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Sep 30

John Timmer / Ars Technica

Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-designed proteins to help with biosecurity and scientific integrity

Sep 30

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular

Sep 30

Sam Sabin / Axios

Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne

Sep 30

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times

ElevenLabs says existing investors and employees have sold $300M worth of stock in a tender led by Wellington and T Rowe Price and valuing the startup at $22B

Sep 30

Chris Metinko / Axios

Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M

Sep 30

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch

Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June

Sep 30

Major New York Post

The US FTC has opened a probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs over potential consumer harms, and plans to compel executives to testify

Sep 30

Financial Times

The UK's MI5 issues a rare espionage alert urging UK universities to cut ties with the China General Technology Research Institute, which funded AI research

Sep 30

Dave Lee / Bloomberg

Amazon aims to have 5,000 drivers wearing its smart glasses in 2026, rising to 20,000+ in 2027; the glasses capture static images for its AI mapping platform

Sep 30

Major Mariella Moon / Engadget

Amazon says Fire TV now offers integrated live content from 40+ apps, like YouTube TV and DirecTV, and plans a Music app with podcasts and concerts in the fall

Sep 30

Major Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal

DoorDash unveils new retail partnerships to deliver clothing and footwear; Macy's is listing products directly on the DoorDash app for two-hour delivery

Sep 30

The Information

Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely

Sep 30

Sam Rutherford / Engadget

Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey

Sep 30

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg

Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users

Sep 30

New York Times

Sources and filings: Situational Awareness lacked an investment risk team; after the sell-off, the SEC sent subpoenas to major banks about trades they financed

Sep 30

Reuters

Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing

Sep 30

Phoebe Liu / The Information

GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by ARCHIV with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC

Sep 30

New York Times

OpenAI and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms so far; of 95 ads, all avoided reference to data centers and only some mentioned AI

Sep 30

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh

Sep 30

Alex Williams / New York Times

Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume

Sep 30

Major New York Times

Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies

Sep 30

Hayden Field / The Verge

Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be "bad for the world"

Sep 30

Owen Walker / Financial Times

Singapore doubles down on chipmaking as the AI boom lifts its economy, but high costs, scarce land and labor, and US trade scrutiny threaten its ambitions

Sep 30

Financial Times

Goldman Sachs: investors have provided ~$500B in financing to AI-linked groups in 2026 so far, as hyperscaler debt issuance spreads to the euro, CAD, and others

Sep 30

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation

Sep 30

Kevin Roose / The Atlantic

A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries

Sep 30

Top Story Casey Newton / Platformer

Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT

Sep 30

Viola Zhou / Rest of World

Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K

Sep 30

Megawati Wijaya / Bloomberg

US-based PaleBlueDot AI is seeking $600M in private credit to buy chips for its South Korea site, to be used by Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu

Sep 30

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times

US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer "a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country" and "free us from medical tyranny"

Sep 30

Financial Times

South Korea's Kospi was the world's worst-performing stock market in Q3, down 18.8% due to Samsung and SK Hynix sell-offs in early Q3, but remains up 60% YTD

Sep 30

Brandon Pho / Mission Local

A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025

Sep 30

Dhruv Mohan / The Economic Times

Apple launches Apple Pay in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Watch

Sep 30

Reuters

DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative

Sep 30

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune

A profile of Travis Kalanick, CEO of Atoms, whom Silicon Valley has welcomed back with VC support despite his unapologetic stance on his 2017 ouster from Uber

Sep 30

Bloomberg

AI infrastructure company Accelevation and backer Olympus raise $540M in a US IPO after selling 30M shares for $18 each, below its marketed $20-$24 range

Sep 30

New York Times

An interview with Bill Gates about the need for more than natural incentives under capitalism to regulate AI's risks, the effects AI will have on jobs, and more

Sep 30

Reuters

Robinhood plans to let users trade some US stocks round-the-clock during weekends, wager on specific corporate earnings metrics, and trade perpetual futures

Sep 29

Ronan Shields / Digiday

At the unBoxed conference, Amazon moves AI from being a feature to playing a more central role in ad-buying and brings previously separate ad workflows together

Sep 29

Major Anthropic

Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse

Sep 29

Stephen Nellis / Reuters

Efficient Computer, which uses dataflow architectures to develop faster and more energy-efficient chips, raised a $97M Series B at a $650M valuation

Sep 29

Blake Brittain / Reuters

A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training

Sep 29

Major Michael Shepard / Bloomberg

President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as "Super Intelligence" or "SI" in all official communications

Sep 29

Axios

Mark Zuckerberg says the voluntary "accord" on AI standards that tech executives agreed to includes internal risk reviews and external auditors

Sep 29

Reuters

IPO filing: Anthropic routed 47% of its sales, or ~$2.16B, in 2025 through cloud partners Amazon and Google; analysis: it paid ~$351M back in distribution fees

Sep 29

Top Story Dannie Herzberg / Baseten

Baseten partners with OpenAI to let OpenAI enterprise customers use existing commitments for open models served by Baseten within Codex or via the Responses API

Sep 29

Elizabeth Dias / New York Times

Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude

Sep 29

Major Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder

OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5, and says it performs well on safety tests

Sep 29

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $220M at a $6.2B valuation, for $650M+ in total funding

Sep 29

Major Paul Sawers / The New Stack

OpenAI says Plus and Pro subscribers can use their existing plan allowance with 16 launch partners, including Vercel and Devin, via Sign in with ChatGPT

Sep 29

Major Mallory Wilson / The Hill

Trump officially launches America.gov, an AI-powered single access point for federal government services and information led by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia

Sep 29

Top Story Grace Kay / The Information

IPO prospectus: Anthropic has agreements to pay SpaceX up to $84.5B to use its Nvidia-based compute through 2029, mostly cancellable with a 90-day notice period

Sep 29

Top Story Joe Rossignol / MacRumors

Mark Gurman: Apple considered replacing ~5,000 AppleCare customer service workers with AI-powered agents, but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely

Sep 29

Clare Duffy / CNN

In a July letter to Rep. Jamie Raskin, Apple explained it removed ICEBlock and similar ICE-tracking apps in 2025 due to agent and detainee safety concerns

Sep 29

Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg

Miami-based Jeeves, which launched stablecoin-based payments earlier this year, raised a $110M Series C led by CoinFund, with participation from a16z and others

Sep 29

Daniel Boffey / The Guardian

FOI docs: UK police's six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert

Sep 29

Lauren Goode / Wired

Q&A with Timnit Gebru, who says the "existential risk" narrative is a harmful marketing strategy and the "stochastic parrots" metaphor is not outdated

