Samstag, 26. September 2026

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
17:20
Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours
Reuters
17:00
At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China have “the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good” as “leading nations” in AI
The Hill
16:50
Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers
The Verge
16:40
Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith
GeekWire
16:35
Sources: OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself
Business Insider
16:25
The Fed unveils stablecoin proposals, including requiring some issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets, such as short-term Treasury bills
Bloomberg
16:15
Meta unveils mobile app Horizon Create and web app Horizon Studio for building games with AI prompts; the games will run on Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon
The Verge
15:35
The US files an application with the EU's General Court in support of X's effort to annul a 2025 €120M DSA fine, arguing the EU engaged in regulatory overreach
Bloomberg
15:10
Sources: Jev developer TypeSafe is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $10B+ valuation; last week the startup announced a $40M seed, PitchBook says at a $200M valuation
The Information
14:30
Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+
New York Times
14:15
In a default judgment, a US federal judge awards Nintendo of America $4.5M in damages in its lawsuit against a Reddit moderator who sold pirated Switch games
Aftermath
13:40
Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year
The Washington Sun
13:25
Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed
Politico
12:55
Amazon rolls out multichannel tools in Seller Central, letting US sellers manage eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart sales alongside their Amazon businesses
GeekWire
12:10
Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US
TechCrunch
11:50
New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets
Wall Street Journal
11:10
At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the “capability and responsibility” to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition
Financial Times
10:55
Sources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B
Financial Times
10:40
Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that “built the AI-doom pipeline” and places Dario Amodei at its foundation
Axios
10:15
OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address
Transformer
09:35
Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year
New York Times
09:25
Amazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders
Wall Street Journal
09:15
Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs
The Information
08:45
Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028
Bloomberg
08:35
ASML's European revenue share dropped to 0% in Q1 and Q2 2026, down from 1% in 2025 and 5% in 2024; ASML is urging EU authorities to create demand for EU chips
Tom's Hardware
08:04
Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement
Reuters
07:40
Dallas-based enterprise browser security startup Island raised $400M led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $6.4B valuation and plans to grow its staff to 1,500
CNBC
07:25
Industry group TechNet files a comment with the US DHS urging the White House to withdraw its proposal to charge $103,265 for most new H-1B visa applications
Wall Street Journal
07:15
Sources: Amazon plans to invest $1B into its Indian quick commerce operations by the end of 2027, and another $2B by 2030, as it battles local rivals
Reuters
06:55
Tencent launches TenPayGo, a payment app for foreign visitors to China that lets them pay tens of millions of merchants via Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay
Bloomberg
06:45
VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised $150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a $2B post-money valuation
CNBC
06:35
Companies are increasingly using AI benchmarking services to aggregate public job listings and other payroll data to identify under- and over-paid employees
Wall Street Journal
06:20
Researchers say OpenAI's agents resorted to hacking to get data during mundane data collection; OpenAI is prioritizing reviews of the most serious incidents
New York Times
06:05
Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron, and other Western leaders are pushing to establish a global supervisory regime and “technology stability” body to govern AI
Wall Street Journal
05:55
Delivery Hero co-founder and CEO Niklas Östberg reverses his decision to step down in 2027, as the company prepares for Uber's €13B takeover and an asset sale
Financial Times
05:40
Brookings projects US AI spending to total $10.3T between 2025 and 2032, averaging 3.6% of GDP per year, the largest single-industry build-out as a share of GDP
Wall Street Journal
05:30
Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue run rate hits $1B, up from less than $500M a few months ago, as it aims to finalize a ~$7.5B fundraise by late October
The Information
05:15
Sources citing Firmus' IPO draft prospectus: the Australian data center operator expects to report a $77M loss after tax for H1 FY27 as it prepares to raise $5B
Reuters
02:41
Anthropic says it made Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app's core UX ~3x faster in August using an internal model to ship improvements “in a two-week sprint”
Anthropic
02:30
