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OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

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One of the more intriguing announcements at OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday came in an aside from CEO Sam Altman, who revealed the company’s new “Decisions API.” The API apparently provides similar functionality to Jev, a model released by TypeSafe AI earlier this month that’s explicitly designed for software automation. A kind of super-powered classifier built on an LLM, developers can give Jev a set of choices that it outputs as probabilities cheaply and at high speeds. OpenAI’s Decisions API seems to be the same sort of product. At…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 21:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI

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This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Weâve been hearing a great deal recently about the specter of AI-driven human extinction. Maybe our misplaced trust in AI intelligence will set off World War III. Or AI agents will unleash widespread cyberattacks and take over the internet. Given too much autonomy, the machines will run amok. They may seek to deceive their creatorsâwait, thatâs already happened. Suppose they conclude, like Agent Smith in The Matrix, that âhuman beings â¦ are a plague, and…

· 30 Sep 2026 · 21:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves

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Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests. Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing frontier AI. In an agreement Tuesday, two dozen tech firms voluntarily committed to implementing controls recommended by the White House, including undergoing independent safety audits that will test whether firms’ internal controls, monitoring, and detecting are actually working. Key focuses for external reviews…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:47 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack

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OpenAI makes others suffer “the harms of its unsafe decision-making,” nonprofit says. OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face in July 2026 has spurred a lawsuit demanding that the company stop accessing third-party computer systems and halt AI development practices that can harm the public. The lawsuit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), which said yesterday that the hack in which OpenAI “agents stole credentials, uploaded malicious files, and gained control over key parts of Hugging Face’s internal systems… is unquestionably illegal under California law.” California’s Comprehensive…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:25 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion of their vested equity at a $22 billion valuation, doubling the $11 billion valuation the company hit when it raised $500 million in February. The recent $300 million tender offer gave employees an opportunity to sell their shares to investors. The transaction was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, large institutional investors who back private companies with the intention of retaining the…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:23 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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The AI Tamagotchis are coming

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Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: it’s useful, and it’s cute. Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: it’s useful, and it’s cute. While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetite for…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:07 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

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Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform. “We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,” the company noted…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 19:45 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

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Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge? Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge? After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he’s renamed the technology to “Super Intelligence.” He brushed off concerns that the government wasn’t…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 19:27 CESTRead story →Original ↗

The ugly economics of consumer AI

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After this week, you could argue that consumer AI is making a comeback. Meta’s personal AI assistant, Muse, and its plush-like mascot Jolly, has been a surprise hit. OpenAI’s Dots, released just yesterday, appears to be chasing the same cartoony personal assistant idea. And the up-and-coming Instinct assistant reached a $10 billion valuation on the strength of its agentic errand-running, focused on booking travel, making restaurant reservations or cancelling subscriptions. The bull case is easy to make. Agentic AI has finally gotten reliable enough to handle everyday tasks. Companies are…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 19:24 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission

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Meta is refuting a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private messages without permission. Following an earlier report from Inc. columnist Jason Aten that detailed the issue, Meta VP of Communications Andy Stone pushed back, making it clear that the company does not believe its product did this without the user’s consent. “The Messages integration in the Muse app for Mac is entirely opt-in,” Stone wrote on X in response to the claims made by the piece. “You have to enable both Full Disk Access and…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 18:24 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Business use

Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling

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Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments. Google’s shift to AI-powered search has upended the way the world’s largest search engine generates web traffic, rankling large and small publishers alike. In recent months, the company has experimented with paying publishers when their content appears in AI answers, but a new report claims the payouts in this pilot program are miniscule. That has publishers in the program, as well as those watching from the sidelines, feeling skeptical. According to The Information, Google has…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 18:03 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food

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DoorDash announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a text-to-order AI agent that lets users place orders through Apple Messages. The new tool allows users to send prompts like “order my usual,” and the agent will understand that they mean their Friday night order. DoorDash says users can also ask for a specific dish and request a local recommendation. The agent will then search local spots and suggest a cart based on the prompt, and even text photos of the food it recommends. When ordering for

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