tu…
SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models
SpaceX has held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational records from troubled or defunct startups to train its AI models, Bloomberg reported. The buyer would…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events schedule: NMI, Backblaze, PeakXV Partners, Augment, and more to host
TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And while the main event takes over Moscone West from October 13-15, the conversation …
King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control
“Those in our world who value deeply our humanity and its vital moral component are anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny, or our souls,”…
Apple will let EU apps use less alarming tracking consent screens
Apple is changing its App Tracking Transparency prompts in parts of Europe after competition regulators said the system favored Apple over third-party apps, giving developers more…