Music startup Thoughtful Things has launched a Kickstarter for Engram, a sampler and groovebox that runs a local, custom-trained AI model to distort audio and hallucinate new experimental sounds.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to have dinner with President Donald Trump, their first one-on-one meeting.
A security researcher says OpenAI agents scanned a UNCTAD statistics site more than 16,000 times between April and June, apparently while attempting to retrieve public data without direct API access.
Google is running a limited test that lets users buy from Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India, covering select products and users ahead of a wider October rollout.
A TechCrunch AI writer created an interactive digital avatar of themselves and trained it to discuss venture fraud, reflecting on the trade-offs of AI clones.
Meta highlighted its growing line of smart glasses at its Connect event, positioning the wearables as a way to keep consumers connected to the digital world.
Crusoe has abandoned a $1.25 billion plan to use Boom turbines for its AI data centers, with Boom Supersonic's CEO saying the plants are no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted 53 user images to public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
Meta has launched an early access program for new features of Muse, inviting users to request participation.
Proaction says it used OpenAI's Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra to build and sell fleet management tools, boosting sales 60% and saving 75+ hours.
After users discovered Muse would reveal its filesystem, Meta officials said the exposure is intended behavior and a deliberate design choice.
AWS presents an architecture combining Amazon EKS, EFA, and S3 to scale Mixture-of-Experts reinforcement learning, reporting a 40% increase in aggregate rollout throughput for RLHF and GRPO training.