Anthropic has told investors it will turn a profit for the second straight quarter, but the claim rests on an adjusted metric that leaves out costs like…
Automate replenishment with MMF, Databricks Genie, and Amazon Quick
Foundation models made catalog-wide demand forecasting easy; the hard part is now acting on the forecast. This post builds a closed detect-decide-act loop…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-09-14 18h : 11 posts
11 posts published in the last hour 15:33The Guard Dog That Won’t Look at the Burglar: When AI Guardrails Protect the Attacker 15:33Perplexity Brings Its Local Portable Computer Agent to Windows PCs 15:33AI Didn’t Create New Security Problems. It Just…
The Guard Dog That Won’t Look at the Burglar: When AI Guardrails Protect the Attacker
The weekend Barings died, I was at UBS, working out what a suddenly insolvent 233-year-old bank might do to the rest of us. By the following week, the…
Perplexity Brings Its Local Portable Computer Agent to Windows PCs
Perplexity made Portable Computer, the local on-device version of its Perplexity Computer agent, available in the Perplexity app for Windows on September…
AI Didn’t Create New Security Problems. It Just Sped Them Up.
Every year around this time, I get some version of the same question from clients: “What’s the new AI threat we need to worry about?” It’s a fair…
Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct
Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct, opening a six-week public consultation on operational constraints for model training and…
Trump Rejects New AI Guardrails and Attacks Anthropic’s Amodei
President Donald Trump on September 14, 2026, rejected new guardrails for artificial intelligence in a post on Truth Social, writing that the only control…
Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
If you’re building an AI company, the question isn’t whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It’s whether your company will continue creating…
Responsible AI for Higher Education
This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and…
Universal Robots Debuts Gen 7 Cobot Platform for Physical AI
Universal Robots, a Teradyne Robotics company, introduced Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform at the IMTS tradeshow in Chicago on September…
Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work
Fathom said that it has over 400,000 monthly active users
Deepfake Detection Accuracy Falls 49% in a Year of AI Video Progress
I note with interest a new Ukraine-led paper indicating that the older generation of deepfake video detectors perform very poorly on current…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-09-14 17h : 10 posts
10 posts published in the last hour 14:335 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 14:33How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip 14:33UKAEA and PPPL Agree to Explore Linking Fusion AI Supercomputers 14:33Hear how AI…
5 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The last day to apply for an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Sept 18. Just 5 days left. Secure your spot on the Expo Hall floor and put your…
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and…
UKAEA and PPPL Agree to Explore Linking Fusion AI Supercomputers
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) signed a Joint Declaration…
Hear how AI can engineer nature’s comeback at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Not long ago, bringing an extinct species back to life belonged to science fiction. Today, it’s the mission of a billion-dollar startup. Advances in…