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The latest artificial intelligence headlines from TechCrunch, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, Wired, Ars Technica, and a dedicated stream on what AI means for jobs, hiring, and careers. Every headline links to the full story at its publisher.
Latest AI headlines
Yesterday
Thursday 22 October
- OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPOTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating themThe Verge · (opens in a new tab)
- Designing an AI serving harness built to lastMIT Technology Review · (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts sayThe Verge · (opens in a new tab)
- The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI BoomWired · (opens in a new tab)
- 1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your passwordTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Canva releases its first image generation modelTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats upTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- The Foundations of Scalable AIMIT Technology Review · (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’TechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditionsThe Verge · (opens in a new tab)
- Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AIThe Verge · (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWiseTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’The Verge · (opens in a new tab)
- Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT WorkTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents chooseTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agentsTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to youTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictionsTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) AnythingWired · (opens in a new tab)
- Making the case for context-aware AIMIT Technology Review · (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNAWired · (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behindMIT Technology Review · (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were PatchedWired · (opens in a new tab)
Wednesday 21 October
- Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblownTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stockTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot MeasureWired · (opens in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to knowTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activityTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AITechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome matTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internetTechCrunch · (opens in a new tab)
- This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary GoodWired · (opens in a new tab)
- Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data CentersWired · (opens in a new tab)
- ‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on FireWired · (opens in a new tab)
- AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal HackersWired · (opens in a new tab)
- A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s MuseWired · (opens in a new tab)
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