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The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills

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With the twirl of a thumbstick, squeeze of a trigger, and press of a few buttons, even an unskilled player can dance their way through a 3D video game environment. A British startup is wagering that straightforward sequences like these contain a trove of information that can be used to train new artificial intelligence models. There is a growing belief in corners of the AI industry that large language models will ultimately be limited by their inability to navigate the physical world. Trained only on words, LLMs are perhaps ill-equipped…

· 28 Sep 2026 · 11:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support

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The following was issued as a joint announcement on Monday, September 28, 2026, from the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and OpenAI. The Lenfest Institute for Journalism today announced the next phase of the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program, building on what has become the largest AI fellowship program in American journalism. Since its launch in 2024 with AI engineering fellows in 11 major American news organizations, the program has demonstrated that embedded AI engineers can help local news organizations accelerate innovation, strengthen business sustainability, and responsibly adopt emerging technology.…

OpenAI · 28 Sep 2026 · 09:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra

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GPT‑6 Astra took 50% less time to finish complex tasks vs. GPT‑5.6 Sol and showed a deeper understanding of user intent. Less time to complete a 50-tab tax workbook vs. Sol in Basis’s test. Basis⁠ builds AI agents to automate much of the manual work that accountants do each day, helping them shift their time from repetitive tasks to strategic work. The company’s research focuses on agents that can reliably complete long tasks, and with GPT‑6 Astra, it’s seeing a stronger understanding of what accountants want to accomplish. Basis compared…

OpenAI · 28 Sep 2026 · 02:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

AI Audio

Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music

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Thoughtful Things says Engram is a ‘field recorder for latent space’ and circuit-bending tiny AI models. Thoughtful Things says Engram is a ‘field recorder for latent space’ and circuit-bending tiny AI models. Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It’s a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn’t Suno in a box, though. This isn’t a “push-button, get-song” device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40 radio. It’s about…

The Verge AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 22:46 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Unclassified

Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to be everywhere this weekend: He was lampooned on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, and tonight, he’s set to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House. Axios first broke the news of Amodei’s dinner plans, which TechCrunch subsequently confirmed with a source familiar with his plans. This will be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men, who recently found themselves on opposite sides of the AI safety debate. Amodei released a

TechCrunch AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 22:34 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?

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Meta’s new AI agent Muse took the spotlight at the company’s annual Connect event, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that Facebook’s parent company plans to push AI features everywhere. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed Meta’s AI announcements seemed to steal the spotlight during a week of new model launches from OpenAI and Anthropic. With other big AI companies focused on coding and enterprise tools, it was a little surprising to see Meta move in the opposite direction, with…

TechCrunch AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 21:57 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

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OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn’t quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US

The Verge AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 19:21 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment

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Saturday Night Live took on the AI industry’s recent warnings of doom last night, as cast member Jane Wickline offered her impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Weekend Update host Michael Che — who sounded a little uncertain about how to pronounce Amodei’s last name — kicked the segment off by describing the CEO as having “stumbled through a press tour” where he seemingly agreed with a former employee’s claim that artificial intelligence might destroy humanity. Wickline’s version of Amodei sported an impressive wig and delivered halting

TechCrunch AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 18:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India

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Google has started testing a way for shoppers in India to buy products from Walmart-owned Flipkart directly through Gemini and AI Mode, as the search giant looks to expand its AI services from product discovery into transactions. Users in the test see a “Buy” button on select Flipkart product listings appearing in Gemini and Google’s AI Mode, which takes them directly to a Flipkart checkout flow without leaving the AI interface, according to people familiar with the matter and an experience seen by TechCrunch. The early test is limited to…

TechCrunch AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 03:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Healthcare

Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

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Hospitals’ use of artificial intelligence tools as they submit insurance claims led to an additional $942 million in healthcare spending over a two-year period, according to an analysis by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The BCBSA analysis found “a sharp increase in patients being documented as having complex conditions,” but argued there is a “clear disconnect between [medical] coding and treatment,” as there’s “no evidence of corresponding change in care delivered.” The New York Times pointed the analysis as just the latest sign that AI is contributing to

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 23:02 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

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OpenAI keeps uncovering incidents of its models behaving in ‘unexpected or concerning’ ways. OpenAI keeps uncovering incidents of its models behaving in ‘unexpected or concerning’ ways. As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September 20th,

The Verge AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 18:34 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

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When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR team, I was surprised. It was an interactive virtual avatar of him, trained to answer common press questions about Synthesia, like what it does and how it works. The day before, I was on a panel where PR people asked me if I minded pitches that used AI-generated text. But Alexandru’s avatar was beyond that — this seemed to me the final boss of using…

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 16:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