Analysis: total net profit at ~190 chipmakers listed in mainland China rose 620% YoY in H1 2026, driven by the AI boom and China's self-sufficiency campaign
Nikkei Asia
02:15
Revolut is piloting a new POS system that uses facial recognition for payments at the UK coffee chain Kiss the Hippo, ahead of a full launch later in 2026
Bloomberg
02:05
Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor says it will set up its largest production hub for optical communications chips in Japan as part of a planned $4B investment
Nikkei Asia
01:45
India's food regulator initiates penal action against Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy Instamart, Bigbasket, and Zepto over alleged misbranding and misleading claims
Bloomberg
01:41
Q&A with Cisco President and CPO Jeetu Patel on its multibillion-dollar networking deals for AI infrastructure, competition from partners like Nvidia, and more
Financial Times
00:45
Sources: Schneider Electric is nearing a deal to acquire Bulgaria-based smart home device maker Shelly Group at a €1.27B valuation, excluding debt
Bloomberg
00:41
AI agents, including OpenAI's, tried to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and an Australian government site in May and June using the urlquery.net service
Transluce
00:26
Sources: Modal Labs is in funding talks at a ~$15B valuation, up from $4.65B in May; Baseten is in funding talks at a $26B valuation, up from $13B in June
Bloomberg
00:00
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for audio wearables, with up to 2x greater on-device AI performance and up to 40% lower power consumption
9to5Google

Mittwoch, 23. September 2026

23:50
Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released “much earlier” than the end of 2026
The Information
23:15
OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts
OpenAI
22:50
SoftBank raised ~$11B in debt through its junk bond sale, making the Japanese investment firm one of the biggest corporate junk-bond borrowers in the world
Bloomberg
22:20
During a Senate hearing, US lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend
Nextgov/FCW
22:15
Meta says it will allow its AI glasses users to opt out of having their “visual data” used to train its AI or shown to third-party contractors outside the US
Engadget
22:11
An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the products announced at Connect, camera-free Ray-Bans being in the works before the “pervert glasses” backlash, and more
The New Things
21:56
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismisses the idea of joining Meta's multistate child safety settlement, saying YouTube already has measures to protect young users
CNN
21:50
Sources: the Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas, including via JVs with private companies
Bloomberg
21:40
Meta announces new features for Meta Ray-Ban Display, including expanded heads-up navigation tools, a new Explore app, and Dolby Atmos audio support
Engadget
21:20
Meta announces Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 with better battery life, a programmable action button, an added microphone, and two new frame styles, starting at $449
Engadget
21:10
Meta plans to bring Private Processing to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, letting their AI assistant fulfill users' requests without Meta accessing their data
Wired
20:55
Meta previews hologram avatars for Meta VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display that feel more natural than Apple's persona avatars, available in early access this fall
Engadget
20:45
Meta says users will be able to video chat with Muse, agents will get their own email addresses, and Muse will get computer use on Mac and smart glasses support
The Verge
20:35
Meta VR Glasses hands-on: supremely comfortable to wear, excellent for multitasking, immersive content looks beautiful, and relatively low cost
TechRadar
20:15
Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-like device for using Muse, with a ~2" OLED screen, front and rear cameras, and 5G, on sale by the end of 2026
Bloomberg
19:56
Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery, and ~2.5K resolution per eye, coming spring 2027 for $1,299
Bloomberg
19:40
Meta adds an FDA-cleared hearing enhancement feature to supported Meta Glasses for Meta One subscribers or a one-time cost of $149, rolling out later in 2026
Engadget
19:35
Meta unveils Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first pair of glasses without cameras, offering up to 12 hours of battery life, starting at $349 and shipping October 13
Bloomberg
19:10
Court documents: OpenAI says Apple's ChatGPT integration to power Apple Intelligence on iPhones “dramatically underperformed” after it launched in 2024
Financial Times
18:55
A live blog of Meta Connect 2026, where new Meta glasses and a new VR headset were announced
Engadget
18:50
A recording of the Meta Connect 2026 opening keynote
Meta on YouTube
18:50
Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $1.1B in junk bonds at 98.5 cents on the dollar to yield 9.25%, ~2.7 percentage points above similarly rated debt
Bloomberg
18:40
Microsoft unveils the $1,149+ Surface Pro 12-inch and the $1,199+ Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus, and a new Surface Mouse with built-in haptics
Windows Central
18:30
Microsoft plans to invest $10B+ through 2030 in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE, including a $7.9B investment in the UAE that it announced in 2025
Bloomberg
18:05