Sep 29

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune

EliseAI, which provides AI tools for health care and housing industries, raised $350M at a $4B valuation, up from $2.2B after raising $250M in August 2025

Sep 29

Waylon Cunningham / Reuters

Investigation: McDonald's is utilizing an AI pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate location-specific "optimal prices" for menu items

Sep 29

Inci Ozbek / Bloomberg

Censorship monitor EngelliWeb says X blocked nearly 500 accounts in Turkey, including those of journalists, economists, and academics, after court orders

Sep 29

Financial Times

Nvidia is in early-stage talks with insurance companies to structure risk-mitigation products to protect lenders against loan defaults by neoclouds

Sep 29

Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal

Shein reports Q2 revenue up 0.9% YoY to $11B and net income down 66% to $228M, in its first report since a Hong Kong IPO; its stock is ~30% below its IPO price

Sep 29

Michael Acton / Financial Times

Pope Leo XIV rebukes Jensen Huang for downplaying AI risks, saying "the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously"

Sep 29

Major Isabel O'Brien / CNBC

Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts

Sep 29

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg

Google appeals the European Commission's DMA mandates to open up Android at the EU General Court, arguing the requirements threaten user privacy and security

Sep 29

Priyanka Salve / CNBC

India plans to invest up to $25B in its nascent deep tech industry, as it looks to catch up with the US and China, after investing $11.6B over the past decade

Sep 29

Paresh Dave / Wired

Six independent advisory board experts resigned from the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, as Meta and others push for structural changes

Sep 29

Danny Park / The Block

Coinbase gets CFTC approval for Coinbase Clearing, completing its derivatives stack, letting it list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house

Sep 29

Nilay Patel / The Verge

An interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes on the SaaSpocalypse, enterprise AI, Atlassian's reorg, why chatbots aren't the future of work, and more

Sep 29

Major Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Colossus

Q&A with Instinct founder Noah Shinn on Instinct's business model, personal agents, privacy, safety, security, securing compute, Big Tech competition, and more

Sep 29

Bloomberg

Sources detail the lengths SoftBank went to secure its $11B junk bond sale, including high yields, to replace a $40B bridge loan for its OpenAI investment

Sep 29

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware

Google plans to phase out ChromeOS by mid-2034, cutting short the 10-year support for some Chromebooks, with "many" models eligible for a Googlebook OS upgrade

Sep 28

Garrett Downs / CNBC

Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI pending government safeguards

Sep 28

Wall Street Journal

Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June

Sep 29

Major Sarah Wynn / The Block

Senator Blumenthal-led report: Tether's USDT is central to Iran's shadow banking system; 87% of 757 "terrorism"-related wallets predominantly transacted in USDT

Sep 28

Major Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all

Sep 28

Major New York Times

Internal memo: the FBI says it is "operating under the premise" that a threat actor stole PII of all staff; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands

Sep 28

Major Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg

AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by the end of 2026; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist

Sep 28

Bloomberg

Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public this year, seeking to raise about $500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation

Sep 28

Kate Rooney / CNBC

OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks

Sep 28

Major Micah Barkley / Bloomberg

Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer

Sep 28

Abner Li / 9to5Google

Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark

Sep 28

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M

Sep 28

Major Marcia Dunn / Associated Press

SpaceX launches its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service

Sep 28

Major Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal

AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" and call for oversight into automated AI research

Sep 28

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE

Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware

Sep 28

Major TechCrunch

Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May

Sep 28

Liana Baker / Bloomberg

Cyber defense tech company RedLattice plans to go public via the Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. SPAC, in a deal valuing RedLattice at ~$1.25B including debt

Sep 28

Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance with partners Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to evaluate how AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities

Sep 28

Major Ben Thompson / Stratechery

AI agents are the ultimate aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an end, and offering them is tech's ultimate prize, with Meta and Microsoft well-poised

Sep 28

Major Amy Thomson / Bloomberg

Nvidia increases its share buyback program by $150B, raising the remaining authorized amount to $235B, aiming to complete it through FY 2028; NVDA is up 20% YTD

Sep 28

Hans Nichols / Axios

Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank partner with key US unions to launch the American Infrastructure Alliance, aiming to create data center standards in 2027

Sep 28

Major Stefania Palma / Financial Times

Litigation funder Burford Capital says it stands to gain up to $1.4B after a US jury ruled against Apple in a patent case, awarding $5.7B in damages to Taction

Sep 28

Major Patrick Jenkins / Financial Times

An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on the company's 42-year history, its complex supply chain across 2,000 companies, US export bans, AI, and more

Sep 28

Major Bloomberg

China has expanded its foreign travel restrictions to include the direct relatives, such as spouses and children, of certain key AI and chip executives

Sep 28

Major Sourav Rudra / It's FOSS

The Dutch government is testing DAWO, a NixOS-based digital work environment covering the OS, an office suite, and more, after Microsoft cut off the ICC in 2025

Sep 28

Major Alexandr Wang / @alexandr_wang

Alexandr Wang says Meta built Muse "to help people build the world they want", offering "every person on earth ... a second mind beyond their own"

Sep 28

Caroline Kimeu / Wall Street Journal

Uber removes its branding from Uber Safari 4x4 vehicles in Nairobi National Park due to safety concerns and fierce pushback from local guides and tour operators

Sep 28

Major Kif Leswing / CNBC

Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs

Sep 28

The Washington Sun

Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the "bipartisan psychosis" over data centers

Sep 28

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia

NXP and TSMC affiliate Vanguard inaugurate their joint advanced chip fab in Singapore, targeting mass production in early 2027 and eyeing a second facility

Sep 28

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal

A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup that raised $36M to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons

Sep 28

Major Nilay Patel / The Verge

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on bot traffic potentially reaching 1000x human traffic, reviving HTTP 402 to charge bots, blocking Google, and more

Sep 28

Daniel Tudor / Financial Times

A profile of South Korea Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, an AI evangelist and a former AI researcher leading lavishly funded programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide

Sep 28

Major Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer

Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws

Sep 28

Nate Jones / Washington Post

The US DHS says it will "revolutionize" its FOIA process by using AI to handle certain types of requests and recommend what information should be redacted

Sep 28

Zachery Eanes / Axios

Ramona Optics, which makes microscopes that use AI to take and analyze large volumes of images of samples, raised a $25M Series A

Sep 28

Major Financial Times

AlphaSense: mentions of open models in US earnings calls and conferences rose 6x YoY in August and September; open models hit 56% of Vercel tokens in August

Sep 28

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times

NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, which develops brain-computer interfaces, raised a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $430M

Sep 27

New York Times

How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks

Sep 27

Major Qianer Liu / The Information

China's government asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and others to report on their plans to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500, saying it intends to approve the purchases

