| 10:15 PM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: 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 |
| 7:55 PM • | Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 7:00 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Mac lets any app or terminal command gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account |
| 6:55 PM • | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police |
| 6:10 PM • | Xiaomi: 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” |
| 4:45 PM • | Bloomberg: Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs |
| 3:50 PM • | Maureen Farrell / New York Times: 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+ |
| 3:20 PM • | Nichola Groom / Reuters: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight |
| 3:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ |
| 2:20 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances |
| 2:15 PM • | The Information: 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 |
| 2:00 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but “fully autonomous RSI is not happening today” and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely |
| 1:25 PM • | Maria Curi / Axios: 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 |
| 1:00 PM • | Adam Clark / Barron's Online: 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 |
| 12:35 PM • | Alexander Martin / The Record: 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 |
| 12:10 PM • | Kate Abnett / Reuters: 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 |
| 11:55 AM • | xAI: 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 |
| 11:40 AM • | Federico Viticci / MacStories: 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 |
| 11:35 AM • | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: 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 |
| 11:15 AM • | Laurie Chen / Reuters: Z.ai open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent |
| 10:40 AM • | The Information: 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 |
| 10:35 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: 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 |
| 9:55 AM • | Yash Roy / Bloomberg: 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” |
| 9:45 AM • | Bloomberg: 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 |
| 9:40 AM • | David Pierce / The Verge: 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 |
| 9:35 AM • | Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: 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 |
| 9:30 AM • | Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: 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 |
| 9:25 AM • | Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: 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 |
| 9:19 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: 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 |
| 9:15 AM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: 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 |
| 9:13 AM • | Steve Dent / Engadget: 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 |
| 9:10 AM • | Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware: 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 |
| 9:03 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google unveils Googlebook hardware, with flagship devices from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, offering deep Android integration, coming in October for $899+ |
| 8:10 AM • | Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: 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 |
| 7:55 AM • | Robert Hart / The Verge: 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 |
| 7:45 AM • | Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 7:30 AM • | Kirsten Grind / New York Times: 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 |
| 7:21 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: 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 |
| 7:05 AM • | Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 6:40 AM • | The Information: 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 |
| 6:30 AM • | Ezra Klein / New York Times: After hacking incidents and the industry's existential risk warnings, we need a regulatory ban on RSI, as competition drives unchecked autonomous acceleration |
| 6:15 AM • | Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 6:05 AM • | Li Yuan / New York Times: 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 |
| 5:50 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: 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 |
| 5:20 AM • | Toby Sterling / Reuters: 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 |
| 5:05 AM • | Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: 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 |
| 4:45 AM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 4:20 AM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: 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 |
| 4:10 AM • | Jo He-rim / The Korea Herald: South Korea reopens a program, unavailable since 2013, letting AI researchers fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs from 2027 |
| 3:55 AM • | Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 2:05 AM • | Zhang Shidong / South China Morning Post: 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 |
| 1:55 AM • | prinz: 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 |
| 1:20 AM • | Politico: 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 |
| 1:05 AM • | Steve LeVine / The Information: 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 |
| 12:30 AM • | FinTech Global: 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 |
| 12:05 AM • | Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Toronto-based Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces patient survival predictions, raised a $25M Series A |
| 10:45 PM • | Wired: 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 |
| 10:15 PM • | Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz: 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 |
| 9:40 PM • | Thomas Claburn / The Register: Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year |
| 8:30 PM • | Reuters: 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 |
| 7:50 PM • | Kerry Flynn / Axios: Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand |
| 7:25 PM • | Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider: 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 |
| 7:10 PM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 7:05 PM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 6:50 PM • | Bloomberg: 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 |
| 6:40 PM • | Christine Hauser / New York Times: 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 |
| 6:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta |
| 5:40 PM • | Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 5:20 PM • | Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 5:01 PM • | Anthropic: 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 |
| 4:30 PM • | New York Times: 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 |
| 4:25 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: 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 |
| 4:10 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 3:30 PM • | CoinDesk: Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A |
| 2:55 PM • | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more |
| 2:00 PM • | CNN: 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 |
| 1:40 PM • | Reuters: 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 |
| 1:10 PM • | Corbin Bolies / Variety: 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 |
| 12:45 PM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Google threat intelligence group details how one of its researchers infiltrated hacker group TeamPCP and helped disrupt its software supply chain hacking spree |
| 12:20 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights |
| 11:45 AM • | Bloomberg: 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 |
| 10:55 AM • | Sophie Shulman / CTech: 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 |
| 9:55 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: 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 |
| 9:05 AM • | Linda Pasquini / Reuters: 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 |
| 7:15 AM • | Jie Ye-eun / The Korea Herald: SK Hynix launches SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, expanding its scope of investments into AI computing, data centers, optical interconnect tech, and more |
| 7:10 AM • | Reuters: 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 |
| 6:50 AM • | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: 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 |
| 6:40 AM • | Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 6:35 AM • | Reuters: 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 |
| 6:05 AM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 5:50 AM • | Reuters: Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving using smart glasses to film women in public without their consent |
| 4:35 AM • | Reuters: 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 |
| 2:25 AM • | Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: The US CFTC exempts “passive software” providers from broker registration if they never hold user assets, expanding crypto and prediction market online trading |
| 2:01 AM • | Jason Shubnell / The Block: World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial “super app” in 150+ countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts |
| 1:30 AM • | Reuters: 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 |
| 1:10 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: 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 |
| 12:40 AM • | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 11:05 PM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 10:00 PM • | Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico: 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 |
| 9:30 PM • | Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: 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 |
| 8:30 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 7:45 PM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: 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” |
| 6:15 PM • | Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code |
| 5:05 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms |
| 4:55 PM • | Anthropic: Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated |
| 4:01 PM • | Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation |
| 3:35 PM • | Financial Times: NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training “an astonishing theft” |
| 2:40 PM • | Pew Research Center: A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: people in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than net job growth |
| 1:15 PM • | Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 |
| 12:15 PM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training |
| 12:00 PM • | Toby Sterling / Reuters: Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent company Wingtech |
| 11:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research |
| 11:40 AM • | Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: The UK FCA, working with tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to its “light-touch” crypto regulation |
| 11:00 AM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations |
| 10:05 AM • | Bloomberg: King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests |
| 9:55 AM • | Financial Times: Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's EV platform for affordable models, set to launch as soon as 2028 |
| 9:45 AM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A |
| 9:36 AM • | Hannah Lang / Reuters: The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption for platforms that offer tokenized stock trading, relieving them of many rules that apply to stock exchanges |
| 8:50 AM • | New York Times: A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage |
| 8:15 AM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials are fantastic, the Health Sensing System is a big upgrade, but many features are coming later |
| 8:00 AM • | Bloomberg: DoorDash says Costco members can now order same-day delivery from every US Costco store, a day after Uber expanded its Costco deliveries from 17 to 47 US states |
| 7:45 AM • | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to “increase the speed of development” to “see the dangers” of AI, contrasting with the US' slowdown calls |
| 7:35 AM • | David Streitfeld / New York Times: Dario Amodei's essays chronicle the AI industry's shifting ways of selling its product, from wariness of regulation to calls for third-party evaluators |
| 7:10 AM • | Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: The EU details the Kids Act, which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts, ban under-13s, and more |
| 6:50 AM • | Pew Research Center: Survey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses |
| 6:35 AM • | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: At India's Semicon, Narendra Modi launches a charm offensive for investors, drawing pledges from Applied Materials and Lam Research for billions in investments |
| 6:15 AM • | Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of AI security incidents and who says the explosive response surprised him |
| 6:05 AM • | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful non-AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space |
| 5:55 AM • | Alice Lassman / Bloomberg: How AI beauty tools like Qoves and UMax commercialize facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and more to prescribe treatments |
| 5:45 AM • | Reuters: US and Chinese experts propose nuclear-style AI safeguards, including a dedicated AI military hotline, as part of a dialogue ahead of planned US-China AI talks |
| 5:30 AM • | Boone Ashworth / Wired: Snap is pitching its $2,195 Specs as an enterprise product, inking Salesforce, Amazon, and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays, alongside consumer features |
| 5:15 AM • | Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers |
| 2:40 AM • | Financial Times: A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare, as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes can increase the risk of errors |
| 2:30 AM • | Yael Grauer / The Verge: Anthropic and other researchers detail how a network of ~28 dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from models like Claude catfished thousands of people |
| 2:20 AM • | Financial Times: PitchBook: brain-computer interface startups have raised $1B+ in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined; Neuralink is the best-funded |
| 1:55 AM • | Reuters: Huawei plans to debut the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and unveils an architecture to let up to 1M processors operate as one system |
| 1:20 AM • | Amy Harder / Axios: Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions |
| 1:01 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance agreements, worth $8.15M, during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO |
| 12:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend |
| 12:45 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Emulate, a month-old world models UK startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind employees, is in talks to raise up to $700M at a $3.7B post-money valuation |
| 12:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M round at a $4B valuation, signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound Manus' short-lived $2B buyout by Meta |
| 12:10 AM • | Cade Metz / New York Times: How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement |
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