As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review. That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating faster than human beings could track. … Read more
How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are weighing in on this question, as a debate rages over whether incidents like the Hugging Face incident — in which an OpenAI agent hacked several different companies — suggest that AI is on the verge of throwing our world into … Read more
Pinterest is turning to AI to help consumers move from searching for product inspiration to actually being able to imagine what it might be like to redesign a space or compare home decor options as they’d appear in their own rooms. On Thursday, the company said it’s launching a new consumer-facing feature called “Restyle” in … Read more
The new law will gradually exempt qualifying 1976–1985 collector cars from California’s regular smog-check requirements beginning in 2028.
Waymo has restarted its robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, five months after one of its vehicles was swept away during a flash flood. Multiple Waymo robotaxis got stuck during the heavy flooding in April. The vehicles slowed but did not stop as they approached waterlogged streets. Waymo ultimately issued a recall in May, and … Read more
Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models. The announcement lands amid debate for the safety of open-weight models — which can be made dangerous by removing their safeguards through a … Read more
GM’s new user interface has a digital oil level gauge instead of a traditional dipstick.
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the UK government, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic, the UK’s new AI minister Kanishka Narayan, and even the head of the UK’s foreign intelligence service. (Paolo Benanti, who advises the pope on AI, was … Read more
TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And while the main event takes over Moscone West from October 13-15, the conversation doesn’t stop when the Expo Hall closes. The TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event program brings founders, investors, operators, researchers, and tech enthusiasts together across San Francisco for … Read more
The new 5.7-liter and 6.6-liter V8s make more power than the engines they replace, but the smaller V8 has one advantage.