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Multi-expert MoE framework for opioid overdose risk prediction via continued pretraining on diagnostic sequences; clinical application of LLMs.

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.

Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.

"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."

An agent can finish a task and still take an inefficient path. A failed search can trigger another search. A truncated file read can lead to a command fetching... An agent can finish a task and still take an inefficient path. A failed search can trigger another search. A truncated file read can lead to a command fetching the same content again. A correct final answer hides those extra steps, even though they increase latency and consume tokens. Inefficiencies create more chances for failure. To improve an agent’s behavior… Source

Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.

Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.

Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta with your data and hand Muse your credit card. Since the launch, Meta’s also announced plans for a Tamagotchi-like Muse Charm device for its cuddly AI mascot. Follow along here for the latest news and updates. Meta’s Muse AI sent a YouTuber’s address to a stranger Meta expands Muse tools for small businesses. Meta Enterprise Platform will bring its Muse AI to businesses. Mayb...

Google DeepMind demonstrates SynthID Bio, embedding watermarks into AI-generated proteins without degrading function.

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 its Gemini chatbot. One publisher that joined the p...

Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI "creative assistant" that pulls in data from a user's Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new assistant, creators can ask open-ended questions about what's trending on Instagram, why one video worked and another didn't, or what piece of content resonated most with their audience. The tool pulls in data and metrics such as likes, views, retention on v...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently, and what comes next if today’s AI hardware reaches its limits.

Founded by Apache Flink veterans, the startup is taking on workflow heavyweight Temporal.

Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders.

OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.

Anyone else getting “The Last Supper” vibes from this photo taken at the White House tech gathering? | Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images We now have the full details of the "morally binding" AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officially titled the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities, was shared online by tech founder and presidential advisor David Sacks, and has been signed by Google's Sundar Pichai, Anthropic's Dario A...

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions…

OpenAI disrupted a coordinated model-distillation attack extracting protected reasoning and deployed new defenses against adversarial distillation.

Stratechery analysis of OpenAI Dev Day: product strategy confusing on surface but reflects deeper vision for ecosystem integration.

OpenAI partners with Small Business Development Centers to provide AI training and support for small businesses.

Comprehensive benchmark for time series anomaly detection in streaming settings, evaluating incremental update methods on diverse real-world datasets.

Theoretical analysis of additive regression under dependent random designs with minimax-optimal estimators for high-dimensional settings.

UniAE-MoE unifies audio encoders via Mixture-of-Experts architecture for multi-task audio language model performance.

Importance-aware sparsification method for wireless split learning reduces communication overhead while maintaining accuracy on non-i.i.d. data.

Mathematical framework using Lyapunov spectra to characterize decision boundary formation through layers in deep classifiers.

ViLegalExpert benchmark with 172K questions from authentic Vietnamese legal consultations, supporting retrieval and QA across 34 legal domains.

Mixture of Function Attention (MoFA) parameter-free modification to Transformer attention explores softmax/sigmoid ratios as intrinsic inductive bias.

Golden-ratio Weyl dither for quantized recurrent state caches in Mamba-style models reduces accumulated rounding errors vs. stochastic rounding.