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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.

Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.

Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.

From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable iPhone.

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display.

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.

Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion.

A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified or generated by artificial intelligence" to include a label in the same format as the ad itself. That applies to TV commercials from multi-billion-dollar companies , as well as restaurants' ugly, crowded flyers about their wing specials. Pennsylvania is one of the first states to require disclosures on AI content. And it requires those labels regardless of where an

Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to R&B. But from moment one, her take on the genre was restless, relentlessly playing with what R&B even means. Her first album, Ninety-Thirty-Thirty , includes songs heavily indebted to '80s synth-pop and features multiple saxophone solos. Boy Angel is a quirky electronic exploration with huge saw-wave synths, jittery percussion, and sky-high vocal stacks. While 2020's Demisexual Lovelace … Read the full story

LG’s C6 OLED TV is on sale in multiple sizes starting at $999.99 ($300 off). | Image: LG Black Friday is still over a month away, but if you’re hoping to upgrade your TV, you don’t need to wait until November. LG has already kicked off its early Black Friday sale , letting you save on the LG C6 and various soundbars through November 1st. Right now, for instance, you can snag a 55-inch C6 for an all-time low of $999.99 ($400 off) , with Amazon and Best Buy matching said price. Other sizes are also discounted, including the 65-inch

It feels like Apple's Welcome Home event just happened. And the iPhone Duo announcement isn't all that far in our rearview mirror, either. Yet, the company is back with another launch, focused on the MacBook Pro, it looks like. Its " Pro and tell " event is scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. While obviously nothing is confirmed yet, it sure seems like we're finally going to get that long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Beyond that? There could be an OLED update for the iPad Mini, plus M6 updates across other devices, following the M6 debut with

The Lenovo Yoga 9n is a pricey workstation laptop, but being a 2-in-1 also makes it fun. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week , and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is an Arm-based processor with a beefy integrated GPU and lots of unified memory. And the Yoga is the

Powering a car dashboard is more demanding on your handset than you might think. These tips will save battery life and help your phone chill out.

Hyve’s smart porch lockbox can secure incoming gifts—if your delivery driver uses it and there’s still room inside.

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

WIRED attempts what even the Swedish brand hasn’t: making a sonic monolith using scores of the cheapest Bluetooth speakers on the market. Can you have too much of a small thing?

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

The vaccine is personalized to a patient’s tumor, and results from the Phase 3 trial are yet another example of the promise of mRNA vaccines in treating cancer.

Whether you’re near or far, keep an eye on your fur baby with our favorite pet cameras.

Apple’s first folding phone is inspiring indie developers to create fun, quirky apps that take advantage of the screen and the hinge. Here are a few to try as you explore the Duo.

The Joybird Eliot Sleeper, plus hundreds of other options, are up to 40 percent off during the brand’s Semiannual sale.

WIRED and its panel of watch experts hunted for real mechanical timepieces at rock-bottom prices and found a wealth of options. Here are our favorites.

I’ve tested laptops for more than a decade, and here’s my advice for finding the right laptop for you.

This screen-free soundstage starter kit opens a world of audio fun for kids aged 3 years and up.

No cameras? No problem. Ditching the surveillance baggage makes Meta’s audio-only frames surprisingly easy to live with.

I’ve tested almost every Garmin watch—these entry-level favorites are steeply discounted right now.

The Webb telescope sees tiny red dots everywhere. Astronomers can’t agree on what they are, but some believe they may be enormous stars with black holes inside.

The brand’s lovely selection of hand-knotted and handwoven wool rugs at reasonable prices make it a WIRED-staff favorite.

The first folding iPhone Duo is here, alongside the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, but they’re not your only options. We have all the details on Apple’s smartphone lineup to help you find the right model.

The trillionaire has given more than $445 million to Republican political groups this election cycle, as Democrats vow to investigate him.

Meta got hit this week with its biggest fine yet, the latest in a mounting pile of court-ordered payments.

Samsung’s cute compact is for those who want the smallest possible phone. Performance and camera are solid, but it’s pricier than its predecessor.

This feature common to VPN services gives you protection and privacy specifically when and where you need it.

Great for typing and fine for gaming, but too many compromises keep this mechanical keyboard from leveling up your play.

CES 2026 loved these innovative headphones that transform into a Bluetooth speaker. After living with them, I’m impressed by the engineering, but less impressed by the sound.

Upward, a newly relaunched Christian app, is pitching trad values to a generation that barely even dates.

Here’s how to pick the best mattress for your sleep needs, straight from a professional mattress tester.

I’ve spent years testing smart bird feeders. These are the currently discounted models I’d buy for myself—or give as gifts.

Did you manage to score Apple’s first folding phone on launch day? Are you still mulling it over? Here are a few things to keep in mind.

Dyson’s sale event is happening now, and you can save up to $300 on vacuums, hair tools, and more.

The cloud has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2018. Now, a new study offers a possible cause for its appearance.

Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create “elite working dogs” equipped with "advanced body armor."

Although the case is considered exceptional, investigators are working to determine how the infection occurred and whether the pathogen played a role in the patient’s death.