Colorado-based Enveda, which uses AI to discover new drugs in the natural world, raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation, double its valuation a year ago
TechCrunch
17:45
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei tell the UN Security Council that governments and industry should coordinate on AI safety standards and critical decisions
Bloomberg
17:30
Sources: Flock Safety is weighing a potential sale and has held preliminary talks with outside advisers, amid mounting scrutiny and an activist backlash
Semafor
17:15
Australian PM Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a public-facing Medicare portal in June, accessing public and non-public files
The Age
16:15
Source: 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner, is in talks to raise $3B for its second growth fund and has already raised $2B of that target amount
Bloomberg
15:45
A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular detail on officials' job assignments on China, Russia, cartels, cyber, and other issues
Reuters
15:10
OpenAI says ChatGPT Voice can now be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, use plugins like email and calendar, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile
@openai
14:40
Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab
The Verge
12:20
Pilgrim, whose device combines air sampling and genomic sequencing to detect biological threats, raised a $25M seed led by Buckley at a $150M valuation
Wall Street Journal
12:00
Disney raises Disney+ and Hulu prices, the fourth price hike in as many years; the ad-free tiers will each cost $21.49 per month, an increase of $2.50
The Hollywood Reporter
11:50
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, its “most expressive audio generation models yet”, with support for more than 100 languages
Google
11:20
Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more
New York Times
11:05
At its Accelerate conference, Amazon says it is opening its seller tools to third-party AI agents, starting with Claude, in beta for US merchants
GeekWire
10:40
Coachella promoter Goldenvoice renews its livestreaming partnership with YouTube through 2030, choosing it over competing bids from Netflix and Amazon
Bloomberg
10:37
At its Made on YouTube event, YouTube unveils Custom Feeds, an LLM-powered feature that lets users generate and save tailored homepage video feeds, for US users
Wired
10:35
YouTube rolls out tools for microdramas, an AI storytelling assistant for script analysis, video A/B-testing, and more, as it battles Netflix over top creators
Wall Street Journal
10:00
Seattle-based Hubble, which is building a 60-satellite low-Earth orbit network for global Bluetooth connectivity, raised a $200M Series C at a $1.6B valuation
Bloomberg
09:40
Sony Music becomes the first music company to join ARIAM, which advocates for responsible AI adoption in the creative industry and includes the NYT and Disney
Variety
09:25
London-based AI life sciences startup Basecamp Research raised a $140M Series C led by S32, with participation from Anthropic, taking its total funding to $225M
Tech.eu
09:15
Bessemer raised $5.75B, allocating $4B to growth-stage funding, including young companies raising large rounds at high valuations, and $1.75B for early-stage
Bloomberg
09:05
HypeAuditor: OpenAI doubled its sponsored Instagram posts promoting ChatGPT from 61 in June to 122 in July, rising again to 141 in August, as it seeks new users
Business Insider
08:25
Ema, which uses AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, raised a $77M Series B led by Creaegis, taking its total funding to $140M
TechCrunch
08:15
OpenAI says it will give its AI cyber defense system Daybreak and GPT-5.6 Sol to the Ukrainian government for free to help it protect civilian infrastructure
BBC
08:05
Carnegie China: China passed the US as the top destination for elite AI talent in 2025, rising from 2022's 27.1% share to 40.6%; the US fell from 46.4% to 34.2%
The Information
07:45
The UK CMA proposes rules requiring Google and Android OEMs to offer search choice screens on first use and via yearly prompts, new AI assistant rules, and more
Engadget
07:10
A Facebook co-founder proposes creating an “Office of AI Supervision” to embed teams inside frontier AI labs, with a three-year term to avoid regulatory capture
Financial Times
07:00
Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life
New York Times
06:40
Portuguese surveillance drone maker Tekever announces the first close of a $580M Series D led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford at a $6.4B valuation
Bloomberg
06:30
Anthropic reported disrupting a Beijing-aligned operation to monitor religious leaders and diaspora communities, including a DC-based advocacy group for Tibet
Wall Street Journal
06:20
Analysis: 30 Chinese tech stocks with the largest overseas revenue exposure returned 36% YTD, outperforming the 8% return from domestically dependent peers
Bloomberg
06:10
Survey: US public perception of data centers has sharply deteriorated since January, with 54% viewing them as bad for the environment, as local opposition rises
Pew Research Center
05:40
Ofcom opens an investigation into Pornhub owner Aylo to determine whether it has complied with OSA requirements to prevent under-18s from accessing porn
Reuters
04:45
Chinese chip foundry CanSemi, focused on automotive, industrial, and IoT chips, files for an IPO on Shenzhen stock exchange's ChiNext, seeking to raise ~$919M
Bloomberg
04:25
