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McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal.…

Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security

Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet.

How Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI technology

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

Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different

Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.

Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids

OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed…

The AI race is back on

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta,…

Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?

New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding. James is…

YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms

The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as involved in composition and vocals.

YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs

YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply…

Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.

SentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours

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

My AI doppelganger tells me what to eat

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For…

OpenAI claims an ex-employee took its product plans and presented them to Apple

OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal…

HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost

Microsoft has a new machine learning tool to improve weather forecasts

Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a problem Microsoft claims to have solved using machine learning. Researchers with the company say…

Android is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages

Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages and additional safeguarding tools. Building on the Scam…

Square’s new kiosk lets you talk to AI for help with your order

Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It's called the Square Kiosk. Square says the Kiosk, which has a large pill shape, has an "agentic,…

Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu

Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that…

Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models

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

Deezer will soon let you filter out AI-generated music

Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.

Save 50% on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket and join the last two days in San Francisco’s Moscone West

Get 50% discount on the last two days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Oct. 14-25, in San Francisco's Moscone West. Register now and join the rest of the startup ecosystem. Today, it's all about physical and software AI.

Zenzap raises $44M for its AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp in the workplace

Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell.

Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to

The problem Floqer is trying to solve is familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 2

Day 2 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, full of all themes across AI, investor-only session, more roundtables, and more. Register to save 50% on your pass.

How Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours

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.

Epic’s new games launcher is ‘vibe coded’

Epic Games is announcing a big refresh of its PC games launcher today in preview, saying that the new version is "way faster" and now supports Linux. But the company, which has been publicly making a big push into…

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.

Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI

Scimplify's annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion.

The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic

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

Which Metadata Matters for LLM Tool Selection in MCP? Evidence from Controlled Factor-Level Interventions

arXiv:2610.14334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems, LLMs select tools from metadata rather than from their implementations. Names and descriptions summarize what a tool does, while…

ConicFlow: constrained Inference-time optimal control for flow matching models

arXiv:2610.14307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose ConicFlow, which frames constrained sampling from a flow matching model at inference time as an optimal control problem that balances deviation from the…

Controllable Diverse Sampling through Pullback Directions

arXiv:2610.14294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conditional diffusion models can generate high-quality images that align closely with a given prompt. However, samples generated from different random seeds may remain…

Echo: Error-Compensated 4-Bit Tensor-Parallel Communication for LLM Training and Inference

arXiv:2610.14277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tensor parallelism ends every layer with an all-reduce that sits between two dependent matrix multiplications, so its cost cannot be hidden and grows as compute outpaces…

Harness^2: Recursive Agent Harnessing for an Open World

arXiv:2610.14224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents' capabilities depend not only on their underlying models but also on their execution harnesses. Recursive self-improvement (RSI) offers a promising approach to…

Should SLMs be in the Driver's Seat? A Study of Local Models as Interpreters in Cloud-Written Agent Programs

arXiv:2610.14209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The most accurate agents executing user-provided tasks are driven by large, cloud-hosted models, which solve them by reading the private data of the user. Agents powered…

Cross-Modal Latent Influence: Patch-Level Training Sample Attribution for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2610.14190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explaining a vision--language model (VLM) prediction requires tracing training-example influence to the multimodal evidence that mediates it, yet existing attribution…

Visualizing the World Model in an Agent's Value Function

arXiv:2610.14186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Could model-free reinforcement learning algorithms actually be learning a model of the environment? In this work, we apply counterfactual interventions which hold…

Unconstrained CTI-REALM with Open-Weights

arXiv:2610.14180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organisations that want language-model agents for security work face a choice between open-weight models, which they can run and audit themselves, and far more expensive…

VETNET: Assembling Benchmark Datasets for AI-Driven Veterinary Innovation

arXiv:2610.14149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VETNET represents an ecosystem of live benchmark datasets and evaluation frameworks designed to accelerate AI-driven innovation in animal science and veterinary medicine…

Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0: Automating Diverse Task Construction and Measuring Sustained Agent Progress

arXiv:2610.14146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon terminal benchmarks measure whether an agent can sustain progress through extended workflows with process rewards, not only whether its final state passes a…

Correction Training for Diffusion Models

arXiv:2610.14136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Iterative sampling in diffusion models can lead to error accumulation due to exposure bias. The denoiser is trained on real images interpolated with noise, but at…

ClawLoop: Self-Improving Agents via Harness-Native Training Loop

arXiv:2610.14118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven their deployment toward general-purpose harness environments, where LLM-based agents operate in sandbox…

The Silent Failures in Agentic Data Science

arXiv:2610.14115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have significantly lowered the barrier to writing code. Naturally, this has also led to the development of data science agents that promise…

Artificiality's First Exam: An LLM-Referenced C-test for Supraintelligence

arXiv:2610.14005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under the accelerated pace of AI development, any benchmark whose difficulty is calibrated with humans or current AI systems becomes circular, or saturates soon. How can…

Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine

Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions…

Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient

Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).

Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.

Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks

Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.

Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.

Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware

Topgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141 Points: 345 # Comments: 309

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

Article URL: https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073221 Points: 228 # Comments: 142

How to engineer an AI harness for game development

Article URL: https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072120 Points: 119 # Comments: 54

Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069942 Points: 145 # Comments: 20

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

Article URL: https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069337 Points: 159 # Comments: 80

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/... https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/just-5-years-in-interactiv... https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/characterai-files-b...…

Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/ai-share-crash-risk-global-imf-debt-corrowing-cyber-attacks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067356 Points: 109 # Comments: 124

A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms

Article URL: https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065932 Points: 237 # Comments: 155

AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065692 Points: 271 # Comments: 136

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

Article URL: https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427 Points: 642 # Comments: 509