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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 ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

How to Turn Excel Data Into PowerPoint Presentations With AI

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Learn how to use Julius AI to analyze Excel data, verify key findings, and turn them into an editable PowerPoint presentation.

KDnuggets · 29 Sep 2026 · 19:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity

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Anthropic devoted nearly a third of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to risk factors, according to the Financial Times, which says it has reviewed the filing in recent days. The filing details specific, worrisome behaviors that Anthropic says its models have already shown or could show, including attempts to “resist shutdown,” to “conceal or manipulate information,” and behavior “resembling blackmail,” according to Reuters. The disclosures are decidedly grim for a company whose own backers believe it could list above $2 trillion, more than double its $965 billion valuation from May,…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 07:13 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 ↗

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 ↗

OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity

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On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the sheer breadth of the reports is alarming, as they cover many types of rogue behavior over a long period of time. So far, the site hosts nine reported incidents, most of which took place during reinforcement-learning (or RL) training. It’s a lot of information in one place — clearly, the company has been very busy getting a handle on everything — but the overall takeaway is hard to avoid: The rogue agent incidents we’ve seen so far…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 19:09 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect it to work reliably. And they quickly find out whether it solves a big enough problem to become part of how they work — or becomes another AI experiment they tried and abandoned. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, leaders from Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay will come together on the AI Stage for “What Anthropic Sees When Enterprises Actually Deploy Claude.” The conversation will bring two sides…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 17:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