Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer charted its position and speed, leaving Pong-like traces on a monitor.  The reason to watch this rodent so carefully? Nearly half its brain volume had been replaced with human cells. The effort to mix the brain tissues of distant species is…
Anthropic is initially releasing these features to Pro and Max plan subscribers.
Google is launching early access to a new MCP server for Google Home, allowing AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and others to control connected devices, review camera summaries, and access smart home activity using natural language.
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Threads is rolling out new tools for podcasters, including profile cards, episode links, transcripts, guest tags, posting reminders, and audience insights, as Meta looks to make the X rival a bigger hub for podcast promotion and discussion.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warned that Anthropic risks AI alignment failures by training Claude to view itself as a conscious entity deserving of legal rights. Suleyman targeted Anthropic’s January 2026 constitution, a primary training document designed to govern the model’s values and behaviour. He argued that coaching sequence completion engines to emulate sentience impairs […] The post Microsoft AI CEO criticises Anthropic over model ‘rights’ appeared first on AI News
The robotics industry is still waiting for their breakthrough into day-to-day life. Nvidia's Les Karpas has an answer as to why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.
The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch.
SK Hynix told TechCrunch the company hasn't finalized any plans or arrangements yet.
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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. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years,…
The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge. As AI pushes computing into new territory, the materials behind that infrastructure are becoming just as crucial as the algorithms running on it. Semiconductors and data centers are approaching physical limits around performance, thermal management, electrical efficiency, and reliability, creating new demands for materials that can do…
TypeSafe, founded by a ChatGPT co-inventor, has left stealth and is launching its Jev model to automate programmatic decisions with parallel sampling architecture. Software systems requiring automated deterministic logic can now bypass conversational language models following TypeSafe AI’s release of Jev, a specialised System One Model designed to execute structured probabilistic decisions directly inside production […] The post ChatGPT pioneer launches Jev model for programmatic log
Amazon is letting all customers use Alexa+ assistant in early access period
The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. But Beijing is deeply skeptical of a deal that prioritizes keeping US companies ahead.
Euclyd has raised more than €200 million ($231 million) in a Series A led by Samsung and others to launch a non-GPU AI inference alternative by 2028. The investment signals growing structural hedging against Nvidia as Samsung seeks a parallel outlet for its memory business.
Diogo Almeida, a co-author of InstructGPT and a contributor to RLHF, has launched Jev through TypeSafe AI, a decision model that returns calibrated choices and probabilities instead of text. The company claims it is 20–200x faster and 40–400x cheaper than large language models, though independent testing remains limited.
TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, has released Jev, its first System One model, alongside $40 million in funding. The model outputs type-safe structured values with calibrated probabilities, claiming comparable intelligence at a fraction of the cost and a mathematical impossibility of type errors.
AI isn't some new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker.
On September 15, 2026, Google gave all engineers quota access to Anthropic Claude Opus 5 through its internal Antigravity platform while officially keeping Gemini as its primary internal foundation model and acknowledging its weaker performance on complex coding tasks. The move marks the first time the world's largest AI vendor has systematically let its own engineers use a competitor's model.
