Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2026

17:35
Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders
The Information
17:05
Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday
Financial Times
15:30
Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles “a page for every person in the user's life”, with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more
Wired
14:55
Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages
Politico
13:55
In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace “artificial” intelligence with “super”
Reuters
13:00
DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's “third-party infrastructure arm” after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed
Financial Times
11:35
Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter
Bloomberg
10:25
Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor
Politico
08:00
A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse
Wall Street Journal
05:00
Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more
More Than Moore
02:00
As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask
Stephen Wolfram Writings
01:45
Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied “excessive” charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015
Financial Times
01:40
Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10%
Nikkei Asia
01:20
Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027
Tom's Hardware
01:10
Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash
9to5Google
01:00
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks
Moneycontrol
00:40
Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M
CTech
00:00
Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more
TechCrunch

Samstag, 3. Oktober 2026

20:00
Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called “Super Intelligence Force”, to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days
Wall Street Journal
16:30
David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over
The Atlantic
12:45
Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka “Rey,” was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach
Reuters
11:50
YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize “original content” and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content
9to5Google
11:10
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model
TechCrunch
09:35
A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them
Los Angeles Times
05:41
Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM
South China Morning Post
02:35
A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents
Wall Street Journal
01:55
Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture “frontline intelligence”
SiliconANGLE
01:45
Nasdaq-listed neocloud Nebius acquires Inferize, whose tech helps optimize GPU utilization and reduce AI request costs, sources say for $100M to $150M
CTech
01:30
Elon Musk confirms TSMC discussions on a Terafab deal to supply Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, as TSMC also mulls a Texas presence; Musk didn't elaborate
Culpium
01:11
Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M
TechCrunch
00:45
Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid
Wall Street Journal

Freitag, 2. Oktober 2026

21:40
A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment
404 Media
20:50
Supabase raised $150M led by Singapore's GIC and agrees to acquire Turso, which offers a database optimized for AI agents, for an undisclosed sum
SiliconANGLE
19:55
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week
Business Insider
19:50
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation
Semafor
19:20
Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums
Wired
19:00
Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch
PCMag
17:35
Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement
9to5Mac
16:50
Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5
Engadget
16:25
Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles
Semafor
16:00
Memo: the US Army is creating an autonomous systems command, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Meridian and Agincourt robotic warfare projects
Axios
15:25
TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida says Jev is in use by ~25% of Fortune 500 companies and “we were at a trillion tokens per day about a week ago”
Wall Street Journal
14:45
Tavus unveils Griffin, the “first Human Interaction Model”, which it says passed the “video Turing test”, with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats
@tavus
14:30
Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access”
TechCrunch
14:00
Anthropic launches the Claude Frontier Academy with a $100M commitment to train 10K “Frontier Deployed Engineers” by 2028, starting with Accenture, Bain, others
Anthropic
13:35
Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance
The Information
12:30
Source: FieldAI, which is developing a “universal general-purpose brain” for robots, is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, up from $2B in 2025
Business Insider
11:50
Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns
Reuters
11:05
Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI “super intelligence”
BBC
10:30
Sources: Broadcom's Wall Street syndicate is amassing $60B in AI chip financing to help Anthropic and others access chips and other key AI infrastructure
Bloomberg
09:45
Sources: an EU investigation is set to find that Azure and AWS meet DMA thresholds, as the EU strengthens its regulatory scrutiny of the cloud sector
Bloomberg
09:05
Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices from scripts or prompts, with optional background music, in public beta, as its music generator faces lawsuits
The Verge
07:05
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon form a JV that aims to expand US satellite coverage and eliminate dead zones, appointing industry veteran Paul Roth as interim CEO
Reuters
06:45
OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack of Australia's federal government
The Guardian
06:25
Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash
GeekWire
06:10
Tether says its USDT stablecoin will return to the Bitcoin network via Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bitcoin's public ledger
CoinDesk
06:01
Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial workflows, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, taking its total funding to $38.5M
Fortune
05:45
US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024
Bloomberg
04:45
A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions
Vanity Fair
02:05
Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later
MBI Deep Dives
01:10
Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers
Financial Times
00:55
ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024
arXiv

Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2026

23:30
Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence
Bloomberg
22:35
Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B
The Register
21:55
OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has notified 100+ organizations about its AI agents bypassing their security controls or negatively impacting a service
Reuters
21:30
Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence
CBS News
20:30
Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022 or 2023; a median 55% say it's good
Pew Research Center
19:30
A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
19:15
California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models
Reuters
19:00
Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash
Microsoft AI
18:45
New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever
KRQE
18:35
The US sanctions Russia-backed payment network A7, freezing any of its US assets, and accuses it of helping Iran and its proxy groups to evade Western sanctions
Financial Times
17:55
Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture
Bloomberg
17:45
Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California's claims that Lyft mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020
Reuters
16:40
OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library
TechCrunch
16:00
DoorDash pulls support for a GOP bill that would have limited DC's ability to write its own tax laws, after widespread calls for locals to boycott the service
The Washington Sun
15:25
Anthropic urges Australia to consider “conditional approval” for Big Tech to train its models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out
The Guardian
14:55
SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's most recent funding round; source: Nvidia made its final $10B investment in the round too
The Information
14:50
A US judge dismisses Chegg's and Penske's lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic
Reuters
14:15
Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base
VentureBeat
13:37
Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving
Bloomberg
13:15
Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5, from Project Amethyst, a collaboration with AMD
The Verge
12:55
Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of a wearable recording device was too broad
Associated Press
12:31
OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three researchers for violating its “handling sensitive” info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization
Wall Street Journal
12:15
Memo: Ryan Roslansky, who was promoted from LinkedIn CEO to the head of Office and Teams in 2025, is leaving, triggering another Microsoft executive reshuffle
The Verge
12:00
Sources: Anthropic has taken the unusual step of ending customers' discounts, which typically reach ~15%, once they hit the usage limits, forcing renegotiations
The Information
11:45
Volantis, which aims to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, like those used by the iPhone's Face ID, to connect AI chips and memory chips, raised $88M
Reuters
11:15
In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views as differing much from “what is portrayed in the media”, meetings with AI leaders, “Super Intelligence”, and more
Time
10:50
Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z
Axios
09:30
Samsung quietly raises US prices for most of its Galaxy S26 lineup by $100 and the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra by $200; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 are unchanged
PhoneArena
09:20
IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via a convertible note that could help finance Anthropic's $125.2B, five-year TPU lease commitment
Reuters
09:10
Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils a $35 Kindle Click page-turning remote
The Verge
08:55
A profile of Nubank founder David Vélez, who graduated from Stanford, worked at Sequoia, and moved to Brazil to start the bank in 2013, as Nubank enters the US
Colossus
08:00
Micron filed a US lawsuit accusing Chinese memory maker YMTC of poaching its key engineers and then using the engineers' patents to sue Micron for infringement
Tom's Hardware
07:40
Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B+ valuation
Reuters
06:55
After a four-month US prison sentence, Changpeng Zhao is now living a gilded life in Abu Dhabi; he retains majority ownership of Binance and a $10B+ net worth
New York Times
06:40
Sources: EU regulators are questioning Binance over its use of a legal exemption to continue serving customers in the region despite failing to secure a license
Financial Times
06:30
An interview with Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd, who says the US spyware maker cannot see customers' targeting information and doesn't have a “kill switch”
Wired
06:15
A look at 100 Zeros, a rotating fund formed by Google and talent agency Range Media designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and to test AI tools
New York Times
05:55
Dell, Jera, and UK-based Rhaelm partner to build a $15B, 400MW off-grid AI data center and gas power plant in Chiba, Japan, set to start operating around 2028
Financial Times
05:40
Huawei plans “moderate” smartphone price increases to counter an average $200 per-unit cost hike driven by rising memory prices, and unveils new premium models
Bloomberg
02:35
A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists “Xbox is not for sale” despite overseeing mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing unit
New York Times
02:30
SemiAnalysis estimates ~90% of Anthropic's business comes from agentic AI, while sources say nearly 25% of its revenue in 2025 came from just two clients
Financial Times
02:20
A profile of Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who has overseen revenue growth from $2.27B in FY 2018 to $11.48B in FY 2026, as AI reshapes cybersecurity
Fortune
02:10
Anthropic says Claude for Government is now generally available to federal and state agencies, with Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access
Claude
01:40
Analysis: Google, Apple, and Amazon each have more meetings with European parliament and European Commission officials than any individual European company
Financial Times
01:35
Salesforce agrees to acquire AI customer research startup Listen Labs for reportedly $2B; Listen Labs had raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January
Axios
01:25
Ted Sarandos says growth is slower than he would like and defends pursuing WBD, but says Netflix isn't seeking another acquisition to replace it
Bloomberg
01:10
Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions
Financial Times
01:05
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says that RAM shortages will persist into 2028 and perhaps beyond, and customers will pay “much higher prices” than they did in 2026
The Register
00:50
Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year lease with Oracle in 2026 for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers
Financial Times

