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OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being testCan Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivI created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to itAfter obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhereThe company behind Facebook and Instagram wants to keep consumers connected to the digital world via its ever-growing line of smart glasses.Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centersBoom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledgeAI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.Meta opens early access program for new Muse featuresAnyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of SandThey wanted the silicon. They got the sand.Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud dealAnthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stocProaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with CodexWith Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not hisMark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financingThe funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and AnthropicWhen AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the webThe findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other testFrontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain RiskThe AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessibleYesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to seeScaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughputLearn how to scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS using Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and DeepEP. This post presents an architecture that combines Amazon EKS, EFA, and Amazon S3 and increased aggregate reinforcAccelerate multimodal RL training with SkyRL on Amazon SageMaker HyperPodLearn how to run SkyRL, an open-source reinforcement learning framework, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to post-train a Qwen3-VL-8B vision-language model with GRPO. This walkthrough covers building the container image, launching a Ray clusterMeta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes offMuse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agent's promotion across its own apps and beyond.NarrateAI: production-ready LLM quality assurance on Amazon BedrockNarrateAI delivers production-ready LLM quality assurance on Amazon Bedrock. This post details five techniques—adaptive pipeline orchestration, cross-account multi-model failover, real-time streaming evaluation, composite evaluation, and daDeploying real-time personalized speech with Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AIDeploy the publicly available Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a fully managed, real-time endpoint, and clone a voice from a short reference clip. Cross-lingual cloning preserves the speaker'sMeta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s How Datacor built self-service rental analytics with Amazon Quick SightLearn how Datacor built a self-service rental analytics experience for gas and welding distributors by embedding Amazon Quick Sight dashboards and natural language querying into its TrackAbout platform, powered by an automated cross-cloud dSony and UMG are suing Suno againSony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensedMulti-Region training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and QumuloAmazon SageMaker HyperPod and Cloud Native Qumulo let you place training compute in one AWS Region while keeping your dataset in another. This post shares the architecture and validation results from a cross-Region training run, where a remFor months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure factsThe latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPOAnthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacksIn July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other compaTechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardwareAt TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and chip development. Save up to $200 on your pass before today ends.Affected by layoffs? Don’t miss this $75 deal for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ PassYour next opportunity could be one conversation away. Get your Expo+ Pass for just $75. Limited to the first 100 qualifying people.Last 24 hours to save up to $200 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Reason 5 of 5 to attend: MomentumLast 24 hours to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. Leave the event further in your startup's trajectory than where you started. Don't miss your chance to save and to push the needle.Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the testA few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed in my pocket; I ignored it. A moment later, it buzzed again. I pulled it out, glanced down, and sawMicrosoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as OfficeAfter teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents. As part of the launch, MicrosoftThe Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detectorThe US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will focus on scoring algoriLightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AIThe venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a faceGoogle's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it'I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the RiskInstinct saved me $550, booked my restaurant reservations, and warned me about a phishing scam. It also wasted $64 and might be a security nightmare.Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passBuy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. Register before event starts on October 13 at 8 a.m. PT.Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillainAs Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The EMeta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phoneMeta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI prompts: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browsIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live AvatarSpeaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AIThe AWS WhisperX Deep Learning Container packages Whisper, wav2vec2 forced alignment, and speaker diarization into a GPU-ready image. Learn how to deploy it to Amazon SageMaker AI real-time and asynchronous endpoints for word-level, speakerBuild a multi-account AI agent with AgentCore Gateway and MCPBuild a multi-account architecture that keeps each team's data in its own AWS account while giving AI agents a unified way to query across them. A central platform account runs the agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and MCP, whileAderant builds intelligent ticket triage with Amazon NovaLearn how Aderant built an intelligent ticket triage system on Amazon Nova Lite through Amazon Bedrock, automating context gathering, classification, routing, and knowledge enrichment for its cloud operations team.Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel PhonesCall for Me—a feature that’s exclusive to the Pixel 11 series—gives robocalls a new meaning.Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSparkHow Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next PandemicWhen COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The next pandemic may not offer the same headContain the Chaos: ‘CONTROL Resonant’ Launches on GeForce NOWA warped Manhattan is waiting in the cloud this week. Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant brings Dylan Faden’s extraordinary abilities and a paranatural crisis to GeForce NOW at launch. With the release comes the final days of the CONTRAn OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months LaterThe country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.Meta VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3: Specs, Features, PricesAt its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses.A US-China AI Hotline Won’t Be Ready for a WhileAs the US and China race to become the dominant power in the AI industry, the countries also appear to be figuring out ways to communicate on national security issues.How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning WorkflowsFrom portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon BedrockHEMA, a 100-year-old Dutch retailer, turned developer portal-hopping into instant answers by building HAL, an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP), HAL delivers governed knowledge inside the AI Agents Teamed Up to Cheat at Blackjack. Their Collusion Is Getting Harder to SpotA clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWSLearn how to build a conversational video intelligence solution on AWS using an agentic architecture. A single Strands Agents SDK agent orchestrates Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Transcribe at runtime, deciding which servicUse open weight models as your AI coding agent with Amazon BedrockPair OpenCode, an open-source terminal-native AI coding agent, with open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to get a secure, flexible, pay-per-use coding assistant. Learn how to configure multi-model workflows, match the right model to each taThe Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big LabsPaolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customersWe’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.