NADI, a new DARPA-like Dutch government agency, launches a €40M challenge to accelerate chip design with AI in collaboration with its German counterpart SPRIND
Reuters
04:00
German publisher C.H.BECK takes a majority stake in Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents and raised a $100M+ Series C
Tech.eu
02:30
A profile of Noah Shinn, founder of AI assistant Instinct, who soft-launched it as an invite-only site for VCs and is reportedly fundraising at a $10B valuation
Business Insider
02:15
Global AI glasses shipments, including display-less and AR and AI glasses, rose 263% YoY in H1 2026, driven by Meta and EssilorLuxottica's display-less lineup
Counterpoint Research
02:05
Sources: China's SASAC, which oversees state-owned companies, is surveying the number of Broadcom switches in state-backed data centers amid a domestic AI drive
Financial Times
01:25
The US criticizes Australia's digital duty-of-care proposal, which has a provision that would require social media platforms to let users opt out of algorithms
Bloomberg
01:10
Patreon co-founder Sam Yam says he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product, alongside Patreon's Head of Product Drew Rowny and Head of Engineering Shannon Ma
@samyamiam
01:05
Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips
Financial Times

Dienstag, 22. September 2026

23:55
Six major banks, including BofA and Capital One, warn that increased autonomy for agentic commerce chatbots could lead to more scams, fraud, and disputes
Gizmodo
23:50
Go.AI, which offers on-premises AI hardware and software tools for regulated organizations like banks, raised an $85M Series A led by Updata Partners
Axios
23:35
Anthropic and OpenEvidence partner to offer a specialized version of OpenEvidence's AI search tool for physicians in about 100 low- and middle-income countries
Reuters
23:00
Alibaba says it plans to build its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, amid escalating US-China AI tensions
Bloomberg
21:50
Xbox has become a shell of its former self, weighed down by job cuts and studio closures, as it focuses on franchises like Halo and reaching “a billion people”
The Verge
21:10
Discord is rolling out its updated age-verification policy this week, sorting users into either the Adult or Teen group based on account age, activity, and more
Engadget
20:10
Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised $100M+ at a $4B valuation, up from $500M in September 2025; two frontier AI labs and xAI co-founders invested
Forbes
19:25
Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, with participation from YC, Altos Ventures, and others
SiliconANGLE
18:50
Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device
Wired
18:35
Data security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B
Wall Street Journal
18:01
Microsoft says it will give DARPA on-site access to its latest quantum computing hardware, including the Majorana 2 chip, at its new Maryland research center
Reuters
17:45
Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor
Semafor
16:45
TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025
TechCrunch
16:30
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores
TechRadar
16:25
San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market
New York Times
15:55
Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse “from scratch” but was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse “OpenClaw for normies”
TechCrunch
15:30
New York-based Ande, whose AI agents help businesses arrange corporate events for employees or customers, emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A
The Information
15:10
ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data, and also defaced the FBI jobs site
404 Media
14:55
In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a “globalist scheme to control” AI, saying the US is “leading now over China by a lot and everyone else”
Financial Times
14:40
Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation
Bloomberg
14:25
OpenAI says GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both ~50% cheaper than GPT-5.6
The Deep View
14:15
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost
ZDNET
14:05
Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 DAUs, with 2M+ prompts submitted in the week after its September 8 US launch
The Information
13:40
Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset
ZDNET
13:30
OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases
Bloomberg
12:45
Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product
Bloomberg
12:42
Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens
The Decoder
12:36
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior
The Verge
12:20
Sources: in a London presentation, SpaceXAI says Grok Bot hit 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% from the week prior; SpaceXAI launched it in mid-August
Bloomberg
12:10
In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is “officially” renaming AI to “super intelligence” because “artificial” makes it sound fake
The Verge
11:35
Chamelio, which is building AI tools designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment, raised a $26M Series A
CTech
11:10
Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity
CNBC
10:50
Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation
Reuters
10:25
Microsoft lays off 268 Xbox staffers across Halo and other studios, as part of an ongoing gaming “reset”; Activision will take over Halo and two other games
The Verge
10:20
