AI Pulse
The latest on AI from across the internet.
- Bank of America just put the first number on what defending against AI costs a bank 🤖💸; OpenAI’s London staff cost £2.3M each 😳🇬🇧; Citi joins JPMorgan in blocking AI Agents 🤖🏦
- 9 tips for future-proofing your IT leadership career
- US teens can access ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds
- Edge AI for Smart Cities: From Insight to Cognitive Action
- True data sovereignty isn’t where it’s kept, but who has access to it
- Nobody brags about lines of code twice
- EmbeddingGemma 2 Expands Beyond Text to Support Code, Images, Video, and Audio
- Do You Trust Apple?
- Idealab’s Bill Gross is building infrastructure for AI-assisted startups
- AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
- Disney Asked Character.AI to Go Bankrupt for a Get-Out-of-Lawsuits Card
- The agents nobody meant to build
- The password nobody owns: Taking machines to zero standing privilege (ZSP)
- From pilots to production: The four disciplines that make generative AI work
- Are clearinghouses the answer to the AI hacking threat?
- Hands-on with Antigravity 2: No IDE, just agent chat
- 9 rising malware trends every security pro should know
- Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics
- AI prototypes developed in civil service hackathon
- Salford goes live with unified children's records system
- National supercomputing centre makes quantum algorithm breakthrough
- First chief innovation, technology and digital officer for Westmorland and Furness
- Taming your browser’s 100+ open tabs is the easy way to speed up your PC
- Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warns
- Closing the women’s health gap: Switzerland’s CHF 7 billion opportunity
- The hidden opportunity in the next $2 trillion of US–Latin America trade
- Apple's robotic arm 🤖, datacenter debt crisis 📉, people behind software 👨💻
- No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market
- Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
- Ramp is building the operating system for AI-native companies 📲🤖; Revolut is developing its own Meta Muse & Grok Bot, betting that owning the card beats owning the model 🤖💳
- Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’
- "These f****** clowns"
- Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
- Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
- TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act
- Microsoft warns over “active supply chain attack” as ConnectWise 0Auth app compromised
- Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile
- ‘Not our friends’: Victorian Coalition warns Advance’s ‘bizarre’ AI campaign may cost it majority government
- What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?
- Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns
- World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries | Heather Stewart
- Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip
- OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty
- World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries
- What happens when people have to jump in to clean up AI’s mess?
- This quick test will tell you if your home Wi-Fi is to blame for laggy internet
- AI’s biggest breakthrough isn’t chatbots—it’s the eureka moment
- Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world
- 🔮 A world of many minds & the future of work
- Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
- TikTok permanently bans ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account
- Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings
- Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6 - podcast
- Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says
- Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better
- Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI
- Runtime: Datadog bets on a custom SRE model
- Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California
- Plug-in solar is legal in these 10 states now – how it could save you money
- eMMC vs SSD: Key Differences, Performance, and Uses
- The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures – as is the fear of ‘falling behind the public’
- Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
- Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my byline
- Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players
- Madeline Horwath on AI food advertising – cartoon
- ‘Countries are defying gravity’: how much longer can global economy resist chaos?
- Why companies may be liable for AI errors
- Don’t use Kindle to find your next great read—use this free app instead
- Yes, you should be backing up your iPhone every day. Here’s how
- Why AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes
- Reverse Engineer Anything Project Brings AI Agents to Binary Analysis
- Amazon Acquires DuckLabs and Integrates DuckDB in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
- Apple’s HomeView has a Google problem
- Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept
- Decluttering your online life: how to get your digital house in order and protect your data from AI
- Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
- OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
- “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
- States sue OpenAI over allegedly hurting children and deceiving adults
- Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds
- US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"
- Porsche’s electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis
- Have a Meta business account? You’re consenting to AI scraping now, legal experts say
- Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
- Google EnvHarness Enables Self-Evolving Agents to Learn in Dynamics Environments
- Why a Toronto Business Is Missing From Google: A Technical Diagnostic Workflow
- Personal Health Data Has a Missing-Entries Problem
- What Professional Traders Look for Before Choosing a Raw Account
- Competitive Intelligence in the AI Era: Improving Workflows with Advanced Integrations
- Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
- Review trust scores in 2026: the data behind the number
- India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
- 2026.42: Home At Last
- What to know about the Starshield restrictions that rattled Ukraine’s forces
- Hallucinated domain in official OpenAI skill underscores AI supply chain risks
- Munich dumps proprietary for open source (again) – but no Linux desktop
- Anthropic gives third-party auditors ’employee-like access’ in AI industry first
- RFK Jr. proposes FDA look the other way on unproven peptides, report says
- Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design
- Want an iPhone Duo before 2027? Don’t preorder from Apple – try this instead
- An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet
- Waymo’s robotaxis are headed to Canada
- AI datacenter capex will far exceed forecast revenue through 2030
- Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them
- In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes meets her equal in comedian Nathan Fielder
- Tressfecta wants to make hair braiding a less arduous task for hairstylists
- Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation
- Does IDC’s 75% Specialized Cloud Prediction Hold?
- Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
- Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever
- Pixel 11 Rambler AI Voice Typing: How It Rewrites Speech
- Xbow spent $40K on AI and cracked Google Chrome wide open
- iOS 27 AI Shortcuts: What Changed and 5 Useful Things to Try
- Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
- As AI changes everything, technical support providers try to steer a course
- Top 10 Human-in-the-Loop Companies for Multimodal AI
- Nvidia Launches Three Nemotron AI Models, Including Two for Local AI Agents
- Meta and Apple agree on at least one thing: Open-weight AI is cool
- Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film ‘the right way’ and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy
- Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
- AI in Production: Panellists Highlight Silent Failures, Harness Engineering, and Agent Governance
- Meta Unveils Muse Spark Open, Its Most Powerful Open-Weight AI Yet
- Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
- Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
- Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles
- Why “Lights Out” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Physical AI
- Security firm Proofpoint acquires Varonis for $6.3bn
- Bank of America spent millions on anti-money-laundering tech, but not enough to avoid a $1.2B fine
- Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’
- Bank of America spent millions on anti-money-laundering tech, but not enough to avoid a $1.2B fine
- AI’s memory chip crunch is crushing the smartphone market
- HMRC signs £2.4bn CRM contract with Salesforce
- Vietnam’s FPT Adds AI Skills Test for New Hires, but Key Details Remain Unclear
- Why Hire Odoo Developers to Streamline ERP Workflows and Architecture
- Educational Data Mining and Psychometric Telemetry: Optimizing STEM Mock Assessment Scores with Item Response Theory
- The Most Consequential Move a New CEO Can Make
- Turn Vibe-Coded Prototypes Into Tools Your Company Can Actually Use
- The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
- Grafana Applies SLOs and Error Budgets to AI Agent Behaviour
- Change saturation is not a communication problem
- How many jobs is your state losing to AI? This dashboard tracks the cuts – and the cost
- Linux kernel gets a fix for a flaw that enabled attackers to escape VMs
- Amazon’s $75 Bee Frontier Includes Free AI Notes — Here’s What $11.99 a Month Adds
- All I want for Christmas is AI (apparently)
- Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
- Google Research’s chief on why scientific AI is so underappreciated
- AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content
- AI won’t kill jobs. Bad team design will
- Code Review After Code Gets Cheap
- AWS Introduces Strands Decider 2B and Strands Box for AI Agent Development
- BeyondTrust zero-day tied to Chinese spies puts Remote Support users on alert
- IT leaders still on the hunt for VMware alternatives
- Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
- Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
- The agent-to-agent economy is closer than you think
- IT jobs report: Employers consider AI risks and ethics
- Why Document AI Stalls at the Data Layer, Not the Model
- TSMC tamps down expectations despite another record quarter
- “They should be afraid.” The tech elite vs the first billionaire wealth tax
- Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says AI agents will make better products win 🚀
- This startup wants to make clean energy the default for data centers
- Before you ask what an AI agent can do, ask who it is
- Pop the champagne, Python 3.15 is here!
- The $690 billion cloud spending spree
- Cyberattack AIs must be trained only on air-gapped systems, hundreds of AI researchers say
- Cyberattack AIs must be trained only on air-gapped systems, hundreds of AI researchers say
- Malware evasion made easier with AI — but behavior still gives it away
- AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau
- CMA to decide Microsoft strategic market status by February 2027
- Microsoft Commits Maia to Multi-Gigawatt Inference, and Its Efficiency Metric Draws Questions
- Improved cyber attack recovery in schools finds Ofqual
- How comms role leads to digital delivery
- DWP tech competition to help disabled back into work
- Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals
- Wales gets clearer GDPR framework
- From Factory Data to Trusted Action: Putting Agentic AI to Work in Manufacturing
- Tesla reveals SpaceX-powered Roadster that flies and falls with style
- No click required: How the ad industry became a pipeline for mercenary spyware
- Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new ‘open-weight’ AI model
- TypeSafe’s Jev ‘even more susceptible to attack’ than LLMs, says security vendor
- TypeSafe’s Jev ‘even more susceptible to attack’ than LLMs, says security vendor
- Tesla Roadster 🚗, Muse Spark Open ✨, internal vibe coding 👨💻
- What is a forward-deployed engineer?
- Getting real about AI: How AI agents are changing the economics of software engineering
- When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
- And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems
- KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
- Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
- We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView
- Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
- AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For
- State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behind
- AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate
- Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the importance of failure and bouncing back from it
- Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
- How to Recover Permanently Deleted Files on Windows 11/10 Without Backup
- Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
- Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
- Epic Games Releases Redesigned Launcher for Windows, Mac and Linux
- SpaceXSI Launches Grok Voice 3.0 for AI Customer Support
- Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps
- Apple Intelligence Gets China Approval: Siri AI Left Out
- Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the network
- 10 Pricing Strategies to Deal with Persistent Inflation
- Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
- A human in the loop is a security bottleneck. But in an AI world, it’s needed
- What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
- Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more
- Brett Arsta on Seeing the Entire Mortgage Business: Why Cross-Functional Experience Changes Executive Decision-Making
- Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time
- What happens when your employees’ AI agents start coming to work? (Spoiler: It’s bad)
- Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
- Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution
- Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends October 16
- CEO Guillermo Rauch: 60% of activity on Vercel now driven by coding agents
- Nvidia Run Is Now Open Source: What’s Free and Paid
- Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia for hands-free automated driving
- Florida can now enforce a ban on social media accounts for kids
- Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites
- YouTube Music Rolls Out Labels for AI-Generated Songs
- Tell us: have you used AI to help with online dating?
