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Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

OpenAI · 2026-10-30 Models

Community safety report and new protections for teens

OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.

OpenAI · 2026-10-30 Industry

As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience

As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.

TechCrunch · 2026-10-30 Industry

Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick…

TechCrunch · 2026-10-30 Tools

Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity

Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on…

The Verge · 2026-10-29 Models

Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.

TechCrunch · 2026-10-29 Models

Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation

Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.

Google DeepMind · 2026-10-28 Tools

Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls

GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark, while Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.

OpenAI · 2026-10-27 Models

Greptile takes bug detection beyond code review with GPT-6 Astra

How Greptile uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security, and Codex to reduce rework.

OpenAI · 2026-10-27 Models

ChatGPT’s expanding world of work

Explore OpenAI Signals data on 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how people use ChatGPT for work and how usage changes over time.

OpenAI · 2026-10-26 Industry

AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says

"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside…

TechCrunch · 2026-10-26 Industry

The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

TechCrunch · 2026-10-25 Industry

Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI

BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by…

The Verge · 2026-10-25 Industry

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

TechCrunch · 2026-10-25 Models

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

OpenAI · 2026-10-24 Models

Securing our frontier model training environment

OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.

OpenAI · 2026-10-23 Industry

Claude on Google Cloud can now run on an Anthropic-managed stack

On October 23, Google Cloud made an Anthropic-managed Claude deployment generally available. The same models are available on day zero, including Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5, and Fable 5.1. New platform features land first on the Anthropic-managed option.

Google Cloud · 2026-10-23 Tools

Google introduces Agent Compute Engine, a microVM for each agent

On October 22, Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine. It already runs Gemini's work agents: each agent gets a hardware-isolated microVM that can pause when idle. A customer preview is planned for the coming months.

Google Cloud · 2026-10-22 Models

iFlytek releases Spark X2.6, trained on domestic chips with a million-token window

At its October 22 developer event, iFlytek launched Spark X2.6, an end-cloud model trained on domestic computing power. The cloud model is a 293B MoE with about 30B active parameters and a 1 million token context. A 4B on-device model is open source.

Global Times / IT Home · 2026-10-22 Models

OpenAI models arrive on Google Cloud, with three GPT-6 models in private preview

On October 21, Google Cloud opened a private preview of GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna in Model Garden. Usage bills through Google Cloud. Microsoft remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner.

Google Cloud / OpenAI · 2026-10-21