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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 ↗

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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 ↗

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Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?

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Tech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries. Last week, they announced one. In a September 23 announcement, Anthropic claimed that its large language model Claude had identified an enzyme system with properties “reminiscent of Crispr,” the Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing tool. According to Anthropic, about 950 Claude agents running simultaneously found the interesting genetic sequences in 21.5 hours. “I sincerely compliment Anthropic for telling the world about their discovery,” says Fyodor Urnov, a gene-editing expert at the University of California,…

· 29 Sep 2026 · 20:03 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations

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OpenAI isn’t only coming after productivity software with ChatGPT’s new Pages, Slides and Space features — the AI lab is now targeting any application that could work better when integrated with ChatGPT. At the company’s Dev Day presentation on Tuesday, the AI company said it is now allowing developers to build their own app-like experiences within ChatGPT using plugin extensions. OpenAI already supports plugins, which connect ChatGPT to everyday tools like Slack, SharePoint, Airtable and Google Drive, but the new plugin extensions will give apps a dedicated home in the…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction

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NVIDIA Kumo Tabular, part of the NVIDIA Kumo Structured model collection, is an open foundation model for tabular data now available on Hugging Face. Given a table of labeled rows, it predicts the labels of new rows in a single forward pass, with no training, no tuning, and no feature engineering, for both classification and regression. It was pretrained only on artificial data, comes in three sizes (28M to 215M parameters), runs through our open-source library, and is released under the OpenMDW-1.1 license for commercial use. It ranks first on…

Hugging Face · 29 Sep 2026 · 17:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians

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The Verge spoke to one of the mathematicians advising OpenAI as the field braces for a new wave of results that could upend their work. The Verge spoke to one of the mathematicians advising OpenAI as the field braces for a new wave of results that could upend their work. In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.…

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:56 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today’s announcement, the judging panel is nearly complete. In just a couple of weeks, 200 carefully selected startups will gather at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to exhibit, meet investors, and compete for one of the most coveted opportunities in the startup world. Only a select group will advance to the live competition, where they’ll pitch in front…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 16:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is Oct. 2

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This is the last week and your final opportunity to book your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibit table. Book your exhibit table by this Friday, October 2, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, all exhibit table bookings close for good. If you missed the original deadline, this is your final opportunity to put your startup on the Expo Hall floor, the center of the event. Disrupt takes place October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, bringing together 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders looking for the next breakthroughs and…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 16:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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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 ↗

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Meta opens early access program for new Muse features

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After announcing a host of new features for Meta’s Muse AI app at its Connect 2026 developer conference this week, the company is opening up requests for early access. Meta shared on Friday that you can now ask Muse to put you on the list to try out its latest capabilities before anyone else. Meta posted a link to a prompt on X that, when shared with Muse, will log that you’re interested in joining Meta’s early access program. Just announced lots of new features…want early access? Your Muse can…

TechCrunch AI · 25 Sep 2026 · 22:34 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand

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On Thursday morning, a top executive at self-driving truck developer PlusAI received an unexpected congratulatory text message from an acquaintance. âI have been proud of you for your adventure and success at Plus. Just saw two of your trucks near my work place! :)â the message said. But PlusAIâs trucks werenât supposed to be near this personâs office, in Newark, California. As of the last the company knew, the trailers were docked outside its warehouse, half a mile away. Soon, according to a police statement, cops were on the scene…

· 25 Sep 2026 · 22:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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When MIT mechanical engineering student Daphne Wang arrived for her internship at the Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health in Tulsa, Oklahoma last summer, she expected to be writing code. To her surprise, she found herself analyzing tribal history and the implications for technical innovation. “I learned so much that I think should be required curriculum for every single person in this country,” says Wang. “I think tech for good is genuinely getting out into communities and learning about people who aren't you, creating worldly perspectives that you ultimately can…

MIT News · 25 Sep 2026 · 22:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