As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos, a Chinese open-weight model has narrowed the gap with the industry’s leaders. GLM-5.2, the open-weight AI model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on cyber and bio capabilities,
US regulators will begin developing new requirements for automakers to ensure drivers and passengers can exit their vehicles safely. The new rulemaking process, outlined in a regulatory filing and first reported by Bloomberg, follows a series of incidents, including some fatal, in which people were trapped inside cars with flush, electronically actuated door handles, like
Nowadays, before each commercial flight, the cabin crew must indicate where the aircraft exits are, as well as the location of the life jackets and how to inflate them. “Every time you get on a plane today, you’re safer because of what happened to the Clipper Endeavor and its passengers three-quarters of a century ago,”
The debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety has only intensified in the age of AI. And Flock Safety, a company that has seen both an influx of investment and intense public backlash, finds itself right in the center of that debate. That’s why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re
Technology companies like Google have set up important offices in London.Credit: Tim Robberts/Getty When Mythos, an artificial intelligence model from US firm Anthropic, was rolled out to a limited group of companies earlier this year, rumors quickly circulated about the system’s hacking capabilities and cybersecurity threats. True clarity about the power of the model came
A British man whose wife and 12 friends and neighbors are feared dead in the Spanish bushfires has told how he became separated from them as flames moved towards his home. Malcolm Timbrell, 70, and his wife Annette Kilgore, 69, lived in the town of Bédar, in the province of Almería, which was consumed by