- SK Hynix bargains for chip equipment exports to its China facility in return for building a factory in US
- 🚨 Anthropic: The agony and the ecstasy
- Renting? These 2 new Apple smart home devices are worth your money (and these 5 are not)
- Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook is days away – with another OLED surprise
- Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity
- Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar
- Why Silicon Valley’s AI super PACs aren’t talking about AI
- Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
- Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling.
- Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas
- AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars
- Microsoft Maia 300 vs Nvidia Rubin: Specs, Not Benchmarks
- Nvidia’s new Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is another step forward for US open-weight AI
- Runtime: It's time to rethink data platforms for agents
- MoD’s new SIEM, analytics platform up and running
- Ramp reaches $60B valuation as it pushes deeper into AI
- Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US
- ServiceNow makes it easier to build AI agents, gives them verifiable identities
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Last day
- UK data watchdog warns Met Police over shadow IT data breach
- EU Questions OpenAI, Anthropic Over AI Agent Security Incidents
- ServiceNow makes it easier to build AI agents, gives them verifiable identities
- Robot allegedly commits sexual assault on teen as German police confront ‘new territory’
- Google’s new Universal Cart tracks prices on items you want now – plus 3 other tricks
- MacPaw Launches Eney AI Assistant for Mac and iPhone: Price and Features
- Cisco warns of actively exploited Secure Email Gateway flaw
- Team Dynamics Weaken When Employees Turn to AI instead of Colleagues
- Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75
- Attackers exploit Palo Alto PAN-OS flaw for root access as CISA orders three-day fix
- Ransomware extortion gets personal as attackers target employees’ families
- CISA adds 9.8-rated Cisco CVE to KEV straight after disclosure
- Google aims to make BigQuery spending on AI functions more predictable with token quotas
- Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work - video
- European AI Stack: Will AI Live in the Public Cloud Alone?
- What a cockatoo can teach us about the evidence AI wasn’t built to hear
- How the Minnesota Twins kept fans safe during a recent nearby shooting
- Agentic Code Quality
- Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt
- How to Recover Deleted Files from Recycle Bin After Emptying It
- A tweet called out CoreWeave's debt, then its stock dropped 15%
- He helped build Meta’s smart-glasses technology. Now he wants to take on Big Tech’s grip on personal AI
- Facebook Adds AI Controls to Customize Feed and Reels
- How to make sense of the agentic AI tools ecosystem
- Token efficiency: Building AI that spends intelligence wisely
- Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with ‘zero-click’ spyware
- A Conversation With Ari Emanuel About Entertainment and AI
- Google and Singapore Develop AI Scam Detector That Works Entirely on Your Phone
- Starling Bank’s Sovereign AI still depends on Google and NVIDIA 🤖🇬🇧; Ramp is building the operating system for AI-native companies 📲🤖
- IT reinvention requires mastering the art of translation
- When an agent acts, who is accountable?
- Building Fabric Apps with Microsoft’s Rayfin
- Your AI agent needs more than memory. It needs reliable state
- What hundreds of Microsoft 365 deployments have taught me about cybersecurity
- Big Tech used AI to take what it wanted. Now consumers are fighting back, too
- AI is writing patches, how much should we trust them?
- Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to More Users — Who Can Try It and What It Costs
- Workday expands AI ambitions with C1.ai identity platform acquisition
- Government not ready for AI says PAC chair
- Poland’s ascent from communist state to top 20 economy reverses the brain drain
- Quantum-based eye scanner get UKRI funding
- NHS Wales not turning ambitions into outcomes - Audit Wales
- Lewisham heads to the cloud for contact centre technology
- The global economy is muddling through against the odds. But a storm is coming | Larry Elliott
- Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
- AI tool used in asylum case reviews failing accuracy tests
- Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work – podcast
- Q&A: The “collision” between AI, your brain, and society
- ORCA launches PT-3 quantum computer in London datacentre
- As phishing-as-a-service goes industrial, Microsoft takes down a marketplace behind 1 billion messages
- Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
- Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
- Meet the five companies competing in the Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026
- The judgment bottleneck: Balancing AI and human speeds in strategy
- Inside GTA 🚗, Anthropic revenue jump 📈, agentic verification 🤖
- Place, purpose, and the path to economic mobility
- Strengthening supply chains behind US semiconductors
- Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt
- Intero Biosystems wants drugmakers to test on mini human intestines, not animals
- CedarDB wants one database to handle both transactions and analytics, as AI agents raise the stakes