Recent AI news and official updates

TechCrunch AI published: AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

MIT News AI published: A faculty member since 1999, Autor is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and the work of the future.

TechCrunch AI published: Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a […]

MIT News AI published: To help robots do chores in places like homes and factories, a new approach from MIT uses one language model to clarify users’ instructions, then another to ignore irrelevant info.

MIT Technology Review published: This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why. —Jessica Hamzelou It’s been hot in London this week. Really hot. A dangerous heat wave has hit Western…

TechCrunch AI published: OpenAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of with the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

Simon Willison's AI Notes published: AI and Liability Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If a company hired human writers to write its summaries, that company would be liable for inaccuracies in those summaries. [...] To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI in those same circumstances would be a massive handout to companies, and would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior. Why hire human writers, lawyers or doctors when AIs are not only cheaper, but also absolve employers whenever they make a mistake? Tags: bruce-schneier , google , law , ai , generative-ai , llms , ai-ethics , hallucinations

TechCrunch AI published: Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

TechCrunch AI published: Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

TechCrunch AI published: General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

TechCrunch AI published: Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

TechCrunch AI published: General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

TechCrunch AI published: Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

MIT Technology Review published: Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in search results, how inventory moves through supply chains, how engineers ship code faster, and…

TechCrunch AI published: Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.

MIT News AI published: A new system, known as Murakkab, optimizes the design and deployment of multistep workflows that power AI applications.

TechCrunch AI published: In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.

TechCrunch AI published: While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.

TechCrunch AI published: Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.

TechCrunch AI published: The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.