OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes…
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I tried Tovala's smart oven for two weeks — here's whether it beats takeout |
I tried Tovala’s smart oven for two weeks to see if it could actually make dinner as easy as the company promises. It won’t replace…
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular 'AI factories' |
Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion. The massive round…
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate |
4:21 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched the DeepMind Institute on Wednesday to advance the conversation around artificial general…
Amazon-owned Zoox's 100-robotaxi limit in Nevada is about to disappear |
4:08 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 A regulatory cap limiting Zoox to 100 robotaxis in Nevada is set to expire this month, clearing the…
Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal |
5:02 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 Geothermal startup Mazama Energy raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series B, the startup said Thursday. The fresh…
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI |
If AI lab PrismML isn’t on your radar yet, it should be — not because it’s raised gobs of money (it hasn’t yet, just a…
The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI |
In Brief Posted: 3:14 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 The Federal Aviation Administration has been struggling to manage an air traffic control shortage throughout…
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal |
New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping…
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI |
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and…