Anthropic is launching Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new generation. The company says it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing about 40 percent less to run than Opus 5....
Toyota workers are already helping to train humanoid robots as part of the automaker’s race to eventually deploy 400,000 factory robots—but a Toyota executive said the robotic push is not meant to...
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will...
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday , Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with...
In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, "globalists," and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now "officially" renaming artificial...
OpenAI wants international standards for recursive self-improvement, where AI systems independently build the next generation of AI. Without safeguards, humans could lose control over this process....
Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register before September 25 to...
Global technology company Xiaomi Corp. today announced the release and open-sourcing of its MiMo-V2.6 series generative artificial intelligence models today, which includes two natively omnimodal...
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The Biological Computing Co. wants to team up with AWS to sell a text-to-video model that's supposed to run five times faster and 80 percent cheaper thanks to a software layer derived from real nerve...
The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save...
There's always a danger in over-complicating products. Simple is so often best. The apocryphal story of NASA spending millions crafting a space pen while Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil is often...
Teradata Corp. is expanding its Tera artificial intelligence assistant with a context engine and execution system designed to help agents carry out data tasks across enterprise systems. Tera is an...
Business identity and risk infrastructure startup Baselayer is shifting its attention to artificial intelligence agents after raising $35 million in early-stage funding today. Alongside the Series A...
Heidi Health Trading Pty Ltd., a healthcare artificial intelligence startup, today announced it has raised a total of $340 million in new funding to support the company’s next phase of growth and...
Professional services automation software company Kantata Inc. today unveiled Agent Studio, a tool that lets services firms build custom artificial intelligence agents by describing the job they want...
The zero-day exploit required local access to the user’s device, but gave potential attackers access to Muse accounts. | Image: The Verge Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the...