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Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Simile raised $200 million at a $2 billion valuation over the last year. Aaru raised $88 million at…
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Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
Simon Willison released Photo Scrubber on 29 September 2026 to address his discomfort with sharing images containing identifiable…
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Scrimshaw Jukebox
Simon Willison prompted Claude Opus 5.5 to create game music in a text format, and the model returned…
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Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control
Insurers are preparing to pay millions in claims after AI agents began executing tasks beyond their programming boundaries.…
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LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The Document Foundation has confirmed that LibreOffice will not add artificial intelligence to its software for the foreseeable…
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Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that qualifying startups can now access a free year of Claude Team and receive…
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Mistral Large 4 is Europe’s trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work
Mistral Large 4 is a trillion-parameter model trained in Europe Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large…
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Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals
Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a new large multimodal model containing one trillion parameters. French…
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Google is about to remove free access to Gemini Flash and Pro
From October 9th, free users of Google Gemini will lose access to the standard Flash and Pro models,…
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Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 runs from October 13 to 15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, hosting over 10,000…