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Natural Boundary Learning applies Stein contrasts to contextual bandits with monotone link functions, avoiding reward function estimation.

Cartridges++ improves KV cache compression for long-context LLM serving without degrading retrieval performance.

Attention Graphons applies graph limit theory to study whether Graph Transformer attention matrices converge to stable kernel structures.

Philosophical framework proposes five-level hierarchy to assess AI consciousness by separating metaphysics from functional description grain.

Behavioral Foundation Models enable Quality-Diversity search for diverse, high-performing RL policies via latent behavior space.

EvE optimizer combines differential evolution with Adam fallback for cheaper architecture/hyperparameter search via early ranking.

MT-OPSD applies on-policy self-distillation to multi-turn image editing, addressing train-test distribution mismatch in iterative conditioning.

Constrained decoding for Masked Diffusion Language Models uses trajectory-exact sampling via automata without per-step factorization.

Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.

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 company's switch to digital shelf labels is meant to save store associates time, rather than dynamically change prices. "Your income, shopping history, urgency or what we think you could pay won't change the price," Furner writes. "And whether you're buying groceries or electronics on a hot afternoon or in a sudden rush for an item, it's never a reason to charge you more." Furner add...

US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.

Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026. Register to join and get 50% off a second pass.

After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it's now one of the companies competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today’s announcement, the judging panel is nearly complete. In just a couple of weeks, 200 carefully selected startups will gather at […]

Modulate deploys its models to detect deepfake, fraud and scam

The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.

The last day to book your Disrupt 2026 exhibit table is this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your exhibit table and get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at San Francisco's Moscone West on Oct 13-15.

Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to happen. As you’ll hear Mike say, all of Atlassian’s products are actually different expressions of a single core platform, which really shapes how Atlassian itself is structured and how those products are built. All of this means Atlassian is also right in the ...

Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started.' The company is now valued at $10 billion.

Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Monday, Nvidia says its new Open Agent Safety Platform can quarantine agents that attempt to escape their boundaries within "milliseconds." The platform uses Nvidia's OpenShell open-source software, which runs on the company's Vera AI CPU. Users can choose the information an AI agent can access, and OpenShell checks these restrictions before and during a task, according to Nvidia. It also ...

Import AI newsletter covers LLM capability limits, TPU deployment in space, and Zhipu's recursive self-improvement loop research.

“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."

Stratechery argues agents will displace apps as primary software interface, positioning agent platforms as next aggregation layer in tech.

To understand where agentic AI stands today, consider the last seismic shift in technology: the rise of the internet in the 90s. It was new and full of... To understand where agentic AI stands today, consider the last seismic shift in technology: the rise of the internet in the 90s. It was new and full of possibilities. You could build a website over a weekend and share it with the world, or chat with someone half way around the world in online chat rooms without long-distance telephone fees. It brought endless opportunity, but also a lot of risk. Source

AI agents can be given a goal, write code, use tools, and keep working as new information becomes available. This opens the door to applications that... AI agents can be given a goal, write code, use tools, and keep working as new information becomes available. This opens the door to applications that investigate software failures, run experiments, and carry out business-critical actions and research over days or weeks. Useful agents need access to workspaces, compute resources, data, credentials, and external services. Source

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…

OpenAI commits $5M funding and $5M software credits to expand Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative Fellowship Program.

Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse. I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup r...

Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a... Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a protective buffer that can leave valuable infrastructure underused during normal operation. NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS uses policy-governed power sharing to allocate power across participating resources dynamically, enabling customers to deploy up to… Source