Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
On September 8, 2026, the NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly issued a cybersecurity advisory accusing six Chinese AI companies of systematically extracting capabilities from US frontier AI models through large-scale knowledge distillation. The move reframes a commercial contract dispute within a national security framework, raising fundamental questions about how a legitimate technique became a geopolitical flashpoint.
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
In today's Smoke evaluation, GPT-o3's code execution score fell from yesterday's 94.50 to 69.80, a 24.7-point drop, and the main leaderboard overall declined from 86.04 to 78.13, down 7.9 points. The anomaly is most likely due to question-sampling variance rather than genuine model degradation, though code-intensive users should stay vigilant.
GPT-5.5's code execution score dropped from 94.50 to 72.00 in today's Smoke evaluation, a fall of 22.5 points, while its material constraint score jumped from 71.40 to 100.00, a gain of 28.6 points. The main leaderboard score only edged up from 84.11 to 84.60.
In the 2026-09-10 YZ Index Smoke quick test covering 10 models, Gemini 3.1 Pro ranked first with a main-leaderboard score of 98.35. The daily 10-question Smoke test is suited to observing short-term signals and is not equivalent to the conclusions of the Full weekly leaderboard.
Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant.
"We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do?  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by 
