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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 ↗

Research

Did AI Just Solve One of Mathematics’ Biggest Problems?

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OpenAI’s agents reached a proposed solution in 88 hours. But the human research that came before, and the controversy that followed, raise a harder question: what actually counts as an AI discovery?

KDnuggets · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

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‘Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.’ ‘Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.’ We now have the full details of the “morally binding” AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officially titled the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, was shared online by tech founder and presidential adviser David Sacks, and has been signed by Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 14:24 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

Ollama for Managing Local Language Models: A KDnuggets Cheat Sheet

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Ollama pulls model weights, keeps an HTTP server on port 11434, and hands any client an OpenAI-shaped endpoint pointed at your own machine. Learn how to manage, configure, and optimize using Ollama right here.

KDnuggets · 30 Sep 2026 · 14:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Airbnb adds AI search, more social features

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Airbnb is evolving in two directions: On the ground, it wants to compete with hotels by providing myriad services; online, it is using AI and people in its Airbnb network to aid travel discovery. As part of its fall product update, the company is adding services to the app it had launched last year, such as meal delivery, laundry, baby-gear rental, ski and boat rental in limited locations, and expanded grocery delivery. The second big feature is AI search. The company has taken a cautious approach to rolling out AI…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 14:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Helping small businesses put AI to work

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Partnership with America’s SBDC will expand hands-on training and local guidance, while a new report explores what small teams are accomplishing with AI. Small businesses are built on ambition: a craft you’ve perfected, a skill to share, a better way to serve a community. But turning that ambition and expertise into a business also means finding customers, managing finances, and handling marketing, often with a small team and little time to spare. AI can extend a team’s capacity, but figuring out where to start takes time too. A trusted advisor…

OpenAI · 30 Sep 2026 · 12:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

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The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won’t happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. “We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward in capability, and we see more of that ahead of us, we have got to be…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 02:26 CESTRead story →Original ↗

AI Audio

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

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Evaluation, however, hasn't kept pace: it remains fragmented and unstandardized. The gold standard is human preference scores such as MOS or MUSHRA (more on metrics). To this end, several arena-based leaderboards have established themselves as useful reference points for the community: These arenas compare models by presenting users with TTS outputs from two models, and asking them to choose one over the other. After collecting a sufficient number of votes, an Elo score is computed to rank models, typically with the Bradley–Terry model (see Voice Arena methodology). While human preference…

Hugging Face · 30 Sep 2026 · 02:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