My Google Home Speaker had been burning through more data than all the rest of my devices combined. As I looked into it further, I found other smart home devices that had the same problem.

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we go behind the scenes of our Nathan Fielder cover story, unpack tech billionaires’ generous promises, and discuss the suspicious letters sent to US election offices.

The Anker Soundcore Space 2 are a good deal even at full price. The fact they’re 18 percent off is just icing on the cake.

Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.

Apple’s Mac Mini M4 is one of the best mini computers you can buy, and it’s $150 off. While it’s a good deal on a new, older-generation model, it’s more expensive than it was at launch.

The Fellow Aiden Precision Coffee Maker is a smart, high-end machine that offers pour-over quality. You can get it refurbished from the brand for 25 percent off.

Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.

With pricing in flux and new models available, here’s which Surface Laptop and Surface Pro to buy.

An earnings briefing on Wednesday revealed ad revenue has slowed since the European Union introduced the Less-Personalized Ads model at the beginning of this year.

A portable keyboard and kickstand make it a viable emergency workstation—even if iOS still gets in the way.

A host of election-denying candidates are running for attorney general in states across the country.

After testing multiple models, I’m convinced voice control belongs on the family calendar. Greenlight’s Family Hub shows why.

The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.

AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.

From local businesses to global brands, more advertisers can now reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.

See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.

Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.

Learn how OpenAI built ChatGPT’s LLM-powered ad stack to understand conversational intent, keep ads separate from answers, and deliver relevant ads at scale.

OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.

An independent Schlotzsky’s and Cinnabon franchisee cut menu repricing time by 95% and built a workflow that could free up $100K in cash flow.

Terminal X’s Eval Agent grades outputs against a 54-criterion rubric, catching 25% more deviances from a fund’s mandate with GPT-6.1 Sol.

OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments.

Learn how OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.

With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.

Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

Anant Kumar builds tools to compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements, using Codex for code review and faster follow-ups.

Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.

Celebrate Teachers’ Day with AI for Educators in Brazilian Portuguese and see how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning.

In collaboration with OpenAI, Sullivan & Cromwell developed Agreement Analyzer, an AI tool for identifying issues in a draft agreement.

See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.

With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts weeks of malware analysis to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats.

With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use.

Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in minutes.

New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value.

Higgsfield brings creators longer videos with GPT-6 Astra, precise visuals with GPT-Image-2.5, and a path to voice filmmaking with GPT-Live.

Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.

Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.

LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.

Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.

GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.

Jump Trading uses OpenAI to expand quantitative research. See how longer-running AI workflows combine multiple data sources with human review.

OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.

Learn how OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contracting workflows to advance computer use for professional work.

Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and deliver work.

How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.

OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.

Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.

Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4.

Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.

Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.

Welcome back. China's MiniMax is pushing open models closer to frontier performance at a fraction of the cost, raising the stakes for US labs. Meanwhile, Anthropic is making a massive commitment to philanthropy, but there's a strategic reason AI companies need public goodwill as they race to build infrastructure and expand their influence. And Inception's Mercury 3 is the most intriguing development of all. Its diffusion architecture challenges the industry's prevailing approach to scaling AI, delivering dramatically faster responses while using expensive GPUs a lot more efficiently. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Inception's Mercury 3 upends AI

Welcome back. AI is changing not just how we work, but how companies organize themselves. In the latest episode of The Deep View Conversations podcast, Rokt COO Bill Barton explains why generalists are growing in value and shares six timeless attributes for succeeding in the AI era. Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to take a different approach to building frontier AI models, prioritizing efficiency and cost over brute-force scaling. And a new Wharton report reveals why companies focused on using AI to grow their businesses are seeing far better returns than those simply cutting costs. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Hello, friends. As AI disrupts the traditional career ladder and democratizes a great number of skills, the most important qualities in an employee have little to do with technical prowess. That’s the topic of this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Rokt . Let us know what you think! — Nat Rubio-Licht AI is turning specialists into generalists Though AI is undoubtedly changing the roles of engineers, it may be poised to shift the DNA of the workforce entirely. Bill Barton, chief operating officer at ecommerce tech firm Rokt , has seen the company transform as a result of

Welcome back. As enterprises seek to reel in AI spending, Meta and Nvidia released open models that home in on efficiency and on-premise usage. Meanwhile, Amazon's new AI wearables push could offer seamless integration that gives it an edge over competitors. And Anthropic has unveiled its plan to let third-party evaluators inspect its models as frontier AI safety concerns continue. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Anthropic’s safety audits face a trust test 2. Meta, Nvidia give US open models a boost 3. Amazon’s edge in AI wearables is its ecosystem GOVERNANCE Anthropic’s audit push tests AI transparency As

The music industry is facing its own Turing test. While practically every field is reckoning with how to navigate AI's impending transformation, the music industry sits at a unique crossroads: When a creation that we once believed to be distinctly human can be automated, what happens to the artist? The question about where AI fits into the music industry has evolved from debate into a cacophony. While the loudest voices are aggressively for it or against it, the reality of how musicians are using AI and the tech's risks are far more nuanced, according to a variety of experts we

