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Anthropic Expands Cyber Verification Program to Three Access Tiers
Anthropic on October 6, 2026 announced an expanded Cyber Verification Program that makes advanced cyber capabilities and reduced blocking classifiers…
Exclusive: Gamma revamps presentation platform to make output look more human
Gamma Tech Inc., a maker of artificial intelligence-powered services for presentations, social media and websites, today introduced a rebuilt version of…
5 Best Practices for Building Robust Python AI Libraries
This article covers building robust Python AI libraries specifically, Python AI SDK best practices, and what separates a production-ready AI package from…
What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her…
Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance…
Microsoft publishes Nobel economist’s bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade
Microsoft published a bearish AI outlook from Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu. He predicts about 1.5 percent GDP growth over ten years and at most five…
Sierra Unveils Personal Agent Protocol in Development With Meta and Partners
Sierra on October 6, 2026, announced Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard designed to define how personal AI agents interact with businesses. The…
Caterpillar and CoreWeave shorten the learning loop for physical AI
Demand for new data centers, power plants and highways is fueling a construction boom, even as the industry wrestles with declining productivity and a…
Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
Get all of your scaling and tech questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here’s the full breakout session agenda, happening October 13-15 in San…
Reflection’s Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China
Reflection has released Beam, its first open-weight model. The mixture-of-experts system activates just 23 billion of its 501 billion parameters per token…
DeepMind Debuts EmbeddingGemma 2, Mapping Five Modalities Into One Space
Google DeepMind launched EmbeddingGemma 2 on October 6, 2026, a 740-million-parameter open model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a…
NetApp aims to make legacy data AI-ready without a rebuild
Enterprises sitting on decades of legacy information face a pressing question as artificial intelligence moves from pilots to production: Can that archive…
Anaconda Pairs AI Agent Swarms With Autonomous Security Testing
Giving an AI agent more tools can make it more useful. Giving several agents those tools at once creates a harder question: how does an enterprise keep…
Transforming the data path: Dell’s new releases move enterprises closer to the agentic data center
AI is taking shape, moving from models that answer questions to models that can reason. Now models are powering the agentic era, and Dell Technologies…
Algolia Acquires Velou to Strengthen Product Intelligence for AI Shopping
A retailer can have the right product in stock and still lose the sale because its catalog does not describe what the shopper wants. That problem becomes…
Vast uses tiered storage to ease AI agent memory demands
AI agent memory is creating new demands on infrastructure as agents run longer sessions and spread across the enterprise. Retaining that context and…
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it’s easy to circumvent.