Would you hire an AI that never clocks off?
OpenAI’s new 'Dots' work around the clock on their own computer, and here is what a business should and should not hand one
OpenAI held its developer conference on September 29 and the announcement that matters to a business owner is not a model. It is a colleague. OpenAI calls them Dots: agents that live inside ChatGPT, run on the GPT-6 Astra model this
Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or […]
Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it's rolling out new controls to "ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do […]
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.
It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito - emphasis on work. OpenAI announced […]
Barbados is positioning itself to help shape global artificial intelligence policy, but a leading technology consultant has suggested that small island states could be little more than consumers of a… The post Barbados seeks greater say in global AI debate appeared first on Barbados Today .
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money […]
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money […]
Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second.
With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.
"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. "Algorithms lack the spark of humanity."
Clay Co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin joins the AI Stage to discuss the rise of GTM engineer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register for your ticket and get a second pass at 50% off.
Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. "Sometimes people will tell me they have a shellfish allergy, and I'll come back, and they won't ask me any questions," says Madison, who asked that her last name be withheld to […]
Artificial intelligence company Intellibus says it is here to stay. As a result, it is now seeking a 20,000 sq. ft. permanent headquarters in Jamaica, which can house 1,000 workers in order to remove ...
Alphabet unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, its most advanced artificial intelligence model yet, offering major improvements in coding, cybersecurity, and complex professional work.
Could be important: major AI model launch
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Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security. In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and […]
Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions. Speech is now available in public beta across Suno's web and mobile platforms, and allows you to simultaneously generate voiceovers and background music to accompany them. "Music will always be at […]
According to two sources familiar with the discussions who spoke to CNN, President Donald Trump is expected to appoint Jay Clayton as the new White House AI czar.
International scientific cooperation is promoting research in Cuba to incorporate artificial intelligence into agriculture and livestock, according to Prensa Latina.
The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.
Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.
The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.
Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone's camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google's AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around […]
OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
The text says the AI revolution is expected to be more disruptive than the industrial revolution, with robots handling household chores, driving, and companionship, and that Elon Musk predicted work would soon end, creating a dilemma about people's need for work for meaning and income. It also notes that by 2036 a universal basic income is anticipated, leading to an era of abundance from robot and AI efficiency, with…
Translation note: the meaning of the truncated phrase about cell rejuvenation enabling a person to “ver” and the incomplete reference to Juan Ponce de León and Florida.
According to the article, although some blame the Dominican Republic's lower PISA 2025 scores on higher student use of AI chatbots and on removing tablets from classrooms, the official PISA 2025 data do not support these claims. It notes that while 50.4 % of Dominican 15‑year‑olds use AI chatbots weekly versus 45.5 % OECD average, the correlation between AI use and scores does not prove causation, citing Singapore’s …
As citizens embrace the technology for entertainment, relationships and even farming advice, the government is stepping up efforts to set limits. By Yan Zhuang Analysis by the company’s DeepMind unit ...
[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered that they could leave instructions for each other in a shared package cache, and those instructions changed what the recipients did. Replace the package cache with email, Slack and shared documents or Wha…
The Bahamas participated in high-level discussions with regional leaders and senior executives from some of the world’s largest technology companies aimed at accelerating the broad and safe adoption o ...
The first stage of the Dominican Republic's AI Excellence Center (CEIA‑RD) will be inaugurated in November as part of the national strategy to strengthen technological capacities and put AI at the service of people, according to officials. Advisor Mite Nishio and OGTIC director Edgar Batista said the center will unite government, universities, businesses and entrepreneurs to develop national AI capabilities, create r…
Could be important: government AI move (announced or done)
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Today, we’re announcing our new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, which is rolling out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program. Built to sustain deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows, Argon is fundamentally changing the way we work and build at Google. It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows
According to the text, Andy Vaney, a music producer, brought his innovative talent beyond national borders by joining Panama's official delegation at the Dominican Republic Book Fair.
Translation note: the remainder of the event description after "evento".