Mittwoch, 30. September 2026

23:35
Docs and sources: Google's researchers have worried about AI risks to kids, like potential cognitive and emotional dependence, as Google pushed AI into schools
Wall Street Journal
23:15
Amazon signs a 20-year deal to buy 690 MW from Constellation Energy, helping the nuclear operator boost its capacity in Maryland, supporting $3B+ in investments
Bloomberg
22:55
Flow, which offers AI agents for hardware development, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation
TechCrunch
22:15
Gemini 4 Argon supports up to 1M output tokens, up from 64K for prior models, and costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, but will rise to $4 and $20 later
The Decoder
21:25
Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, which owns HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as it becomes a gay superapp
Wall Street Journal
20:35
Artificial Analysis says Gemini 4 Argon (high) matches GPT-6 Astra (max) on its Intelligence Index and has a 15% hallucination rate, compared with 51% for Astra
Artificial Analysis
20:10
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Robo Bosses Act, which prevents employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers
CNBC
19:55
Internal data: Meta's Muse now has 3M+ users who submit at least one prompt per week and 1M+ DAUs who have sent at least one prompt; most prompts are in the app
The Information
19:20
Slack message: Greg Brockman says he has “no plans” to donate more than $25M to Leading the Future, as the PAC has become a “distraction” for OpenAI employees
New York Times
18:45
Sources: Trump's AI accord grew out of a talk between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson; Zuckerberg circulated a draft, and Huang helped gather support
Semafor
18:20
Sources: Jensen Huang and others asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei replied it's important to be honest
Wall Street Journal
18:05
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he terminated Chris Degnan, alleging Degnan confided with Cognition execs while advising Factory before joining Cognition as CRO
Business Insider
17:00
Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, above $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% YoY to $37.7B, and projects Q1 revenue above est.; MU is up 273%+ YTD
CNBC
16:35
The DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day study of capabilities the US may need in future wars
CNBC
16:25
Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization
Bloomberg
16:10
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to trusted cyber defenders through Fairwind and says it is participating in the US government's voluntary prerelease process
Axios
15:35
Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because of “large-scale scraping and automated abuse” and is ending its public API access in March
TechCrunch
15:20
OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign in July that peaked at 16K requests
Bloomberg
14:35
Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers
Bloomberg
14:10
Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering
Bloomberg
12:50
Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M
Axios
12:40
CScale, which is developing optical interconnect for accelerators, emerges from stealth with a $145M Series C led by Atreides, Valor Equity, and Premji Invest
GamesBeat
12:20
Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-designed proteins to help strengthen biosecurity and scientific integrity
Ars Technica
12:05
Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular
TechCrunch
12:00
Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its chief information security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne
Axios
11:20
Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M
Axios
11:15
ElevenLabs says existing investors and employees have sold $300M worth of stock in a tender led by Wellington and T Rowe Price and valuing the startup at $22B
Financial Times
10:50
An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and more
MIT Technology Review
10:45
Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its CapCut competitor, after previewing it at an invite-only creator event in June
TechCrunch
10:35
The UK's MI5 issues a rare espionage alert urging UK universities to cut ties with the China General Technology Research Institute, which funded AI research
Financial Times
10:15
Sources: the US FTC has opened a probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs over potential consumer harms, and plans to compel executives to testify
New York Post
10:10
A look at Amazon's smart glasses for its drivers, which capture static images for its AI mapping platform, as it aims to equip 20K+ drivers with them by 2027
Bloomberg
09:20
Amazon says Fire TV now offers integrated live content from 40+ apps, like YouTube TV and DirecTV, and plans a Music app with podcasts and concerts in the fall
Engadget
09:15
Amazon unveils a faster, slimmer $60 Fire TV Stick 4K, simplifies its Fire TV Stick lineup, and plans to roll out an upgraded Alexa+ living room hub in November
Bloomberg
09:10
DoorDash unveils new retail partnerships to deliver clothing and footwear; Macy's is listing products directly on the DoorDash app for two-hour delivery
Wall Street Journal
09:05
DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent and a MCP server for organizations to allow enterprise AI bots to place bulk orders
Bloomberg
08:50
Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely
The Information
08:40
Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users
Bloomberg
08:15
Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey
Engadget
07:30
Sources and filings: Situational Awareness lacked an investment risk team; after the sell-off, the SEC sent subpoenas to major banks about trades they financed
New York Times
07:10
GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by Archiv with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC
The Information
06:55
Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing
Reuters
06:45
Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume
New York Times
06:34
Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh
Bloomberg
06:01
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be “bad for the world”
The Verge
05:40
Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies
New York Times
04:30
A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries
The Atlantic
02:15
Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K
Rest of World
02:05
Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT
Platformer
01:40
Sources: US-based PaleBlueDot AI is seeking $600M in private credit to buy chips for its South Korea site, to be used by Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu
Bloomberg
01:25
South Korea's Kospi was the world's worst-performing stock market in Q3, down 18.8% due to Samsung and SK Hynix sell-offs in early Q3, but remains up 60% YTD
Financial Times
01:20
US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country” and “free us from medical tyranny”
New York Times
01:00
DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative
Reuters
00:50
Apple launches Apple Pay in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Watch
The Economic Times

