UK regulator toughens Google choice screen proposals as AI assistants rise
The next time a UK Android user is asked to pick a search engine, ChatGPT could be one of the answers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published strengthened proposals…
FBI investigating claims that ShinyHunters stole data on its agents
During the past year, the cybercrime group ShinyHunters has been extorting companies and, last week, took over a rival gang’s leak site. Now, it has gone after the agency that war…
Anthropic and OpenEvidence to offer free medical AI to doctors in about 100 countries
OpenEvidence, an AI tool used by American doctors, is now being offered in countries with limited access to medical literature. Reuters reported that the company is working with A…
AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance
Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance’s member states, and the path to this…
Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports
If you ask Meta’s new AI agent to call a hairdresser’s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an AI. According to an exclusive report by Reuters on Tuesday, c…
Mistral buys Paris adtech startup Pimento in its third acquisition of 2026
Mistral AI has acquired Pimento, a Paris-based generative AI company that creates advertising content, as part of its third acquisition this year. The acquisition was first mentio…
Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer
The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine …
F13 raises $5M pre-seed to build an AI model for precise vector graphics
F13, an AI company that trains models to generate vector graphics, has come out of stealth with a $5M pre-seed round led by Credo Ventures and Point Nine Capital. Angel investors,…
‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for wha…
Discord’s age verification era is upon us, despite community backlash
According to Discord, 90% of users will not have to verify their age.
Activision will make the next Halo game as Xbox cuts 268 more jobs
First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer. Matt Booty put that in an email to Xbox sta…
Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip
The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled…
Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses
Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was a…
TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4
Founders shouldn't have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that …
Meta says Muse looks like OpenClaw because it was built that way
We built Muse from scratch, but it is definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw. Nat Friedman posted that on X on Monday evening. The head of product at Meta Superintel…
Heidi raises $340m and doubles its valuation to $900m
From the day I started Heidi, the ambition was always bigger than writing doctor’s notes. Dr Thomas Kelly said that on Tuesday, as the company he cofounded announced US$340m of ne…
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you
Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs …
Cyera has now raised $1.4bn this year to police AI agents
They need to trust what AI agents can see and do before they can scale them. Yotam Segev said that on Tuesday, about what the Global 2000 keeps telling his company. The Cyera cofo…
The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.
Ask an AI lab where its workforce is and you get a map, not an address. Researchers in London and Zurich. Engineers in Tel Aviv and Bangalore. Robotics technicians at sites that d…
Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000
Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after M…
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Apple could take on Whoop with a new fitness tracker, report says
Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.
OpenAI names the four things it wants safety assessors to test
That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their own conclusions about the effectiveness of our safeguards. Ope…