Models
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts
The one-year-old Stanford-founded startup raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia to automate continual learning for specialized models.
AI news for Monday, November 2, 2026
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Policy
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
Anthropic's revised S-1A filing contains new risk-factor language suggesting the lab may be approaching its own threshold for recursive self-improvement.
Policy
TechCrunch AI2 min read
New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times and three other outlets hit Brave with federal scraping suits, accusing the browser maker of indexing publishers' work and reselling it to AI companies.
Business
OpenAI News1 min read
Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties
OpenAI lifts Security Bug Bounty payouts and adds quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent researchers.
Business
OpenAI News1 min read
Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAI
OpenAI is planning another internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems, using AI to probe and reinforce its defenses.
Models
Google AI Blog1 min read
The latest AI news we announced in October 2026
Google has posted a roundup of the AI announcements it made during October 2026.
Agents
MIT Technology Review3 min read
Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
A survey of agentic analytics adopters finds fewer than half of agent-generated insights drive business improvement, with context gaps, data fragmentation, and insight overload cited as the main drag on quality.
Models
TechCrunch AI2 min read
42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’
Israeli startup 42AI exits stealth with $62.5M seed funding for a behavioral world model claiming to predict individual decisions before they happen, initially deployed at financial brokerages.
Infra
OpenAI News1 min read
Scaling Git at OpenAI
OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development Codex makes possible.
Infra
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition
Omen AI buys Aquatic Labs for $16 million to fuse two real-time cooling-fluid sensors into one device for data center operators.
Infra
OpenAI News1 min read
Introducing the Grid Protectors Program
OpenAI launches a program to align future compute campuses with grid reliability and household electricity costs.
Agents
TechCrunch AI2 min read
OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s chat and Work tabs
OpenAI is folding ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs into a single experience, and unifying usage allowances with Codex in the process.
Infra
MIT Technology Review2 min read
Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
Agentic coding burns 10 to 50 times more tokens than a chat prompt, so the argument is to measure cost per merged pull request instead of cost per token.
Agents
MIT Technology Review2 min read
The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads
MIT Technology Review's weekday Download leads with the arrival of the agentic web, plus progress on eradicating traffic deaths, AI market jitters, and hacks on emergency alert apps.
Models
WIRED AI2 min read
When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web
Chatbots now search the web for you — and the query type, not the tool, decides whether that's a win.
Policy
WIRED AI3 min read
Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
A WIRED investigation traced a 400-domain network of benign-looking AI apps that secretly serve violent deepfake tools.