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The 'brilliantly budget' Corsair TC100 Relaxed drops in price at Amazon — and it's one of our favorite budget chairs for work and play

Why we recommend it In our review of the TC100 Relaxed , we called it "brilliantly budget", and found it "looks and feels every bit like some of the higher-end chairs" we've tested. And at this price point, its value is…

Irregular AI lab spots agents switching models without humans instruction in ‘agentic self-modification’ phenomenon

In its testing environment, AI lab Irregular watched as AI agents took actions without human instruction that allowed them to change their underlying models in a new behavior the lab labelled “agentic self-modification”.…

Robots clash in first naval engagement between uncrewed sea drones

The action between the remote-controlled uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), or sea drones, took place earlier this month. A video released by the Ukrainian Navy shows its USV, identified as a Sargan-3000, firing a…

Lofi Girl returns with a new house music station and vinyl compilation

As the name suggests, the channel exclusively plays house music. It streams on YouTube, just like the other affiliated channels . All of this music is made by humans, and not generative AI. That's been a staple of the…

SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models

The buyer would be SpaceXAI, whose training of Grok on European users’ posts has been under statutory inquiry in Ireland since April 2025. SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational…

Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool

Scientific papers can transform into AI agents that, according to the Stanford team behind the project, should speed up the dissemination of new scientific discoveries. Paper2Agent, the team's new framework described in…

Scammers have been inserting fake songs onto real artist's pages on Spotify and other platforms

The scheme is fairly simple. They use generative AI to whip up slop songs and then take advantage of a distribution loophole to insert them directly onto a pre-existing artist's catalog. The loophole even gives them…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events schedule: NMI, Backblaze, PeakXV Partners, Augment, and more to host

And while the main event takes over Moscone West from October 13-15, the conversation doesn’t stop when the Expo Hall closes. The TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event program brings founders, investors, operators…

King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control

The King spoke at a summit he convened at Dumfries House in East Ayrshire, Scotland, the Royal Family said in a statement . It published the full text of his speech . Representatives of Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI…

Cole Palmer mistakenly livestreams EA Sports FC 27 on Twitch early and gets temporarily banned — ‘I was only giving the people what they wanted’

There was just one problem: he wasn’t supposed to be showing off the game this early and was given a temporary ban by the platform. As spotted by ESPN , Palmer was given early access to the upcoming football sim and…