Techmeme River
Donnerstag, 17. September 2026
02:40
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
Financial Times
02:30
Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models
The Verge
02:20
PitchBook: companies developing brain-computer interfaces have already raised more than $1B in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined
Financial Times
01:55
Huawei plans to launch the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and says its UnifiedBus tech is key to its next-generation large AI systems
Reuters
01:20
Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions
Axios
01:01
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
TechCrunch
00:50
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend
Bloomberg
00:45
Sources: 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
Financial Times
00:40
Sources: 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
Bloomberg
00:10
How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement
New York Times
Mittwoch, 16. September 2026
23:30
OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences
OpenAI
23:15
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
New York Times
23:10
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis
Wall Street Journal
22:02
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
Wall Street Journal
21:10
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
Bloomberg
20:35
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
Bloomberg
20:30
Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and Specs glasses, calling it an “anticipatory AI service”
The Verge
19:30
The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3
CNBC
18:30
OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment
Axios
18:20
Sources: 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
Bloomberg
18:02
Sources: 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
Bloomberg
17:40
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
Spyglass
17:01
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
TechCrunch
16:05
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
TechCrunch
15:05
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
Axios
14:45
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
The Verge
12:50
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
Reuters
12:42
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first
TechCrunch
12:35
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
CNBC
12:30
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
Politico
12:25
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
Fortune
12:20
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
Reuters
11:40
Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse
Wall Street Journal
11:30
Essay: Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic training Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control
Axios
11:10
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
Globe and Mail
10:55
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
Financial Times
10:45
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads
Reuters
10:35
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
Reuters
09:45
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
Daring Fireball
09:30
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security
Financial Times
09:15
Sources: 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
The Information
08:55
Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity at solar farm and other renewable energy sites
Fast Company
08:45
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
Bloomberg
08:35
Billionaire-backed AI safety activists have expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying in the past year, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings
Washington Post
08:20
Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor
404 Media
08:10
iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers
The Verge
07:55
Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, via partnerships with Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, Fox, and more, as they become information channels
Wired
07:45
Apple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins during manufacturing
9to5Mac
07:35
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
Bloomberg
07:20
Internal docs: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON sells stolen foreign intelligence and uses AI systems to make the government data more digestible for police
Wall Street Journal
07:10
An in-depth look at the loss-of-control incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, the polarized reactions between the AI safety and cybersecurity communities, and more
AI as Normal Technology
06:55
Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach
Reuters
06:45
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
New York Times
06:35
The Trump administration has few good options to slow China's AI rise, especially while trying to avoid more rare earth restrictions, ahead of US-China AI talks
Bloomberg
06:25
Mozilla partners with Mistral to power its AI browsing assistant Firefox Smart Window in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026
Wall Street Journal
06:10
Sources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease, for a planned 2.16 GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027
Reuters
05:45
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”
Financial Times
05:05
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU
New York Times
02:40
A viral social media post by a Chinese math teacher resurfaces a debate over making English optional in schools across China, as AI translation tools improve
New York Times
02:30
Sources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff that uses AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation
Reuters
02:00
SK Hynix strikes an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, replacing its previously proposed 40-60 cash-stock split
Bloomberg
01:55
Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US for the first time, but a deal could face opposition from Seoul; both stocks jump 4%
Reuters
01:45
A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major math solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof
Shtetl-Optimized
01:35
Police in Gujarat, India, will question Google after a criminal network used 513,847 Gmail accounts to send hoax bomb threats to government offices since 2022
Reuters
01:00
Sources: investors approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be $1.5T+ based on client traction
New York Times
00:55
TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to return typed probabilistic decisions for use by software or AI models
The Register
Dienstag, 15. September 2026
23:55
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
404 Media
22:55
Cybersecurity experts say that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent, not credible, and show an unfamiliarity with the subject
NBC News
22:15
Sources: AI assistant Instinct maker Spear Street seeks to raise $1B at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2.25B in August; Sequoia and Benchmark may lead the round
The Information
21:20
Analysis: direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO have delayed only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity in the US
SemiAnalysis
20:30
Zuckerberg says “Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security” and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before it acted
Bloomberg
19:55
Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying
New York Times
19:30
Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the US-China AI race, distillation, chip export controls, and more
New York Times
19:15
Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have “the responsibility and incentive” to train models safely and that “any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind”
@finkd
18:50
Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new glasses model has six microphones to let users speak with Meta AI and Muse
The Information
18:30
TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed
Forbes
18:12
OpenAI weighs funding round at $1.2tn valuation before IPO
Financial Times
18:00
At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says AI labs should get no liability exemptions and calls for more open-source models built in the US
FedScoop
17:35
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
@openrouter
16:45
Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from Founders Fund, Stripe, and others
Business Insider
16:40
At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs
New York Times
16:10
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
Bloomberg
15:50
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
Wall Street Journal
15:17
The US Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework; crypto falls
CNBC
14:45
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
Fortune
14:20
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
Google
13:35
Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter
The Information
13:25
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
TechCrunch
12:40
UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks
Music Business Worldwide
12:15
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
Wall Street Journal
12:00
Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used it for arbitrage
The Information
11:40
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
TechCrunch
11:35
Sources: in August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied
Semafor
11:30
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
Wall Street Journal
11:22
Elon Musk says top US AI labs and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate safety
CNBC
11:18
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
The Verge
11:00
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
TechCrunch
11:00
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
Bloomberg
10:40
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
Bloomberg Law
10:30
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which builds an audit and certification layer for agents, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total raised to $55M
TechCrunch
10:25
Meta says it plans to start deploying MTIA 450, its third-generation in-house AI chip, in data centers during H1 2027, followed by MTIA 500 at the end of 2027
Bloomberg
10:20
The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients
Wall Street Journal
10:05
Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized AI model built on Nvidia's Nemotron model architecture for reasoning about CRM data and to power AI agents in Agentforce
SiliconANGLE
09:55
OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House bill, that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety
Politico
09:35
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
Bloomberg
09:20
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”
New York Times
08:35
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
9to5Mac
08:20
Sources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% YoY to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B
The Information
08:10
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+
Bloomberg
07:45
Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms
Bloomberg
07:30
HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, too expensive at $499+, and imaging needs to improve
Engadget
07:20
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
Bloomberg
07:10
New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches nonprofit Who Decides, which raised $10M and aims to raise $20M more by summer 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy
New York Times
07:00
Amazon says its India quick delivery service, Amazon Now, passed $1B in annualized gross revenue, with orders doubling each quarter since its summer 2025 launch
Bloomberg
06:50
MediaTek unveils the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first phone SoC on TSMC's 2nm process, and the 3nm 9600M, delivering more performance, as it competes with Qualcomm
Reuters
06:30
Microsoft rolls out an emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday, which addressed nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs
The Verge
06:10
China tightens overseas travel controls for citizens via exit bans and fines in a new law to secure state secrets, advanced tech, and highly skilled workers
Financial Times
06:00
Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all”
Bloomberg
05:40
Apple debuts child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as for blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse
Apple
04:34
Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown
New York Times
04:25
Google gives all its engineers access to Claude Opus 5 via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development”
Business Insider
04:10
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
SemiAnalysis
03:55
Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, the Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries
CNBC
02:01
Sources: Tokyo-based memory maker Kioxia is considering raising $10B+ through a 2027 US ADR listing as it seeks more liquidity after billions in share buybacks
Bloomberg
00:45
Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices, from robots to drones to lightbulbs, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation
Financial Times
Montag, 14. September 2026
23:00
OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research
@dkokotajlo
22:10
A look at iLands, a company that is essentially Fiverr for AI agents, whose bots email unsolicited and annoying sales pitches to people, offering to charge ~$25
Tedium
22:00
Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins
Bloomberg
21:10
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%
Dow Jones Newswires
20:40
Vera Rubin NVL72 vs. Blackwell test on AgentX: up to 7x better token throughput per MW on a 1.6T-parameter DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs
SemiAnalysis
19:50
Sources: 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
Bloomberg
18:45
London-based Jack & Jill, which offers AI agent Jack for job seekers, and AI agent Jill for hiring managers, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025
Axios
17:30
Cornelis, which spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital Partners
TechCrunch
17:00
Source: defense tech startup Shield AI is in talks to raise new funds at a $20B+ valuation; Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B post-money valuation in March
The Information
16:40
Seattle-based Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face chats, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed; Nvidia invested too
Business Insider
16:10
Sources: Trump privately met Sam Altman backstage on Thursday at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request
MS NOW
15:25
Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others
Reuters
15:00
Sources: OpenAI acquired Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-based smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2025
Wall Street Journal
14:55
House Speaker Johnson says there's “potentially” a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives
Bloomberg
14:10
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
Tom's Hardware
13:40
iOS 27 review: a marked improvement over iOS 26 in design, performance, and more; Siri AI is very impressive, but it sometimes misunderstands or hallucinates
