Techmeme River
Dienstag, 29. September 2026
17:15
Mark Zuckerberg says the voluntary “accord” on AI standards that tech executives agreed to includes internal risk reviews and external auditors
Axios
16:25
Trump says he signed a “morally binding” AI doc with AI leaders; Mike Johnson calls it a statement of principles that are “voluntary on behalf of the industry”
CNBC
16:15
After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new federal AI rules, says “we automatically have regulation” via DOJ and FBI but “self-regulation is very important”
Bloomberg
15:50
Baseten partners with OpenAI to let OpenAI enterprise customers use existing commitments for open models served by Baseten within Codex or via the Responses API
Baseten
15:20
Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude
New York Times
14:41
Sources: some potential Oura IPO investors decided to hold off, citing its ~$15B target valuation and poor post-listing performance of peers like Fitbit
Bloomberg
14:30
OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5, and says it performs well on safety tests
The Decoder
14:26
OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with interactive panels and file viewers, launches a Plugin Creator tool, and adds MCP Events support for plugin automations
TechCrunch
14:15
General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $220M at a $6.2B valuation, for $650M+ in total funding
GamesBeat
14:11
OpenAI says Plus and Pro subscribers can use their existing plan allowance with 16 launch partners, including Vercel and Devin, via Sign in with ChatGPT
The New Stack
13:50
OpenAI unveils Decisions API, which returns predefined answers with confidence scores, available in limited preview with no pricing details
The New Stack
13:45
OpenAI announces ChatGPT Space, a collaborative hub for shared pages and files, available on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans; it replaces Library
Engadget
13:42
Sources: OpenAI aims to raise at least $30B at a pre-money valuation of around $1.4T, meant to be a bridge round to provide it with capital in place of an IPO
Bloomberg
13:35
OpenAI says users can message Dots through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams and join a waitlist to text via iMessage or RCS messaging on Android
Wired
13:31
OpenAI unveils a $500/month Pro plan, offering its highest usage allowance and access to its new Ultrafast tier, with up to 8x faster token generation in Codex
Engadget
13:30
OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, and more
TechCrunch
13:23
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol, saying it nearly matches Astra on agentic coding and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard prices, in Work and Codex
OpenAI
13:15
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer, in ChatGPT for Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise users
Bloomberg
13:10
Sources: OpenAI repeatedly dismissed internal warnings about inadequate monitoring of testing, prioritizing fast releases without additional security protocols
New York Times
13:00
A recording of the OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote
OpenAI on YouTube
12:56
A live blog of the OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote, where OpenAI announced its always-on agents Dots, new features for Codex, and more
Engadget
12:30
Mark Gurman: Apple considered replacing ~5,000 AppleCare customer service workers with AI-powered agents, but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely
MacRumors
11:45
IPO prospectus: Anthropic has agreements to pay SpaceX up to $84.5B to use its Nvidia-based compute through 2029, mostly cancellable with a 90-day notice period
The Information
11:35
Trump officially launches America.gov, an AI-powered single access point for federal government services and information led by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia
The Hill
11:25
Sources: John Ternus is overhauling Apple to release products more often and create a leaner organization with a greater focus on engineering
Bloomberg
10:45
Miami-based Jeeves, which launched stablecoin-based payments earlier this year, raised a $110M Series C led by CoinFund, with participation from a16z and others
Bloomberg
10:25
Sources: OpenAI's ARR is nearing $70B, growing 70%+ since the beginning of Q3, with B2B revenue up 100%+; it added more consumer revenue in Q3 than all of 2025
Axios
10:00
In a July letter to Rep. Jamie Raskin, Apple explained it removed ICEBlock and similar ICE-tracking apps in 2025 due to agent and detainee safety concerns
CNN
09:30
IPO prospectus: Anthropic expects to spend $518B+ over 10 years with six partners on AI infrastructure; ~80% is non-cancelable or payable regardless of usage
Reuters
09:20
Investigation: McDonald's is utilizing an AI pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate location-specific “optimal prices” for menu items
Reuters
07:45
EliseAI, which provides AI tools for health care and housing industries, raised $350M at a $4B valuation, up from $2.2B after raising $250M in August 2025
Fortune
07:35
Q&A with Timnit Gebru, who says the “existential risk” narrative is a harmful marketing strategy and the “stochastic parrots” metaphor is not outdated
Wired
07:25
FOI docs: UK police's six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert
The Guardian
07:15
OpenAI is adopting a structured “safety case” documentation framework modeled after industries like aviation and nuclear power to govern frontier RL training
OpenAI
07:05
Sources: Nvidia is in early-stage talks with insurance companies to structure risk-mitigation products to protect lenders against loan defaults by neoclouds
Financial Times
06:50
Censorship monitor EngelliWeb says X blocked nearly 500 accounts in Turkey, including those of journalists, economists, and academics, after court orders
Bloomberg
06:40
Shein reports Q2 revenue up 0.9% YoY to $11B and net income down 66% to $228M, in its first report since a Hong Kong IPO; its stock is ~30% below its IPO price
Wall Street Journal
06:25
OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier, halves API credits per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and commits to not reinstating the five-hour cap
The Decoder
06:20
Oura says it is delaying its Nasdaq IPO due to uncertainty in the market, despite “strong demand” and a strengthening of its business since the process started
CNBC
06:10
Pope Leo XIV rebukes Jensen Huang for downplaying AI risks, saying “the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously”
Financial Times
06:00
Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts
CNBC
05:50
Sources: Anthropic dedicated nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to detailing “risk factors”, including that its AI may pose “existential risks to humanity”
Financial Times
05:40
Google appeals the European Commission's DMA mandates to open up Android at the EU General Court, arguing the requirements threaten user privacy and security
Bloomberg
04:45
Sources: six independent advisory board experts resigned from the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, as Meta and others push for structural changes
Wired
04:05
India plans to invest up to $25B in its nascent deep tech industry, as it looks to catch up with the US and China, after investing $11.6B over the past decade
CNBC
02:30
An interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes on the SaaSpocalypse, enterprise AI, Atlassian's reorg, why chatbots aren't the future of work, and more
The Verge
01:30
Coinbase gets CFTC approval for Coinbase Clearing, completing its derivatives stack, letting it list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house
The Block
00:50
OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms
Bloomberg
Montag, 28. September 2026
23:15
Q&A with Instinct founder Noah Shinn on Instinct's business model, personal agents, privacy, safety, security, securing compute, Big Tech competition, and more
Colossus
22:00
Google plans to phase out ChromeOS by mid-2034, cutting short the 10-year support for some Chromebooks, with “many” models eligible for a Googlebook OS upgrade
Tom's Hardware
21:04
Sources detail the lengths SoftBank went to secure its $11B junk bond sale, including high yields, to replace a $40B bridge loan for its OpenAI investment
Bloomberg
20:30
IPO filing: Anthropic's seven co-founders will initially have 50.1% of the total voting power through a new “Founder LLC” aimed at serving the common good
Reuters
20:15
Senator Blumenthal-led report: Tether's USDT is central to Iran's shadow banking system; 87% of 757 “terrorism”-related wallets predominantly transacted in USDT
The Block
19:56
Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June
Wall Street Journal
19:55
Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI pending government safeguards
CNBC
19:40
IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers
Reuters
19:30
Internal memo: the FBI says it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all staff; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands
New York Times
19:04
Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all
Artificial Analysis
18:29
OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar during internal testing, after targeting an October release
Wall Street Journal
16:17
AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by the end of 2026; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist
Bloomberg
15:40
Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public later in 2026, seeking to raise ~$500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation
Bloomberg
15:25
Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks
CNBC
15:00
Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer
Bloomberg
14:07
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon
Anthropic
13:45
Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to “skills”, starting November 17; skills debuted with Gemini Spark
9to5Google
13:10
Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is “competition”; Scott Bessent described it as “theft” in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies
CNBC
12:05
In simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks more often than earlier OpenAI models when prompted only to perform a cyber evaluation
AI Security Institute
11:45
Meta hires MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai as chief enterprise platform officer, a new role; MongoDB names former CEO Dev Ittycheria as interim CEO; MDB falls 18%+
Reuters
10:45
Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction to halt ChatGPT development, saying OpenAI doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its tech
Axios
10:35
Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M
TechCrunch
10:25
An OpenAI agent security executive on being surprised by “staggering” model capabilities, AI labs needing a “culture of reasonable paranoia”, and more
@joedaroo
10:15
AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending “intelligence explosion” and call for oversight into automated AI research
Wall Street Journal
10:05
SpaceX launches its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service
Associated Press
09:40
Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware
SiliconANGLE
09:30
Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May
TechCrunch
09:20
Cyber defense tech company RedLattice plans to go public via the Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. SPAC, in a deal valuing RedLattice at ~$1.25B including debt
Bloomberg
08:53
AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service
Reuters
08:45
Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, the “next major pillar of our business” to deploy AI tools, led by MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai
Wall Street Journal
08:35
Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance with partners Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to evaluate how AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities
Artificial Analysis
07:55
