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Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?

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Meta’s new AI agent Muse took the spotlight at the company’s annual Connect event, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that Facebook’s parent company plans to push AI features everywhere. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed Meta’s AI announcements seemed to steal the spotlight during a week of new model launches from OpenAI and Anthropic. With other big AI companies focused on coding and enterprise tools, it was a little surprising to see Meta move in the opposite direction, with…

TechCrunch AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 21:57 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

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OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn’t quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US

The Verge AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 19:21 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment

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Saturday Night Live took on the AI industry’s recent warnings of doom last night, as cast member Jane Wickline offered her impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Weekend Update host Michael Che — who sounded a little uncertain about how to pronounce Amodei’s last name — kicked the segment off by describing the CEO as having “stumbled through a press tour” where he seemingly agreed with a former employee’s claim that artificial intelligence might destroy humanity. Wickline’s version of Amodei sported an impressive wig and delivered halting

TechCrunch AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 18:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India

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Google has started testing a way for shoppers in India to buy products from Walmart-owned Flipkart directly through Gemini and AI Mode, as the search giant looks to expand its AI services from product discovery into transactions. Users in the test see a “Buy” button on select Flipkart product listings appearing in Gemini and Google’s AI Mode, which takes them directly to a Flipkart checkout flow without leaving the AI interface, according to people familiar with the matter and an experience seen by TechCrunch. The early test is limited to…

TechCrunch AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 03:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Healthcare

Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

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Hospitals’ use of artificial intelligence tools as they submit insurance claims led to an additional $942 million in healthcare spending over a two-year period, according to an analysis by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The BCBSA analysis found “a sharp increase in patients being documented as having complex conditions,” but argued there is a “clear disconnect between [medical] coding and treatment,” as there’s “no evidence of corresponding change in care delivered.” The New York Times pointed the analysis as just the latest sign that AI is contributing to

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 23:02 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Models & tools

OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

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OpenAI keeps uncovering incidents of its models behaving in ‘unexpected or concerning’ ways. OpenAI keeps uncovering incidents of its models behaving in ‘unexpected or concerning’ ways. As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September 20th,

The Verge AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 18:34 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Safety & Security

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

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When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR team, I was surprised. It was an interactive virtual avatar of him, trained to answer common press questions about Synthesia, like what it does and how it works. The day before, I was on a panel where PR people asked me if I minded pitches that used AI-generated text. But Alexandru’s avatar was beyond that — this seemed to me the final boss of using…

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 16:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

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Metaâs Muse mascot is named Jolly. It's an adorable, cuddly representation of Metaâs AI agent that you can dress however you wantâlike a doll. At the companyâs recent Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerbergâs furry Muse donned a toga and laurel wreath. In Instagram ads I saw for Muse, the mascot wore exercise gear and boasted about helping with my fitness goals. Later this year, Meta plans to sell a Tamagotchi-style device for your Muse character. Itâs all very kawaii-coded. Although Museâs ability to complete digital tasks rocketed it to…

· 26 Sep 2026 · 12:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Business use

At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere

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If there was one thing that was obvious from Meta Connect this year, it’s that the social media giant is all-in on its burgeoning line of smart glasses. Indeed, the glasses were pretty much everywhere at the annual event, where Meta shows off its newest hardware and AI products. Both Meta staff and the flocks of influencers who frequent the event seemed to arrive with the glasses glued to their faces. Most of the demos the company offered this week also involved the glasses. I swiftly joined the bespectacled masses…

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 03:08 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Business use

Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

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Crusoe, a Denver-based AI data center startup that recently raised $3.9 billion, has ended plans to use a new line of stationary power plants developed by fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic. Founded in 2018 as a bitcoin miner that ran on excess natural gas from oil fields, Crusoe has since become one of the biggest builders of AI data centers, including a massive campus in Abilene, Texas, that supplies computing power to OpenAI. Boom Supersonic, which is developing a supersonic passenger jet called Overture, launched a new business last year…

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 01:11 CESTRead story →Original ↗

AI Images

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

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After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites. Fifty-three “user-provided images” were “posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said for the first time. The images could still be discovered even if the links were not publicly listed. “This is not an appropriate use of this data,” the company said, stating the obvious. While the company’s privacy policy lists many uses of personal data collected…

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 00:20 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

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Cloudflare’s mission to remake the business of the web for the AI age Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it turns out things are even wilder because of AI, and Matthew and Cloudflare are right at the center of it. Cloudflare found…

The Verge AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 00:13 CESTRead story →Original ↗