Dienstag, 29. September 2026

23:45
A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025
Mission Local
22:15
A profile of Travis Kalanick, CEO of Atoms, whom Silicon Valley has welcomed back with VC support despite his unapologetic stance on his 2017 ouster from Uber
Fortune
21:20
An interview with Bill Gates about the need for more than natural incentives under capitalism to regulate AI's risks, the effects AI will have on jobs, and more
New York Times
20:35
AI infrastructure company Accelevation and backer Olympus raise $540M in a US IPO after selling 30M shares for $18 each, below its marketed $20-$24 range
Bloomberg
20:00
Robinhood plans to let users trade some US stocks round-the-clock during weekends, wager on specific corporate earnings metrics, and trade perpetual futures
Reuters
19:50
Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment
Reuters
19:15
At the unBoxed conference, Amazon moves AI from being a feature to playing a more central role in ad-buying and brings previously separate ad workflows together
Digiday
19:00
A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training
Reuters
18:40
Efficient Computer, which uses dataflow architectures to develop faster and more energy-efficient chips, raised a $97M Series B at a $650M valuation
Reuters
18:35
Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse
Anthropic
18:10
President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as “Super Intelligence” or “SI” in all official communications
Bloomberg
18:05
IPO filing: Anthropic routed 47% of its sales, or ~$2.16B, in 2025 through cloud partners Amazon and Google; analysis: it paid ~$351M back in distribution fees
Reuters