China's draft export control revisions on AI technology appear sweeping but contain significant open source exemptions. The real regulatory logic targets strategic capabilities rather than commercial AI deployment, creating a de facto compliance advantage for open source model developers.
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.
The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.
Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for "reckless" AI, US Rep. Comer says.
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, the first Genie model to natively generate audio, with scene continuity doubled from the previous generation and synchronized multimodal generation across vision, physics, and sound through deeper Gemini integration. However, key performance metrics such as resolution, frame rate, and parameter count have not been disclosed.
A federal court approved a $1.5 billion settlement under which Anthropic will pay rights holders of roughly 500,000 books after downloading more than 7 million pirated copies for model training. Twenty-eight authors, including Stanford professor Tobias Wolff, opted out and filed a separate suit seeking up to $150,000 per work.
WDCD Run #400 (2026-10-28) recorded 0% average commitment decay across all 15 tested models, with GLM-4.6 topping the leaderboard at 96.2 points, followed by Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-o3.
You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.
GPT-5.5's code execution score in the Smoke evaluation fell from 100.00 to 75.00, pulling the main leaderboard down from 78.49 to 73.20. The drop appears to reflect question-sampling variance rather than a genuine capability regression, as other dimensions rose.
In today's Smoke evaluation, Grok 4's code execution score fell from 94.60 to 74.40, a 20.2-point drop, while material constraints rose from 45.00 to 75.00 and the main leaderboard score rose from 72.28 to 74.67. The opposite moves point more to question-draw volatility than systematic degradation.
The 2026-10-28 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with GPT-6 Luna taking first place for the day at 86.95 points. Because Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test, single-day results are best treated as short-term monitoring signals rather than final conclusions about model capability.
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
