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Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner

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As the AI model wars continue, Anthropic has released the newest version of Sonnet, the company’s mid-tier model, which it says will work much faster (and for significantly less) than its predecessor. The lab describes Sonnet 5.5 as an ideal assistant for everyday tasks — including coding and creating office documents. 5.5’s predecessor, Sonnet 5, was announced about three months ago. At the time, the model’s selling point was efficient agentic deployment — the ability to run agents at a lower cost than competitors. The big selling point with 5.5,…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Automation & Agents

Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’

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As all-in-one AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct take off, Google announced it’s shutting down the Gemini feature known as “Gems,” which had allowed users to build custom AI assistants for specific tasks. However, the work users invested in creating the Gems won’t be destroyed. Gems will be automatically migrated to “skills” that can be used across different AI tasks. Details about the change are being shared in the Gemini app, where a message warns users that Gems will become skills starting on November 17, 2026. The company said…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 19:29 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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 →Join free ↗

Safety & Security

Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person

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AG James Uthmeier says OpenAI needs to stop calling ChatGPT safe and “Stop pretending it’s human.” AG James Uthmeier says OpenAI needs to stop calling ChatGPT safe and “Stop pretending it’s human.” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from “giving ChatGPT false human attributes,” a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 19:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Unclassified

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 →Join free ↗

Business use

Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says

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Walmart CEO John Furner is pushing back on concerns that the retail giant could use digital shelf labels to employ dynamic pricing. Walmart CEO John Furner is pushing back on concerns that the retail giant could use digital shelf labels to employ dynamic pricing. Walmart says it won’t change product prices based on your personal information or the time of day, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In a letter to customers, Walmart CEO John Furner writes that the

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:44 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Automation & Agents

OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

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US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified. OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of “our most capable models” as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling “an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.” The company revealed the pause in a report about a so-called misalignment incident in which an agent attempted to exploit a gap in Internet-access restrictions during a routine research task during training. OpenAI says that improper DNS filtering allowed…

Ars Technica AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:43 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

AI Audio

Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1

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Voice agents, interactive learning applications, accessibility tools, and customer service assistants need to respond without long silent pauses. In this tutorial, you deploy a text-to-speech (TTS) model on Amazon SageMaker AI that can start playing speech before it finishes generating the full response. You use the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container (DLC) to deploy Qwen3-TTS, stream text in and audio out over one persistent bidirectional connection, and try the workflow through a Gradio application. AWS Deep Learning Containers provide Docker images with deep learning frameworks and dependencies for training and…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

AI Video

Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2

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In this post, you turn a text prompt into an image, then animate that image into a short video on Amazon SageMaker AI. You deploy two endpoints from the same AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container (DLC): a real-time endpoint for FLUX.2-klein-4B image generation and an asynchronous endpoint for Wan2.1-VACE-1.3B video generation. The workflow sends a text prompt to generate a still image, then passes the image and a motion prompt to the video endpoint. It retrieves the MP4 from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provides an optional Streamlit…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Healthcare

Implementing synthetic monitoring using Amazon Nova Act

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Synthetic monitoring emulates real user journeys through automated transactions. Rather than waiting for customers to encounter problems, teams continuously validate critical workflows (logins, purchases, form submissions) on a scheduled basis. With this approach, you detect problems faster when performance degrades or UI interactions break. For customer-facing businesses, especially in ecommerce, synthetic monitoring safeguards interactions that matter most. Organizations validate that product search works correctly, pricing and inventory display as expected, cart operations succeed, and checkout confirmations complete without error. Continuous testing identifies problems before customers encounter them. The same approach…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 17:56 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Safety & Security

Automating Amazon Textract adapter lifecycle management across accounts

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Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, layout elements, and structured data from scanned documents. Organizations use Amazon Textract to automate document processing workflows such as invoice processing, mortgage application intake, insurance claim handling, and identity verification, eliminating manual data entry and accelerating downstream decision-making. Amazon Textract Custom Queries adapters extend this capability so you can fine-tune extraction for your specific document types, improving accuracy on forms with unique layouts or domain-specific terminology. For more information, see the Amazon Textract Custom Queries…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 17:49 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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 →Join free ↗