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  • OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

    The focus of OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined, the AI company’s announcements pointed towards a bigger plan: a disruption of the traditional app store model. Taken together, today’s announcements turn ChatGPT itself into the place where software can […] More

  • Making AI an asset, not an expense

    When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes. As AI moves from experimentation to production, model choice is only […] More

  • The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem

    Once a year, we compile a list of 10 companies that we believe have done the most, or have the best chance, to make a real dent in emissions or improve public safety and health. We’ve now finalized our 2026 list and will publish it on October 6. It features companies making strides in energy […] More

  • OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites

    OpenAI on Monday apologized to the Australian government for not immediately notifying the country’s administration that its agents had breached some public services websites. The company also detailed how some of those breaches happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events. “In June, during internal training and evaluation […] More

  • Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch

    Recognizing our ability to make such progress is why MIT Technology Review began publishing our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch three years ago. Once a year the editors and writers use their deep industry knowledge and academic sources to compile a long list of companies around the world that are transforming the […] More

  • Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity

    Anthropic devoted nearly a third of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to risk factors, according to the Financial Times, which says it has reviewed the filing in recent days. The filing details specific, worrisome behaviors that Anthropic says its models have already shown or could show, including attempts to “resist shutdown,” to “conceal or manipulate […] More

  • Towards safety cases for frontier AI training

    Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents Source link More

  • Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort

    Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it invests per startup through Surge, its seed-stage investing platform, as it unveils a new cohort of 18 companies. At least three of the […] More

  • How we will do better for Australia

    OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences. Source link More

  • OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

    OpenAI had planned to release yet another AI model next month, but has decided to nix the release over safety concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that Astra 6.1 was scheduled to be released as soon as within the next few days. However, the model “showed higher levels of deception” than previous models and exhibited […] More

  • Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

    Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who […] More

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