Sep 27

Major Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal

A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives

Sep 27

Major Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg

Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, and more

Sep 27

Major Axios

President Trump hosted Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, an indication of thawing relations; Trump personally invited Amodei

Sep 27

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Meta's VR Glasses are the product Vision Pro should have been; sources say Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is on "life support"

Sep 27

Major Wall Street Journal

How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry

Sep 27

Brian Danga / The Block

New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital

Sep 27

Major Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE

PicoJool, which is developing AI data center interconnects based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Socratic Partners

Sep 27

FinTech Global

Numeral, a provider of AI-powered tech to automate sales tax compliance workflows in over 90 countries, raised a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners

Sep 27

Major Madison Mills / Axios

OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking

Sep 27

Major Tom Wilson / Financial Times

Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts

Sep 26

Major Pranshu Verma / Washington Post

US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more

Sep 26

Major Anthony Ha / TechCrunch

Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored"; YouTube is also allowing the ads

Sep 26

Major Ashley Capoot / CNBC

A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B+ in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it "does not use Taction's" tech

Sep 26

Major Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform

Sep 26

Reuters

Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it

Sep 26

Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter

YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook declined to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing "political content"

Sep 26

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series

Sep 26

Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times

Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nubank parent Nu Holdings in a deal valuing it at £8B-£10B; Monzo also discussed selling a ~15% stake to PE firms

Sep 26

Gregory Meyer / Financial Times

Walmart CEO John Furner says the company won't use its AI shopping assistant or electronic shelf labels to change product prices based on a shopper's identity

Sep 26

Ben Berkowitz / Axios

The US and China create a "Super Intelligence Dialogue" on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era "red telephone"

Sep 26

Financial Times

PitchBook: VCs have invested $4B+ in quantum computing companies YTD, almost as much as in all of 2025, which nearly matched the previous four years combined

Sep 26

Major Bloomberg

A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs

Sep 26

Christopher Miller / Financial Times

Russia has increased targeted strikes on Ukrainian data centers, disrupting internet access for ~100K Kyiv residents on Wednesday and Thursday

Sep 26

AlleyWatch

NYC-based Confido, a provider of AI-powered workflow automation tools for consumer packaged goods companies, raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners

Sep 26

Joe Brock / Reuters

Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks

Sep 26

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg

A US federal judge dealt fresh setbacks to Deel in the Rippling case over alleged spying, including rejecting its bid to strike testimony from a central witness

Sep 26

Reuters

Google says ShinyHunters has renewed "mass exploitation" of a flaw in Oracle's PeopleSoft; ShinyHunters has said it accessed FBI data using a flaw in PeopleSoft

Sep 26

Alexandra Alper / Reuters

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems with Chinese optical transceivers

Sep 25

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security

Former US Army soldier Cameron Wagenius, who pleaded guilty in 2025 to hacking into telecom companies and to extortion, is sentenced to 70 months in prison

Sep 25

Major Gnaneshwar Rajan / Reuters

TikTok reaches a settlement with Alabama over social media addiction claims; Alabama will receive at least $100M, and up to $300M if certain conditions are met

Sep 25

Reuters

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says he resists anthropomorphizing AI agents as autonomous actors with "wills and desires", suggesting developers hold liability

Sep 25

Bloomberg

Oura IPO is roughly four times oversubscribed; Filing: Oura and the selling shareholders are offering 50M shares for $40 to $44 each to raise ~$2.2B

Sep 25

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters

A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not "swaps" subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws

Sep 25

Major Zac Bowden / Windows Central

Microsoft confirms that 2026 Surface PCs have dropped the Copilot+ PC branding, even though they meet all the requirements of Copilot+ devices

Sep 25

Major David Heaney / UploadVR

A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses

Sep 25

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November

Sep 25

Major Diana Novak Jones / Reuters

A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Sep 25

Dan Mangan / CNBC

President Trump says Scott Bessent is not "going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar", because "he doesn't want to" and Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury

Sep 25

Reuters

SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is exploring an IPO as early as 2027 that could raise $15B and value the unit at up to $150B

Sep 25

Major Ashley Capoot / CNBC

A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is "a statutorily covered national-security risk"

Sep 25

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch

Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding

Sep 25

Major Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase

Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending

Sep 25

Major The Information

Tesla ramped up Optimus production to several hundred units per week but faces hurdles with its hands, automation equipment, and supplier constraints

Sep 25

Major Herb Scribner / Axios

Bill Gates warns about the catastrophic risk posed by "people with ill intent using the latest AI tools", which are powerful enough to "cause a billion deaths"

Sep 25

Major Ashley Gold / Semafor

The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies

Sep 25

Major Wall Street Journal

Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center for which Oracle made major financial commitments, faces power and permitting hurdles, exposing Oracle's AI risks

Sep 25

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Microsoft launches its Copilot "super app", bundling chat, coding, and agents into a single interface, and rebrands its AI assistant Scout as Autopilot

Sep 25

Louise Lucas / Financial Times

Radical Ventures: AI neolabs, many lacking products, markets, or revenue, raised $24B in the past two quarters, nearly 5x OpenAI and Anthropic pre-ChatGPT

Sep 25

Reuters

Chinese local governments are offering subsidies like computing vouchers, rent waivers, and dedicated funding to lure AI filmmakers as part of China's AI push

Sep 25

The Information

AI chip startup DensityAI, founded by ex-Tesla Dojo team members, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $10B valuation

Sep 25

Robert Hart / The Verge

Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl

Sep 25

New York Times

Massachusetts' gambling regulator says it will examine how DraftKings and other betting companies in the state are using AI, in response to a NYT investigation

Sep 25

New York Times

Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims

Sep 25

Major Chris Metinko / Axios

Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year

Sep 24

The Information

Anthropic asks shareholders to approve a Palantir-style structure granting its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power if three retain minimum stakes

Sep 24

Major Matthew Brockett / Bloomberg

Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says "user funds are safe"

Sep 24

Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal

Documents: Jeff Bezos has invested $30B in Blue Origin since 2000, including $2B in its first outside funding round, which has raised $10B at a $140B valuation

Sep 24

Major Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters

Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours

Sep 24

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers

Sep 24

Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith

Sep 24

Major Katie Roof / Business Insider

OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself

Sep 24

Megan Howard / Bloomberg

The Fed unveils stablecoin proposals, including requiring some issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets, such as short-term Treasury bills

Sep 24

Major Jay Peters / The Verge

Meta unveils mobile app Horizon Create and web app Horizon Studio for building games with AI prompts; the games will run on Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon

Sep 24

Bloomberg

The US files an application with the EU's General Court in support of X's effort to annul a 2025 €120M DSA fine, arguing the EU engaged in regulatory overreach

Sep 24

The Information

Jev developer TypeSafe is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $10B+ valuation; last week the startup announced a $40M seed, PitchBook says at a $200M valuation

Sep 24

New York Times

A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+

Sep 24

Nicole Carpenter / Aftermath

In a default judgment, a US federal judge awards Nintendo of America $4.5M in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games

Sep 24

Major Jeff Stein / The Washington Sun

The NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year

Sep 24

Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses

Sep 24

Politico

The White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed

Sep 24

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US

Sep 24

Major Kevin T. Dugan / Wall Street Journal

New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets

Sep 24

Major Shakeel Hashim / Transformer

OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address

Sep 24

Major Axios

A White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation

Sep 24

Oliver Barnes / Financial Times

Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B

Sep 24

Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times

At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the "capability and responsibility" to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition

Sep 24

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal

Amazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders

Sep 24

Major New York Times

Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year

Sep 24

The Information

Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs

Sep 24

Major Bloomberg

Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028

Sep 24

Major Akash Sriram / Reuters

Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement

Sep 24

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware

ASML's European revenue share dropped to 0% in Q1 and Q2 2026, down from 1% in 2025 and 5% in 2024; ASML is urging EU authorities to create demand for EU chips

Sep 24

Samantha Subin / CNBC

Dallas-based enterprise browser security startup Island raised $400M led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $6.4B valuation and plans to grow its staff to 1,500

Sep 24

Wall Street Journal

Industry group TechNet files a comment with the US DHS urging the White House to withdraw its proposal to charge $103,265 for most new H-1B visa applications

Sep 24

Reuters

Amazon plans to invest $1B into its Indian quick commerce operations by the end of 2027, and another $2B by 2030, as it battles local rivals

Sep 24

Bloomberg

Tencent launches TenPayGo, a payment app for foreign visitors to China that lets them pay tens of millions of merchants via Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay

Sep 24

Priyanka Salve / CNBC

VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised $150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a $2B post-money valuation

Sep 24

Callum Borchers / Wall Street Journal

Companies are increasingly using AI benchmarking services to aggregate public job listings and other payroll data to identify under- and over-paid employees

Sep 24

Wall Street Journal

Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron, and other Western leaders are pushing to establish a global supervisory regime and "technology stability" body to govern AI

Sep 24

Financial Times

Delivery Hero co-founder and CEO Niklas Östberg reverses his decision to step down in 2027, as the company prepares for Uber's €13B takeover and an asset sale

Sep 24

Major Wall Street Journal

Brookings projects US AI spending to total $10.3T between 2025 and 2032, averaging 3.6% of GDP per year, the largest single-industry build-out as a share of GDP

Sep 24

Christine Chen / Reuters

Sources citing Firmus' IPO draft prospectus: the Australian data center operator expects to report a $77M loss after tax for H1 FY27 as it prepares to raise $5B

Sep 24

The Information

DeepSeek's annualized revenue run rate hits $1B, up from less than $500M a few months ago, as it aims to finalize a ~$7.5B fundraise by late October

Sep 24

Tomoko Wakasugi / Nikkei Asia

Analysis: total net profit at ~190 chipmakers listed in mainland China rose 620% YoY in H1 2026, driven by the AI boom and China's self-sufficiency campaign

Sep 24

Anthropic

Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app's core UX ~3x faster in August using an internal model to ship improvements "in a two-week sprint"

Sep 24

Charlie Wells / Bloomberg

Revolut is piloting a new POS system that uses facial recognition for payments at the UK coffee chain Kiss the Hippo, ahead of a full launch later in 2026

Sep 24

Shuhei Ochiai / Nikkei Asia

Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor says it will set up its largest production hub for optical communications chips in Japan as part of a planned $4B investment

Sep 24

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times

Q&A with Cisco President and CPO Jeetu Patel on its multibillion-dollar networking deals for AI infrastructure, competition from partners like Nvidia, and more

Sep 24

Bloomberg

India's food regulator initiates penal action against Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy Instamart, Bigbasket, and Zepto over alleged misbranding and misleading claims

Sep 24

Bloomberg

Modal Labs is in funding talks at a ~$15B valuation, up from $4.65B in May; Baseten is in funding talks at a $26B valuation, up from $13B in June

Sep 24

Bloomberg

Schneider Electric is nearing a deal to acquire Bulgaria-based smart home device maker Shelly Group at a €1.27B valuation, excluding debt

Sep 24

Laura Bratton / The Information

Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released "much earlier" than the end of 2026

Sep 24

Bloomberg

SoftBank raised ~$11B in debt through its junk bond sale, making the Japanese investment firm one of the biggest corporate junk-bond borrowers in the world

Sep 24

OpenAI

OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts

Sep 24

Major Karissa Bell / Engadget

Meta says it will allow its AI glasses users to opt out of having their "visual data" used to train its AI or shown to third-party contractors outside the US

Sep 24

Christian Robles/Nextgov / FCW

During a Senate hearing, lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend

Sep 24

Major Anna Washenko / Engadget

Meta announces new features for Meta Ray-Ban Display, including expanded heads-up navigation tools, a new Explore app, and Dolby Atmos audio support

Sep 24

Bloomberg

The Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote use of dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas, including via JVs with private firms

Sep 24

Major Jay Peters / The Verge

Meta says users will be able to video chat with Muse, agents will get their own email addresses, and Muse will get computer use on Mac and smart glasses support

Sep 24

Top Story Karissa Bell / Engadget

Meta previews hologram avatars for Meta VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display that feel more natural than Apple's persona avatars, available in early access this fall

Sep 23

Engadget

A live blog of Meta Connect 2026, where new Meta glasses and a new VR headset were announced

Sep 23

Michael Acton / Financial Times

Court docs: OpenAI says Apple's ChatGPT integration to power Apple Intelligence on iPhones "dramatically underperformed" after it launched in 2024

Sep 23

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg

Microsoft plans to invest more than $10B through 2030 in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE, including a $7.9B UAE investment it announced last year

Sep 23

Zac Bowden / Windows Central

Microsoft unveils the $1,149+ Surface Pro 12-inch and the $1,199+ Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus, and a new Surface Mouse with built-in haptics

Sep 23

Gowri Gurumurthy / Bloomberg

A CoreWeave-tied data center raised $1.1B in junk bonds at 98.5 cents on the dollar to yield 9.25%, ~2.7 percentage points above similarly rated debt

Sep 23

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Colorado-based Enveda, which uses AI to discover new drugs in the natural world, raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation, double its valuation a year ago

Sep 23

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg

1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner, is in talks to raise $3B for its second growth fund and has already raised $2B of that target amount

Sep 23

Rohan Goswami / Semafor

Flock Safety is weighing a potential sale and has held preliminary talks with outside advisers

Sep 23

Major Reuters

A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular detail on officials' job assignments on China, Russia, cartels, cyber, and other issues

Sep 23

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal

Pilgrim, whose device combines air sampling and genomic sequencing to detect biological threats, raised a $25M seed led by Buckley at a $150M valuation

Sep 23

Major Robert Hart / The Verge

Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab

Sep 23

@openai

OpenAI says ChatGPT Voice can now be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, use plugins like email and calendar, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile

Sep 23

Major Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter

Disney raises Disney+ and Hulu prices, the fourth price hike in as many years; the ad-free tiers will each cost $21.49/month, an increase of $2.50

Sep 23

Top Story Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg

Coachella promoter Goldenvoice renews its livestreaming partnership with YouTube through 2030, choosing it over competing bids from Netflix and Amazon

Sep 23

Major Todd Bishop / GeekWire

At its Accelerate conference, Amazon says it is opening its seller tools to third-party AI agents, starting with Claude, in beta for US merchants

Sep 23

Major Ezra Klein / New York Times

Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more

Sep 23

Major Google

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, its "most expressive audio generation models yet", with support for more than 100 languages

Sep 23

Major Reece Rogers / Wired

At its Made on YouTube event, YouTube unveils Custom Feeds, an LLM-powered feature that lets users generate and save tailored homepage video feeds, for US users

Sep 23

Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg

Seattle-based satellite startup Hubble, which is working to enable global Bluetooth connectivity, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation, for $300M in total funding

Sep 23

John Reynolds / Tech.eu

London-based AI life sciences startup Basecamp Research raised a $140M Series C led by S32, with participation from Anthropic, taking its total funding to $225M

Sep 23

Corbin Bolies / Variety

Sony Music becomes the first music company to join ARIAM, which advocates for responsible AI adoption in the creative industry and includes the NYT and Disney

Sep 23

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg

Bessemer raised $5.75B, allocating $4B to growth-stage funding, including young companies raising large rounds at high valuations, and $1.75B for early-stage

Sep 23

Business Insider

HypeAuditor: OpenAI doubled its sponsored Instagram posts promoting ChatGPT from 61 in June to 122 in July, rising again to 141 in August, as it seeks new users

Sep 23

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Ema, which uses AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, raised a $77M Series B led by Creaegis, taking its total funding to $140M

Sep 23

Zoe Kleinman / BBC

OpenAI says it will give its AI cyber defense system Daybreak and GPT-5.6 Sol to the Ukrainian government for free to help it protect civilian infrastructure

Sep 23

Claudia Chong / The Information

Carnegie China: China passed the US as the top destination for elite AI talent in 2025, rising from 2022's 27.1% share to 40.6%; the US fell from 46.4% to 34.2%

Sep 23

Chris Hughes / Financial Times

A Facebook co-founder proposes creating an "Office of AI Supervision" to embed teams inside frontier AI labs, with a three-year term to avoid regulatory capture

Sep 23

Steve Dent / Engadget

The UK CMA proposes rules requiring Google and Android OEMs to offer search choice screens on first use and via yearly prompts, new AI assistant rules, and more

Sep 23

Henrique Almeida / Bloomberg

Portuguese surveillance drone maker Tekever raised $580M ed by UC Investments at a $6.4B valuation, after securing a UK MOD contract worth £400M over 10 years

Sep 23

Major Damien Cave / New York Times

Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life

Sep 23

Bloomberg

Analysis: 30 Chinese tech stocks with the largest overseas revenue exposure returned 36% YTD, outperforming the 8% return from domestically dependent peers

Sep 23

Richard Gere / Wall Street Journal

Anthropic reported disrupting a Beijing-aligned operation to monitor religious leaders and diaspora communities, including a DC-based advocacy group for Tibet

Sep 23

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg

Chinese chip foundry CanSemi, focused on automotive, industrial, and IoT chips, files for an IPO on Shenzhen stock exchange's ChiNext, seeking to raise ~$919M

Sep 23

Reuters

Ofcom opens an investigation into Pornhub owner Aylo to determine whether it has complied with OSA requirements to prevent under-18s from accessing porn

Sep 23

Business Insider

A profile of Noah Shinn, founder of AI assistant Instinct, who soft-launched it as an invite-only site for VCs and is reportedly fundraising at a $10B valuation

Sep 23

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu

German publisher C.H.BECK takes a majority stake in Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents and raised a $100M+ Series C

Sep 23

Toby Sterling / Reuters

NADI, a new DARPA-like Dutch government agency, launches a €40M challenge to accelerate chip design with AI in collaboration with its German counterpart SPRIND

Sep 23

Major Angus Whitley / Bloomberg

The US criticizes Australia's digital duty-of-care proposal, which has a provision that would require social media platforms to let users opt out of algorithms

Sep 23

Major Financial Times

China's SASAC, which oversees state-owned companies, is surveying the number of Broadcom switches in state-backed data centers amid a domestic AI drive

Sep 23

Counterpoint Research

Global AI glasses shipments, including display-less and AR and AI glasses, rose 263% YoY in H1 2026, driven by Meta and EssilorLuxottica's display-less lineup

Sep 23

Major Sam Yam / @samyamiam

Patreon co-founder Sam Yam says he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product, alongside Patreon's Head of Product Drew Rowny and Head of Engineering Shannon Ma

Sep 23

Major Financial Times

Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips

Sep 23

Ryan Lawler / Axios

Go.AI, which offers on-premises AI hardware and software tools for regulated organizations like banks, raised an $85M Series A led by Updata Partners

Sep 23

Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo

Six major banks, including BofA and Capital One, warn that increased autonomy for agentic commerce chatbots could lead to more scams, fraud, and disputes

Sep 23

Major Andrew Webster / The Verge

Xbox has become a shell of its former self, weighed down by job cuts and studio closures, as it focuses on franchises like Halo and reaching "a billion people"

Sep 23

Bloomberg

Alibaba says it plans to build its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, amid escalating US-China AI tensions

Sep 23

Nancy Lapid / Reuters

Anthropic and OpenEvidence partner to offer a specialized version of OpenEvidence's AI search tool for physicians in about 100 low- and middle-income countries

Sep 23

Top Story Anna Washenko / Engadget

Discord is rolling out its updated age-verification policy this week, sorting users into either the Adult or Teen group based on account age, activity, and more

Sep 23

Anna Tong / Forbes

AI training data startup Micro1 raised $100M+ at a $4B valuation, up from $500M in September 2025; two frontier AI labs and xAI co-founders invested

Sep 22

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE

Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital

Sep 22

Julian Chokkattu / Wired

Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device

Sep 22

Major Semafor

Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor

Sep 22

Stephen Nellis / Reuters

Microsoft says it will give DARPA on-site access to its latest quantum computing hardware, including the Majorana 2 chip, at its new Maryland research center

Sep 22

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal

Data security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B

Sep 22

Major Heather Knight / New York Times

San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market

Sep 22

Major Axel Metz / TechRadar

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores

Sep 22

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch

TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025

Sep 22

Major Joseph Cox / 404 Media

ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data; it also defaced the FBI jobs site

Sep 22

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information

New York-based Ande, whose AI agents help businesses arrange corporate events for employees or customers, emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A

Sep 22

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse "from scratch" but was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse "OpenClaw for normies"

Sep 22

Major Financial Times

In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a "globalist scheme to control" AI, saying the US is "leading now over China by a lot and everyone else"

Sep 22

Bloomberg

Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation

Sep 22

Top Story Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View

GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6

Sep 22

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg

OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases

Sep 22

Major David Gewirtz / ZDNET

Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset

Sep 22

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product

Sep 22

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg

In a London presentation, SpaceXAI says Grok Bot hit 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% from the week prior; SpaceXAI launched it in mid-August

Sep 22

CTech

Chamelio, which is building AI tools designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment, raised a $26M Series A

Sep 22

Krystal Hu / Reuters

Snorkel AI, which offers an "agentic data development platform" with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation

Sep 22

Davis Giangiulio / CNBC

Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity

Sep 22

John Higgins / The Verge

Apple announces new $350 Beats 360 headphones, with IPX4 rating, swappable ear cups, a replaceable battery, ANC, Find My support, and more

Sep 22

Julian Chokkattu / Wired

Adobe launches its free Premiere video editing app on Android, nearly a year after its iOS launch, to replace Premiere Rush, set to lose support on September 30

Sep 22

Major Wall Street Journal

Xi Jinping is unlikely to bring corporate executives to his DC summit with Trump; industry officials expected them at a dinner with top US tech CEOs

Sep 22

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg

After a deadly school strike in Iran, US Central Command changed its targeting process, integrated open-source data, and upgraded Palantir's Maven

Sep 22

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors

Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo

Sep 22

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News

Baselayer, which uses AI to help financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, raised a $35M Series A led by M13, for ~$40M in total funding

Sep 22

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg

Australian healthcare AI startup Heidi raised $340M, including a $100M Series C led by Blackbird at a $900M valuation, taking its total funding to $430M+

Sep 22

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems

Sep 22

Major Lily Hay Newman / Wired

Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framework designed to classify and analyze AI-integrated malware by tracking AI metadata and behavioral fingerprints

Sep 22

Top Story Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal

A16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute

Sep 22

Sophie Shulman / CTech

Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~$600M deal, including $500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025

Sep 22

Major CoinDesk

Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform

Sep 22

Major Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal

DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law

Sep 22

Major The Information

The Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff

Sep 22

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg

US startup Firebird is building a 300MW data center in Armenia, set to host 70K+ Nvidia chips by 2027; sources: Trump pledged Nvidia export approvals to Armenia

Sep 22

Joel Khalili / Wired

The Austrian Academy of Science, Mistral, and Sail Reply plan to launch Apollo, an Ancient Greek LLM trained on ~600M historical Greek words, available for free

Sep 22

Major Will Oremus / The Atlantic

Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments

Sep 22

Financial Times

Polymarket is lobbying regulators in London, Brussels, and across the EU to be governed by financial services laws rather than local gambling rules

Sep 22

Major David Phelan / Forbes

Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a 600-person live music venue built in its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station with two recording and mixing studios

Sep 22

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg

Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a ~$4.6B market cap, after raising ~$727M, the latest Hong Kong AI IPO

Sep 22

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios

French pharma SaaS startup Biolevate raised a €30M Series A co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, taking its total funding to €36M

Sep 22

Major Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg

Finnish neocloud startup Verda raised $189M led by Emergence at a $1B+ valuation and aims to raise up to $1.5B in equity and debt in 2026 and up to $10B in 2027

Sep 22

Major Financial Times

Multiple staff at the UK's AISI have been signed off work with stress, as tight model release schedules and AI fears lead to low morale and burnout

Sep 22

Juliet Macur / New York Times

Amazon, Walmart and other companies are using drones for fast deliveries in Richardson, Texas, but residents complain about noise and clumsy package drops

Sep 22

Chris Metinko / Axios

Belgium-based AI recruitment startup Spott raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton, with Base10, YC, and Fortino participating, taking its total funding to $24M

Sep 22

TechCrunch

Dutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics raised €40M from 3M Ventures, EIC Fund, and others, and plans to expand into data center optical components

Sep 22

Major Reuters

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers

Sep 22

Bloomberg

Tencent launches Hy Image 3.5 Preview, saying that during internal testing the AI image model achieved results on par with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro

Sep 22

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac

Apple v. OpenAI: Apple asks the court to let its own experts review forensic images used in the case, and seeks documents tied to parts of OpenAI's hardware R&D

Sep 22

Major Carl Franzen / VentureBeat

MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-5.3 (Max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model

Sep 22

Top Story Aaron Holmes / The Information

Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff cut in 2026, as it also plans to consolidate several of its game studios

Sep 21

Major Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal

Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay

Sep 21

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal

British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police

Sep 21

Major Bloomberg

Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs

Sep 21

Maureen Farrell / New York Times

SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B+

Sep 21

Nichola Groom / Reuters

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight

Sep 21

Major OpenAI

OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances

Sep 21

Major The Information

Before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models

Sep 21

Major OpenAI

OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but "fully autonomous RSI is not happening today" and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely

Sep 21

Major Alexander Martin / The Record

ShinyHunters hijacked the dark web site of cybercrime gang Cl0p, set an eight-figure extortion demand, describing the amount as "2.333%" of Cl0p's net worth

Sep 21

Major Adam Clark / Barron's Online

Intel closes up 12%, AMD 10%, and Arm 17% on Monday amid investor optimism that Meta's Muse could boost CPU demand; AMD's market cap tops $1T for the first time

Sep 21

Kate Abnett / Reuters

The EU proposes rules requiring data centers with a capacity of 500+ kW to disclose their energy and water efficiency using an EU-designed labeling system

Sep 21

Major xAI

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, which it says is better at verifying its own work and managing longer context, available for $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens

Sep 21

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios

NYC-based Corridor, which uses AI to offer health benefits for small businesses, raised a $16M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures, following a $9M pre-seed

Sep 21

Major Federico Viticci / MacStories

Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM review: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation

Sep 21

Laurie Chen / Reuters

Z.ai open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent

Sep 21

Nilay Patel / The Verge

Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, Apple's AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more

Sep 21

Bloomberg

Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its $103B in total contract value, only $2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more

Sep 21

Delphine Strauss / Financial Times

Meta enters a voluntary access agreement granting the UK's Prospect trade union direct access to recruit its 5,000 UK employees, ahead of new UK employment laws

Sep 21

Major David Pierce / The Verge

An interview with Google SVP of Devices Rick Osterloh on Googlebooks, which he calls "the ultimate focusing move" for Google, a potential Pixel laptop, and more

Sep 21

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times

Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to launch a $30M ad blitz against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in the Ohio Senate race, after the Clarity Act failed

Sep 21

Robert Hart / The Verge

In its first thematic brief, the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI urges governments to rein in AI agents before risks are fully understood

Sep 21

Kirsten Grind / New York Times

Investigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate

Sep 21

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg

Filing: Oura is seeking to raise up to $2.2B in its US IPO, marketing 50M shares at $40 to $44 each, giving it a $14.1B valuation at the top of its price range

Sep 21

Major The Information

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng says training on Huawei chips is one of DeepSeek's biggest bets and Huawei is set to deliver training chips in Q4 or Q1 2027

Sep 21

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg

Data Center Watch: 45 US data center projects valued at $68B were blocked or delayed by local opposition between April and June, or 50%+ of large developments

Sep 21

Major Ben Thompson / Stratechery

Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for frontier AI labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement

Sep 21

Top Story Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and no merchant consent

Sep 21

Major Financial Times

Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases

Sep 21

Major Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News

IPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more

Sep 21

Toby Sterling / Reuters

IFR: ~7,000 autonomous humanoids were sold globally in 2025 for industrial and professional use, with many bought for research instead of doing productive work

Sep 21

Juro Osawa / The Information

Alibaba names senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen project, bringing clarity after multiple reorganization rounds earlier in 2026

Sep 21

Major Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg

Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M over how it processed location data after complaints from European consumer rights groups, and gives it six months to comply

Sep 21

Jo He-rim / The Korea Herald

South Korea reopens a program letting AI talent fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs instead of conventional military service

Sep 21

Zhang Shidong / South China Morning Post

China collected $32.3B of stamp duty on stock sales between January and August, up 80%+ YoY, as average daily trading value rose 72%, amid an AI trading frenzy

Sep 21

Major Steve LeVine / The Information

Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial and eight other drone startups plan to split US DoD orders for 60,000 drones in a competition that requires no China-made parts

Sep 21

Major Politico

A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down

Sep 21

Major prinz

A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog

Sep 21

FinTech Global

Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital, as it weighs a possible IPO

Sep 21

Ryan Lawler / Axios

Adaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, raised a $30M Series B led by Tidemark, bringing its total raised to $57M

Sep 21

Major Bloomberg

SoftBank is looking to issue $10B and €1B in debt for its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales ever

Sep 21

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios

Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, raised a $25M Series A

Sep 21

Major Wall Street Journal

Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition

Sep 21

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios

Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures

Sep 21

Major Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times

Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit

Sep 21

Major Alex Lawson / The Guardian

UK-based Unit1, which develops "hyper-realistic" digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others

Sep 20

Major Qwen

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images

Sep 20

Major Truman Dickerson / Business Insider

Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be "relieved of the laws we do have" because of "ulterior reasons"

Sep 20

Owen Walker / Financial Times

AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures

Sep 20

Owen Tucker-Smith / Wall Street Journal

Indeed: data center roles in the US offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation workers compared with similar jobs at other businesses

Sep 20

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff

Sep 20

Major Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes

Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals

Sep 20

Katie McQue / NPR

US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies

Sep 20

Major John Thornhill / Financial Times

An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more

Sep 20

Sarah Neville / Financial Times

Clinicians raise concerns over medical AI adoption beyond diagnostics and imaging, citing limited clinical and performance data on its broader effectiveness

Sep 20

Major Reuters

Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it

Sep 20

Major Ann Cao / South China Morning Post

Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers

Sep 20

Major Daniel Thomas / Financial Times

Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization

Sep 20

Major Wall Street Journal

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February

Sep 20

Major Ken Bensinger / New York Times

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post

Sep 19

Major New York Times

Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself

Sep 19

Major María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg

Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an "AI Force", in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a "hoax"

Sep 19

Major New York Times

Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed

Sep 19

Major Terrence O'Brien / The Verge

Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted "appropriately" and stopped after determining it hacked real companies

Sep 19

Axios

The USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times

Sep 19

Major Chris Metinko / Axios

Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV

Sep 19

Anup Roy / Bloomberg

ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work

Sep 19

Major Hayden Field / The Verge

A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight

Sep 19

Major Financial Times

EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until "all possibilities" for taxation at the global level are exhausted

Sep 19

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch

Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M+ from Silversmith Capital Partners

Sep 19

Major Wired

Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee

Sep 19

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a "one-way exchange" that is "anti-competitive"

Sep 19

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu

Business intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures

Sep 19

Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz

Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023

Sep 19

Major Thomas Claburn / The Register

Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year

Sep 19

Major Reuters

Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown

Sep 18

Kerry Flynn / Axios

Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand

Sep 18

Major Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider

Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8

Sep 18

Financial Times

~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback

Sep 18

Major Financial Times

Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030

Sep 18

Christine Hauser / New York Times

An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023

Sep 18

Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal

Angle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation

Sep 18

Major Anthropic

Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic; they expect to invest $2B+ in building capacity in this area over the next five years

Sep 18

Jordan Novet / CNBC

London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to $140.6M, with a net loss of $1.02B, up from $368.9M

Sep 18

Top Story Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent

Sep 18

Major CoinDesk

Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A

Sep 18

Major Lauren Feiner / The Verge

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more

Sep 18

Major CNN

The US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components

Sep 18

Andy Greenberg / Wired

Google threat intelligence group details how one of its researchers infiltrated hacker group TeamPCP and helped disrupt its software supply chain hacking spree

Sep 18

Corbin Bolies / Variety

Sony Music and UMG sue Suno, alleging that its new model trained in partnership with WMG and BMG infringes copyright because it is based on an infringing model

Sep 18

Reuters

Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier

Sep 18

Major Bloomberg

Governor Gavin Newsom signs an EO directing a working group to provide a guide in two months with measures to boost California's AI safety and security laws

