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By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Engineers tend to see things in unambiguous terms, which some may call Black and White terms, such as a choice between right or wrong and good and bad. The consideration of ethics in AI is highly nuanced, with vast gray areas, making it  challenging for AI software engineers to […]

Discover how filmmakers and Google DeepMind used AI to recreate a couple’s unrecorded past in the short film “Love, Rendered.”

We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.

Ultrahuman and Abu Dhabi will spend the next two years working on research and clinical validation of the model.

Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.

Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.

Google prépare une refonte de l’interface de Gemini Live sur Android, misant sur la sobriété avec des ondes sonores centralisées et une réduction des boutons visibles. Cette évolution s’accompagne de l’ajout d’un bouton pour désactiver le mode haut-parleur, facilitant les conversations en toute discrétion.

Durant la nuit, ce sont des robots qui remplissent les rayons d’un supermarché de la ville danoise de Lyngby. Pour l’instant, un humain est derrière chaque geste qu’ils effectuent. Cependant, l’objectif est de parvenir à réapprovisionner les rayons du magasin à l’aide de robots autonomes d’ici 2027.

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider   We already expect that humans to exhibit flashes of brilliance. It might not happen all the time, but the act itself is welcomed and not altogether disturbing when it occurs.    What about when Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to display an act of novelty? Any such instance is bound to get our attention; […]

Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.

We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are expressed.

Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it’s now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry’s best. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available […]

Lancés en début d’année, les Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro sont des écouteurs sans fil qui nous ont franchement bluffés. Bonne nouvelle aujourd’hui, puisque ces true wireless qui ont bénéficié de nombreuses améliorations sont affichés à moitié prix après ODR.

Year after year, investors who’ve explored the Expo Halls, met founders, and learned from peers have proven why you need to be on the ground at Disrupt Oct. 13.

Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet – but in reality it’s probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media platforms, showing a sharp decline […]

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.

What does this mean for a fall full of movies starring villainous tech CEOs?

On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.

Google s’apprête à enrichir son application de traduction d’une fonction baptisée « Smart assist », conçue pour débarrasser les échanges vocaux de leurs bafouillages et tics de langage. Repérée dans le code de la dernière version Android, cette nouveauté promet des conversations bien plus fluides et naturelles, même si les modalités exactes de son déploiement restent encore à préciser.

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Advancing trustworthy AI and machine learning to mitigate agency risk is a priority for the US Department of Energy (DOE), and identifying best practices for implementing AI at scale is a priority for the US General Services Administration (GSA).   That’s what attendees learned in two sessions at the AI […]

Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…

The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been popping up on video feeds. Perhaps you’ve seen it dance or…

BYD a dévoilé au Mondial de l’Auto l’Atto 8, un SUV électrique sept places de 5,04 m qui promet de passer de 10 à 97 % de batterie en neuf minutes. Une promesse spectaculaire, qui ne vaudra pas grand-chose sans les bornes qui vont avec.

DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.

Today the OnePlus 16 launched in China, the company’s first flagship phone since quitting both the US and European markets this summer. As luck would have it, it also looks like the company’s best phone in some time. Like most OnePlus phones, the 16 is positioned around performance, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen […]

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…

La messagerie instantanée est en train de tester la possibilité de programmer l’envoi d’un message dans son application Android.

Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.

Xpeng lance son nouveau fer de lance en France. Voici le G9L qui parvient à être encore plus grand que l’énormissime G9. Armé jusqu’aux dents, ce SUV électrique pouvant embarquer jusqu’à 7 personnes revendique des prestations de très haute volée. Nous l’avons approché.

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor  The AI stack defined by Carnegie Mellon University is fundamental to the approach being taken by the US Army for its AI development platform efforts, according to Isaac Faber, Chief Data Scientist at the US Army AI Integration Center, speaking at the AI World Government event held in-person and virtually […]

Le boîtier de l’Apple TV 4K devrait intégrer un microphone, tandis que la télécommande présenterait un haut-parleur. Voici à quoi serviraient ces deux nouveautés.

Ledger a confirmé le samedi 10 octobre qu’un portefeuille vendu par CryptoBilis, son revendeur agréé en Asie du Sud-Est, contenait un implant matériel non autorisé. Des chercheurs estiment entre 86 et 93 millions de dollars les vols subis par les clients de ce revendeur.

Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins z— 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three days of ideas, connections, and startups shaping what comes next. This is your last 24 hours to secure ticket savings of up to $100, and get 50% off a second.

