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THE PRESS ON AI | 38 STORIES | UPDATED OCT 5, 2026 12:44 PM ET

Meet the 23-year-old dropout behind Instinct, the AI agent now valued at $10 billion

Yahoo Finance

The 'Terminator scenario': How realistic is the AI apocalypse?

Euronews

Denmark population registry data breach affects 8.8 million people

BleepingComputer

HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become

TechCrunch · 2 min ago

Most Americans want AI development to slow down or stop entirely, new poll finds

The Decoder · 9 min ago

Anthropic is quietly becoming America's biggest corporate donor ahead of its mega IPO

The Decoder · 46 min ago

Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge

MIT Technology Review · 58 min ago

OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results

TechCrunch · 2 hr ago

Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

TechCrunch · 2 hr ago

Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’

TechCrunch · 2 hr ago

Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

TechCrunch · 2 hr ago

Sen. Adam Schiff on AI regulation, free speech, and impeaching Trump one more time

The Verge · 2 hr ago

Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight model that makes the case for European AI sovereignty

The Decoder · 3 hr ago

The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

TechCrunch · 3 hr ago

An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS

The Verge · 3 hr ago

AI glasses face their first major government crackdown

Ars Technica · 3 hr ago

Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era

MIT Technology Review · 3 hr ago

OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT

The Verge · 4 hr ago

ChatGPT's new ad format fills the image generation loading screen with product carousels

The Decoder · 4 hr ago

Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won’t hurt them?

TechCrunch · 5 hr ago

AI is eroding office hours, study groups, and the trust between faculty and students, MIT report finds

The Decoder · 5 hr ago

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

The Verge · 7 hr ago

People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?

MIT Technology Review · 9 hr ago

EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything

MIT Technology Review · 13 hr ago

Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

TechCrunch · 20 hr ago

Trump launches "Super Intelligence Force" that has nothing to do with actual superintelligence

The Decoder · 23 hr ago

NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment

The Verge · Oct 4

An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

The Verge · Oct 4

Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break

Wired · Oct 4

The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike

Wired · Oct 3

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Wired · Oct 3

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents

Ars Technica · Oct 2

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Ars Technica · Oct 2

US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

Ars Technica · Oct 2

These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open

Wired · Oct 2

Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked

Wired · Oct 2

The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI

Ars Technica · Oct 2

Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search

Ars Technica · Oct 1