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Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solved dozens of open math problems and actually got peer reviewed
Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solved dozens of open math problems, including nine Erdős problems two of which were unsolved for 56 years, per a study in Science. The publication comes as OpenAI...
The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests
In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-like canopies of mature growth. Forest...
BotMan AI uses knowledge graphs for legacy modernization
Legacy modernization requires understanding how an application’s code, data and business rules fit together before rebuilding it. BotMan AI uses an AI-powered migration pipeline that maps an...
Nvidia reportedly in early talks to buy, acquihire or invest more in Reflection AI
Nvidia Corp. is in early talks to acquire open-weight model developer Reflection AI Inc. or invest more in the startup, according to the Financial Times. People familiar with the matter told the...
Why AI agents might not be right for you
There’s no question that 2026 is the year of the artificial intelligence agent. AI agents are remarkably ubiquitous, as people use them to write code, communicate with customers, identify and resolve...
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.
Flahy uses knowledge graphs to support AI-powered healthcare
AI is helping companies interpret biological data for drug discovery and more personalized care. Healthcare technology company Flahy Inc. is applying that approach to clinical decision support,...
AI agent teams waste massive tokens for barely measurable quality gains, research finds
Teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents but cost up to 5.1x more, according to Vals AI. Only one out of four tests with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 showed a measurable gain. Anthropic's...
AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds
Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking....
Agentic workloads break assumptions about software testing. Here’s how to cope
Most traditional enterprise systems were built around three assumptions: Jobs finish quickly, retrying one is free and the same input always produces the same output. Agentic workloads break all...
I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
Cheaper AI tokens are driving more demand, and that's Jensen Huang's best-case scenario
Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop. If that demand...
ArXiv caps submissions at two per month as AI paper flood overwhelms the preprint server
Starting October 2026, arXiv will cap submissions at two per person per month. Monthly submissions have doubled in two years, and in the cs.AI category they've grown more than sixfold. According to...
Microsoft's Nadella bows to Trump's language diktat on "Super Intelligence" and uses it to attack OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now calls artificial intelligence "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence, falling in line with Trump's preferred language. In his latest blog post, he...
Odyssey-3 is a new generative world model that you can try for free
Odyssey is making its world model Odyssey-3 available as a public research preview. The 14-billion-parameter model generates interactive environments from text prompts in real time and can reportedly...
What to expect during the AI Data Pipeline Forum: Join theCUBE Oct. 13
The artificial intelligence infrastructure race is no longer just about building faster chips. AI infrastructure bottlenecks are shifting attention to a bigger challenge: keeping those chips supplied...
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.
AI reshapes professional services around trust and business outcomes
Professional services firms are rethinking how they deliver client value as artificial intelligence takes on more routine work, shifting attention toward human judgment, trusted outcomes and new...
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?
The AI control gap: Who gets to say ‘It’s safe’?
We see a control gap between what artificial intelligence can do and what the evidence supports trusting it to do. A great demo doesn’t prove that a system will stay within the limits of an intended...
OpenAI says a misaligned model deliberately destroyed its own environment hoping for a fresh start with better data
OpenAI has documented new cases of misaligned model behavior. One evaluation model fabricated data and sabotaged its own environment. Other models deliberately bypassed network restrictions by...
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+...
Microsoft's Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race
With Decision-1, Microsoft enters the growing decision model space. Built on Qwen3.5-9B and optimized for fast classification and routing, it hits 83.5 percent accuracy with 85 ms latency across 36...
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
"How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their field
OpenAI published more than 700 AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to open math problems. A math blog then collected over 100 responses from researchers, ranging from fascination with new...
Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
IBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange
Enterprise AI orchestration must account for agents working across the data, applications and infrastructure businesses already use. As organizations move beyond experiments, running those systems...
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.
Jev creator TypeSafe closes $870M round at $7.5B valuation
TypeSafe Inc., the creator of the Jev artificial intelligence model, today announced that it has raised $870 million in funding at a $7.5 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with...
Seismora builds a control plane to route AI workloads across devices and clouds
A control plane for distributed AI could help applications decide which tasks to run on a device, at the edge or in the cloud. Seismora Inc. is developing networking technology to coordinate AI...
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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...
McKinsey connects enterprise data through a knowledge graph for AI
The knowledge graph can give enterprise AI applications context by connecting data with the business relationships needed to support decisions. Knowledge graphs can connect enterprise data with the...
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...
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...
Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
a16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI
Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.
OpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards
I’m not going to call the bursting of artificial intelligence bubble yet, not with all that money still pouring into every hardware and software company with AI in their pitch decks. But we got a...
18 insights from SailPoint’s Navigate event: Enterprises race to bring identity security for AI agents up to machine speed
AI agents have made identity the front line of enterprise security. Agents now number in the thousands. They pick up access nobody meant to give them, and when they’re blocked partway through a task,...
Active Investors Kept Up The Deal Pace In Q3, Even As Funding Fell
Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders.
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...
Job titles of the future: Delivery drone air traffic controller
The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and sushi around his Texas neighborhood, his mind was made up. “It was super fascinating,” he says. “I just immediately wanted to...
CoreWeave targets AI inference bottlenecks with full-stack optimization
AI inference is fast becoming the workload that decides the economics of the AI boom. Training built the first wave of GPU clouds, but serving models faster and cheaper will define the next. That...
AI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is much lower than believed
Technology stocks fell lower today following a report that artificial intelligence giant OpenAI Group PBC’s annualized revenue this year is about $20 billion less than what was previously reported by...
Gallatin AI raises $50M in funding for its military logistics platform
Gallatin AI Inc., a developer of military logistics software, today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding. The Series A round included contributions from 8VC, Silent Ventures and...
Alphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs reportedly raising funding at up to $50B valuation
Isomorphic Labs Ltd., an Alphabet Inc. spinoff working to accelerate drug discovery, is said to be raising a new funding round. The Bloomberg report that revealed the discussions today didn’t specify...
CoreWeave Forge aims to speed up the AI improvement loop
Enterprises racing to put agents into production are learning that the AI improvement loop never really ends. Agents must be run, observed, evaluated and improved continuously. CoreWeave Inc. has...
Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
AI agent developer Manus raises $500M+ at reported $4B valuation
Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than $500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It said the private equity firm Boyu...
CoreWeave makes the case for an open, full-stack AI cloud
The full-stack AI cloud market is about more than access to graphics processing units: it also encompasses the tools needed to improve models and agents in production. Providers are seeking to...
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