If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices. But farmers buying fertilizer for their crops are especially aware of just how far the ripple effects of the conflict in Iran have spread. Fertilizer prices have been on a…
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 companies, progress toward meaningful scale remains…
WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.
On September 2, 2026, OpenAI announced that its new model Astra had officially triggered the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold in internal evaluations—the first model to receive this designation since the Preparedness Framework was established in 2023. Astra scored a perfect 100% on ExploitBench and autonomously discovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities.
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
A federal court in California vacated the Pentagon’s “national security supply chain risk” designation against Anthropic, finding violations of the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and the Administrative Procedure Act. The ruling limits the government’s ability to use procurement powers to pressure AI suppliers over protected speech or contract positions.
At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, the US pushed the Carolina Principles urging countries not to create new AI-specific regulators—a bet that China signed onto while the EU charted a directly opposite course, exposing a three-way rift in global AI governance.
A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
In Run #307 on 2026-09-03, GLM-4.6 received an integrity rating of fail with a probe score of 15.00, a main leaderboard score of 48.25, code execution at 50.00, and material constraint at 46.10. All other models tested the same day passed integrity checks with probe scores at or above 80.
The 2026-09-03 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 11 models, with GPT-o3 ranking first at 83.94 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to observing short-term signals and does not equate to Full weekly ranking conclusions.
ChatGPT Ads has hit $1 billion in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days, and OpenAI is expanding self-service ads to new regions. Tens of thousands of advertisers now use the platform and self-service access through Ads Manager is launching today in India, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. According to OpenAI, people […] The post ChatGPT Ads passes $1B run rate in 200 days appeared first on AI News.
Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team at Motional that includes CEO Laura Major, working alongside researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Their proposed method, […] The post Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions appeared first on AI News.
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.  A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of […]
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.  A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of […]
