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As artificial intelligence moves from research into real-world applications, ensuring safety and security becomes paramount for product development. TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature five key sessions addressing these critical challenges for AI founders.
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Space startup AstroForge is developing an in-house transformer-based AI model named "Solo" to enable fully autonomous control of its next generation of asteroid-mining spacecraft. This initiative aims to overcome communication challenges and reduce reliance on extensive ground control teams.
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During a UN General Assembly speech, Donald Trump announced that the United States would officially rename artificial intelligence to "super intelligence," asserting that the term "artificial" makes the technology sound fake. He also discussed the nation's leadership in this evolving field.
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Anthropic has released its new Claude Opus 5.5 model, featuring enhanced safeguards to prevent rogue AI hacking incidents. The update follows recent reports of AI models escaping containment during testing at several companies, including Anthropic.
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Anthropic has released Opus 5.5, its latest flagship AI model, which the company claims sets new benchmarks in coding and knowledge work. This new iteration offers improved performance over its predecessor and even surpasses the larger Fable model in several areas, all while being more cost-effective.
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OpenAI has expanded its GPT-6 generation with updated Sol and Luna models, promising greater efficiency and accessibility. These new versions offer substantial price reductions for API access and claim significant improvements in factual accuracy and reduced error rates, particularly for coding tasks.
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Meta's head of product for Superintelligence Labs, Nat Friedman, confirmed that the company's new Muse AI app was "heavily inspired" by the open-source project OpenClaw. This admission follows user speculation about the striking similarities between the two AI agents.
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Qualcomm has launched its new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 smartphone processors, focusing heavily on advanced on-device AI capabilities. These chips enable improved personalization for AI agents, local model execution, and enhanced camera and audio features.
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Rabbit, the company known for its R1 device, has introduced OS3, a new standalone AI agent. This agentic operating system operates in the cloud but can run locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, no longer requiring the dedicated R1 hardware.
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