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Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are…
Build Specialized Agents on a Stack You Control with NVIDIA NemoClaw
AI summary NVIDIA's new NemoClaw is a collection of open blueprints that pair an agent harness developers already use with Nemotron models, NeMo tools for optimization and the OpenShell runtime, whose policies control agent access to credentials, files, tools and networks. It currently supports OpenClaw, LangChain Deep Agents and Nous Research's Hermes Agent, so existing agent code can stay as it is. LangChain reports that a Deep Agents profile tuned for Nemotron 3 Ultra came near frontier-level performance while costing about 10x less per run than top closed models, and it has published that profile on GitHub. Agents can be deployed on DGX Spark, RTX PCs, data centers or the cloud, and can pick up subtasks handed off by Claude, Codex or Cursor.
AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
AI summary Elizabeth from SigNoz argues that when AI covers most incident work, site reliability engineers may lose the skills needed for rare, novel outages. She draws on Lisanne Bainbridge's 1983 paper Ironies of Automation and cites a study where endoscopists' unaided polyp detection fell from 28% to 22% after relying on AI. She also points to PagerDuty's three-tier incident model and warns that junior engineers may face "never-skilling". Suggested remedies include reserving some incidents for human practice and designing tools that keep people actively engaged.
Behind the Blog: Tech Support
This week, we discuss customer service and Proton fallout.
ChatGPT Gets Wider Ads, Multi-Image Ads Expands, Expansion & More
AI summary OpenAI told advertisers in its weekly email that ChatGPT now shows a broader standard ad card that fills more of the chat width on desktop. The change reuses current campaigns and creative, so advertisers do not need to do anything. Multi-image ads have entered open beta for all advertisers, and the Shopify integration now works outside its initial market. ChatGPT Ads launched in 26 additional countries, reaching 89 in total, with more than 100,000 advertisers.
How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform
AI summary NVIDIA's GPUDirect Storage team has released gds-diag, a free command-line utility that checks GDS deployments, flags problems and recommends fixes. It runs on Linux with Python 3.8 or later and ships in the NVIDIA Magnum IO GitHub repository under Apache 2.0 and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licenses. Subcommands cover pre- and post-installation checks, configuration audits, container environments such as Docker and Kubernetes, and specific mount points, with results marked by badges like FAIL, WARN and PASS. An optional agent skill lets coding assistants such as Claude or Codex run diagnostics through natural-language queries and, with permission, apply fixes.
Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural
Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concerned Ghost hunting is a…
Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals
AI summary At Northern California's Allen Telescope Array, Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute now use agentic AI to search for alien intelligence: a single everyday-language prompt lets agents aim the telescope, tidy arriving data and apply AI models to it. The system combines NVIDIA Holoscan, CyberEther, a framework the SETI Institute built, and an orchestrator called Nexus, handling as much as 2.4 terabits per second using NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs installed at the site. It has already produced what is billed as the first AI detection of a pulsar in real time, in the Crab Nebula. Open models like NVIDIA Nemotron are now under test, partly with an eye to possible offline observatories on the far side of the moon.
Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’
Pope Leo XIV says AI systems should be "disarmed," adding that humans "have the responsibility to guide, change and, when…
Why is every AI interface still just a text box?
I get that it’s flexible and easy, but is a disorganized pile of “chats” and an empty text box really the best way for ordinary…
ChatGPT Ads Turns On Automatic Ad Changes By Default
AI summary Starting Friday, October 30, OpenAI is switching on creative enhancements by default for both new and existing ChatGPT Ads campaigns, letting its system tailor ads to the surrounding conversation. The feature can rewrite headlines and descriptions, translate copy, resize images and pick a different landing page on the advertiser's site, without each version needing approval or getting a preview. Advertisers who previously opted out keep that choice, and the setting can be turned off anytime in Ads Manager at account or campaign level. OpenAI also launched a multi-image ad format in open beta on October 26, using four to six square images.
Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case
Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey says…
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 2026
AI summary On the earnings call, Google business chief Philipp Schindler said ads shown in AI Mode bring in less money than those in traditional search results, though overall search volume is up. Microsoft has started placing ads inside Bing's Copilot-powered AI Overviews. A small opt-out study put the click-through rate from Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode at roughly 0.9%. Separately, Google's Gary Illyes said AI has worsened bots posing as crawlers like Googlebot, while John Mueller said cheap ranking tricks for AI search will eventually be caught.
Skip the small talk: Make game-changing connections at TechCrunch Founder Summit with Braindate
At TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, happening November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, networking powered by Braindate is…
DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.
Silicon Valley wants you to invest in miracles
Investing in any stock is kind of like gambling in the sense that you're betting your money on a company's future performance…
From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence
AI summary Microsoft Research has created the Industry Evaluation Data Generation Platform, which produces fully synthetic enterprise workspaces for testing Microsoft Copilot instead of using real customer information. The simulated organizations draw on public sources such as O*NET occupational data, SEC filings and job postings, and cover pharmaceutical, capital markets and IT/software settings. An automated six-stage pipeline generates industry-specific test queries, cutting dataset creation from several days of manual work and saving an estimated $100,000 per dataset and $300,000 overall. A composite quality score rose 39% over the initial approach, with some environments scoring above 0.9 out of 1.0.
Google’s Q3 Earnings Call Casts Shadow Over Classic Search
AI summary Google told investors on its Q3 earnings call that search queries grew faster year over year than at any point in five years, giving AI Mode credit for the additional searches. Search revenue climbed 12% to $63 billion. Philipp Schindler noted that currency swings held growth below the Q2 pace and that AI Mode brings in less ad money for now. Sundar Pichai described AI agents able to make reservations, complete forms and buy things, which will expand beyond Search and the Gemini app into Chrome, Android and Workspace.
The model advances AI image generation by allowing users to make precise changes without unintentionally altering other details.
People who use AI text-to-image generator like ChatGPT or Google Gemini often encounter a maddening problem: the image looks…
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