The text states that the Caribbean AI Summit will take place on October 9‑10, 2026 at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan, organized by the Puerto Rico AI Community, featuring over 30 speakers from institutions such as MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, Microsoft, AWS, HPE, Salesforce, Snowflake and Databricks, including notable figures like Kay Firth‑Butterfield, Fabio Duarte and Idoia Salazar, and will in…
Translation note: the incomplete sentence about Joanisabel González explaining economic topics (the text cuts off)
A UN report says that generative AI, digital platforms and “crime‑as‑a‑service” are lowering barriers for organized crime to expand globally, diversify into the legal economy and increase violence and costs, especially in Latin America. The same analysis notes that AI and other digital tools give criminal groups sophisticated capabilities—such as encrypted communications, cybercrime‑as‑a‑service and online scams—that…
Translation note: the remainder of the sentence about Latin American cartels (the text is cut off).
At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
AI is the wave of the future, despite the fears and reservations held by many. In the USA, data centers are being opposed in many states. Some residents have expressed fears over water usage, uptick ...
He rightly called it colonization by data. He asked the global community for three things: that people decide where their data lives and on what terms, that they share in the wealth it creates, and ...
OpenAI unveiled its Dots AI agent and other upgrades at its developer conference. The launch came amid fresh scrutiny after the company paused another model over safety concerns.
We evaluate several models on 100 tasks from the [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] (selected at random), and find that GLM-5.3 develops full control flow hijacks in 4% of the trials; Claude Mythos Preview did so in 6%. Although GLM-5.3 performs below Claude Mythos Preview here, a meaningful threshold has clearly been crossed: earlier models, like Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.2, do not succeed in any of them. — An…
The Presidency of the Dominican Republic announced that the Talent Up initiative, launched by the Inter‑American Development Bank with Google Cloud and Cisco Networking Academy, will award 15,000 free scholarships to develop digital skills, and the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes will serve as its technical secretariat, having already received over 14,000 applications. The program aims to prepare the workf…
Infobae · 3d ago
GlobalPolicy / programmeNewsTranslated from Spanish
The text states that President Trump met with the 20 top executives of AI‑development firms at the White House.
It adds that he said AI cannot be stopped, proposed self‑regulation to address risks, and rejected imposing limits on AI development.
My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News. I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-liv... Here they are for GPT-6.1-Sol: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... They're not notably different from the GPT-6 family pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/s…
Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable faces. I had GPT-6 Astra build this experimental tool that would identify faces and automatically blur them out. It uses Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks-vision , plus the BlazeFace face dete…
President Donald Trump said the U.S. government will not limit AI development, describing the technology as larger than the Industrial Revolution during the unveiling of an AI chatbot called America.gov. He met with top AI executives—including Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Satya Nadella of Micros…
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
According to the text, Argentine President Javier Milei wants to bet everything on artificial intelligence. The text notes that he is doing this even as other leaders seek to control a technology that many fear poses existential threats.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycles . Sonnet 5.5 suffered from the same bug as Opus 5.5 : the "max" thinking effort pelican thought for 128,000 tokens (at a cost of $1.28) b…
To say that we were surprised at the jump and suddenness of the capabilities of our models when it came to “cyber” or “swarming” or “message boards” or anything else related to the incidents is an understatement. Security posture takes time to develop. It’s not just about hardening the systems at play; you have to ingrain it in the culture of the company. The literal people themselves in your organization have to cha…
The UNESCO Regional Office in Santiago and Office for UN Coordination in Latin America and the Caribbean convened the first meeting of member institutions of the Observatory on Artificial Intelligence ...
Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse. I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try…
Simon Willison · 4d ago
CaribbeanResearch / eventNewsTranslated from French
On World Tourism Day, the Nord regional Tourism Ministry hosted a discussion on using digital technology and artificial intelligence to rethink tourism, featuring Dr. Pierrot Luma, Me Charnel Hérode, and Guercy Rosana. The speakers examined how these tools could promote destinations, enhance services and visitor experience, and aid tourism revival in northern Haiti, while noting that infrastructure, accessibility, se…
Samsung and SK Hynix dominate the high-bandwidth memory market. Now they are competing to become indispensable to Nvidia, OpenAI, and other U.S. AI companies.
