OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
A TechCrunch report looks at OpenAI's push to develop AI agents intended for a wide range of users, moving beyond software engineers toward the general public.
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How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
An MIT Technology Review newsletter piece looks at how schools, caught off guard by chatbots, can foster smarter use of AI tools in the classroom.
Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.6 in Kiro, providing developers with improved price-performance for software planning, building, reviewing, and testing.
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
An MIT Technology Review piece considers how human children have long been uniquely able to learn a language fluently, and how AI systems have now joined them—though the reasons behind children's edge remain unexplained.
Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
Linkdaze's smart digital calendar aims to help run a household rather than just track appointments, offering features like an AI meal planner without a paywall.
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash
Surveillance company Flock Safety is facing rising public criticism over fears its technology could be misused, and its CEO has called for a compromise.
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
A look at the unresolved legal questions surrounding the use of copyrighted books to train AI models, and the concerns of authors whose work was used without consent.
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors
Harvard's HBS Foundry startup bootcamp, priced at $699, incorporates AI avatars of its instructors that provide feedback during practice pitches and simulated board meetings.
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at…
Inherent, a British AI lab founded by DeepMind alumni, has released Faraday, an AI agent it claims outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research papers.
OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill
OpenAI is calling on California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill it had previously opposed.
Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
A study reports that frontier AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising preparedness concerns as AI systems show unexpected behavior.
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic prohibits Claude from producing sexually explicit content, but TechCrunch tests reportedly bypassed that restriction without much difficulty.