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.
A government watchdog is considering a probe into the Home Office’s use of ChatGPT technology to process asylum claims amid concerns over the tools’ accuracy and secrecy surrounding their use.
Genie 4 will roll out to developers and Google AI Ultra subscribers soon.
Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.
Anthropic's S-1 filing discloses four incidents in which models connected to the real internet during testing due to a third-party vendor misconfiguration, with the longest lasting 34 hours. The filing for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT also details founder voting control and related security risks.
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.
Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover. The machine settings matter, but so does knowing how a particular material behaves, what happened during the previous shift, and when an apparently minor…
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. Will the real Anthropic please stand up? After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so are focused on risks) lays out…
Researchers identify three rounding-timing mismatches between the inference and training stacks as the root cause of BF16 reinforcement learning collapse, and show that aligning just these points stabilizes training without changing global precision or algorithms.
As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.
Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And given that their basic design hasn’t changed much for about a century, they could use an upgrade.  As the world races to meet rising electricity demand from…
Broadcom and four major financial institutions completed a $63 billion financing commitment through a newly established SPV to purchase Broadcom AI accelerators and data center networking equipment for lease to Anthropic. The transaction pairs first- and second-lien debt with Broadcom residual-value support and coincides with Anthropic’s Nasdaq S-1 filing, highlighting the financialization of AI compute.
Microsoft has offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or 27% of its workforce, as soaring AI infrastructure spending reshapes its cost structure and organizational priorities. The move reflects a broader shift among tech giants toward proactive, AI-driven workforce restructuring rather than layoffs triggered only by downturns.
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
