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Sravan Vadigepalli, who leads enterprise AI transformation at Lowe's, outlines six guidelines for governing AI systems, arguing that technology roles are shifting from building AI to defining how it operates. He cites a 2025 MIT Media Lab report estimating only about 5 percent of integrated pilots generate substantial value.
OpenAI will add invisible textGrain watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex outputs in the European Union over the coming weeks, while API watermarking stays opt-in worldwide. Internal tests showed detection around 95 percent on 400-token psychology passages, dropping to 17 percent after a quarter of words are replaced.
An OpenAI publicist interrupted a Vanity Fair interview with CEO Sam Altman after editor Mark Guiducci raised a ChatGPT user's suicide, telling him to "move on" to another topic. The exchange occurred after Guiducci asked Altman about journalist Laura Reiley, whose daughter died by suicide after conversations with ChatGPT.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the benefits of AI will be so great that the world should accept some bad things happening along the way, citing hacks, scams, and other harms. His comments come as OpenAI pushes for a lighter-touch approach to AI regulation.
A Quinnipiac University poll found that 77 percent of Americans want AI development slowed or stopped until safety is verified. 86 percent support independent safety standards, and 74 percent have little or no trust in AI company leaders.
Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025, nearly five times the amounts given by the next-largest Fortune 500 corporate donors, according to documents shared with potential investors ahead of its planned IPO. A company program tops up employee share donations with extra shares, tripling contributions from early employees.
A paper posted to ArXiv on 6 September argues that keeping humans in the loop for AI agents fails in practice unless designers and users change their practices, pushing people out of oversight. Authors Avijit Ghosh and Margaret Mitchell of Hugging Face and Samir Passi recommend adding deliberate friction to human-AI interactions.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases now supports agentic retrieval, exposed through the langchain-aws package, which decomposes multi-part questions into sub-queries and iterates until it judges the evidence sufficient. It is available only on managed knowledge bases, requires boto3 1.43.32 or later, and supports guardrails in BLOCK mode only.
OpenAI is launching visual display ads alongside image generation results in ChatGPT, starting later this month in the U.S. with an initial test group of advertisers. The company is also expanding ad measurement tools, partners, and brand suitability pilots.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host four sessions on how founders choose between open and closed AI models and how much of the AI stack to own. The event runs October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco.
OpenAI outlined its approach to text provenance under EU rules, covering where watermarks apply and how detection works, noting that access begins with researchers.
TechCrunch announced the five final judges for the Startup Battlefield pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held October 13-15. Each judge founded or co-founded the investment firm they now lead, and all five will appear together for a live AMA on the Builders Stage.
In a Decoder interview, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) discussed AI regulation, saying he supports creating a new agency to regulate AI while warning that the Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision could tie new rules up in litigation. He also criticized a nonbinding White House AI safety pact signed by tech CEOs.
TechCrunch revealed the full Disrupt Stage lineup for Disrupt 2026, running October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Speakers include Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman, all five Benchmark partners, and Mark Wahlberg with Keebeck's Bruce K. Lee.
An open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI lets macOS users delete about 12GB of Apple Intelligence data and turn off the features, after Apple removed the single Settings toggle in macOS 27.
Norway's center-left government proposed a temporary ban on AI glasses in selected public places including parks, beaches, schools and kindergartens, and will set up an expert group to propose permanent national rules. Digitalization minister Torgeir Micaelsen cited risks of people being photographed, filmed or recorded without their knowledge.
A sponsored MIT Technology Review report describes a 2026 enterprise AI shift from predictive models to autonomous decision making, with intelligent analytics powered by deep learning and generative AI moving companies from hindsight to foresight, according to Everest Group partner Vishal Gupta.
OpenAI announced it will begin testing a visual ad format in the US later this month, initially showing sponsored product and service images when users generate images with ChatGPT. The company says the ads will not influence answers ChatGPT provides.
NVIDIA Inception startups iSono Health, Whiterabbit.ai, Ataraxis AI and SimBioSys are applying AI to breast cancer imaging, risk assessment and treatment planning. The article details each company's cleared or investigational tools and their use of NVIDIA GPU infrastructure.
OpenAI will test display ads on ChatGPT's image generation loading screen in the US later this month, showing product carousels below the generated image. The company is also expanding ad measurement, brand safety pilots, and negative keyword controls.