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Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents

Why I'm Short the AI Buildout Even Though I'm Long Computers

I Let AI Port an Xbox 360 Game to PC (and It Worked) [video]

AI and Humans: The Three-Speed Problem

The Power Grab of the AI Doomers

Show HN: AI Data Footprint Tracker – audit what your AI tools hold, offline

Show HN: Hycli – reverse-engineer websites into CLI and MCP tools for AI agents

NeuronDump: Open a local LLM as a 3D graph, cut parts, see what breaks

Reclaim disk space with an AI agent

People are using AI to 'dumb down' their smart TVs. Is that a good idea?

The Question After the Answer: AI prediction and human autonomy

AI-Powered Automatic Lockpick Machine [video]

OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache

AI didn't cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there's no recovery

AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says

"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."

The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more

The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, "If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or...

Google’s AI search changes upended online publishing

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more about AI's impact on the web, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers'...

Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI

BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage...

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether...

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access

OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment...

Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can...

From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch,...

Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android...

LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape

LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape (via Hugging Face Blog)

Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping

Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast...

Retro gaming is being overrun with AI

Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the past...

Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony AI and Nvidia

The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.

Kazakhstan Expands Compute for Its AI Future

Kazakhstan’s AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment. The shift is visible across the full AI stack — from infrastructure to models to applications. The announcements below —...

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up

Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up (via Hugging Face Blog)

Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox

Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox (via Hugging Face Blog)

OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

Designing an AI serving harness built to last

The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI...

The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.

OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up

OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

The Foundations of Scalable AI

A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future...

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from...

Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise

Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work

The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

NVIDIA Unveils Minerva to Bring End-to-End Observability for AI Factories

Launched today, NVIDIA Minerva is an AIOps platform built to help teams find problems earlier and keep AI factories productive. It brings together telemetry from infrastructure and AI workloads, then...

Cloud Deployment Incoming: ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’ Arrives on GeForce NOW

Lock in and load out this GFN Thursday. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, bringing a new campaign, multiplayer action and DMZ, high-stakes extraction mode to supported...

Making the case for context-aware AI

Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can...

Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA

The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.

AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind

Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage...

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models (via Hugging Face Blog)

Leading European Financial Services Organizations Embrace Open Models to Build Proprietary Intelligence

At GTC Berlin, banks, payment companies and financial data providers are showing what production-scale intelligence looks like — built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, powered by open weight models...

NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models

To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation...

How Companies Are Using NVIDIA DSX to Break the Power Bottleneck

Companies around the world are building on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform to plan, simulate and run the grid and the AI factory as one system, from the substation to the rack. Their adoption of...

NVIDIA Transforms European Retail, From Digital Discovery to Physical Operations

European retailers are using open models and physical intelligence across use cases — from a commerce platform cutting inference costs by 90% to to a fulfillment center where collaboration of...

Pioneers Across Europe Deploy NVIDIA Earth-2 Open Models to Power Real-World Weather and Climate Prediction

Weather forecasts shape more than daily plans; timely weather information is crucial for energy producers, insurers and transport operators to plan around changing conditions. A global forecast can...

NVIDIA Open Models Power a New Wave of European Public Sector Projects

Governments need modern solutions to serve the public while keeping sensitive information under their control. Open models provide a path forward, letting governments evaluate them, adapt them to...

Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot Measure

Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.

NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required

NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required (via Hugging Face Blog)

How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications

How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications (via Hugging Face Blog)

Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium.

Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium. (via Hugging Face Blog)

This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good

Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.

Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers

At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.

Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster

Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster (via Hugging Face Blog)

Bringing the Spark to Europe: Local Intelligence Powers Next Wave of Agents

At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA is showcasing its full lineup of local AI hardware. RTX Spark, which launched last week, powers personal agents on Windows PCs; DGX Spark supports developers building and...

Google Cloud and NVIDIA Announce General Availability of NVIDIA Vera Rubin Infrastructure

General availability of the instances is coming next month, with planned expansion of availability to Europe — bringing an integrated platform for training, inference and large-scale reinforcement...

NVIDIA Cloud Partners Scale Across Europe — Sovereign, Open and Built for Safe AI Agents

Demand from AI-natives is pulling the European AI cloud ecosystem forward faster than ever. Developers need compute closer to their data, open models they can customize and serve at scale, and...

Europe’s Industrial Leaders Reinvent Engineering and Manufacturing With NVIDIA

To increase productivity, accelerate innovation and create new opportunities for economic growth, Europe’s industrial leaders are tapping NVIDIA CUDA-X and Omniverse libraries, as well as NVIDIA...

NVIDIA cuDSS Now Generally Available to Accelerate Engineering and Scientific Simulations

NVIDIA cuDSS, launched today in general availability, is an NVIDIA CUDA-X library that shifts a critical part of engineering and scientific simulations onto GPUs. Complex engineering feats — from...

NVIDIA Confidential Computing Expands, Enabling Frontier Model Builders to Securely Scale Across Global Infrastructure

NVIDIA builds tools to enable safe agents across the stack. The NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture, announced today, is part of NVIDIA’s growing portfolio of technologies that enables...

Southeast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billion

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/e-Conomy_SEA_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Widespread AI adoption is propelling Southeast Asia's digital economy to a...

Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively

Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively (via Hugging Face Blog)

AnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms

AnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms (via Hugging Face Blog)

MPS in PyTorch 2.15

MPS in PyTorch 2.15 (via Hugging Face Blog)

TorchNeuron: running HF models on AWS Trainium is easier than ever

TorchNeuron: running HF models on AWS Trainium is easier than ever (via Hugging Face Blog)

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites

The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.

Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale

Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale (via Hugging Face Blog)

Apertus 1.5 Release Notes

Apertus 1.5 Release Notes (via Hugging Face Blog)

Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta

Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta (via Hugging Face Blog)

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.

Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini-4-argon__blog-header__27.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers...

Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/THUMBNAIL_BLOG.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and...

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents

Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.

The latest AI news we announced in September 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/September_AI_Recap_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026

Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/futurevisionxprize_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.

Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Google_Beam_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with...

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI__Economy_team_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic...

Co-creating the future of fashion with Google

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Blog_Header_V2.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to...

Making global data easier to explore

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/data-commons.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open...

AI for Societal Impact

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/Health_Header.gif">Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure...

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/SocialShare_hD2gcAw.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives...

AI for everyone in every language

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_languages_blog_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that...

New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/ATLAS-hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’ve translated ATLAS’s millions of global data points into an interactive,...

Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Dialogues_Christina-Koch_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior...

DevFest is back

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/DevFest.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800...