• 9 minutes 26 seconds
    Anthropic pitches AI safety bill; plus, Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate

    The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.

    Also, before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.

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    21 October 2026, 7:00 am
  • 6 minutes 9 seconds
    People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

    A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more.

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    20 October 2026, 7:00 am
  • 5 minutes 59 seconds
    Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’; plus Anthropic is committing to a ‘public benefit fund’

    "You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.

    Also, Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

    And the filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them.

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    19 October 2026, 7:00 am
  • 6 minutes 55 seconds
    Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access; plus, AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars

    METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

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    16 October 2026, 7:00 am
  • 10 minutes 30 seconds
    Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different; plus, Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads

    Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.

    Also, Flock's CEO's comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.

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    15 October 2026, 12:45 pm
  • 8 minutes 7 seconds
    Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home; plus, Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient

    Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.

    Also, Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).

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    14 October 2026, 7:00 am
  • 6 minutes 13 seconds
    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.

    Also, in a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.

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    12 October 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 7 minutes 31 seconds
    Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

    Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.

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    9 October 2026, 3:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 45 seconds
    India rejects Elon Musk’s claim of discrimination over Starlink launch; plus, ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises

    Starlink is still awaiting security clearance before it can seek spectrum and begin commercial services in India.

    Also, ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.

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    8 October 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 6 minutes
    How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’; plus, how AI decision models could change content moderation

    A Threads user wrote: "I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.

    Also, on Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.

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    7 October 2026, 11:30 am
  • 7 minutes 21 seconds
    OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU; plus, Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years

    OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

    Also, the company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.

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    6 October 2026, 11:15 am
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