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Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
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TechCrunch ·Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
TechCrunch ·Etzioni on AI: Where I agree with AI ‘doomer’ Max Tegmark, and where I think he’s wrong
Oren Etzioni and MIT professor Max Tegmark debated AI risks in a New York Post video, splitting over whether this summer's OpenAI sandbox breakout was rogue AI or human error. They agreed that corporate self-regulation won't work and that…
GeekWire ·These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Voice AI often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break.
TechCrunch ·Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
TechCrunch ·Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
TechCrunch ·White House vs. Microsoft, AI fighter jets, and a visit to a startup founder’s Seattle recording studio
We recorded this week’s GeekWire Podcast at Front Burner Studios near Pike Place Market with co-owner Seth Paul, CEO of security startup Qinsay. We discussed Shield AI’s AI-piloted fighter jets, the White House crackdown on Microsoft, and…
GeekWire ·3 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Meet the startups before they hit mainstream
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 in San Francisco. Over 300 startups will show what they’ve built to 10,000 tech leaders. Plus, 250+ speakers are ready to share insights across 200+ sessions. Register before doors open to…
TechCrunch ·Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents — it’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
The incidents involved AI agents tasked to solve problems seeking resources on the internet. In the process, they exploited software flaws, accessed databases without paying fees, used URL-shortening services to smuggle information past…
TechCrunch ·El-Sayed talks corporate money, healthcare, artificial intelligence at Lansing town hall
Corporate influence in politics and its ripple effects on issues ranging from data centers to healthcare, was the focus of a town hall Friday in downtown Lansing hosted by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who was joined by…
Michigan Advance ·The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
TechCrunch ·OPM launches beta AI chatbot for federal workforce data
The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned. The post OPM launches beta AI chatbot for federal workforce data…
FedScoop ·An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
TechCrunch ·The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Energy Top A Busy Lineup Of Large Rounds
As the AI startup boom progresses, investors appear to be leaving few niches unfunded. That was apparent in this week’s lineup of large funding rounds, which featured AI infrastructure providers, a foundational model developer, a content…
Crunchbase News ·Georgia launches chatbot to help residents navigate state services
Georgia’s latest digital government initiative aims to reduce call center demand and help residents more easily find official information.
StateScoop ·Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition…
TechCrunch ·Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition…
TechCrunch ·Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to…
NVIDIA ·Why Customer Workflows Are Becoming The Moat In The AI Era
AI companies can build durable moats by embedding their products in essential customer workflows, explains tech adviser Itay Sagie, who shares why founders should prioritize measurable customer dependence, while investors and acquirers…
Crunchbase News ·We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience.…
MIT Technology Review ·Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It…
MIT Technology Review ·Album's Evolving Venture Strategy as AI, Reindustrialization Reshape Startup Investing
Album partners Sid Krommenhoek, Cash Allred, and Ty Boswell discuss adapting early-stage venture capital to AI disruption, capital-intensive markets, and reindustrialization while maintaining an unwavering, founder-first investment…
TechBuzz News ·Tech sector pours $2.4B in AI tools, compute credits for Genesis Mission Consortium
Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, among others, are investing resources into the collaborative hub that will work toward identified challenges. The post Tech sector pours $2.4B in AI tools, compute credits for Genesis Mission…
FedScoop ·Dallas’ Southwest Airlines Launches ChatGPT Plugin to Help Customers Find Flights
Dallas Innovates, Every Day: Here's what's new + next in North Texas. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines said it just became the first U.S. airline to incorporate flight-shopping capabilities directly into ChatGPT, one of the world’s most…
Dallas Innovates ·Ohio college students gain real-world AI research experience through summer AIRE program
An NSF-funded nine-week AI research program placed students from Sinclair, Tri-C, Ohio State and Northwest State on projects with CWRU, Ohio State, UC and OSC mentors.
Ohio Supercomputer Center ·A construction ban on data centers would be better for Ohio than the status quo, study says
A Scioto Analysis cost-benefit study ranked a mostly-renewable power requirement first and a construction ban second for new Ohio data centers, with current policy barely breaking even.
Ohio Capital Journal ·The zero-trust controls federal agencies need for autonomous AI
Three controls should anchor agencies’ approaches to ensuring boundaries for what AI agents can do. The post The zero-trust controls federal agencies need for autonomous AI appeared first on FedScoop .
FedScoop ·As Trump pushes to deregulate AI, Missouri must weigh innovation, risks and cost
For most people, the AI debate began with tools such as ChatGPT and questions about jobs, academic integrity, misinformation, and privacy. But AI is increasingly becoming a physical presence as well, through massive data centers, new…
Missouri Independent ·AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white…
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