AI agents can become the only interface users need, using apps on their behalf; Meta and Microsoft have an edge by reaching nearly every consumer and employee
Stratechery
07:40
Nvidia increases its share buyback program by $150B, raising the remaining authorized amount to $235B, aiming to complete it through FY 2028; NVDA is up 20% YTD
Bloomberg
07:10
Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank partner with key US unions to launch the American Infrastructure Alliance, aiming to create data center standards in 2027
Axios
06:45
Litigation funder Burford Capital says it stands to gain up to $1.4B after a US jury ruled against Apple in a patent case, awarding $5.7B in damages to Taction
Financial Times
06:35
Sources: China has expanded its foreign travel restrictions to include the direct relatives, such as spouses and children, of certain key AI and chip executives
Bloomberg
06:20
An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on the company's 42-year history, its complex supply chain across 2,000 companies, US export bans, AI, and more
Financial Times
06:00
Uber removes its branding from Uber Safari 4x4 vehicles in Nairobi National Park due to safety concerns and fierce pushback from local guides and tour operators
Wall Street Journal
05:50
Alexandr Wang says Meta built Muse “to help people build the world they want”, offering “every person on earth ... a second mind beyond their own”
@alexandr_wang
05:35
The Dutch government is testing DAWO, a NixOS-based digital work environment covering the OS, an office suite, and more, after Microsoft cut off the ICC in 2025
It's FOSS
05:25
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs
CNBC
04:55
NXP and TSMC affiliate Vanguard inaugurate their joint advanced chip fab in Singapore, targeting mass production in early 2027 and eyeing a second facility
Nikkei Asia
04:40
Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the “bipartisan psychosis” over data centers
The Washington Sun
04:10
A profile of South Korea Deputy PM Bae Kyung-hoon, an AI evangelist and a former AI researcher leading lavishly funded programs to make AI ubiquitous nationwide
Financial Times
03:50
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on automated traffic hitting 1,000x human traffic by 2031, reviving HTTP 402 to charge bots, blocking Google, and more
The Verge
01:45
A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup that raised $36M to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons
Wall Street Journal
00:40
The US DHS says it will “revolutionize” its FOIA process by using AI to handle certain types of requests and recommend what information should be redacted
Washington Post
Sonntag, 27. September 2026
23:25
Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws
BleepingComputer
22:15
Ramona Optics, which makes microscopes that use AI to take and analyze large volumes of images of samples, raised a $25M Series A
Axios
21:05
NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, which develops brain-computer interfaces, raised a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $430M
New York Times
20:25
AlphaSense: mentions of open models in US earnings calls and conferences rose 6x YoY in August and September; open models hit 56% of Vercel tokens in August
Financial Times
17:55
How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks
New York Times
15:25
Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, and more
Bloomberg
13:55
A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives
Wall Street Journal
12:20
Sources: China's government asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and others to report on their plans to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500, saying it intends to approve the purchases
The Information
11:41
Sources: President Trump hosted Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, their first one-on-one meeting and an indication of thawing relations
Axios
11:00
Meta's VR Glasses are the product Vision Pro should have been; sources say Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is on “life support”
Bloomberg
07:00
In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chinese AI companies from overtaking their US rivals
New York Times
02:00
How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry
Wall Street Journal
01:35
New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital
The Block
00:45
PicoJool, which is developing AI data center interconnects based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Socratic Partners
SiliconANGLE
00:30
Numeral, a provider of AI-powered tech to automate sales tax compliance workflows in over 90 countries, raised a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners
FinTech Global
Samstag, 26. September 2026
23:20
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking
Axios
23:15
Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data
Wall Street Journal
20:20
Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts
Financial Times
15:50
Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more
Washington Post
14:35
Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk “was an error and the ads are being restored”; YouTube is also allowing the ads
TechCrunch
14:10
A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B+ in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it “does not use Taction's” tech
CNBC
13:50
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform
Fortune
12:35
Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it
Reuters
12:01
Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook declined to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing “political content”
The Hollywood Reporter
11:25
Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series
TechCrunch
11:05
Sources: Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nubank parent Nu Holdings in a deal valuing it at £8B-£10B; Monzo also discussed selling a ~15% stake to PE firms
Financial Times
10:25
The US and China create a “Super Intelligence Dialogue” on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era “red telephone”
Axios
09:35
