Sonntag, 20. September 2026

16:10
Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons”
Business Insider
14:15
AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures
Financial Times
13:15
Indeed: data center roles in the US offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation workers compared with similar jobs at other businesses
Wall Street Journal
11:50
Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals
Forbes
11:00
A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff
Bloomberg
08:05
An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more
Financial Times
05:05
US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies
NPR
02:02
Clinicians raise concerns over medical AI adoption beyond diagnostics and imaging, citing limited clinical and performance data on its broader effectiveness
Financial Times
01:30
Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers
South China Morning Post
01:20
Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it
Reuters
01:10
Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February
Wall Street Journal
00:45
Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization
Financial Times

Samstag, 19. September 2026

23:05
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post
New York Times
19:50
Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself
New York Times
14:30
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax”
Bloomberg
13:45
Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed
New York Times
12:45
Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies
The Verge
12:25
Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times
Axios
10:00
Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV
Axios
07:35
ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work
Bloomberg
02:35
A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight
The Verge
02:00
EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until “all possibilities” for taxation at the global level are exhausted
Financial Times
01:40
Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M+ from Silversmith Capital Partners
TechCrunch
01:10
Business intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures
Tech.eu
00:55
India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a “one-way exchange” that is “anti-competitive”
TechCrunch

Freitag, 18. September 2026

22:45
Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee
Wired
22:15
Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023
GamesIndustry.biz
21:40
Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year
The Register
20:30
Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown
Reuters
19:50
Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand
Axios
19:25
Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8
Business Insider
19:10
Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback
Financial Times
19:05
Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030
Financial Times
18:50
US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children
Bloomberg
18:40
An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023
New York Times
18:30
Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta
Wall Street Journal
17:40
Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left
Wall Street Journal
17:20
Angle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation
Wall Street Journal
17:01
Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic; they expect to invest $2B+ in building capacity in this area over the next five years
Anthropic
16:30
Sources: Anthropic expects to generate $100B+ in annualized revenue this year, up from $65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate
New York Times
16:25
London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to $140.6M, with a net loss of $1.02B, up from $368.9M
CNBC
16:10
Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent
TechCrunch
15:30
Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A
CoinDesk
14:55
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more
The Verge
14:00
Sources: the US “almost started a war” after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components
CNN
13:40
Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier
Reuters
13:10
Sony Music and UMG sue Suno, alleging that its new model trained in partnership with WMG and BMG infringes copyright because it is based on an infringing model
Variety
12:45
Google threat intelligence group details how one of its researchers infiltrated hacker group TeamPCP and helped disrupt its software supply chain hacking spree
Wired
12:20
Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights
Variety
11:45
Governor Gavin Newsom signs an EO directing a working group to provide a guide in two months with measures to boost California's AI safety and security laws
Bloomberg
10:55
Mind, whose AI agents autonomously handle data loss prevention tasks, raised a $72M Series B, sources say at a $300M valuation, taking its total raised to $112M
CTech
09:55
Source: Beijing-based Naive AI, which plans to release its first LLM as early as September, is now valued at $1.4B+ after raising $400M across three rounds
The Information
09:05
A German court rules that Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages
Reuters
07:15
SK Hynix launches SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, expanding its scope of investments into AI computing, data centers, optical interconnect tech, and more
The Korea Herald
07:10
Sources: SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel to make memory chips in Ohio
Reuters
06:50
The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth
CoinDesk
06:40
Sources: ECB President Christine Lagarde personally asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June, aiming to protect the bank's “digital euro” project
Wall Street Journal
06:35
Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI startup set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into disease treatment
Reuters
06:05
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says the fintech is exploring a dual stock market listing in NYC and London, after previously being dismissive about listing in the UK
Financial Times
05:50
Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving using smart glasses to film women in public without their consent
Reuters
04:35
Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into NAND flash memory, competing with Samsung, SK Hynix, and domestic rival YMTC amid memory shortages
Reuters
02:25
The US CFTC exempts “passive software” providers from broker registration if they never hold user assets, expanding crypto and prediction market online trading
Bloomberg
02:01
World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial “super app” in 150+ countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts
The Block
01:30
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India
Reuters
01:10
Meta debuts a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier in September, letting it manage files, pull from apps, and more
The Verge
00:40
Security researchers in OpenAI's bug bounty program hacked OpenAI in July and accessed its “monorepo” on GitHub, using Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity and Opus 5
Wall Street Journal

