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Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Mark Wahlberg is taking the Disrupt stage with Bruce K. Lee for a candid conversation on entrepreneurship, investing, deal flow, healthcare, wellness and how he’s leveled up his approach to business.

Top AI Researcher Andrew Tulloch Ditches Meta for Anthropic. Here's What He'll Be Working On.

Prominent AI researcher Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta for Anthropic. He's also worked at OpenAI and cofounded Thinking Machines Lab.

OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

Sam Altman met with power utilities about securing the electrical grid. He offered one possible solution: OpenAI's cyber services.

The conversations took place amid a continuing series of revelations about OpenAI's own products' role in a sprawling cyberattack.

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

Over the past eight months, our Threat Intelligence team identified and disrupted operations in which threat actors tried to use Claude for malicious activity. In this report, we share case studies from those operations and describe how malicious use of Claude has evolved since our previous threat reports in March, August, and November 2025. In each case, we disrupted the activity, used what we learned to strengthen our safeguards, and shared intelligence with authorities and industry partners, where appropriate.

California governor signs laws aimed at protecting kids from risks of social media, AI chatbots

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of laws Thursday aimed at protecting children from the risks of technology, including social media and AI chatbots.

Meta is asking some of its employees to become managers again in a new reorg

Meta is asking some Applied AI staff to move from individual contributor roles back into management after the company flattened teams.

Hasbro disavows DHS Transformers posts.

Posts from the official DHS account on X marked “Made with AI” show Optimus Prime with “ICE” and a DHS logo on him, along with the Transformers logo above “Age of Deportation.” Hasbro’s response says they were “done without permission” but didn’t mention any specific action to take them down.

Meta's AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook

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Google's Dreambeans AI app is rolling out to everyone in the US.

The app, which Google began testing in June, pulls information from across Search, Gmail, Photos, Calendar, and Gemini to provide AI shopping recommendations, travel suggestions, event reminders, and more. It pairs these suggestions with somewhat unsettling storybook-style drawings of yourself.