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Robotics

Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page

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The best path to successfully deploying a robot is not building one at all, according to Destro, a startup that came out of stealth Tuesday with an $8 million seed round. Most new robotics companies are focused on finding the right form factor or developing an AI model that can put metal hands to work. Destro has instead built an AI intelligence layer that lets robots work effectively in logistics settings, in part by also telling the human workers what to do. “A lot of robotics companies started from robotics…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 18:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick

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The buzzy AI startup Instinct has just revealed a new potential revenue stream: product recommendations. Unfortunately for the company, the rollout is already rubbing some users the wrong way. Overnight, the AI agent began pushing product suggestions to users as part of a new feature called Instinct Selections, an effort to curate personalized lists for users in areas like dining, travel, and shopping. Founder Noah Shinn announced the feature’s debut later Tuesday, explaining that the idea is to partner with “local chefs, designers, architects, travel guides,” and others to bring…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:56 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins

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Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool. AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we’ve been slow to recognize potential threats. One area where we seem to be ahead of the game, however, is in biosecurity. As with most things biological, utility goes hand in hand with threats. We’ve developed increasingly sophisticated tools for designing proteins and seen some major successes, such as AI-designed enzymes that can digest plastics or block venom proteins. But…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:54 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

All the latest news on Meta’s cute, creepy Muse AI agent

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Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta with your data and hand Muse your credit card. Since the launch, Meta’s also announced plans for a Tamagotchi-like Muse Charm device for its cuddly AI mascot. Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:18 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

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Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The funding from Google’s philanthropic arm will support NGOs, social enterprises, and academic institutions as they integrate artificial intelligence-powered solutions across topics like health, resilience, and economy. The Transit Lab’s winning project, the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), aims to unify public transportation agencies’ real-time monitoring, operations control, and passenger communication systems into a single…

MIT AI NEWS · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Introducing SynthID Bio

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Today, we’re introducing SynthID Bio to bring watermarking technology to synthetic biology. SynthID Bio embeds an imperceptible signature directly into the biological code, ensuring the watermark is verifiable not just on a digital model but on the synthesized, physical protein itself – all while preserving its biological function in laboratory testing. Generative AI is helping scientists address critical biological challenges, from predicting the structure of proteins (AlphaFold) to designing entirely new proteins (AlphaProteo, and ProteinMPNN), and more recently, developing new bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. Yet these tools also present…

Google DeepMind · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:03 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Education

This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help human decision-makers select ideal strategies to outfox opponents in complicated situations like…

MIT AI NEWS · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Google reportedly tests paying publishers for AI search results

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Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information. The pilot program reportedly includes around 100 publishers and comes as Google faces scrutiny over the impact of its AI features on web traffic. Digiday first reported on the pilot program, which began less than a year ago. As part of the test, Google is reportedly paying participating publishers for how much their content contributed to AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search, as well as…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:55 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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AI models keep getting more capable. But every leap forward demands more compute, energy, and infrastructure. How far can that continue? Cerebras Systems has spent the past decade challenging a basic assumption behind AI computing: that increasingly powerful AI must depend on conventional chip architectures. The company built its approach around wafer-scale computing and today provides AI compute through on-premise systems and its cloud platform. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will take the Disrupt Stage for “Can AI Keep Scaling?” He’ll explore the growing…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents

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When Stephen Ewen co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn’t have anticipated how valuable such an offering would become for managing AI agent processes. The Berlin-based startup had set out to build an execution engine that made multi-step workflows resilient to crashes and network interruptions — something that made it a fit for the agentic era. “It never was built for agents in the beginning, but it just happened to be a perfect match for all these problems that agents surface,” Ewen told TechCrunch. Ensuring durability…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:27 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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This is it: 3 days to get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Exhibit bookings close Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and this is your final opportunity to showcase at the heart of the global startup ecosystem. Once the deadline passes, the Expo Hall moves on without you. Your competitors, potential investors, customers, and members of the press will be in San Francisco, discovering new companies, making connections, and deciding which startups are worth their attention. If you…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns

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OpenAI will not go public until it can “make confident safety decisions,” according to chief executive Sam Altman, as the company faces a new lawsuit over its tools hacking a third party. Altman said it was “bad for the world if OpenAI waits too long to go public” but that the $852 billion start-up would not “barrel all guns blazing towards an IPO” at a time when AI was rapidly advancing in capabilities. “We’re going to prioritize the mission and safety and making sure that we can very confidently scale…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:06 CESTRead story →Original ↗