Dienstag, 22. September 2026

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; it 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
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 about 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 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week
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
16:45
Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, Rogo, and other AI startups are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs
Bloomberg
15:50
Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B+
New York Times
15:20
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight
Reuters
15:05
Sensor Tower: users downloaded Muse 902K+ times in the six days from its September 8 launch, above Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%
Bloomberg
14:20
OpenAI says it is working with an independent math advisory group to responsibly share AI advances, following an open letter raising concerns from researchers
OpenAI
14:15
Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models
The Information
14:00
OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but “fully autonomous RSI is not happening today” and shouldn't be pursued “until it can be done safely”
OpenAI
13:25
Ahead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to lead an effort to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier systems
Axios
13:00
Intel closes up 12%, AMD 10%, and Arm 17% on Monday amid investor optimism that Meta's Muse could boost CPU demand; AMD's market cap tops $1T for the first time
Barron's Online
12:35
ShinyHunters hijacked the dark web site of cybercrime gang Cl0p, set an eight-figure extortion demand, describing the amount as “2.333%” of Cl0p's net worth
The Record
12:10
The EU proposes rules requiring data centers with a capacity of 500+ kW to disclose their energy and water efficiency using an EU-designed labeling system
Reuters
11:55
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, which it says is better at verifying its own work and managing longer context, available for $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens
xAI
11:40
Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM review: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation
MacStories
11:35
NYC-based Corridor, which uses AI to offer health benefits for small businesses, raised a $16M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures, following a $9M pre-seed
Axios
11:15
Z.ai open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent
Reuters
10:40
Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse
The Information
10:35
Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, Apple's AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more
The Verge
09:55
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July “is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents”
Bloomberg
09:45
Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its $103B in total contract value, only $2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more
Bloomberg
09:40
An interview with Google SVP of Devices Rick Osterloh on Googlebooks, which he calls “the ultimate focusing move” for Google, a potential Pixel laptop, and more
The Verge
09:35
Meta enters a voluntary access agreement granting the UK's Prospect trade union direct access to recruit its 5,000 UK employees, ahead of new UK employment laws
Financial Times
09:30
MediaTek unveils the Dimensity CX C10 Max, a 3nm TSMC N3 flagship SoC designed for Google's upcoming Googlebook lineup, with an 8-core CPU and an 11-core GPU
Tom's Hardware
09:25
Googlebooks offer Intel Core Ultra Panther Lake or Qualcomm Snapdragon X/X1 Elite CPUs, 16GB to 64GB of RAM, OLED or LCD touch displays at up to 3K, and more
ZDNET
09:19
Googlebook OS hands-on: Android gives it a solid foundation and Pixel-like feel; Gmail and Calendar use Trusted Web Activities via Play Store instead of PWAs
9to5Google
09:15
Google's Googlebook OS, built on Android with a Material 3 Expressive and ChromeOS hybrid UI, offers deep Android 17 integration, 10 years of support, and more
The Verge
09:13
Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: top benchmark scores, but it costs around twice as much as the M5 Max model without delivering nearly double the performance
Engadget
09:10
Mac mini (late 2026) review: strong M6 performance, faster storage over the M4, and a small footprint, but pricey storage and memory erode its value proposition
Tom's Hardware
09:03
Google unveils Googlebook hardware, with flagship devices from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, offering deep Android integration, coming in October for $899+
9to5Google
08:10
Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to launch a $30M ad blitz against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in the Ohio Senate race, after the Clarity Act failed
New York Times
07:55
In its first thematic brief, the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI urges governments to rein in AI agents before risks are fully understood
The Verge
07:45
Filing: Oura is seeking to raise up to $2.2B in its US IPO, marketing 50M shares at $40 to $44 each, giving it a $14.1B valuation at the top of its price range
Bloomberg
07:30
Investigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate
New York Times
07:21
Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for frontier AI labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement
Stratechery
07:05
Data Center Watch: 45 US data center projects valued at $68B were blocked or delayed by local opposition from April to June, or 50%+ of large Q2 developments
Bloomberg
06:40
Sources: DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng says training on Huawei chips is one of DeepSeek's biggest bets and Huawei is set to deliver training chips in Q4 or Q1 2027
The Information
06:30
After hacking incidents and the industry's existential risk warnings, we need a regulatory ban on RSI, as competition drives unchecked autonomous acceleration
New York Times
06:15
Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M over how it processed location data after complaints from European consumer rights groups, and gives it six months to comply
Bloomberg
06:05
As Xi Jinping visits DC, Chinese economists warn that Beijing is pouring too many resources into AI, which creates few jobs, and is doing little for the economy
New York Times
05:50
Sources: Alibaba names senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen LLM project, bringing clarity after multiple rounds of reorganization in 2026
The Information
05:20
IFR: ~7,000 autonomous humanoids were sold globally in 2025 for industrial and professional use, with many bought for research instead of for productive work
Reuters
05:05
iPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more
iFixit News
04:45
Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases
Financial Times
04:20
Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and no merchant consent
GeekWire
04:10
South Korea reopens a program, unavailable since 2013, letting AI researchers fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs from 2027
The Korea Herald
03:55
How the Clarity Act, lobbied hard by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stablecoin yields, collapsed in the Senate
Wall Street Journal
02:05
China collected ~$32.3B of stamp duty on stock sales between January and August, up 82% YoY, as average daily trading values rose 72%, amid an AI trading frenzy
South China Morning Post
01:55
A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog portal
prinz
01:20
A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down
Politico
01:05
Eric Schmidt's Perennial and eight other drone startups will split DOD orders for 60K drones at $5,000 each, after a competition barring Chinese-made parts
The Information
00:30
Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital, as it weighs a possible IPO
FinTech Global
00:05
Toronto-based Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces patient survival predictions, raised a $25M Series A
Axios

Sonntag, 20. September 2026

23:45
Sources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B of securities and €1B in debt to fund its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales yet
Bloomberg
23:25
NYC-based Adaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, raised a $30M Series B led by Tidemark, bringing its total raised to $57M
Axios
23:05
Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person companies in 2025 to escape the bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition
Wall Street Journal
21:45
Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident “notification mechanism” to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit
Financial Times
21:40
Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures
Axios
21:00
UK-based Unit1, which develops “hyper-realistic” digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others
The Guardian
19:15
China has made AI a national mission, but workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force the CCP to slow down
The Atlantic
17:40
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says beats most closed-source models, with native transparency and use of up to 10 reference images
Qwen
16:10
Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation are “not asking for more laws”, 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 expansions in response to government overtures
Financial Times
13:15
Indeed: US data center roles offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation work compared with similar jobs at other kinds of 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
Sources offer a look at Apple's upcoming home hub, debuting as early as October with a new OS around Siri AI; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ employees
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
President 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