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Sep 19

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

Top Story 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 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

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 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

Sep 16

New York Times

Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue

Sep 16

Major Nectar Gan / Bloomberg

The Trump administration faces strategic constraints in slowing China's AI progress, including avoiding rare earth restrictions, ahead of US-China talks on AI

Sep 16

Byron Kaye / Reuters

Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease for a planned 2.16GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027

Sep 16

Major Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal

Mistral partners with Mozilla to power Firefox's AI browsing assistant, Smart Window, in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026

Sep 16

New York Times

A viral social media post from a Chinese math teacher sparks debate over making English optional in schools across China especially as AI translation improves

Sep 16

Major Financial Times

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls AI "the second tipping point of our times", alongside climate change, and says its risks must be "addressed"

Sep 16

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg

SK Hynix strikes an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, replacing a previously proposed 40-60 cash-stock split

Sep 16

Kane Wu / Reuters

Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff using AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation

Sep 16

Munsif Vengattil / Reuters

Police in Gujarat, India, to question Google after uncovering 500K+ Gmail IDs and passwords used to send hoax bomb threats to government offices since 2022

Sep 16

Scott Aaronson / Shtetl-Optimized

A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof

Sep 16

Major Reuters

SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US, but potential opposition from Seoul could be a major hurdle for the deal

Sep 16

Major Thomas Claburn / The Register

TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using "Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions" to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly

Sep 16

Major Sri Muppidi / New York Times

Investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be at least $1.5T

Sep 16

Valida Pau / The Information

AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise $1B at a $10B valuation, up from $2.25B less than a month ago; Sequoia and Benchmark are in talks to lead the round

Sep 16

Major Kevin Collier / NBC News

Cybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect an unfamiliarity with the subject

Sep 16

Becky Ferreira / 404 Media

Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more

Sep 16

SemiAnalysis

Analysis: only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity is delayed by direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO

Sep 15

New York Times

Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on US-China AI race, distillation, US chip export controls, and more

Sep 15

Major Jyoti Mann / The Information

Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse

Sep 15

@openrouter

OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024

Sep 15

Top Story Financial Times

OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO

Sep 15

Melia Robinson / Business Insider

Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund

Sep 15

Major Brody Ford / Bloomberg

During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate

Sep 15

Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal

Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019

Sep 15

Major CNBC

The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework

Sep 15

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune

CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025

Sep 15

Major Google

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its "most advanced live dialogue models yet", to more effectively enable voice agents

Sep 15

Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide

UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly "proliferates" copyright-infringing tracks

Sep 15

Major Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation

Sep 15

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal

Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April

Sep 15

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch

DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July

Sep 15

The Information

Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used it for arbitrage

Sep 15

Wall Street Journal

AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing

Sep 15

Semafor

In August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied

Sep 15

Major Stevie Bonifield / The Verge

Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans

Sep 15

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

India's UPI, which has been free for merchants since January 2020, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15

Sep 15

Major David Welch / Bloomberg

GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs

Sep 15

Top Story Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg Law

OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety

Sep 15

Major Julie Bort / TechCrunch

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which offers audits and safety certifications for AI agents, raised a $40M Series A, bringing total raised to $55M

Sep 15

Dina Bass / Bloomberg

Meta says it plans to deploy MTIA 450, its third-generation custom AI chip, in data centers in H1 2027, followed by a broad rollout of MTIA 500 by end of 2027

Sep 15

Major Wall Street Journal

The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay payments of around $1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action

Sep 15

David Morris / Bloomberg

Altera, which makes chips for AI, automation, and more, files confidentially for an IPO; Intel acquired it for ~$16.7B in 2015, and Silver Lake took 51% in 2025

Sep 15

Major The Information

ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B

Sep 15

Major Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac

Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets

Sep 15

Claire Moses / New York Times

The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says "we can harness AI for good"

Sep 15

Daniel Cooper / Engadget

HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, too expensive at $499+, and imaging needs to improve

Sep 15

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg

Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms

Sep 15

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg

New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+

Sep 15

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg

Amazon says its India quick delivery service, Amazon Now, crossed $1B in annualized gross revenue, with orders doubling QoQ since its launch in summer 2025

Sep 15

New York Times

New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches Who Decides, a nonprofit that raised $10M and aims to raise another $20M in 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy

Sep 15

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg

Grab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue

Sep 15

Financial Times

China tightens overseas travel controls for citizens via exit bans and fines in a sweeping new law, as Beijing moves to secure state secrets and advanced tech

Sep 15

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Microsoft rolls out emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday update, which addressed ~1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs

Sep 15

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters

MediaTek unveils the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first phone SoC on TSMC's 2nm node, and the 3nm 9600M, with boosted AI performance, as it competes with Qualcomm

Sep 15

Hugh Langley / Business Insider

Google gives all of its engineers Claude Opus 5 access via Antigravity, and says "Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development"

Sep 15

SemiAnalysis

A deep dive into on-device vs. data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the "network wall", and more

Sep 15

Bloomberg

Tokyo-based memory maker Kioxia is considering raising $10B+ through a 2027 US ADR listing as it seeks liquidity after billions in share buybacks

Sep 15

Major Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC

Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries

Sep 15

Tom Wilson / Financial Times

Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices including cars and home routers, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation

Sep 15

Matt Levine / Bloomberg

Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins

Sep 15

Major Ernie Smith / Tedium

A look at iLands, a company that is essentially Fiverr for AI agents, whose bots email unsolicited and annoying pitches to people, usually for ~$25 services

Sep 15

Bryan Shan / SemiAnalysis

Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs

Sep 15

Major Britney Nguyen / Dow Jones Newswires

Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9%

Sep 14

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch

Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital

Sep 14

Chris Metinko / Axios

London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025

Sep 14

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple's H1 2027 plans include an iPhone 18e, an A20 iPhone 18, an A20 Pro iPhone Air 2, an OLED iPad Air, an A19 Pro MacBook Neo, and an M6 MacBook Air

Sep 14

The Information

Defense tech startup Shield AI is in talks to raise new funds at a valuation of at least $20B; Shield raised $2B at a valuation of $12.7B in March

Sep 14

Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider

Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating

Sep 14

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters

Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others

Sep 14

Major Wall Street Journal

OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+; it was valued at ~$100M last year

Sep 14

Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware

Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090's 32GB

Sep 14

Top Story Adam Vjestica / The Shortcut

Valve says the Steam Frame is priced at $1,059 for the 256GB model and $1,299 for the 1TB version; both come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx but no power supply

Sep 14

Joseph Cox / 404 Media

Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans

Sep 14

John Reynolds / Tech.eu

Stockholm-based Tandem Health, which makes an AI copilot that generates medical notes during consultations, raised a $100M Series B led by Scaleup Europe Fund

Sep 14

The Information

Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn't guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn't made Fable available via its software

Sep 14

Federico Maccioni / Reuters

Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby raised a $233M Series F led by Blue Pool Capital at a $6.5B valuation, up from $4.5B after its share sale in October 2025

Sep 14

Major Mike Scarcella / Reuters

Filing: X and SpaceXAI move to dismiss their federal antitrust lawsuit in Texas against Apple, resolving accusations of Apple monopolizing smartphone markets

Sep 14

Joseph Bambridge / Politico

Tom Duff Gordon, OpenAI's head of policy in EMEA, calls on the UK to introduce binding AI rules to "establish durable, mandatory, capability-based requirements"

Sep 14

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters

Temporal, which makes open-source software that helps apps, including AI agents, recover from failure, raised $550M led by Lightspeed at a $12.55B valuation

Sep 14

Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring

OpenAI employees need to oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks

Sep 14

Major Jeremy Stern / Colossus

A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more

Sep 14

Sara Fischer / Axios

Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launch the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance, led by trade group TechNet, to advocate for "technology-neutral policies"

Sep 14

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Microsoft publishes a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct", establishing that "people matter more than AI", rejecting legal personhood for AI, and more

Sep 14

Anna Irrera / Bloomberg

Paris-based digital asset data provider Kaiko extends a funding round to $110M led by S&P Global to support 24/7 continuous market data and asset tokenization

Sep 14

Major Aoife Walsh / Washington Post

President Trump expresses support for Flock "because of law enforcement", while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology "an infringement"

Sep 14

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg

US-Israeli startup Buildots, which uses AI to speed up construction of mega-projects like data centers and chip factories, raised $130M at a near-$1B valuation

Sep 14

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times

The IFPI says music companies and distributors agreed on new rules to combat the use of AI-generated music to defraud streaming services and divert royalties

Sep 14

Major Politico

Documents: the European Commission plans to propose an EU KIDS Act on Thursday to set a minimum age for accessing social media, video platforms, games, and more

Sep 14

P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal

Z.ai says it plans to raise $5B+ via equity and debt to fund its AI investments, including ~$2B through a share placement, after raising $4B in July

Sep 14

Major Bloomberg

China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying "fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one"

Sep 14

Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information

How hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are siding with consumers on data center power costs and sweetening offers for communities to gain support

Sep 14

Major Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg

Australian data center provider Firmus is seeking to raise up to $5B in an IPO at the end of October, in one of the largest-ever IPOs in Australia

Sep 14

Major Felix Ng / Cointelegraph News

The US Senate digital assets subcommittee releases a revised "final offer" of the Clarity Act with Trump-backed ethics provisions, ahead of a September 15 vote

Sep 14

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg

Filing: San Jose-based Chinese optical module maker Ligent seeks ~$727M in a Hong Kong IPO, after its rival Zhongji Innolight's $6.8B Hong Kong debut in July

Sep 14

Major Reuters

AI-connected Asian stocks fall sharply following US tech leaders' call for pacing AI development, with SoftBank, Kioxia, SK Hynix, Minimax, and Z.ai down 5%+

Sep 14

Reuters

Document: Samsung and SK Hynix rejected KEPCO's proposal to prepay ~$18.7B of chip cluster power bills, citing uncertainty over long-term chip demand

Sep 14

Major The Information

Anthropic signed a $13.7B, six-year deal to lease compute from Rum Group's upcoming Georgia data center; Rum operates Rumble and hosts Truth Social

Sep 14

Washington Post

Current and former NSA officials: the US NSA plans major restructuring to form five new units for AI, China, cybersecurity, warfighting, and global intelligence

Sep 14

Janice Huang / Bloomberg

SoftBank sealed a two-year loan facility to support its OpenAI investment, securing $11.87B in commitments from ~20 banks, above its $10B target

Sep 14

Major Justine Calma / The Verge

Environmental Protection Network: ex-EPA officials find 30 federal actions since January 2025 that they say exacerbate health risks from data center pollution

Sep 13

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

IPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand

Sep 13

The Washington Sun

US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump's push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash

Sep 13

Major Ivan Levingston / Financial Times

Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition

Sep 13

Major Joe Rossignol / MacRumors

Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm

Sep 13

John Egan / Dallas Innovates

Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M

Sep 13

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO "with full support of the board", after an attempted ouster this week

Sep 13

Major Michael Safi / The Guardian

A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it

Sep 12

Mark Tovey / Telegraph

Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like "AI-generated", "deepfake", and "nudify" by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023

Sep 12

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal

An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth

Sep 12

Major Bloomberg

Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump

Sep 12

Major Jason Ma / Fortune

Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public"

Sep 12

Major Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg

The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting

Sep 12

Major Bloomberg

Trump is taking a hands-off approach to AI regulation to preserve the US lead over China, ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, where AI safety is a top issue

Sep 12

Major Tiffany Ap / Bloomberg

As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy

Sep 12

Major Daniel Tudor / Financial Times

South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector

Sep 12

Major Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast

Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more

Sep 12

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios

Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp

Sep 12

Davis Janowski / Wealth Management

NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital

Sep 12

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app

Sep 11

Major Reuters

Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B

Sep 12

Major Natalie Lung / Bloomberg

Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections

Sep 11

Major Ben Bergman / Business Insider

Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago

Sep 11

Major Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal

Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do "benign tasks"

Sep 11

Bloomberg

Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund

Sep 11

Major Courtney Rozen / Reuters

US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a "duty of care" for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe

Sep 11

Kate Knibbs / Wired

FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking

Sep 11

Major Terence Tao / What's new

A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics

Sep 11

Major Business Insider

LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize

Sep 11

Tom Rees / Bloomberg

The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations

Sep 11

Globe and Mail

Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2B and $3B, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, at a $20B valuation

Sep 11

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer, saying it is "time for me to move on and try new things"

Sep 11

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

In an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him

Sep 11

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Roblox announces new features, including game-creation tools, ability to make games available as standalone apps across platforms, and Roblox Wallet and Card

Sep 11

Major Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism

Meta says it is making changes to Meta AI's suggested prompts after a viral Instagram video showed it posing invasive questions about a woman's young daughters

Sep 11

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

Meta says it's changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions

Sep 11

Major Politico

Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump

Sep 11

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg

The GSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal at a 50% discount from October 1, including access to GPT-6 Astra

Sep 11

Major Bloomberg

Threat intelligence report: Anthropic says it disrupted a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to build missile and rocket guidance software

Sep 11

Major Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer

A US court sentences Ukrainian Oleksii Lytvynenko to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the Conti ransomware attacks

Sep 11

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal

Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time adviser to OpenAI

Sep 11

Bloomberg

Moonshot AI told investors it topped $1B ARR in August, up from $300M in June, driven by its Kimi K3 release; it aims to hit $2B ARR by the end of 2026

Sep 11

Alexandra Alper / Reuters

Source and press release: the Trump administration will lend nearly $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telco, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion

Sep 11

Stephen Nellis / Reuters

Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised a $150M extension to its $500M Series E announced in March 2026

Sep 11

Major Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica

A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions

Sep 11

CNBC

Garry Tan says "I would do nothing" about China's AI distillation and urges the industry to focus on current AI risks instead of doomsday-style extinction fears

Sep 11

Major Sara Fischer / Axios

TikTok rejects ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other platforms to join Meta in settling with US state AGs in a landmark child safety lawsuit

Sep 11

Major Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal

Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the startup aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as CFO of Amazon, EA, Delta, NBC, and most recently Nielsen

Sep 11

Tiffany Hsu / New York Times

MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms

Sep 11

Aditya Kalra / Reuters

Official doc: India's Serious Fraud Office urges the government to probe Xiaomi over alleged business model irregularities and foreign investment law violations

Sep 11

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post

Tencent-backed AI chipmaker Enflame's shares surged 188% in their Shanghai debut, giving Enflame a market cap of $26.3B, after raising ~$910M in an IPO

Sep 11

Christian Terry / Click2Houston.com

A US judge finds TikTok liable for lying about its safety standards and exposing minors to inappropriate content, in a 2025 lawsuit filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton

Sep 11

Wall Street Journal

Kalshi plans to seek US regulatory approval to start offering single-stock perpetual futures; Coinbase filed similar regulatory paperwork last week

Sep 11

Major Mark Spoonauer / Tom's Guide

An interview with Apple CEO John Ternus and Greg Joswiak on making the iPhone Duo, minimizing the crease, uninspiring Android foldables, the price, and more

Sep 11

Major Bloomberg

Sam Altman told OpenAI employees that the company is considering slowing cutting-edge AI development, and he hopes other AI companies will do the same

Sep 11

Major Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal

Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs, with freemium MAUs surpassing 100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings

Sep 11

The Information

AI assistant Instinct is looking to raise $1B in new funding after recently raising $250M, as it seeks more computing power amid capacity constraints

Sep 11

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg

Only 4% of the startups in YC's 2026 spring batch had a native mobile app as their main product, down from 15% in 2013, as startups focus on AI and agents

Sep 11

T-Mobile

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Sep 10

Lucinda Shen / Axios

London-based Xapien, which uses AI for background checks and due diligence, raised a $56M Series B led by Spectrum Equity

Sep 10

Major Wall Street Journal

The Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5B to neocloud Fluidstack; Fluidstack is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank

Sep 10

Bloomberg

Microsoft plans to expand its data center capacity from 12GW today to 38GW+ by 2032, with about a third of the 38GW centered on AI-specific chips

Sep 10

Major Colin Lecher / CalMatters

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills restricting "addictive" social media features for under-16s and limiting minors' interactions with chatbots

Sep 10

Reuters

Altera is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO in the coming weeks; the offering could raise over $2B, with a listing as early as this year

Sep 10

Major Jordan Novet / CNBC

Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $19.35B, vs. $19.14B est., cloud infrastructure revenue up 121% to $7.4B, vs. $7.09B est.; ORCL jumps 6%+ after hours

Sep 10

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch

ID verification service IDScan confirms that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems after hackers offered 153M licenses for sale

Sep 10

Major Tibo / @thsottiaux

OpenAI says it will pause new $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions amid "unprecedented" Astra demand; existing accounts, other plans, and API are unaffected

Sep 10

Major CNBC

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT for Financial Services, a version of ChatGPT Work made with "design partners" Morgan Stanley and Evercore to research like an analyst

Sep 10

Emma Roth / The Verge

Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog

Sep 10

Major Wall Street Journal

Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via "transfer stations" outside China

Sep 10

Major Bloomberg

PIF is considering combining EA with Savvy Games to better coordinate its gaming assets, but not before Savvy closes its $6B Moonton acquisition

Sep 10

Grace Kay / The Information

SpaceX shifts its data center strategy to redesign existing facilities and prioritize power and cooling redundancy, potentially slowing new build-outs

Sep 10

Mark Chediak / Bloomberg

TAR, which builds off-grid power systems for data centers, raised a $120M Series A led by Spark Capital at a ~$1B valuation

Sep 10

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch

Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M

Sep 10

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal

Positron, which is designing AI inference processor Asimov featuring a "memory-first architecture" and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation

Sep 10

Julie Bort / TechCrunch

Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B

Sep 10

Major Peter Adams / Marketing Dive

Amazon partners with OpenAI to let advertisers buy ChatGPT ads via Amazon DSP as a managed service in a US-only pilot; OpenAI will control ad delivery decisions

Sep 10

Sonia Sirletti / Bloomberg

Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B, implying an equity value of ~$1.79B

Sep 10

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC

Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030

Sep 10

Major Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg

Nasdaq invests $100M in Kraken parent company Payward, valuing the crypto exchange at $21B; in March, Kraken said it will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks

Sep 10

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg

Anthropic gives EU cybersecurity agency ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months of talks that began in late May; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1

Sep 10

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu

Paris-based Arlequin AI, which is developing proprietary models based on topological neural networks, raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB

Sep 10

Major Reuters

DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context

Sep 10

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post

Moonshot AI is exploring dual Hong Kong and Shanghai listings for greater capital and exposure, amid the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong

Sep 10

Major Ghosts of Electricity

A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years

Sep 10

Axios

Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Senator Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it "reckless"

Sep 10

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times

The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024

Sep 10

Bloomberg

Grab is in talks to buy a majority stake in Advance Intelligence Group's Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome Financial at a $2B+ valuation

Sep 10

Viola Zhou / Rest of World

Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor

Sep 10

Emmy Martin / New York Times

How Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF

Sep 10

Major Maxwell Zeff / Wired

Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more

Sep 10

Reuters

Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs

Sep 10

Océane Herrero / Politico

Sources including French public officials detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron

Sep 10

Annie Palmer / CNBC

Amazon names Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, noting his extensive experience "combating cyber threats" in public and private sectors

Sep 10

Bloomberg

Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab

Sep 10

Mikella Schuettler / Associated Press

New Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements

Sep 10

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy

Sep 10

Lauren Goode / Wired

Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M

Sep 10

New York Times

DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, described by Groq as a "nonexclusive licensing agreement"

Sep 10

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors

Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month

Sep 9

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, "readiness" and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026

Sep 10

The Information

Jeffrey Katzenberg, ex-OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup to train AI video models for filmmakers

Sep 9

Jason Shubnell / The Block

Consensys plans to split into two companies: MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO, and a new Consensys focused on Ethereum and institutional infrastructure

Sep 9

Major Reed Albergotti / Semafor

Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company

Sep 9

Major Samantha Cole / 404 Media

Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with board members and was voted interim CEO

Sep 9

Major Lily Hay Newman / Wired

New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing

Sep 9

Major Supreeth Koundinya / AIM

Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, is joining Shopify; in January, it laid off three of four engineers, citing AI's impact on documentation traffic

Sep 9

Major Anthropic

Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them

Sep 9

Top Story Cameron Faulkner / The Verge

Apple raises iPhone prices by $100 on all of the older models it is offering, including the iPhone 16, the iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air

Sep 9

Business Insider

Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year

Sep 9

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge

The iPhone Duo supports Apple Pencil and features iOS 27 revamped for multitasking that auto-adjusts controls and apps depending on screen size and orientation

Sep 9

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget

Apple says iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI, will be released on September 14

Sep 9

Jeremy Gray / PetaPixel

IPhone 18 Pro has a faster 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture that lets in ~50% more light in low-light, along with enhanced camera app controls

Sep 9

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media

AI CRM software startup Lightfield raised a $47M Series A led by a16z; formerly Tome, it had raised $80M across earlier Series A and B rounds

Sep 9

Major Reuters

Researchers: OpenAI's agents used 10+ previously undisclosed sites for unsanctioned communications earlier in 2026; the behavior was closer to spam than hacking

Sep 9

Kimberly Leonard / Politico

Florida AG sues Netflix, alleging it misleads parents about how it collects data on minors and harms children with features that lead to binge watching

Sep 9

The Verge

A live blog of Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event, where new iPhone 18 Pro, Apple's first foldable phone, new Apple Watches, and AirPods are expected

Sep 9

Madina Touré / Politico

The American Federation of Teachers and Microsoft agree on AI privacy standards for schools, with legal protections that hold Microsoft liable for breaches

Sep 9

Bloomberg

Dell seeks to raise ~$4B via an investment-grade bond sale to refinance outstanding notes due in 2026, amid the AI-driven demand for servers

Sep 9

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Enterprise AI security startup Cymphony emerges from stealth with $30M, including a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC, at a $100M+ post-money valuation

Sep 9

Jacob Reid / Bloomberg

UK PM Andy Burnham declines to support a data center moratorium, saying it is "important" local communities see the benefits of building data centers

Sep 9

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters

Analog Devices agrees to buy privately held Alif Semiconductor, which makes low-power AI processors, for $1.35B in cash, with contingent payments up to $200M

Sep 9

Najmeh Bozorgmehr / Financial Times

Iran's central bank has quietly relaxed foreign currency controls and encouraged traders to repatriate funds via cryptocurrencies to bypass sanctions

Sep 9

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune

Latitude, a Texas-based payments infrastructure company founded by Stripe, Uber, Coinbase and Meta alumni, raised a $35M Series A led by Oak HC/FT

Sep 9

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times

AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025

Sep 9

Chris Metinko / Axios

Euno, whose platform reconstructs data flow, meaning, health, and more across data environments to give agents context, raised a $23M Series A led by N47

Sep 9

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg

Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March

Sep 9

Ryan Lawler / Axios

Savvy Wealth, which provides RIA software for independent financial advisors, raised a $100M Series C led by Halo Fund, taking its total funding to $200M+

Sep 9

Heekyong Yang / Reuters

OpenAI says it is working with Samsung on its next-gen chips, and Samsung is one of the "largest-scale deployments of ChatGPT globally"

Sep 9

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg

Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where Lyft is offering robotaxi trips; Waymo and Lyft partnered in 2025

Sep 9

Financial Times

PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software

Sep 9

Bloomberg

Suno rolls out v6, a new generation of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when v6 is used

Sep 9

Major Bloomberg

Google plans to invest €13B+ in Finland over two years, its biggest investment in Europe to date, to build three new data centers and expand an existing one

Sep 9

Sarah Wynn / The Block

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme that stole and laundered $245M+ in crypto

Sep 9

The Information

China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree

Sep 9

Major Financial Times

Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for prerelease testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism

Sep 9

Top Story Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple's first foldable phone will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at ~$2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October

Sep 9

Dwarkesh Podcast

Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements

Sep 9

Major Dan Goodin / Ars Technica

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, taking its total flaws patched in 2026 so far to 2,760, more than double from 2025

Sep 9

Wall Street Journal

Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash

Sep 9

The Information

Gimlet Labs raised its $300M round after telling investors OpenAI may spend $100M+ annually on its services; OpenAI says it's not a paying customer yet

Sep 8

Hayden Field / The Verge

In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier

Sep 9

Major Reuters

The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting "industrial-scale" distillation campaigns

Sep 8

Major Alex Heath / Sources

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more

Sep 8

Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ

Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code

Sep 8

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal

Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust

Sep 8

Paige Smith / Bloomberg

Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours

Sep 8

Maria Curi / Axios

Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures

Sep 8

John Koetsier / Forbes

Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock

Sep 8

Major OpenAI

OpenAI says, while unlikely, it "cannot rule out that de-identified data derived" from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models

Sep 8

Ina Fried / Axios

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT

Sep 8

Samantha Oltman / Bloomberg

AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M

Sep 8

Bloomberg

Ramp is in early talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $750M at a $44B valuation in June; founded in 2019, Ramp has raised $3B to date

Sep 8

Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku

The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes "copyright infringement very seriously"

Sep 8

Jacob Reid / Bloomberg

UK seeks to force Apple and Google to block children from taking, viewing, or sharing nude images on their devices, and praises Apple's age-based restrictions

Sep 8

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch

NextEra Energy, which partnered with Google to revive an Iowa nuclear power plant, gets a $1.9B loan from the Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment

Sep 8

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk

Circle agrees to acquire Singapore-based cross-border B2B payments company Tazapay for $400M, in one of its largest publicly disclosed acquisitions to date

Sep 8

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch

Poseidon Aerospace, which plans the first test flight of its pilotless cargo plane by year-end, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures, after an $11M seed

Sep 8

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg

Runway co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis says the startup's annual recurring revenue hit $200M in September; source: it expects ARR to cross $350M by the end of 2026

Sep 8

Dina Bass / Bloomberg

Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation

Sep 8

Major Google

Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome

Sep 8

Matt Burgess / Wired

Researchers say Meta ran 350+ ads with CSAM in 2026 so far; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to "nudification" apps from China

Sep 8

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal

Google Cloud and Accenture form the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group to train up to 1,000 Accenture forward deployed engineers for Gemini Enterprise

Sep 8

Major Ari Levy / CNBC

Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide "multiple generations of customized silicon" to help build AWS' AI infrastructure for inference; QCOM jumps ~5%

Sep 8

Wall Street Journal

Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and prediction market company OG, spun out of Crypto.com

Sep 8

Major Clare Armstrong / ABC

Australia proposes a "My Feed, My Way" initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content

Sep 8

Siobhan Roberts / New York Times

Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later in September, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems

Sep 8

Micah Barkley / Bloomberg

Forus, which uses AI to help patients get prescribed drugs more quickly by navigating steps like insurance coverage, raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation

Sep 8

Ryan Lawler / Axios

NYC-based Blee, which makes marketing compliance software for financial services companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Fin Capital and SMBC and a $7M seed

Sep 8

Major Foo Yun Chee / Reuters

Google rolls out search result changes in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest quality of service reduction in Search's 29-year history

Sep 8

Howard Liu / South China Morning Post

China says its AI compute capacity rose 177% YoY to 2,185 eflops by the end of June, and is targeting 9,800 eflops by 2030 via ~$532B in IT infrastructure spend

Sep 8

Major Bloomberg

Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks

Sep 8

Major Dustin Volz / New York Times

Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability

Sep 8

Major Leila Miller / Reuters

Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy

Sep 8

Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post

DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an "unprecedented" hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents

Sep 8

Major Financial Times

Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers

Sep 8

Major Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware

Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-custom chip design platform, and says it supports 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz on TSMC's N3P node

Sep 8

Major Adam Satariano / New York Times

Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a ~€21B valuation, up from €11.7B in September 2025, as it expands from developing AI models into data centers

Sep 8

Major Bloomberg

Anthropic has decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup; a source says the two may still collaborate

Sep 8

Major Gamers Nexus on YouTube

Analysis of LG smart TVs shows its ad software tracks nearby devices, security flaws can allow hackers to eavesdrop via a built-in microphone, and more

Sep 8

Major Julia Kollewe / The Guardian

Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law

Sep 7

Top Story Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal

Hunter Biden teases a $LAPTOP memecoin launch on September 9; sources: it will launch on Base, and some tokens will be sent to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP

Sep 7

Major Tae Kim / Key Context

Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding

Sep 7

Major The Block

The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched

Sep 7

Major Jack Clark / Import AI

Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters

Sep 7

Bloomberg

London-based UForce, which makes unmanned vehicles for air, land, and sea, is seeking about $500M led by Valor Equity at a ~$5B valuation

Sep 7

Major The Guardian

Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns

Sep 7

Major Andy Bounds / Financial Times

Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan

Sep 7

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette

The US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put "trustworthy" news providers at the top of social and video feeds

Sep 7

Major Bloomberg

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month

Sep 7

Major Cade Metz / New York Times

Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow aging

Sep 7

Major Stephen Council / Business Insider

A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products

Sep 7

Major Financial Times

A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage

Sep 7

Bloomberg

Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing

Sep 7

Major Nikkei Asia

Huawei unveils the Mate XT 2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions

Sep 7

Major Cal Newport / New York Times

How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims

Sep 7

Yan Zhuang / New York Times

A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles

Sep 7

Reuters

LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M

Sep 7

Major Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase

An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more

Sep 7

Nikkei Asia

At the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls

Sep 7

Major Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal

How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex

Sep 6

Major Simon Foy / Financial Times

UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy

Sep 6

Major Valida Pau / The Information

Analysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade

Sep 6

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave

Sep 6

Top Story New York Times

How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work

Sep 6

Major Philip Wegmann / Wall Street Journal

Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies

Sep 6

Major Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times

Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms

Sep 6

Major Emily Forlini / Fortune

OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch

Sep 6

Major Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg

As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals

Sep 6

Major Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times

The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state

Sep 5

Major Todd Bishop / GeekWire

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times

Sep 5

Major ABC News

Trump admin launches arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake game clone and a Tetris-like game; Tetris says it takes "copyright infringement very seriously"

Sep 5

Major Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal

Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas

Sep 5

Major Miranda Murray / Reuters

Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans

Sep 5

Major Kinling Lo / Rest of World

Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles

Sep 5

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg

Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more

Sep 5

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal

Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale

Sep 5

Major Dan Goodin / Ars Technica

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters

Sep 5

Top Story Jonathan Greig / The Record

The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia

Sep 5

Moneycontrol

India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B

Sep 5

Eve Bender / MobiHealthNews

Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity

Sep 5

Major Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer

Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process

Sep 5

Major Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal

US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year

Sep 5

Sean Hollister / The Verge

Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs "once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned"

Sep 5

Major Lauren Feiner / The Verge

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content

Sep 4

Major Laurie Chen / Reuters

The US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side

Sep 4

Major Echo Wang / Reuters

Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November

Sep 4

Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg

Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google

Sep 4

Major Anthropic

Anthropic says Claude worked "largely autonomously" over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language

Sep 4

Major Zac Hall / 9to5Mac

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Business Standard and Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API

Sep 4

Bloomberg

London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO

Sep 4

Michael Acton / Financial Times

A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Cook considered how to execute the perfect succession since his early days as CEO

Sep 4

Nilay Patel / The Verge

An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more

Sep 4

Bloomberg

Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to US companies, hoping to safeguard access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027

Sep 4

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India over three to four years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics

Sep 4

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

What to expect from Apple's September 9 "Surprise and Shine" event: a foldable iPhone, an iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watches with ceramic cases, and more

Sep 4

Financial Times

Some European defense officials are pushing back on efforts to cut US tech reliance, warning it could leave Europe with inferior systems and greater cyber risks

Sep 4

Major Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch

The NHTSA opens a probe into Tesla's decision to launch its new Cybercab on public roads in Austin with no steering wheel or pedals

Sep 4

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a "distraction-free Windows experience" for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory

Sep 4

Major Bloomberg

Beijing-based Moonshot is considering raising $3B to $5B in its planned Hong Kong IPO that could occur as soon as in 2026

Sep 4

Major Raphael Satter / Reuters

Letters: US military branches disabled ad trackers on government-issued devices amid reports of location data being used to target US forces in the Middle East

Sep 4

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg

Bank of Korea: South Korea's monthly memory chip output is set to grow by ~600K wafers by 2028, widening its lead over China's CXMT, set to grow by ~300K wafers

Sep 4

Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg

Thailand suspends the construction of 49 server farms to write new industry regulations, set for October, as governments worldwide tighten data center oversight

Sep 4

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg

DeepSeek plans to use 160K+ of Huawei's Ascend 950DT chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, which would create one of the largest Huawei chip clusters

Sep 4

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC

Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector

Sep 4

Bloomberg

Binance is still operating in the EU months after it failed to get a MiCA license, using workarounds to onboard new customers and reroute its trading

Sep 4

Major CNBC

Q&A with Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue on Nvidia acquiring Hugging Face, scaling the open model ecosystem, closed AI vs. open AI, and more

Sep 4

Dina Bass / Bloomberg

Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A

Sep 4

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire

Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors

Sep 4

Major Paresh Dave / Wired

Wikimedia Foundation staffers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200+ US employees across engineering, finance, and communications

Sep 4

Bloomberg

Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries

Sep 3

Axios

PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures

Sep 3

Bloomberg

Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating

Sep 3

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media

Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest

Sep 4

Major Alexei Oreskovic / Fortune

AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor

Sep 3

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg

Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier

Sep 3

Major Sam Sabin / Axios

OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world

Sep 3

Major Annie Palmer / CNBC

Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair

Sep 3

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg

DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration

Sep 3

Major Politico

A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance

Sep 3

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat

Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026

Sep 3

Major The Information

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the $50B+ valuation it sought last year

Sep 3

Bloomberg

Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language model developed with MiniMax, amid controversy among US allies over sovereign AI built with Chinese models

Sep 3

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model; Ultimate subs will be limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming

Sep 3

Major Maxwell Zeff / Wired

Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI

Sep 3

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ring

Sep 3

Major Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta

Sep 3

Major Ben Schoon / 9to5Google

Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are now operational after widespread outages on Thursday

Sep 3

Major Erin Griffith / New York Times

PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes

Sep 3

Major Meir Orbach / CTech

Upwind, which filters false security alerts in cloud apps so companies can focus on actual risks, raised ~$300M at a ~$3.8B valuation, up from ~$1.5B in January

Sep 3

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac

TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be up nearly 400% YoY; Apple is not expected to pass on the full increase to customers

Sep 3

Chris Welch / Bloomberg

HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle smart glasses, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, and Australia

Sep 3

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune

Munich-based Atira, which aims to use AI to automate the parsing and generation of complex bid proposals, raised a $15M seed led by Accel and a $2.5M pre-seed

Sep 3

Pragyan Kalita / Reuters

PlusAI, which is operating autonomous freight routes in Texas with trucking company Ryder, plans to go public in a SPAC deal at an ~$800M pre-money equity value

Sep 3

Top Story Anil Dash

Modern venture capital has transformed into an unchecked oligarchy, or "Cancer Capital", where mega-firms managing $50B+ live off fees and shift risk elsewhere

Sep 3

Farah Stockman / New York Times

The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign drones, including 100% on models over 55lbs or with thermal imaging, in a bid to thwart China

Sep 3

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg

Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which offers a subscription-based consumer security service that protects digital accounts like emails, raised $40M at a $1.1B valuation

Sep 3

Iain Martin / Forbes

Neocloud Fluidstack closed a $1.5B round led by Jane Street at an $18B+ valuation; in July, the startup announced a $750M round at a $7.5B valuation

Sep 3

Steve Lohr / New York Times

US federal courts have consistently shown a wariness in demanding Big Tech make major business changes despite finding antitrust violations, as tech races ahead

Sep 3

Major Valeriya Safronova / Financial Times

How some parents, mostly mothers, use AI to organize their families' schedules and automate mundane household tasks via apps like Ollie, Cozi Max, Town, and Ava

Sep 3

Major Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage

Sep 3

Nick Huber / Financial Times

Several international law firms are seeking to build bespoke AI tools to gain an edge and protect their IP, while using off-the-shelf AI for everyday tasks