Montag, 5. Oktober 2026

16:45
SpaceX stock closes up 7.6% after Morgan Stanley called SPCX “cheap”, reaching its highest level since mid-June and returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status
CNBC
16:05
TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed
TechCrunch
15:25
Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4× less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks
Semafor
14:30
Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Claude; Meta employees using Claude Code have dropped to ~30K from ~60K earlier this year
The Information
14:20
Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z
TechCrunch
13:51
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety
Bloomberg
12:40
The CFTC proposes a federal framework for crypto exchanges to offer retail customers leveraged and margined spot trading, without requiring congressional action
The Block
12:30
An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthropic's tools; sources: Claude was in use as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran
BBC
12:21
To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally
OpenAI
12:10
In a first-of-its-kind pilot in the US, Nolla Health will use AI to diagnose and prescribe acne medications to Utah patients without direct human oversight
Bloomberg
11:35
Meta, TikTok, and X challenge UK's Ofcom over the amount of info it is demanding under the Online Safety Act, saying it creates unprecedented regulatory burdens
Reuters
10:25
Valon, which makes software to help US mortgage companies cut red tape and costs, raised a $150M Series D from Ribbit, a16z, and others at a $2.3B valuation
Forbes
10:10
Q&A with AI researchers Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo, Alex Turner, and others on leaving AI labs, AGI's dangers, planned IPOs, AI safety, oversight, and more
New York Magazine
09:55
Sources: Nico Caprez, son-in-law to Jensen Huang, rapidly ascended to become an Nvidia VP, serving as its main contact for neoclouds and Huang's “consigliere”
The Information
09:40
Cohere launches North 2, an update to its enterprise agent platform with cross-session memory and a redesigned harness, available across cloud and on-premises
VentureBeat
09:25
CTS: Chinese logic and memory chipmakers have imported 343 ASML immersion DUV lithography scanners from 2012 to early 2026, many of which can make 7nm chips
Tom's Hardware
09:15
Namespace, which offers cloud services and infrastructure for developers, raised a $42M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners and says it has 1,000+ customers
Axios
08:40
Survey: only 11% of 396 businesses could forecast AI spending; Microsoft finds lower-priced models cost more than higher-priced ones on 32% of 6,800+ tasks
Wall Street Journal
07:50
Billionaires Index: tech billionaires account for all of the $845B in wealth gains so far in 2026; those whose fortunes came from outside tech lost $62B total
Bloomberg
07:40
Q&A with Sam Altman on President Trump, the midterms, AI extinction risk, Xi Jinping's state visit, self-policing vs. regulation, and Greg Brockman's donations
Vanity Fair
07:30
Q&A with Sam Altman on his kids, his rivalries, pronatalism, “prepping” for the apocalypse, new products, the IPO delay, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, and more
Vanity Fair
06:55
Former Groq engineers file a lawsuit in Delaware against Groq, alleging the $20B “non-exclusive” acqui-hire deal with Nvidia in 2025 short-changed employees
Financial Times
06:40
OpenAI says it will begin testing a visual ad format in ChatGPT later in October in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads while users generate images
BleepingComputer
06:20
Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and automation software, sells $40M of shares at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$500M after raising $100M in January
Wall Street Journal
06:00
The IWF says it assessed 6,310 AI-generated images that met the legal definition of CSAM in H1 2026, 40% more than the 4,500+ images assessed in all of 2025
The Guardian
05:45
Huawei agrees to a multiyear patent licensing deal with Qualcomm covering AI, 5G, computing, and networking tech, its first 5G licensing deal with Qualcomm
Reuters
04:45
An interview with CoreWeave Physical AI SVP Richard Ahlfeld on AI models failing real-world checks, the roles of synthetic data and physical tests, and more
Superintelligence
04:10
A look at China's gray market of token resellers, who use accumulated identities and USDT-funded cards to obtain Claude accounts and route them through proxies
The Information
03:50
A look at Alpha, an invite-only Discord server of ~30 mostly Gen Z Polymarket traders who pool research and capital and have made an estimated $40M since 2024
Financial Times
02:10
Sam Altman says he's “very uncomfortable” with attributing “religious force” to AI, calling it “a real safety issue”, as Anthropic meets with religious leaders
Axios
02:05
OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE is seeking US SEC approval to offer tokenized shares of 63 NYSE-listed companies, leveraging new rules on tokenized stocks
Bloomberg
00:25
Sources: Firmus plans to allocate ~50% of its IPO shares to existing holders, as investor demand far exceeds the offer size in one of Australia's largest IPOs
Bloomberg

Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2026

23:30
Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch in October, such as Reflection AI's first model, expected to rival top Chinese open-weight models
Axios
22:55
A look at Sean Parker's resurrection of Stability AI following Emad Mostaque's ousting, and its new focus on AI for music professionals, backed by major labels
The Information
22:00
Change.org says it is investing ~$100M of its own money to rebuild its core petitions platform using AI and launches an AI copilot beta for petition creators
Axios
20:55
Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society
Bloomberg
18:55
Sources: UK neobank Monzo is in talks with CVC and Advent to sell up to a 15% stake, after Nubank takeover talks collapsed over the ~£10B valuation Monzo sought
Financial Times
17:55
Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still have a fundamentally different worldview on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks
Politico
17:35
Sources: Anthropic's stock matching of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ from October 2025 to March 2026, likely to pass billions in 2027, diluting shareholders
The Information
17:05
French conglomerate Schneider Electric agrees to acquire US engineering software provider PTC for $23.7B in cash, paying $205 per share, its largest acquisition
Financial Times
15:30
Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles “a page for every person in the user's life”, with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more
Wired
14:55
Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages
Politico
13:55
In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's “super intelligence” push to replace “artificial intelligence”
Reuters
13:00
DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's “third-party infrastructure arm” after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed
Financial Times
11:35
Sources: John Ternus is operating as Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times per week; the OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter
Bloomberg
10:25
Trump announces a Super Intelligence Force, led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, the DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM Director Scott Kupor
Politico
08:00
A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse
Wall Street Journal
05:00
Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more
More Than Moore
02:00
As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask
Stephen Wolfram Writings
01:45
Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied “excessive” charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015
Financial Times
01:40
Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10%
Nikkei Asia
01:20
Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027
Tom's Hardware
01:10
Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash
9to5Google
01:00
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks
Moneycontrol
00:40
Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M
CTech
00:00
Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more
TechCrunch

Samstag, 3. Oktober 2026

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

Freitag, 2. Oktober 2026

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

Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2026

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

Mittwoch, 30. September 2026

23:35
Docs and sources: Google's researchers have worried about AI risks to kids, like potential cognitive and emotional dependence, as Google pushed AI into schools
Wall Street Journal
23:15
Amazon signs a 20-year deal to buy 690 MW from Constellation Energy, helping the nuclear operator boost its capacity in Maryland, supporting $3B+ in investments
Bloomberg
22:55
Flow, which offers AI agents for hardware development, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation
TechCrunch
22:15
Gemini 4 Argon supports up to 1M output tokens, up from 64K for prior models, and costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, but will rise to $4 and $20 later
The Decoder
21:25
Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, which owns HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as it becomes a gay superapp
Wall Street Journal
20:35
Artificial Analysis says Gemini 4 Argon (high) matches GPT-6 Astra (max) on its Intelligence Index and has a 15% hallucination rate, compared with 51% for Astra
Artificial Analysis
20:10
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Robo Bosses Act, which prevents employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers
CNBC
19:55
Internal data: Meta's Muse now has 3M+ users who submit at least one prompt per week and 1M+ DAUs who have sent at least one prompt; most prompts are in the app
The Information
19:20
Slack message: Greg Brockman says he has “no plans” to donate more than $25M to Leading the Future, as the PAC has become a “distraction” for OpenAI employees
New York Times
18:45
Sources: Trump's AI accord grew out of a talk between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson; Zuckerberg circulated a draft, and Huang helped gather support
Semafor
18:20
Sources: Jensen Huang and others asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei replied it's important to be honest
Wall Street Journal
18:05
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he terminated Chris Degnan, alleging Degnan confided with Cognition execs while advising Factory before joining Cognition as CRO
Business Insider