Welcome back. Nvidia explains how its strategy for rapidly expanding AI data centers involves digital twins, or virtual replicas of physical environments. Meanwhile, Apple may have found its edge in the smart home space by relying on user context. And a fleet of rogue agents from a Chinese lab highlights how AI containment has become an international problem. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. China’s rogue agents widen AI’s safety problem 2. Apple turns user context into a smart home edge 3. Nvidia's secret weapon for accelerating AI factories GOVERNANCE Why rogue agents demand a global response New research

Welcome back. Though Meta's new camera-free glasses provide a lighter, more socially-acceptable alternative to its previous iterations, they also forgo the visual context that makes its AI more useful. Meanwhile, a coalition of authors is fighting for control over how their content is used by AI labs. And hundreds of researchers are urging the AI industry to create stronger sandboxes as rogue AI incidents pile up. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why AI labs face a growing containment problem 2. Publishers seek leverage in the AI copyright fight 3. Meta's Audio glasses make a context trade-off GOVERNANCE AI’s

Welcome back. Though augmented and virtual reality have faced a decline, Meta's AI-powered VR glasses are breathing life into the tech. Meanwhile, Anthropic latest rogue agent scandal may force Washington to take firmer regulatory action. And while Muse Wonder achieves top scores on AI benchmarks, Meta might have to reckon with its users' longstanding trust issues to see the adoption it's hoping for. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Can better models fix Muse's trust issues? 2. Why rogue agents could reshape AI oversight 3. How Meta transformed VR for the AI era BIG TECH Meta’s Muse Wonder inherits

Welcome back. Nvidia's investment in the open models ecosystem allows enterprises to gain the advantages of specialized intelligence. Meanwhile, Chinese AI labs are investing in their own open AI ecosystem, but may be doing so with fewer safeguards. And Microsoft's Satya Nadella is again raising red flags about the industry’s posture toward AI safety. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Microsoft is pitching zero trust for AI 2. The hidden risk in China’s open model boom 3. Why AI agents need a flight recorder BIG TECH Microsoft reframes AI safety debate around trust While many questions around AI

Hello, friends. As enterprises deploy an increasing number of agents, governing them is more important than ever. But in order to control your agent, you have to give it an identity. Thanks to JumpCloud for sponsoring today’s edition of The Deep View. Let us know what you think! — Nat Rubio-Licht Give your AI agent an identity before you give it a job Most of the security conversation around AI has focused on data: what employees share with AI tools, what company information those tools can access, and where that information goes. Those concerns aren't going away. But they also

Welcome back. Google's new Gemini Agent could give the company an enterprise advantage as it struggles to keep up in the frontier model race. Meanwhile, Amazon's Alexa Tablet offers a sleek and seamless hardware experience, but its AI might not outshine competitors yet. And as the debate over rogue agents wages on, Anthropic and OpenAI face a major present-day risk: malicious misuse of their models. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Anthropic and OpenAI confront AI's darker reality 2. Is Alexa enough to set Amazon tablets apart? 3. Why Google may have an edge in enterprise agents GOVERNANCE Anthropic

Welcome back. OpenAI’s new meeting recorder could be more consequential than it looks. By bringing meeting notes and transcripts into ChatGPT, OpenAI is expanding its understanding of users, making the platform stickier, more useful, and harder to leave. Meanwhile, Apple is preparing to bring the new Siri AI to a lot more users via smart home devices like the ones from Amazon Alexa that are still used by over 40 million households in the US. And new research from Common Sense Media raises troubling questions about ChatGPT’s safeguards for teens, although OpenAI disputes the findings. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S

Welcome back. Open models are having a moment. Google and Reflection are pushing out new US-based open models to challenge the lead of Chinese labs, and it's giving enterprises more options on cost, efficiency, and control. Mistral is making a similar case with its 1-trillion-parameter flagship, arguing that owning the weights can reduce lock-in and give enterprises more control over critical systems. Meanwhile, Anthropic is facing a different kind of challenge as major customers pull back on Claude, raising bigger questions about enterprise spending, model dependence, and whether frontier labs can sustain their growth stories as competition intensifies. — Jason

Welcome back. Anthropic is betting on open ecosystems with its Model Hardware Standard (MHS) drawing interest far beyond science labs and could become a common interface between AI agents and hardware devices. Meanwhile, Sam Altman is drawing a sharper line between OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing that AI’s benefits justify accepting more risk than his rival is comfortable with. And Meta Muse is raising privacy red flags with the way it is developing profiles for all of the most important people in your life so that it has better context to handle your tasks. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Welcome back. Microsoft is quietly redefining its AI strategy, one specialized model at a time. Its new streaming transcription model topped a key accuracy leaderboard and can return text in as little as 100 milliseconds, a reminder that enterprises care more about focused performance than general-purpose capabilities. In our latest podcast, OneTrust's Blake Brannon makes the case for guardian agents that can police other AI agents, because human review simply can't keep up. Amazon, meanwhile, is putting $1 billion behind a campaign to win over communities to the benefits of data centers. However, the move may miss the point that