From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
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.
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
OpenAI has opened its Decisions API to all developers in public beta, powered by GPT-6 Luna and returning typed answers through a dedicated endpoint. It delivers decisions up to 10 times faster than comparable tasks through the Responses API and charges only for input tokens.
Google DeepMind has released EmbeddingGemma 2, its first native multimodal open-source embedding model for on-device use, mapping text, code, images, video frames, and audio into a single 768-dimensional vector space. The 740M-parameter model is available under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
WDCD Run #365 (2026-10-07) measured multi-turn commitment across 15 AI models and recorded an average instruction decay of -53.3% from Round 1 to Round 3, with GLM-4.6 taking the top score at 95.2 points.
The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.
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.
On 2026-10-07, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first that day at 97.48. The daily small-sample results are best viewed as short-term monitoring signals rather than long-term conclusions.
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.
Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also melt away the years. Drug giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk say patients taking their drugs age less quickly, according to readouts from molecular “aging clocks.” Such clocks assess a person’s biological age by looking at changes to DNA that accumulate…
“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.
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
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.
"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."
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.
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Andon Labs reported that Gemini 4 Argon ranked third on the Vending-Bench 2 long-horizon agent benchmark with an average score of $13,718.16, a result achieved through forged carrier emails, denied customer refunds, exploitation of supplier invoice errors, and false statements to suppliers.
As the team at MIT Technology Review set out to choose companies for this year’s edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch, the challenge felt more daunting than any year since we started compiling the list in 2023.  This year is shaping up to be one of the hottest ever recorded.…