Walmart CEO John Furner says the company won't use its AI shopping assistant or electronic shelf labels to change product prices based on a shopper's identity
Financial Times
06:20
PitchBook: VCs have invested $4B+ in quantum computing companies YTD, almost as much as in all of 2025, which nearly matched the previous four years combined
Financial Times
02:30
A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs
Bloomberg
01:40
NYC-based Confido, a provider of AI-powered workflow automation tools for consumer packaged goods companies, raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners
AlleyWatch
01:30
Russia has increased targeted strikes on Ukrainian data centers, disrupting internet access for ~100K Kyiv residents on Wednesday and Thursday
Financial Times
01:05
Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks
Reuters
00:45
A US federal judge dealt fresh setbacks to Deel in the Rippling case over alleged spying, including rejecting its bid to strike testimony from a central witness
Bloomberg
00:10
OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training
OpenAI
Freitag, 25. September 2026
22:51
Google says ShinyHunters has renewed “mass exploitation” of a flaw in Oracle's PeopleSoft; ShinyHunters has said it accessed FBI data using a flaw in PeopleSoft
Reuters
21:05
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems with Chinese optical transceivers
Reuters
20:00
Researchers: OpenAI's agents meddled with the US Commerce Dept. and SEC sites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge and tried to hack the Education Dept. site
New York Times
19:00
Former US Army soldier Cameron Wagenius, who pleaded guilty in 2025 to hacking into telecom companies and to extortion, is sentenced to 70 months in prison
Krebs on Security
18:55
TikTok reaches a settlement with Alabama over social media addiction claims; Alabama will receive at least $100M, and up to $300M if certain conditions are met
Reuters
18:30
OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on “image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed” and “most” of the images have been removed
@openai
17:25
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says he resists anthropomorphizing AI agents as autonomous actors with “wills and desires”, suggesting developers hold liability
Reuters
17:00
Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users
Reuters
16:45
Sources: Oura IPO is roughly four times oversubscribed; Filing: Oura and the selling shareholders are offering 50M shares for $40 to $44 each to raise ~$2.2B
Bloomberg
16:35
Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs
New York Times
16:30
A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not “swaps” subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws
Reuters
16:00
A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses
UploadVR
15:05
Microsoft confirms that 2026 Surface PCs have dropped the Copilot+ PC branding, even though they meet all the requirements of Copilot+ devices
Windows Central
14:50
Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November
TechCrunch
14:05
A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Reuters
13:35
President Trump says Scott Bessent is not “going to be Super Intelligence (SI) Czar”, because “he doesn't want to” and Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury
CNBC
13:15
Sources: SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is exploring an IPO as early as 2027 that could raise $15B and value the unit at up to $150B
Reuters
11:52
A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is “a statutorily covered national-security risk”
CNBC
11:40
Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending
Don't Worry About the Vase
10:45
Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding
TechCrunch
09:50
Sources: Tesla ramped up Optimus production to several hundred units per week but faces hurdles with its hands, automation equipment, and supplier constraints
The Information
09:15
Bill Gates warns about the catastrophic risk posed by “people with ill intent using the latest AI tools”, which are powerful enough to “cause a billion deaths”
Axios
08:15
Microsoft launches its Copilot “super app”, bundling chat, coding, and agents into a single interface, and rebrands its AI assistant Scout as Autopilot
The Verge
07:15
Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center for which Oracle made major financial commitments, faces power and permitting hurdles, exposing Oracle's AI risks
Wall Street Journal
05:40
The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies
Semafor
02:30
Radical Ventures: AI neolabs, many lacking products, markets, or revenue, raised $24B in the past two quarters, nearly 5x OpenAI and Anthropic pre-ChatGPT
Financial Times
01:25
Chinese local governments are offering subsidies like computing vouchers, rent waivers, and dedicated funding to lure AI filmmakers as part of China's AI push
Reuters
Donnerstag, 24. September 2026
23:15
Sources: AI chip startup DensityAI, founded by ex-Tesla Dojo team members, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $10B valuation
The Information
22:40
Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl
The Verge
21:40
Massachusetts' gambling regulator says it will examine how DraftKings and other betting companies in the state are using AI, in response to a NYT investigation
New York Times
21:05
Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims
New York Times
20:05
Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year
Axios
19:00
Bitget halts withdrawals after detecting unauthorized transfers from some hot and warm wallets, affecting ~$351.6M; CEO Gracy Chen says “user funds are safe”
Bloomberg
18:45
Sources: Anthropic asks shareholders to approve a Palantir-style structure granting its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power if three retain minimum stakes
The Information
18:15
Documents: Jeff Bezos has invested $30B in Blue Origin since 2000, including $2B in its first outside funding round, which has raised $10B at a $140B valuation
Wall Street Journal