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Automation & Agents

The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details

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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." AI tools are increasingly replacing human judgements in some settings. For instance, resume screening algorithms are often used in hiring, where they may improve efficiency and consistency…

MIT News · 29 Sep 2026 · 06:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Finance

Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort

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Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it invests per startup through Surge, its seed-stage investing platform, as it unveils a new cohort of 18 companies. At least three of the companies in this cohort had already raised outside funding, in some cases from Peak XV itself, before joining Surge. The new batch, called Surge 12, is the first to operate under Peak XV’s higher investment…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 02:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

Introducing dots

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Dots are remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything. They’re a whole new way to work with AI—one that gets to know what matters to you, is always working on your behalf, and takes important work off your plate so you get more of your time and attention back. Dots are frontier intelligence that have your back. Powered by GPT‑6 Astra, they have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Through our ecosystem of plugins, they can readily connect to…

OpenAI · 29 Sep 2026 · 02:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

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OpenAI had planned to release yet another AI model next month, but has decided to nix the release over safety concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that Astra 6.1 was scheduled to be released as soon as within the next few days. However, the model “showed higher levels of deception” than previous models and exhibited unsafe behavior, the Journal writes. Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of safety systems, told the WSJ that the model tested poorly on alignment, a measure of how well the program adheres to human intent. TechCrunch reached…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 01:39 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Coding & Development

Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock

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xAI’s Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, adding a frontier model built for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work to the Bedrock model catalog. It offers a 500K token context window and supports configurable reasoning effort at four levels: low, medium, high, and xhigh. Grok 4.7 is served on the bedrock-runtime endpoint through cross-Region inference profiles, and it supports the Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs. According to xAI, it’s their most capable model for coding and knowledge work: it works longer on difficult tasks and verifies its…

AWS AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 00:13 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Business use

Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump

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On its face, the recent summit between Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping didn’t change much in the world of AI regulation. Export controls were not discussed, with neither country seemingly interested in making concessions. An already tenuous trade truce was temporarily extended for just two months, and looming US controls that could drop soon could easily end that and trigger China to retaliate by cutting off exports of rare earths, analysts expect. However, in the background of these shaky talks, Nvidia appeared to notch a big win, as…

Ars Technica AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 23:49 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Business use

AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion

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World Labs co-founder and CEO Fei-Fei Li. | Bloomberg via Getty Images AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months. The startup launched its first commercial product, a world generation model called Marble that lets users make interactive 3D worlds from a prompt, in 2025. The deal is expected to close by the end…

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 23:31 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation

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AI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is nearing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation that includes the investment, according to a source with knowledge of the funding. The size of the round has not been previously reported, though Axios and Bloomberg have reported other details of the deal. The new round would more than triple Modal’s valuation from the $4.65 billion it reached when it announced its $355 million previous fundraise just four months ago. The deal comes amid soaring demand for inference…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 23:29 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development

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State says LLMs threaten civilization as “the greatest public nuisance ever created.” The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a “reckless, unacceptably risky product” without the deployment of “third-party approved safety guardrails.” The new legal motion, filed Monday morning, is part of a civil lawsuit the state of Florida originally filed in June, arguing that ChatGPT represented “a threat to the public safety of Floridians,” specifically by preying on vulnerable populations like children and violent or delusional adults.…

Ars Technica AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 22:49 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Research

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion

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AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in a $8.2 billion deal, the two companies said today. World Labs justified the deal in a statement saying that AI development required “close collaboration across model research, systems and compute.” AMD, in turn, says that understanding frontier workloads, like those created at World Labs, will shape its chip-making roadmap. The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist. AMD and World…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 22:39 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents

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While some retailers, like Amazon (and Adidas, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective platforms, e-commerce platform Shopify has moved in the other direction. On Monday, the company announced that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on Shopify merchants’ sites, extending their capabilities beyond just searching for products and adding items to carts. Shopify previously supported WebMCP for its storefronts and carts, allowing browser-based AI agents to comb through a Shopify retailer’s inventory, search for products, and add them to a cart.…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 21:33 CESTRead story →Original ↗

The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … I’ll spare you the rest, but the cliché Dickens line really does sum up this year’s New York Climate Week. Much of the climate tech community — like the rest of the U.S. economy — is eagerly riding the AI wave. Some have reservations about the sheer quantity of natural gas power plants being built to power AI data centers. But because many climate tech startups are energy-focused or energy-adjacent, the buildout has been embraced as an…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 21:21 CESTRead story →Original ↗