Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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Contrastive-LM Releases CLM-8B: An Open System One Model That Scores Agent Actions Up to 9× Faster Than Jev
Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, an open System One model that scores candidate actions against a state instead of generating text. It adds 2 small projection heads to a frozen Qwen3-8B encoder and trains them with a contrastive InfoNCE objective. In zero-shot tests it runs up to 9× faster than T...
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses.
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS With Prompt-Based Voice Design
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, 2 new text-to-speech models available now through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Flash TTS designs new voices from natural language prompts across 100+ languages. It ranks #1 on Hume AI's Voice Design Benchmark with a score of 71.4. ...
Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Diarization: A 100M-Parameter Open-Weight Model That Tracks 8 Speakers in Real Time
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model on Hugging Face. It answers one question about any conversation: who spoke when. The 100M-parameter model tracks up to 8 speakers, including when voices overlap. One checkpoint handles both offline recordings and re...
Will TypeSafe’s Jev Change How We Build AI Applications?
The following article originally appeared on Arize’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. This week the AI community was in uproar about Jev from TypeSafe, not just a new model but a new kind of model: one that classifies, scores, and routes but can’t write a sentence. The r...
YouTube Music gets more conversational with new AI features
YouTube is adding new AI-powered features to YouTube Music that aim to make it easier for listeners to discover music, explore artists, and find podcasts they may otherwise miss. Announced at this year’s Made On YouTube event, the updates include “Ask Music,” a conversational tool for music and podc...
YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI
ouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.
StrictlyVC at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Inside the changing rules of venture capital
StrictlyVC joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the changing VC landscape thanks to AI. Get your Investor Pass to join this exclusive session. Save $200 before September 25, 11:59 p.m. PT.
Ask most engineers what MCP is and you’ll get the same answer: a way to plug tools into an LLM. Fair enough, as far as it goes. But that description treats MCP like plumbing, and after months building MCP-based integrations for large enterprise platforms, I don’t think plumbing is the right metaphor...
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into othe...
Nokia Open-Sources AnyJev: A Training-Free Layer That Turns Any Open LLM Into a Calibrated Decision Model
Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It needs no training. It targets a common production job: picking one answer from a fixed set instead of writing a sentence. Is it deployable? Yes, it installs from PyPI, ships under...
Kyutai Releases Voice of Reason: A Speech-Native Model that Solves Spoken Math with Reinforcement Learning
Kyutai has released Voice of Reason, 2 open-weight speech-to-speech models built on GLM-4-Voice-9B. Supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning lift spoken GSM8K accuracy from 27.3% to 77.1%. There is no transcription step and no text LLM in the loop. Both checkpoints are on Hugging Face and r...
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna: 50% Cheaper API Pricing and Benchmarks
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, 2 lower-cost models trained with methods similar to GPT-6 Astra. Sol costs $2/$10 and Luna $0.10/$0.50 per 1M tokens. Both are available now in the API, ChatGPT Work and Codex. They come with improved prompt caching for long-running agents.
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SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a [...
SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone: Turning Your Voice into Polished Communication, and Action across Apps
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a [...