The MLCommons Financial Services Working Group's Agent Reliability Profile has been selected as a finalist in C:>DIR's global “Agentic Regulator” Hackathon. The framework aims to help close the authorization and oversight gap for AI agents in financial services.
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to […]
Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.
The 2026-09-29 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 tied for first place that day at 80.2. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to spotting short-term signals, and its results are not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today’s announcement, the judging panel is nearly complete. In just a couple of weeks, 200 carefully selected startups will gather at […]
After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it's now one of the companies competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026. Register to join and get 50% off a second pass.
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. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.
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Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
SpaceXAI has become a partner of NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform, which will be used for safety controls on Cursor agents and the Grok model. The platform combines Nvidia OpenShell software with the Nvidia Sentry hardware layer to keep AI agents within defined boundaries.
Instinct, the personal AI assistant operated by Spear Street Technology, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion, with Sequoia Capital and Benchmark expected to lead. The company previously raised $250 million in August at a $2.25 billion valuation; its user base has surpassed 100,000, though the service occasionally experiences response delays due to compute constraints.
