AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13…
CNBC Daily Open: AI spending fears haunt markets before Halloween
Good morning. This is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore. Markets open and close every day. Today, Daily Open will close for the final time. Thank you for making us part…
Etsy bans AI-generated recipes, patterns from its online marketplace
Etsy said Thursday it will no longer allow merchants to sell AI-generated recipes and patterns on its online marketplace, as part of a wider push to set firmer rules around the use…
Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Recursive, an AI startup founded last year, is starting to live up to its name. The company, which is trying to build AI that can improve itself, released its first model, Flint,…
Anthropic’s Katelyn Lesse Says Her Team Shifted to AI Coding Entirely
A top Anthropic engineer says that Claude Code has already wiped out all human coding at one of the AI lab’s central teams. Katelyn Lesse leads the AI startup’s platform engineering group,…
Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs’ cheap prices are “irrational”
Comcast reportedly plans significant job cuts in its cable division as the firm continues to lose residential broadband and TV customers. Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in Q3 2026, up from…
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale \ Anthropic
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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s AI diagnostic system correctly diagnosed complex medical cases in a simulation more than twice as often as generalist physicians, according to a study published Thursday in Science. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI’s…
Meta stock falls 7% as AI spending fears return
Meta (META) stock closed out the trading day Thursday down 7% on, despite reporting better-than-anticipated Q3 revenue results Wednesday, as AI bubble fears remerged across Wall Street. Investors pulled back on semiconductor…
Can Free AI Clones Really Replace Photoshop? I Put LightCraft and PhotoCraft to the Test
For years, Adobe’s Lightroom and Photoshop have held a near-monopoly on high-end image editing. Frustrated creators have complained endlessly about non-negotiable subscription fees, but traditional free or pay-once alternatives never quite matched…