Personal Assistants
Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats
Shapes is a new app that integrates AI characters into group chat experiences similar to Discord, allowing humans and...
TechCrunch AI
Other Companies
Ethics & Regulation
Taylor Swift deepfakes are pushing scams on TikTok
Scammers are using AI-generated deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Rihanna on TikTok to promote fraudulent...
The Verge AI
AI Agents
Humanoid Bots to Start Airport Pilot in Japan
Humanoid robots are beginning a pilot program at a Japanese airport as part of broader workplace trials of autonomous...
AI Business
Ethics & Regulation
China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu chaos
China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles following a Baidu robotaxi incident in Wuhan where dozens of...
The Verge AI
Research & Papers
The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing
MIT and IBM have launched a new computing research lab focused on the convergence of AI, algorithms, and quantum...
MIT News AI
AI Agents
I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
Eka has developed a robotic claw capable of performing various physical tasks like sorting chicken nuggets and screwing...
Wired AI
AI Agents
Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp
Scout AI, founded by Colby Adcock, has raised $100M to develop AI agents that enable individual soldiers to control...
TechCrunch AI
LLM
With Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, Nvidia reveals what really goes into a modern multimodal model
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model capable of processing text, image, video, and audio. The...
The Decoder
Healthcare AI
How AI Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance
At WIRED Health, surgeon Ara Darzi discussed how AI could transform the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant...
Wired AI
Research & Papers
smol-audio: A Colab-Friendly Notebook Collection for Fine-Tuning Whisper, Parakeet, Voxtral, Granite Speech, and Audio Flamingo 3
smol-audio is a collection of Google Colab-friendly notebooks designed for fine-tuning multiple audio AI models...
MarkTechPost
Coding Co-pilot
Poolside AI Introduces Laguna XS.2 and M.1: Agentic Coding Models Reaching 68.2% and 72.5% on SWE-bench Verified
Poolside AI has released Laguna XS.2 and M.1, open-weight agentic coding models designed for long-horizon tasks that...
MarkTechPost
Research & Papers
Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices
A new method enables privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices, making accurate and efficient AI models...
MIT News AI
Ethics & Regulation
Taylor Swift is stepping up the legal war on AI copycats
Taylor Swift is filing trademark applications to protect her voice and spoken phrases from AI imitation, marking an...
The Verge AI
Personal Assistants
Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
Amazon has launched a new 'Join the chat' feature on product pages that uses AI to answer customer questions with audio...
TechCrunch AI
LLM
Here is what an LLM that knows nothing after 1930 thinks our world looks like in 2026
A 13-parameter language model called 'Talkie' trained exclusively on texts from before 1931 generates predictions for...
The Decoder
Coding Co-pilot
IBM launches AI platform Bob to regulate SDLC costs
IBM launches Bob, an AI platform designed to manage software delivery costs and SDLC governance while controlling the...
AI News
Coding Co-pilot
Lovable launches its vibe-coding app on iOS and Android
Lovable has launched a vibe-coding app on iOS and Android that enables developers to code web apps and websites on...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Powers Enterprise AI Agents
The model expands the AI chip giant’s non-hardware offerings.
AI Business
Startups & Funding
BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables
Neurable, a BCI startup, is developing non-invasive neural data collection technology and seeking to license it for...
TechCrunch AI