Donnerstag, 17. September 2026

23:05
PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores
TechCrunch
22:00
A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review
Politico
21:30
An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI agents solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more
Dwarkesh Podcast
20:30
The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries
TechCrunch
19:45
Anthropic says Claude “leads” 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and “collaborates” on 90%+, doing “large chunks of work under close human direction”
Bloomberg
18:15
Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code
Claude
17:05
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms
OpenAI
16:55
Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated
Anthropic
16:01
Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation
Bloomberg
15:35
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training “an astonishing theft”
Financial Times
14:40
A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: people in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than net job growth
Pew Research Center
13:15
Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022
Bloomberg
12:15
Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training
Bloomberg
12:00
Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent company Wingtech
Reuters
11:50
Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research
Bloomberg
11:40
The UK FCA, working with tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to its “light-touch” crypto regulation
CoinDesk
11:00
Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations
The Information
10:05
King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests
Bloomberg
09:55
Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's EV platform for affordable models, set to launch as soon as 2028
Financial Times
09:45
Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A
TechCrunch
09:36
The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption for platforms that offer tokenized stock trading, relieving them of many rules that apply to stock exchanges
Reuters
08:50
A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage
New York Times
08:15
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials are fantastic, the Health Sensing System is a big upgrade, but many features are coming later
9to5Mac
08:00
DoorDash says Costco members can now order same-day delivery from every US Costco store, a day after Uber expanded its Costco deliveries from 17 to 47 US states
Bloomberg
07:45
Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to “increase the speed of development” to “see the dangers” of AI, contrasting with the US' slowdown calls
Financial Times
07:35
Dario Amodei's essays chronicle the AI industry's shifting ways of selling its product, from wariness of regulation to calls for third-party evaluators
New York Times
07:10
The EU details the Kids Act, which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts, ban under-13s, and more
Wall Street Journal
06:50
Survey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses
Pew Research Center
06:35
At India's Semicon, Narendra Modi launches a charm offensive for investors, drawing pledges from Applied Materials and Lam Research for billions in investments
Bloomberg
06:15
A profile of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of AI security incidents and who says the explosive response surprised him
Wall Street Journal
06:05
macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful non-AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space
Ars Technica
05:55
How AI beauty tools like Qoves and UMax commercialize facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and more to prescribe treatments
Bloomberg
05:45
US and Chinese experts propose nuclear-style AI safeguards, including a dedicated AI military hotline, as part of a dialogue ahead of planned US-China AI talks
Reuters
05:30
Snap is pitching its $2,195 Specs as an enterprise product, inking Salesforce, Amazon, and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays, alongside consumer features
Wired
05:15
Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers
Wall Street Journal
02:40
A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare, as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes can increase the risk of errors
Financial Times
02:30
Anthropic and other researchers detail how a network of ~28 dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from models like Claude catfished thousands of people
The Verge
02:20
PitchBook: brain-computer interface startups have raised $1B+ in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined; Neuralink is the best-funded
Financial Times
01:55
Huawei plans to debut the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and unveils an architecture to let up to 1M processors operate as one system
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 agreements, 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 world models UK startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind employees, is in talks to raise up to $700M at a $3.7B post-money valuation
Financial Times
00:40
Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M round at a $4B valuation, signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound Manus' short-lived $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 says it discovered an unreleased Astra model added 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 is unable to restore some data stored exclusively in Bahrain data centers 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 to buy up to a 2.6% stake
Bloomberg
20:35
Snap Specs hands-on: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, and navigation works well, but its design has compromises
Bloomberg
20:30
Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and its Specs AR glasses, calling it “a new anticipatory AI service”
The Verge
19:30
The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing 100 MW+ data centers from passing utility costs down 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
A 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
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
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