AI News

Updated October 27, 4:00 PM EDT. 42 stories from the last few days. Refreshes twice a day.

Ars Technica
Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software

You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.

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Today

  1. TechCrunch
    Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies

    Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

  2. TechCrunch
    Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?

    TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery.

  3. TechCrunch
    Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering

    Genie 4 can maintain a consistent scene for up to two minutes, double Genie 3's limit, and offers better physics and more humanlike characters.

  4. TechCrunch
    Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

    Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

  5. TechCrunch
    Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data

    Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.

  6. TechCrunch
    Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser

    The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.

  7. TechCrunch
    General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative

    General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.

  8. TechCrunch
    Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs

    Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

  9. OpenAI
    OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT

    OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings.

Yesterday

  1. TechCrunch
    How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

    Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.

  2. TechCrunch
    Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

    An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has…

  3. OpenAI
    How Check Point accelerates vulnerability research with Daybreak

    With OpenAI Daybreak, Check Point speeds up the research behind new security protections, enabling its analysts to turn vulnerability intelligence into customer defenses faster.

  4. OpenAI
    Greptile takes bug detection beyond code review with GPT-6 Astra

    How Greptile uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security, and Codex to reduce rework.

  5. MIT Technology Review
    Will the real Anthropic please stand up

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its…

  6. TechCrunch
    Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked

    Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise…

  7. TechCrunch
    SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo

    The financing gives SpaceX another way to fund its rapidly expanding AI ambitions without relying solely on traditional debt markets.

  8. TechCrunch
    Anthropic officially files for its public debut

    Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI…

  9. OpenAI
    Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding

    OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.

  10. OpenAI
    GPT-6.1 Sol helps CodeRabbit strengthen security across complex codebases

    CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases. Its security agent helps developers review findings and proposed fixes.

  11. OpenAI
    ChatGPT’s expanding world of work

    Explore OpenAI Signals data on 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how people use ChatGPT for work and how usage changes over time.

  12. MIT Technology Review
    The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms

    Consider what passes for success in technology policy. An AI company promises that its chatbot will not encourage suicide. A social media platform makes it more difficult for children to buy…

  13. OpenAI
    How Fanatics and OpenAI streamline the fan experience

    Fanatics uses OpenAI to help fans complete their game-day outfits with Shop the Look. Testing across roughly 30,000 MLB products showed 10% higher engagement.

  14. OpenAI
    How Ultrafast cut incident investigation from hours to minutes at OpenAI

    See how OpenAI engineers use Codex Ultrafast to investigate incidents in minutes. Explore faster security analysis, code refactoring, and daily workflows.

Sunday, October 25

  1. OpenAI
    Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra

    Bringing fast and capable computer use to everyone

  2. TechCrunch
    Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

    The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

  3. TechCrunch
    AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says

    "Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."

  4. TechCrunch
    The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

    We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

Saturday, October 24

  1. TechCrunch
    Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

    The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."

  2. TechCrunch
    The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

    From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

  3. TechCrunch
    Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

    Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa's knowledge stems from the conversational data it has.

  4. TechCrunch
    Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.

    A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.