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Supply chains detect fast, act slow: How AI agents fix it

Supply chain disruption cost businesses about $184 billion in 2025, according to the J.S. Held Global Risk Report, and most of that bill still buys faster detection, not faster action. That figure is usually treated as weather (i.e. storms happen, costs follow.) Treated as a product specification instead, it highlights an operating model that can […] The post Supply chains detect fast, act slow: How AI agents fix it appeared first on AI News.

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Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google

"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”

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Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

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Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

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OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

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Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and building businesses.

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Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

Samsung and EU Fund Co-Lead as Mistral Closes €3 Billion Series D to Set European Tech Funding Record—But Valuation Still 40x Behind US Rivals

Mistral AI has completed a €3 billion Series D, the largest single equity round for a European tech company, led by Samsung, EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, and PSG Equity. The round values Mistral at over €21 billion, but it remains about one-fortieth the valuation of US rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.

Anthropic's Head of Alignment Science: More Than 10% Chance AI Wipes Out Humanity in the Next Decade, and the Company Has No Solution

Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's head of alignment science, publicly stated that he believes there is more than a 10% chance AI will wipe out humanity in the next decade and that Anthropic still has no solution to superintelligence alignment. His remarks, responding to researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation, highlight the deepening contradiction inside AI labs as they race toward IPO while warning about existential risk.

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Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Code Execution Plummets 25 Points, Main Leaderboard Falls 7.2 Points

Gemini 2.5 Pro's code execution score dropped from 100.00 to 75.00 in today's Smoke evaluation, pulling the main leaderboard down from 88.75 to 81.53. The simultaneous decline in code execution and engineering judgment points more to small-sample question variance than to proven model regression.

Grok 4 Materials Constraint Plunges 22.2 Points, Main Leaderboard Slips 5.2

In today's Smoke evaluation, Grok 4's materials constraint score fell 22.2 points to 77.80, dragging its main leaderboard score down 5.2 points to 88.64. The swing most likely reflects small-sample question sampling variance rather than genuine model degradation.

Doubao Pro Tops with 95.28 Points: 2026-09-11 Smoke Quick-Test Data Brief

On 2026-09-11, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Doubao Pro ranking first that day at 95.28. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test intended to capture short-term signals, not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.

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India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

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Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

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Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

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AI agents are flooding public services with new requests

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.

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The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

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. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife,…

Google Threat Intelligence: Financially Motivated Attacker Uses AI Multi-Agent Framework to Complete Large-Scale Credential Theft in Under 6 Hours

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) documented a financially motivated attacker who used an AI coding assistant and a multi-agent framework to build and deploy a large-scale credential-stealing pipeline in under six hours with almost no human intervention. It is the first time GTIG has recorded, in actual Mandiant incident response data, an attacker using autonomous AI execution across an entire attack chain.

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This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing…