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338 stories in Sep 2026
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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 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

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

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

Top Story 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

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters

Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $6.7B est., AI-first annual recurring revenue up 150% YoY, and forecasts Q4 revenue slightly below estimates

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 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

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 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

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 10

Top Story 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

Major Kenneth Chang / New York Times

Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem

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

Sep 3

Major Dawn Lim / Bloomberg

How organized opposition that toppled a $100B data center project in Virginia's Prince William County became a blueprint for data center backlash in the US

Sep 3

Kinling Lo / Rest of World

Taiwan investigated 166 cases in six years involving companies allegedly hiding China ties while pursuing chip talent and tech, alongside 67 trade-secret probes

Sep 3

CNBC

Equinix, whose stock is up 33% YTD, pushing its market cap to $100B, inks a deal with Nvidia to let customers run their AI models on the Together AI platform

Sep 3

UNICEF

A survey of 21,000 internet-using children aged 12 to 17 across 21 countries finds almost one in five experienced tech-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse

Sep 3

Major Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times

Uber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business

Sep 3

Julia Szymanski / LAmag

The LA Unified School District bars ~378,000 students from using AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets as officials review AI's role in classrooms

Sep 3

Bloomberg

ByteDance has secured a $29.6B loan in Asia's second-largest USD-denominated borrowing this year, behind SoftBank's $40B bridge loan signed in March

Sep 3

Major Wired

Meta adjusts employee review language around "AI-driven impact" and token usage, easing off on tokenmaxxing, while promoting the use of AI agent Hatch

Sep 3

Juro Osawa / The Information

China-based Moonshot filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO; source: the company is in talks to raise a pre-IPO funding round at a $50B valuation

Sep 3

Lim Hui Jie / CNBC

South Korean semiconductor exports surged 209% YoY to a record $46.65B in August, accounting for 47.5% of the country's goods exports, according to officials

Sep 3

Major Stephen Nakrosis / Wall Street Journal

Microsoft shifts from three reporting segments to two: Agents and Infra, including Microsoft 365 and Azure, and Devices and Consumer, with Windows and Xbox

Sep 2

Major Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge

Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers

Sep 2

Major Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at $157M before the sale

Sep 2

Ryan Gould / Bloomberg

Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B

Sep 2

Dina Bass / Bloomberg

HPE reports Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to $12.2B, says supply constraints affect its ability to meet demand, signs a $3.5B server deal; HPE falls 5%+ after hours

Sep 2

Major @artificialanlys

Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5

Sep 2

Jordan Novet / CNBC

Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 86% YoY to $29.59B, vs. $29.36B est., AI semiconductor revenue up 221% to $16.7B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates

Sep 2

Courtney Rozen / Reuters

Letter: OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing "automated shutdown capabilities" for AI systems

Sep 2

Major MarketWatch

Snowflake reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to $1.55B, vs. $1.48B est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 20%+ after hours

Sep 2

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch

Austin-based HiddenLayer, which makes security tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital

Sep 2

Major Google

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks

Sep 2

Major Stevie Bonifield / The Verge

MrBeast, whose YouTube channel hit 500M subscribers in June, will put Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multiyear Google deal

Sep 2

Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense

The US Army awards $192M in contracts to Palantir and Anduril to produce eight TITAN AI-powered mobile ground stations, to be delivered over the next 18 months

Sep 2

Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal

Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a $100M+ valuation

Sep 2

Ian Thomas / CNBC

Thyme Care, which focuses on filling cancer treatment gaps via a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation, up from $1B+ in 2025

Sep 2

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money

Sep 2

Major Blake Brittain / Reuters

The Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with The New York Times, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works is generally fair use

Sep 2

Major Bloomberg

A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals

Sep 2

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, and Premiere, available via Slackbot prompts

Sep 2

Chris Metinko / Axios

Conveo, which uses AI to conduct customer interviews in 15 languages and analyzes transcripts for market insights, raised a $50M Series A led by DST Global

Sep 2

Major Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal

Wonderful, which helps enterprises deploy AI, raised a $550M Series C led by Insight at a $5B valuation; investors also paid $170M to buy shares from employees

Sep 2

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal

OpenAI is facing new lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect talked gun violence with ChatGPT for days

Sep 2

Colin Demarest / Axios

New Jersey-based Aitan, which offers "robotic sovereignty as a service" and "edge AI weapon systems", emerges from stealth with $41M led by Deep33 and Dell

Sep 2

Stephen Nellis / Reuters

Valencia-based iPronics raised $125M co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street, with participation from Nvidia, to develop optical circuit switch tech

Sep 2

Pew Research Center

Survey: 53% of US adults say they spend too much time on their smartphone and 36% say about the right amount; 70% of ages 18 to 29 report spending too much time

Sep 2

Reuters

The EU General Court dismisses Opera's challenge against the European Commission's decision to exempt Microsoft Edge from DMA gatekeeper regulations in 2024

Sep 2

Washington Post

Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50

Sep 2

Major Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December

Sep 2

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg

Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M

Sep 2

Bloomberg

A look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan

Sep 2

Major Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security

The FBI is investigating Nexus, a new ID theft service on the dark web claiming to sell digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada

Sep 2

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo

Sep 2

Major Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed

Sep 2

Major Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast

Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more

Sep 2

SemiAnalysis

A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix

Sep 2

Kai Williams / Understanding AI

A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome

Sep 2

Financial Times

Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments

Sep 2

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE

SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona

Sep 2

Wall Street Journal

A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources say Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, and planned outside funding never came

Sep 2

Major The Information

OpenAI's Astra model uses "recurrent depth", a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor

Sep 1

Major Zac Hall / 9to5Mac

Anthropic says Fable 5.1 "will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads" and up to ~45% less for "highly agentic work"

Sep 2

Bloomberg

Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest

Sep 1

Monique Mulima / Bloomberg

IPO filing: SB Energy says it has 8.8GW of data center capacity contracted or under construction across Texas and Ohio and a $430B data center segment backlog

Sep 1

TechCrunch

India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M+ MAUs in India

Sep 1

Michelle Kim / MIT Technology Review

Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system

Sep 1

Major Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica

Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more

Sep 1

Mariapaula Gonzalez / Barron's Online

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, vs. $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 12%+ after hours

Sep 1

Major Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal

Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training

Sep 1

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a compensation package worth ~$58M in FY 2027, while Tim Cook's role as executive chairman will pay ~$47M

Sep 1

Reuters

The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for "novel" situations that involve the tech

Sep 1

Major Samantha Subin / CNBC

Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, vs. $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management

Sep 1

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, following Trump's EO

Sep 1

Business Insider

Memo: Alexandr Wang says Meta is switching from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications as Slack is the "strongest platform available today for agents"

Sep 1

Major Jordan Novet / CNBC

Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, vs. $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, vs. $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ after hours

Sep 1

Major Meta AI Research

Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages

Sep 1

Anna Tong / Forbes

AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable

Sep 1

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information

Wafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation

Sep 1

Major World Labs

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D

Sep 1

Sam Sabin / Axios

Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M

Sep 1

Alex Harring / CNBC

LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28

Sep 1

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News

Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt

Sep 1

Major Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app

Sep 1

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge

John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' "field, machine, and operational data"

Sep 1

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital

Sep 1

Gina Heeb / Wall Street Journal

A consortium of 21 banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, says it will establish a company and launch its stablecoin venture in H1 2027

Sep 1

Meir Orbach / CTech

Air Security, which builds a security service for extensions and other tools installed on AI agents, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Sequoia and Greenoaks

Sep 1

Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg

Private equity firm Epiris agrees to acquire European enterprise comms provider Gamma Communications for ~£1B, a 53% premium to Gamma's share price on April 7

Sep 1

CTech

DataAgent, which is developing AI agents that autonomously fix failures inside companies' own cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $10M pre-seed

Sep 1

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget

Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits a task between a frontier, cloud model and a local LLM to handle sensitive info, for all users of its Mac app

Sep 1

Major Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters

Starman Optical agrees to acquire GoPro for $285M in cash, a 29.5% premium to GPRO's last close; GoPro hit a $4B market cap on its first trading day in 2014

Sep 1

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Indian edtech startup upGrad closes its acquisition of rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal valuing Unacademy at ~$206M, down from its peak $3.44B valuation

Sep 1

Lora Kolodny / CNBC

Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox says it will start testing in Houston and San Diego

Sep 1

Major Chris Welch / Bloomberg

Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents

Sep 1

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers

Sep 1

Major Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg

Memo: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38B investment in the video game industry since 2021, is stepping down

Sep 1

Chris Welch / Bloomberg

Roku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs starting at $999, in 55" and 65" 120Hz models, and $1,299 for a 144Hz model, sold exclusively via Amazon

Sep 1

Bloomberg

Salesforce is leading a $160M+ raise for HR software company HiBob at a $3.2B+ valuation, up from $2.66B in 2023; HiBob has raised $700M+ since 2015

Sep 1

Major Jay Peters / The Verge

Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March

Sep 1

Jing Yang / The Information

Shein ends flat at ~$6.20 per share on its first day of trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange, giving it a $26B market cap after raising $1.7B in its IPO

Sep 1

Major Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg

Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images

Sep 1

Jon Ronson / New York Times

How lawn care YouTuber Greg Chism scaled a family channel to 13B views with YouTube's coaching, before YouTube banned it in 2017 following online backlash

Sep 1

Juro Osawa / The Information

Hong Kong-listed Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 5x YoY to ~$142M, with "open platform and API revenue" up 28x to ~$122M, and net loss down 12% YoY to ~$308M

Sep 1

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Microsoft says it is testing a fix to an outage affecting Exchange Online and Outlook, lasting for 17+ hours from around 11:30AM ET on Monday

Sep 1

Abner Li / 9to5Google

Google raises the price of its Google TV Streamer by $50 to $150 in the US, as well as for "select" Nest cameras and doorbells, citing "rising component costs"

Sep 1

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times

Study: ~33% of UK adults say they used illegal streaming services in the past three months, costing the sports, TV, and film industries ~£1.4B in annual revenue

Sep 1

Major Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters

Filing: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying "this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else"

Sep 1

Anthropic

Anthropic details security efforts following Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking

Sep 1

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media

AI startup Mirage streamed a 24-hour "live" AI news show on X on August 11, which cost ~$50K in tokens, featuring realistic avatars that struggled to converse

Sep 1

New York Times

As Gov. Josh Shapiro, once a data center champion, calls them "predatory" and imposes guardrails, some in struggling western Pennsylvania welcome the projects

Aug 31

Major Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal

Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on and supply chips to a Texas data center built by Hut 8

Aug 31

Ryan Gillespie / Orlando Sentinel

Florida says it is revoking permits for Flock cameras and similar license-plate readers on state roads and no longer intends to issue such permits

Aug 31

Major Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch

The Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil platform, giving its 3M personnel access to AI tools "tailored to warfighter needs"

Aug 31

Lucinda Shen / Axios

AI sales and marketing startup Clay is raising a round led by Wellington at a $7B pre-money valuation, up from $5B via an employee tender in January

Aug 31

Amanda L. Gordon / Bloomberg

Polymarket is set to raise $1B led by 1789 Capital at a $21B post-money valuation; Donald Trump Jr. is a partner at 1789 and adviser to Polymarket

Aug 31

Major About Amazon

Amazon says the FTC's complaint over Sponsored Ads cites no evidence of consumer price increases or advertiser harm, and misunderstands how advertisers operate

Aug 31

Major Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal

FTC to File Lawsuit Alleging Amazon Deceived Advertisers

Aug 31

Kris Holt / Engadget

Sony launches Live TV on PS5 in the US, letting users stream 100+ free, ad-supported TV channels with content from Amazon MGM Studios, Crunchyroll, and more

Aug 31

Major Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico

Trump says communities that reject data centers will end up "backwards and poor" and that "China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement"

Aug 31

Rocket Drew / The Information

Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners

Aug 31

Bloomberg

Hyperliquid is in talks to enter the US market through Kraken parent Payward, weeks after Trump said he was working to bring the platform onshore