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Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says

Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.

Grounding AI agents in biological reality: Building blocks for autonomous wet labs

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators…

Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators…

Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them

According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.

Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation

Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever

The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.

Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film ‘the right way’ and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy

Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing."

Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles

Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip…

Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’

Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.

Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline

Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale

When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off

The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.

State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behind

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more

Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's…

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Savings of up to $200 end October 16 for TechCrunch Founder Summit. These savings for Founder and Investor Passes vanish after Friday. Join 1,000 founders and investors on November 4 at Boston’s…

Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity

AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars

We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December.

Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US

The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.

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Q&A: The “collision” between AI, your brain, and society

Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta

Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers

Putting Earth AI to work: Geospatial agents for our planet's biggest challenges

Analyzing technical documents with Deep Review

Research@ 2026: 10 ways we're amplifying human ingenuity

HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost

Researchers improve weather forecasts looking two to six weeks out

Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection

How artificial neural networks build their own learning machinery

MIT Lincoln Laboratory hosts National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely

Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems

Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems

Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations

3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?

Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers

The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself

Does better work always mean better workers?

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Introducing Falcon ASR

Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games

Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware

EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries

Unlocking Earth AI’s planetary geospatial foundation models for global public health

MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country

Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.