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Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents

Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and red…

3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, inve…

Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

We now have the full details of the "morally binding" AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed…

Airbnb adds AI search, more social features

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations.

“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company…

Perplexity Introduces Photon: A Rust-Based Retrieval Engine That Cuts p99 Latency From 800 ms to 65 ms

Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had f…

NVIDIA Researchers Introduce Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Physical Language That Lifts Cosmos 3 Past Veo 3.1 on Physics Benchmarks

Video world models can render convincing clips that still break physics. Butter spreads like paint. Balls pass through walls. A team from NV…

One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise

RSA launched Agent ID at The AI Conference in San Francisco. It's an agentic identity security platform for finance, government, healthcare,…

While agents cause trouble, calls for AI regulation mount from Anthropic, lawmakers

It seems nearly everyone is calling for regulation. Chief among them is Anthropic, whose AI agents are also key troublemakers.

Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises…

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetr…

Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’

The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, poli…

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirec…

Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again

Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In Augus…

Liquid AI Releases d1: A Decision Model That Returns Calibrated Probabilities With Zero Output Tokens

Liquid AI has released d1, a decision model built for structured choices instead of text generation. You give it context and a set of typed…

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be d…

OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents

OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.