LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
Waymo restarts San Antonio service 5 months after flooding troubles
Waymo has restarted its robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, five months after one of its vehicles was swept away dur...
IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.
2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here's what we still like, here's what annoys us
It’s spacious, efficient, and charges very quickly. But what about reliability concerns?
Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the UK government, includi...
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with...
Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
Pinterest is turning to AI to help consumers move from searching for product inspiration to actually being able to imagi...
Lofi Girl returns with a new house music station and vinyl compilation
The old "where'd lofi girl go" trick again, I see.
Scammers have been inserting fake songs onto real artist's pages on Spotify and other platforms
A distribution loophole lets scammers collect royalties uploading fake songs to profiles for real bands.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events schedule: NMI, Backblaze, PeakXV Partners, Augment, and more to host
TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And while the main event ta...
Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.
Apple will let EU apps use less-alarming tracking-consent screens
As a result of a multi-year antitrust probe by Germany’s federal competition regulator and others, Apple has agree...