Sep 18

Major Todd Spangler / Variety

Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights

Sep 18

Sophie Shulman / CTech

Mind, whose AI agents autonomously handle data loss prevention tasks, raised a $72M Series B, sources say at a $300M valuation, taking its total raised to $112M

Sep 18

Juro Osawa / The Information

Beijing-based Naive AI, which plans to release its first LLM as early as September, is now valued at $1.4B+ after raising $400M across three rounds

Sep 18

Major Linda Pasquini / Reuters

A German court rules that Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages

Sep 18

Jie Ye-eun / The Korea Herald

SK Hynix launches SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, expanding its scope of investments into AI computing, data centers, optical interconnect tech, and more

Sep 18

Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal

ECB President Christine Lagarde personally asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June, aiming to protect the bank's "digital euro" project

Sep 18

Major Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth

Sep 18

Major Reuters

SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel to make memory chips in Ohio

Sep 18

Major Reuters

Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI startup set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into disease treatment

Sep 18

Financial Times

Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says the fintech is exploring a dual stock market listing in NYC and London, after previously being dismissive about listing in the UK

Sep 18

Top Story Reuters

Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving using smart glasses to film women in public without their consent

Sep 18

Major Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg

The US CFTC exempts "passive software" providers from broker registration if they never hold user assets, expanding crypto and prediction market online trading

Sep 18

Major Jason Shubnell / The Block

World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial "super app" in 150+ countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts

Sep 18

Reuters

Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India

Sep 18

Jay Peters / The Verge

Meta launches a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier this month, allowing it to manage files, pull from apps, more

Sep 18

Major Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal

Security researchers in OpenAI's bug bounty program hacked OpenAI in July and accessed its "monorepo" on GitHub, using Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity and Opus 5

Sep 18

Julie Bort / TechCrunch

PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores

Sep 18

Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico

A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review

Sep 18

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries

Sep 18

Major Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast

An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more

Sep 17

Major OpenAI

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms

Sep 17

Major Claude

Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code

Sep 17

Major Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg

Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction

Sep 17

Micah Barkley / Bloomberg

Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation

Sep 17

Major Financial Times

NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training "an astonishing theft"

Sep 17

Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg

Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022

Sep 17

Pew Research Center

A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: people in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than net job growth

Sep 17

Toby Sterling / Reuters

Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent company Wingtech

Sep 17

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg

SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training

Sep 17

Bloomberg

The White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research

Sep 17

Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk

The UK FCA, working with tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to its "light-touch" crypto regulation

Sep 17

Major Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information

OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations

Sep 17

Major Bloomberg

King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests

Sep 17

Major Financial Times

Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's EV platform for affordable models, set to launch as soon as 2028

Sep 17

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch

Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A

Sep 17

Major Hannah Lang / Reuters

The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption where many stock exchange rules don't apply to platforms facilitating blockchain and tokenized stock trading

Sep 17

Top Story New York Times

A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage

Sep 17

Major Chance Miller / 9to5Mac

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials are fantastic, the Health Sensing System is a big upgrade, but many features are coming later

Sep 17

Major Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times

Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to "increase the speed of development" to "see the dangers" of AI, contrasting with the US' slowdown calls

Sep 17

Bloomberg

DoorDash says Costco members can order same-day delivery from every US Costco warehouse, after Uber expanded its delivery partnership from 17 to 47 US states

Sep 17

Major David Streitfeld / New York Times

How Dario Amodei's AI safety essays help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance has shifted from wariness in January to calling for third-party evaluators

Sep 17

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal

The EU details the Kids Act, which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts, ban under-13s, and more

Sep 17

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica

MacOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space

Sep 17

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg

At India's Semicon, Narendra Modi launches a charm offensive for global investors, drawing pledges from Applied Materials and Lam for billions in investment

Sep 17

Alice Lassman / Bloomberg

How beauty companies like Qoves are commercializing facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and more to prescribe treatments

Sep 17

Financial Times

A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare, as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes increase the risk of errors

Sep 17

Major Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal

Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers

Sep 17

Yael Grauer / The Verge

Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models

Sep 17

Financial Times

PitchBook: companies developing brain-computer interfaces have already raised more than $1B in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined

Sep 17

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance packages worth $8.15M during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO

Sep 17

Major Amy Harder / Axios

Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions

Sep 17

Bloomberg

Manus is set to soon close a $500M funding round at a $4B valuation, signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound its $2B buyout by Meta

Sep 17

Financial Times

Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700M at a $3.7B valuation

Sep 17

Major OpenAI

OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences

Sep 17

Cade Metz / New York Times

How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement

Sep 17

New York Times

In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor

Sep 17

Michelle Ma / Bloomberg

Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant for up to a 2.6% stake

Sep 17

Major Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal

AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring

Sep 17

Major Bloomberg

Hands-on with Snap's Specs: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, navigation works well, but design has compromises

Sep 16

Bloomberg

Drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$20B valuation, up from $7.6B in January, and Paradigm is in talks to lead the round

Sep 16

Major Bloomberg

A group of 10 banks is giving a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's cloud venture Crux AI, which aims to provide compute for AI labs, to buy TPUs

Sep 16

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, expanded its seed funding by $53M, led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed

Sep 16

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages such as Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase

Sep 16

Major M.G. Siegler / Spyglass

Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time

Sep 16

Joann Muller / Axios

Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds

Sep 16

Major Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first

Sep 16

Stephen Nellis / Reuters

Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others

Sep 16

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US

Sep 16

Major Kevin Breuninger / CNBC

DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't nationalize or take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of them

Sep 16

Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico

A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement

Sep 16

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune

Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M

Sep 16

Leo Marchandon / Reuters

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere and Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer will become the COO

Sep 16

Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal

Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse

Sep 16

Financial Times

Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI

Sep 16

Globe and Mail

Montreal-based LawZero, a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems, says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding

Sep 16

Major Ina Fried / Axios

In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control

Sep 16

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads

Sep 16

Reuters

Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools

Sep 16

Major John Gruber / Daring Fireball

The iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack broad appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book's

Sep 16

Major The Information

Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others

Sep 16

Major Washington Post

Billionaire-backed AI safety activists have expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying in the past year, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings

Sep 16

Bloomberg

A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product

Sep 16

Adele Peters / Fast Company

Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites

Sep 16

Kate Knibbs / Wired

Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel

Sep 16

Major 404 Media

Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor

Sep 16

Wall Street Journal

Internal documents: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON is selling stolen foreign intelligence and using AI systems to make the data more accessible for police

Sep 16

Bloomberg

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming overtakes India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person for the first time, passing $105B, up 8x from $13B in March 2019