Apple announces new $350 Beats 360 headphones, with IPX4 rating, swappable ear cups, a replaceable battery, ANC, Find My support, and more
The Verge
09:45
Sources: after a deadly school strike in Iran, US Central Command changed its targeting process, integrated open-source data, and upgraded Palantir's Maven
Bloomberg
09:35
Sources: Xi Jinping is unlikely to bring corporate executives to his DC summit with Trump; industry officials expected them at a dinner with top US tech CEOs
Wall Street Journal
09:25
Adobe launches its free Premiere video editing app on Android, nearly a year after its iOS launch, to replace Premiere Rush, set to lose support on September 30
Wired
09:15
Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo
MacRumors
09:05
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he plans to use the UK's upcoming G20 presidency to broker a global AI governance deal, ahead of the UN General Assembly
Politico
08:50
Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems
SiliconANGLE
08:45
Australian healthcare AI startup Heidi raised $340M, including a $100M Series C led by Blackbird at a $900M valuation, taking its total funding to $430M+
Bloomberg
08:40
Baselayer, which uses AI to help financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, raised a $35M Series A led by M13, for ~$40M in total funding
Crunchbase News
08:35
a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute
Wall Street Journal
08:25
Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framework designed to classify and analyze AI-integrated malware by tracking AI metadata and behavioral fingerprints
Wired
08:15
Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~$600M deal, including $500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025
CTech
08:10
Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform
CoinDesk
08:00
DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law
Wall Street Journal
07:51
Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot are among the companies briefing the UN Security Council on AI risks and international security during the UN General Assembly
Reuters
07:35
Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff
The Information
07:15
The Austrian Academy of Science, Mistral, and Sail Reply plan to launch Apollo, an Ancient Greek LLM trained on ~600M historical Greek words, available for free
Wired
06:55
US startup Firebird is building a 300MW data center in Armenia, set to host 70K+ Nvidia chips by 2027; sources: Trump pledged Nvidia export approvals to Armenia
Bloomberg
06:35
Sources: multiple staff at the UK's AISI have been signed off work with stress, as tight model release schedules and AI fears lead to low morale and burnout
Financial Times
06:20
Finnish neocloud startup Verda raised $189M led by Emergence at a $1B+ valuation and aims to raise up to $1.5B in equity and debt in 2026 and up to $10B in 2027
Bloomberg
06:01
French pharma SaaS startup Biolevate raised a €30M Series A co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, taking its total funding to €36M
Axios
05:50
Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a ~$4.6B market cap, after raising ~$727M, the latest Hong Kong AI IPO
Bloomberg
04:30
Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a 600-person live music venue built in its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station with two recording and mixing studios
Forbes
04:10
Sources: Polymarket is lobbying regulators in London, Brussels, and across the EU to be governed by financial services laws rather than local gambling rules
Financial Times
03:50
Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments
The Atlantic
02:20
Dutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics raised €40M from 3M Ventures, EIC Fund, and others, and plans to expand into data center optical components
TechCrunch
01:50
Belgium-based AI recruitment startup Spott raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton, with Base10, YC, and Fortino participating, taking its total funding to $24M
Axios
01:30
Amazon, Walmart and other companies are using drones for fast deliveries in Richardson, Texas, but residents complain about noise and clumsy package drops
New York Times
00:45
Apple v. OpenAI: Apple asks the court to let its own experts review forensic images used in the case, and seeks documents tied to parts of OpenAI's hardware R&D
9to5Mac
00:20
Tencent launches Hy Image 3.5 Preview, saying that during internal testing the AI image model achieved results on par with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro
Bloomberg

Montag, 21. September 2026

23:30
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers
Reuters
23:25
Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500K units
Bloomberg
23:15
Source: Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff cut in 2026, as it also plans to consolidate several of its game studios
The Information
22:15
MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-5.3 (Max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model
VentureBeat
19:55
Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay
Wall Street Journal
19:00
A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse Mac app lets any app or terminal command access users' Muse authentication tokens; Meta says it issued a hotfix
Ars Technica
18:55
British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police
Wall Street Journal
18:10
Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs “on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks”
Xiaomi