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September 28, 2026, 9:35 AM

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs  —  Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, its “next major pillar of our business” to deploy AI tools, and appoints MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it  —  The tech giant is pushing to monetize its multibillion-dollar AI investments by selling more tools and services to companies
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Nvidia increases its share buyback program by $150B, raising the remaining authorized amount to $235B, aiming to complete it through FY 2028; NVDA is up 20% YTD  —  Nvidia Corp., the chip developer at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, increased the size of its share buyback plan …
Stefania Palma / Financial Times:
Litigation funder Burford Capital says it stands to gain up to $1.4B after a US jury ruled against Apple in a patent case, awarding $5.7B in damages to Taction  —  Litigation funder's share price jumps 9% after US jury's decision  —  Litigation funder Burford Capital said it stands to gain …
Utkarsh Shetti / Reuters:
AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service  —  AI agent firm Instinct said on Monday it has raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation in a Series C funding round.
The Washington Sun:
Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the “bipartisan psychosis” over data centers  —  The Loudoun County Iced Tea, an homage to Virginia's “data center alley,” was peach-forward and watery, with a flat finish.
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Sourav Rudra / It's FOSS:
Artificial Analysis:
Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance with partners Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to evaluate how AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities  —  The Artificial Analysis Cyber Index Alliance brings together industry partners to set a new standard for evaluating how AI models perform on enterprise cyber defense tasks.
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May  —  Arlington, Virginia-based startup Quartermaster in May closed a $43 million Series A around its idea of using weather-hardened sensors …
Liana Baker / Bloomberg:
Cyber defense tech company RedLattice plans to go public via the Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. SPAC, in a deal valuing RedLattice at ~$1.25B including debt  —  Private equity-backed cyber defense technology firm RedLattice said it's going public via a merger with blank-check company Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp.

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