Exploring Langerian Mindfulness By Using AI Personas To Perform The Creativity Triangle Task

AI personas can be used to explore mindfulness. Langerian Mindfulness Scale (LMS) and the Triangle Task are invoked. Interesting results. AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Mollick Writes About Agent Swarms And Hugging Face Debacle

AI agents collaborating to hack Hugging Face demonstrate autonomy’s risks and the importance of human oversight.

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be “a form of public good.”

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

New Mexico’s Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client’s murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to “verify the factual claims and legal […]

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Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events

The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT.

Roundtables: Will AI really kill us all?

Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation with senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins unpacking AI extinction…

Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue

While K3’s usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.