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Helping small businesses put AI to work

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Partnership with America’s SBDC will expand hands-on training and local guidance, while a new report explores what small teams are accomplishing with AI. Small businesses are built on ambition: a craft you’ve perfected, a skill to share, a better way to serve a community. But turning that ambition and expertise into a business also means finding customers, managing finances, and handling marketing, often with a small team and little time to spare. AI can extend a team’s capacity, but figuring out where to start takes time too. A trusted advisor…

OpenAI · 30 Sep 2026 · 12:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

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The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won’t happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. “We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward in capability, and we see more of that ahead of us, we have got to be…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 02:26 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

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Evaluation, however, hasn't kept pace: it remains fragmented and unstandardized. The gold standard is human preference scores such as MOS or MUSHRA (more on metrics). To this end, several arena-based leaderboards have established themselves as useful reference points for the community: These arenas compare models by presenting users with TTS outputs from two models, and asking them to choose one over the other. After collecting a sufficient number of votes, an Elo score is computed to rank models, typically with the Bradley–Terry model (see Voice Arena methodology). While human preference…

Hugging Face · 30 Sep 2026 · 02:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Governance

Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’

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The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of “artificial intelligence.” Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to “Super Intelligence,” thanks to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump. “The word super is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest,” Trump said at an event announcing the launch of America.gov earlier on Tuesday, and said Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited the White House last week, “loves it” too. “We don’t want to hear artificial. Because it’s…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 01:34 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

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The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it an SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot would undoubtedly know that as a government-hosted, public-facing AI tool, the internet was going to red team the heck out of this thing. The government partnered with Google and SpaceXAI to help build the America.gov chatbot, which has proved difficult for people to jailbreak so far. (It’s worth nothing, however, that the chatbot says that Joe Biden won the…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 01:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

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On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new product called Dots, an always-on AI agent with a bubbly, blobby avatar. While the colorful avatar might evoke a smile, the biggest laugh from the launch is (we imagine) being had by Elon Musk, the former OpenAI founder who left, launched competitor Grok, and unsuccessfully sued. That’s because the domain “dot.com” belongs to Musk’s xAI, and it currently redirects to the download page for xAI’s Grok chatbot app. According to the Whois domain owner registry, that domain name was just transferred in July. It…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 00:20 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Content Creation

Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative

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Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg?, a table-sized installation placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to a description of the piece, the 5-foot-tall sculpture “shows OpenAI’s leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship with unimaginable wealth, while everyone else is left to face the cost of AI.” One of the co-creators of the piece, a man in his “late 30s” who gave his name as “Kevin,” said that he and members of the Berkeley-based Odd Friend…

Ars Technica AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 23:52 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again

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Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In August, Lawfare reported that articles on Grokipedia hadn’t reviewed edits since April, but the platform’s live updates site is now showing various recent changes to pages — though as I write this, many are just a note that says “recheck all references and sources.” The site seems to have become active again relatively recently. The page for President Barack Obama has

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 23:49 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia

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Chipmaker AMD and world models company World Labs announced that AMD will acquire the AI company by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval. The transaction is valued at $8.2 billion. In 2024, computer vision scientist Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs with fellow researchers Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall, with $230 million in funding, some of which came from AMD. The company began working on new world models, which are AI models that aim to provide a useful, predictive simulation of the physical world. Competing architectures exist…

Ars Technica AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 23:14 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

Instagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post

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Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI “creative assistant” that pulls in data from a user’s Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new assistant, creators can ask open-ended questions about what’s trending on Instagram, why one video worked and another didn’t, or what piece of content resonated most with their audience. The tool pulls in data and metrics…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 23:14 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

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The focus of OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined, the AI company’s announcements pointed towards a bigger plan: a disruption of the traditional app store model. Taken together, today’s announcements turn ChatGPT itself into the place where software can be discovered, launched, and used by people and agents alike. In addition, OpenAI introduced a way for people to bring their ChatGPT identity with them, while also allowing them to use their existing AI allowance…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 22:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Business use

OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

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OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round at a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Investors are eager to pour more funds into the ChatGPT maker ahead of its anticipated public market debut next year. While Anthropic momentarily outpaced OpenAI at the start of the year, recent strategic refocus on key areas like coding has fueled a 70% jump in run-rate revenue since July, reaching $40 billion in August, according to the…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 21:52 CESTRead story →Original ↗