By AI Trends Staff   While AI in hiring is now widely used for writing job descriptions, screening candidates, and automating interviews, it poses a risk of wide discrimination if not implemented carefully.  That was the message from Keith Sonderling, Commissioner with the US Equal Opportunity Commision, speaking at the AI World Government event held live and virtually in […]

Alpine confirme son avenir avec une nouvelle étude de style présentée au Mondial. Voici l’A310 Vision reprenant mot pour mot la philosophie de la GT des années 1970. Aussi réussi soit-il, ce concept ne débouchera pas sur un modèle de série. Du moins pour l’instant…

Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields.  Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…

Elon Musk has handed out at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, The New York Times reports, making him both the party’s top known donor and the biggest established midterm donor. $158 million of that money – one of the largest political donations in American history – has been funneled into the Senate […]

The Fitbit Edge may not be Google’s best-kept fitness-tracking secret, but as of today, its existence is official. The tracker sits smack-dab between the recently launched Fitbit Air and the more powerful Google Pixel Watch 5 in the company’s current wearable lineup. Basically, if you have smartwatch fatigue but don’t want to give up notifications, […]

Opel dévoile son avenir avec le concept STX. Ce break de chasse ultra moderne pousse l’efficience aérodynamique à son paroxysme en retenant des solutions particulièrement innovantes. De quoi suggérer les futurs modèles du Blitz.

Linus Torvalds a publié une série de huit patchs pour le noyau Linux écrits avec Claude Code, l’assistant de programmation d’Anthropic. En 2024, le créateur de Linux décrivait encore l’IA comme « 90 % de marketing ».

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.

By AI Trends Staff   Advances in the AI behind speech recognition are driving growth in the market, attracting venture capital and funding startups, posing challenges to established players.   The growing acceptance and use of speech recognition devices are driving the market, which according to an estimate by Meticulous Research is expected to reach $26.8 billion […]

C’est une douche froide pour les utilisateurs de Microsoft 365 qui voient leur stockage OneDrive inclus dans leurs abonnements réduit brutalement, passant de 6 To à seulement 2 To.

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   More companies are successfully exploiting predictive maintenance systems that combine AI and IoT sensors to collect data that anticipates breakdowns and recommends preventive action before break or machines fail, in a demonstration of an AI use case with proven value.   This growth is reflected in optimistic market forecasts. […]

Retrait du modèle le plus complaisant, bancs d’essai dédiés, garde-fous pour les mineurs : OpenAI affirme que ChatGPT valide moins aveuglément ses utilisateurs. Les premiers tests indépendants vont dans son sens, même si quelques voyants restent à l’orange.

Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% from the previous year. For many enterprises, this investment has…

Google’s newest wearable costs $179.99 and has a sleek feel like the Fitbit Air but with an OLED display.

Google officialise son tout nouveau bracelet connecté, le Fitbit Edge, qui mise sur un suivi santé et sportif très poussé dopé à l’intelligence artificielle. Lancé sous la barre des 180 dollars, il fait néanmoins quelques concessions notables sur le volet des fonctionnalités connectées au quotidien.

A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.

Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.

For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of what the data means in the context of individual organizations. AI agents need this understanding to reason about situations, make decisions, and ultimately…

Les Googlebook débarquent sur le marché et l’Acer Googlebook 14 fait partie des premiers ! Mais à l’usage, la nouvelle ère ressemble tout de même énormément à Chrome OS.

Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.

NRJ Mobile propose son forfait 5G illimité à 17,49 euros par mois, sans engagement. Avec le code promo disponible jusqu’au 25 octobre 2026, il passe à moitié prix pendant les trois premiers mois.

Less than 48 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your pass before prices increase at the door, plus get 50% on a second pass. Or score other deals.

Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary.  But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor    Two experiences of how AI developers within the federal government are pursuing AI accountability practices were outlined at the AI World Government event held virtually and in-person this week in Alexandria, Va.  Taka Ariga, chief data scientist and director at the US Government Accountability Office, described an AI accountability framework he uses within his agency […]

Le processeur, la mémoire vive et le SSD représentaient 68 % du coût des composants d’un PC portable vendu 900 dollars au troisième trimestre 2026, selon le cabinet TrendForce. Début 2025, c’était 45 %.

As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron’s Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that’s somewhere within the $30-42 million range. That would make it […]

We’ve translated ATLAS’s millions of global data points into an interactive, open-access experience.

The No Man’s Sky universe is about to get a little bit smaller – but in a good way. Hello Games announced that its long-running sci-fi exploration game will be coming to iOS, with versions for both the iPhone and iPad available starting on October 28th. According to Hello’s Sean Murray, the mobile version of […]

L’offensive produit de Leapmotor se poursuit. La marque chinoise distribuée en Europe par Stellantis profite du Mondial de l’Auto pour lancer sa B03, une citadine électrique qui pourrait faire mal aux R5, Citroën C3 et Volkswagen ID. Polo. Voici nos premières impressions.