Six Colors
13:25
Valve says the Steam Frame costs $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
The Shortcut
13:20
Steam Frame review: comfortable to wear and supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has only two-hour battery life
The Verge
13:15
Apple rolls out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI for English devices, new app icons and widgets, and more
The Verge
12:30
Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans
404 Media
12:25
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
Tech.eu
11:55
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
The Information
11:35
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
Reuters
11:20
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”
Politico
10:45
Filing: X and SpaceXAI move to dismiss their federal antitrust lawsuit in Texas against Apple, resolving accusations of Apple monopolizing smartphone markets
Reuters
10:35
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
Reuters
10:25
Trump attacks Dario Amodei, saying the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART” president, and calls the idea that AI would destroy humanity a “HOAX”
Bloomberg
10:05
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
Colossus
09:40
OpenAI's employees should oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill US federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks
Slow Boring
09:25
Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launch the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance, led by Big Tech trade group TechNet, to advocate for “technology-neutral policies”
Axios
09:15
Microsoft publishes a 37-page Humanist AI Code of Conduct, which establishes that people matter more than AI, rejects pursuing legal personhood for AI, and more
The Verge
08:55
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
Bloomberg
08:45
President Trump expresses support for Flock “because of law enforcement”, while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology “an infringement”
Washington Post
08:35
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
Bloomberg
07:30
Docs: the European Commission plans to propose an EU KIDS Act on Thursday to set a minimum age for social media, video platforms, games, AI chatbots, and more
Politico
07:01
The IFPI says music companies and distributors have agreed on new rules to combat using AI-generated music to defraud streaming services and divert royalties
Financial Times
06:30
China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying “fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one”
Bloomberg
06:20
In its first statement on AI, China's Ministry of State Security warns AI poses risks to political and social security, like to cyber defenses and the military
Financial Times
06:00
Z.ai says it plans to raise $5B+ to fund its AI investments, ~$2B via a share placement and ~$3.01B via zero-coupon convertible bonds, after raising $4B in July
Wall Street Journal
05:40
Sources: Australian data center provider Firmus is seeking to raise up to $5B in an IPO targeted for October's end, in one of the largest-ever IPOs in Australia
Bloomberg
03:55
How hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are siding with consumers on data center power costs and sweetening offers for communities to gain support
The Information
02:55
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
Bloomberg
01:51
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
Cointelegraph News
01:10
AI-linked stocks fell worldwide on Monday after industry leaders called for slowing development; the Philadelphia chip index fell 6%, NVDA 3%, AMD 4%, and MU 5%
Reuters
00:40
Sam Altman says “we welcome a federal framework” but “we do not believe we need to wait” for an antitrust exemption or a law to slow AI development responsibly
@sama
Sonntag, 13. September 2026
23:21
Doc: Samsung and SK Hynix rejected KEPCO's proposal to prepay ~$18.7B for power supplies of planned chip clusters, citing uncertainty over long-term chip demand
Reuters
23:06
Sources: SoftBank sealed a two-year loan facility to back its OpenAI investment last week, securing $11.87B in commitments from ~20 banks, above its $10B target
Bloomberg
21:55
Current and former NSA officials: the US NSA plans major restructuring to form five new units for AI, China, cybersecurity, warfighting, and global intelligence
Washington Post
21:40
Source: Anthropic has 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
The Information
21:05
Environmental Protection Network: ex-EPA officials find 30 federal actions since January 2025 that they say exacerbate health risks from data center pollution
The Verge
20:15
Sources: Anthropic told investors it will be profitable for a second straight quarter, with 80%+ gross margins before partner revenue sharing and training costs
Financial Times
18:40
Satya Nadella says “we welcome” the “deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right”, and announces a “Code of Conduct” that underlies Microsoft's MAI models
@satyanadella
17:15
Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings below the CEO level since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI
The Information
15:25
Xi Jinping calls for a “consensus-based global AI governance framework” and says China “will be a pioneer in establishing a BRICS AI open-source community”
CNBC
15:20
Dario Amodei says the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to “pace the frontier” of AI model development is what happens if China does not do the same
CNBC
13:05
President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying “you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up”
Financial Times
12:40
Source: Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO, following SpaceX's record Nasdaq debut in June, as the AI lab targets an October listing
Business Insider
11:45
House Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure their products' safety
Axios
10:55
iPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand
Bloomberg
08:50
Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework
@davidsacks
07:00
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
Financial Times
02:00
Sources: 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
The Washington Sun
01:45
Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M
Dallas Innovates
00:50
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
MacRumors
Samstag, 12. September 2026
23:15
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
TechCrunch
21:35
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
The Guardian
19:35
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
Telegraph
17:35
An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth
Wall Street Journal
15:35
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”
Fortune
14:50
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
Bloomberg
13:20
Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right”
Politico
13:05
Hugging Face says its Open Alignment Initiative, led by co-founder Thomas Wolf, seeks “to be part of the ‘embedded evaluators’ program that Amodei” committed to
@clementdelangue
13:00
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same
@sama
12:25
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
Bloomberg
11:30
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
Bloomberg
11:05
Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify
Bloomberg
11:01
Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months
CNN
10:25
Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify
@darioamodei
10:15
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments
Dario Amodei
09:40
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
Bloomberg
06:31
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
Financial Times