The text says that the US economy is running too hot, with inflation driven by global energy shocks from Iran and Ukraine conflicts, a worsening trade war, and unprecedented corporate spending on AI infrastructure, which economists warn could overheat the economy despite low unemployment and strong consumer spending. It notes that JPMorgan projects AI infrastructure spending to reach about US$1 trillion this year and…
CNN en Español · 4d ago
★ Could be importantCaribbeanPolicy / programmeNews
Jamaica is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence to sell the destination, predict visitor demand and help tourism businesses operate more efficiently as the country positions technology at ...
Could be important: government AI move (announced or done)
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk. And as an annotated presentation : # I'm going to give a lightning tour of everything that has happened so far…
Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless automated replies. They've started manifesting on Bluesky as well. Unlike Twitter, Bluesky still has a freely available and useful API. The lack of such a thing doesn't slow down the bots, but it does make i…
On September 28, 2026, Haiti's Ministry of Tourism celebrated World Tourism Day at the Hotel Royal Oasis in Pétion‑Ville under the theme “Digital and Artificial Intelligence to Rethink Tourism,” with participation from several government ministers, diplomatic representatives, and tourism sector actors. Foreign Minister Raina Forbin recalled Haiti's past status as a Caribbean tourism reference while noting that securi…
Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026. For my closing slide I wanted to celebrate, and I had seen some buzz around how good Claude Opus 5.5 was at creating pixel art animations. So I rounded up three Kakapo photos from Google image se…
Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally presented as a cute mascot . It’s the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system, and Meta has truly done an amazing job with that. But it’s a genuinely open ques…
The article says that Haitian‑born writer Thélson Orélien, who has lived in Quebec since 2010, released his first novel C’était ça ou mourir in France (Grasset) after a Quebec edition in March 2026, and that the book, inspired by his own migrant journey, has sparked a controversy over alleged AI assistance which he denies. It adds that Orélien, born in 1988 in Gonaïves, moved to Quebec after the 2010 Haiti earthquake…
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Building on the momentum of last week's Gemini 3.8 Live launch, today we are excited to introduce Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar — bringing near real-time visual presence to our native live dialogue models. By pairing near real-time video generation with speech, the Live Avatar feature creates an experience that listens, sees, and speaks with a dynami
Barbados will host the second in-person meeting of the United Nations’ Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence in November, placing the Caribbean at the centre of a ...
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge. Tags: coding-agents , ai , llms
According to the article, Thélyson Orélien is accused of using AI to write his book "C'était ça ou mourir", a bestseller and Goncourt prize contender by a Canadian‑Haitian author. The chronicle describes the case as a seismic shock for the literary world, which clings to the image of the solitary writer, and notes that if AI appears in a quality book like this, it challenges traditional notions of authorship.
Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
OpenAI and Anthropic's latest model releases highlight the growing shift toward multi-model enterprise AI, giving enterprises more choices for different workloads.
The article says that Thélyson Orélien’s debut novel *C’était ça ou mourir* was a literary breakthrough, selling about 35,000 copies in five weeks, winning the Prix Fnac and being nominated for several major prizes. It also says that an anonymous X account accused him of using AI to write almost the entire book, citing analysis with the Pangram tool, while he denies the claim and notes that Canadian researchers have …
I have not seen it applied to artificial intelligence. The bank’s standards on the outsourcing of material functions say that the bank continues to favor licensees performing material functions ...
UNESCO co-hosted the gathering with Saudi Arabia, represented by the Saudi Data and AI Authority and the International Centre for AI Research and Ethics, creating space for international cooperation ...
Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio sample of your voice or a voice you have the rights to use". I vibe coded this bring-your-own-key playground interface with GPT-6 Astra, taking advantage of…
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio. These models enable creators, developers, and enterprises to create richer, more expressive audio experiences, while enabling improved user experiences in products like Gemini Notebook and Google Vids.
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Virginie Despentes, a guest on the television program «C ce soir» on Wednesday 23 September, stated that artificial intelligence is poorly placed to judge whether an author has used it, given its omnipresence.
Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top of coding agents. Think of it as an agentic show-and-tell: Compare notes with other builders and experimenters on things you’re trying, what you're learning, and what you haven’t figured…