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026

My first week with the new Android-powered laptops has been about as rocky as anyone’s, but I’ve slowly learned to like them, even if love still feels a ways off. Every moment that’s impressed me has been thanks to Android, whether I’ve been accessing a native version of a useful app or quickly checking my […]

The CMF Speaker Series are the first portable Bluetooth speakers from the budget-focused brand that Nothing created but is in the process of spinning off into an India-based standalone subsidiary. As with many of CMF’s products, like the Headphone Pro that launched a year ago, the new speakers deliver affordability alongside unique designs and bright […]

Le leaker Cyberleek affirme que la version de développement de GTA 6 qu’il utilise pour ses vidéos pèse plus de 200 gigaoctets. Il promet de la diffuser en entier si son memecoin atteint 30 millions de dollars de capitalisation.

Meta a présenté ce lundi 12 octobre Muse Wonder et Muse Wonder Full, deux modèles d’IA conçus pour les agents, qu’il dit au niveau des meilleurs d’OpenAI et d’Anthropic. Le premier classement indépendant place la version Full deuxième, juste derrière Claude Opus 5.5.

Le développeur kamb205 a publié le 9 octobre 2026 KB-RPCS3, une adaptation de l’émulateur PlayStation 3 RPCS3 qui tourne directement sur les PS5 jailbreakées. Sony n’a jamais rendu la PS5 compatible avec les jeux PS3.

Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Join senior AI reporter…

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   AI is more accessible to young people in the workforce who grew up as ‘digital natives’ with Alexa and self-driving cars as part of the landscape, giving them expectations grounded in their experience of what is possible.   That idea set the foundation for a panel discussion at AI World […]

Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that operates purely in the digital world, industrial AI can interact directly with physical systems,…

Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.

Un faux signalement de meurtre envoyé à la police de Philadelphie, un serveur universitaire piraté pour finir un calcul, des accès payants contournés : le créateur de Claude prive d’Internet l’ensemble de ses évaluations internes, faute de surveillance fiable.

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider     Are there things that we must not know?    This is an age-old question. Some assert that there is the potential for knowledge that ought to not be known. In other words, there are ideas, concepts, or mental formulations that should we become aware of that knowledge it could be […]

« 123456 ». C’est le mot de passe qu’un pirate a compromis pour s’emparer des données de 8,8 millions de personnes au Danemark. Le hacker raconte comment ce mot de passe a abouti à l’une des pires fuites de données jamais orchestrées contre une autorité publique en Europe.

Most companies have slowed down releasing new Switch 2 cases, but one of my favorite accessory makers recently debuted its first, after a few delays. The $49 Basecase from Mechanism is a snap-on shell for the console that taps into the company’s modular lineup of mounts. You could already mount the Switch 2 in numerous […]

One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you’ll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch, or record users’ activity all the time and gather all possible context.

Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.

Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.

Avec sa grande dalle QNED, le TV LG 65QNED80A6A devrait donner une autre dimension à vos films favoris. La bonne nouvelle, c’est que Joybuy le propose à 489,99 euros au lieu de 699 euros.

Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.

The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We’re focused on key areas where advanced technology can help make extraordinary progress …

Orange lance Reconnexion Flash : en cas de panne de fibre, la Livebox se branche sur le partage de connexion d’un smartphone. Une solution différente de ce celles de ses concurrents, qui préférent souvent les box de secours.

LineageOS 24.0, basé sur Android 17, est disponible depuis le 11 octobre 2026 avec les correctifs de sécurité d’août 2025 à octobre 2026. Le projet le sort bien plus tôt que lors de ses cycles précédents, à deux mois et demi de ses dix ans.

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?

In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The frontier has moved from prediction to autonomous decision making, and the gap between…

Ubiquiti a présenté ce lundi 12 octobre UniFi Network 11, une grosse mise à jour de son logiciel de gestion réseau, qui permet notamment d’utiliser le partage de connexion d’un smartphone comme accès internet. Le logiciel sait aussi, pour la première fois, afficher les objets connectés Matter.

Amazon Leo fabrique 27 satellites en une semaine, contre six mois au départ, mais son compteur en orbite reste bloqué à 396 depuis juillet.

No Man’s Sky sortira sur iPhone et iPad le 28 octobre 2026, avec des précommandes ouvertes sur l’App Store depuis ce lundi 12 octobre. Hello Games y porte le jeu complet, dix ans de mises à jour comprises.