| 9:50 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app |
| 8:55 PM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections |
| 7:35 PM • | Reuters: Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B |
| 6:55 PM • | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago |
| 6:45 PM • | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” |
| 6:15 PM • | Courtney Rozen / Reuters: Sources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a “duty of care” for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe |
| 5:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund |
| 5:10 PM • | Kate Knibbs / Wired: FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking |
| 4:20 PM • | Business Insider: LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize |
| 4:02 PM • | Terence Tao / What's new: A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics |
| 3:40 PM • | Tom Rees / Bloomberg: The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations |
| 2:50 PM • | Globe and Mail: Sources: Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2B and $3B, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, at a $20B valuation |
| 2:35 PM • | Andrew Solender / Axios: Sources: some lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to cancel the fall House recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, after Anthropic researcher warnings |
| 1:40 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sources: in an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him |
| 12:25 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer, saying it is “time for me to move on and try new things” |
| 12:15 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Roblox announces new features, including game-creation tools, ability to make games available as standalone apps across platforms, and Roblox Wallet and Card |
| 12:01 PM • | Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism: Meta says it is making changes to Meta AI's suggested prompts after a viral Instagram video showed it posing invasive questions about a woman's young daughters |
| 11:10 AM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta says it's changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions |
| 10:35 AM • | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: The GSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal at a 50% discount from October 1, including access to GPT-6 Astra |
| 10:01 AM • | Politico: Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump |
| 9:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Threat intelligence report: Anthropic says it disrupted a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to build missile and rocket guidance software |
| 8:30 AM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A US court sentences Ukrainian Oleksii Lytvynenko to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the Conti ransomware attacks |
| 7:35 AM • | Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time adviser to OpenAI |
| 7:30 AM • | Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics” |
| 7:10 AM • | Alexandra Alper / Reuters: Source and press release: the Trump administration will lend nearly $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telco, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion |
| 6:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Moonshot AI told investors it topped $1B ARR in August, up from $300M in June, driven by its Kimi K3 release; it aims to hit $2B ARR by the end of 2026 |
| 6:40 AM • | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions |
| 6:35 AM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised a $150M extension to its $500M Series E announced in March 2026 |
| 6:02 AM • | CNBC: Garry Tan says “I would do nothing” about China's AI distillation and urges the industry to focus on current AI risks instead of doomsday-style extinction fears |
| 5:45 AM • | Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the startup aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as CFO of Amazon, EA, Delta, NBC, and most recently Nielsen |
| 5:30 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Sources: TikTok rejects ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other tech platforms to join Meta in settling with US state AGs in a landmark child safety lawsuit |
| 2:25 AM • | Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly 12 LLMs tailor their responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterm cycle |
| 1:10 AM • | Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Official doc: India's Serious Fraud Office urges the government to probe Xiaomi over alleged business model irregularities and foreign investment law violations |
| 12:55 AM • | Jeff Mason / Bloomberg: President Trump rejects warnings of AI-driven human extinction, saying the US leads China by a year and will be “in a very bad position” if it doesn't win in AI |
| 12:40 AM • | Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: Tencent-backed AI chipmaker Enflame's shares surged 188% in their Shanghai debut, giving Enflame a market cap of $26.3B, after raising ~$910M in an IPO |
| 11:10 PM • | Christian Terry / Click2Houston.com: A US judge finds TikTok liable for lying about its safety standards and exposing minors to inappropriate content, in a 2025 lawsuit filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton |
| 10:45 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Kalshi plans to seek US regulatory approval to start offering single-stock perpetual futures; Coinbase filed similar regulatory paperwork last week |
| 10:25 PM • | Mark Spoonauer / Tom's Guide: An interview with Apple CEO John Ternus and Greg Joswiak on making the iPhone Duo, minimizing the crease, “half baked” Android foldables, the price, and more |
| 10:05 PM • | Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs and freemium MAUs crossed 100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings to drive revenue |
| 9:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees that the startup is considering slowing cutting-edge AI development, and he hopes other AI companies will do the same |
| 9:15 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Sources: OpenAI asked members of Congress for guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal under antitrust law |
| 8:45 PM • | Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Only 4% of the startups in YC's 2026 spring batch had a native mobile app as their main product, down from 15% in 2013, as startups focus on AI and agents |
| 8:02 PM • | The Information: Source: AI assistant Instinct is looking to raise $1B in new funding after recently raising $250M, as it seeks more computing power amid capacity constraints |
| 7:10 PM • | Lucinda Shen / Axios: London-based Xapien, which uses AI for background checks and due diligence, raised a $56M Series B led by Spectrum Equity |
| 6:10 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend ~$5B to neocloud startup Fluidstack, which is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank |
| 5:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft plans to expand its data center capacity from ~12GW currently to 38GW+ by 2032, with about a third of the 38GW centered on AI-specific chips |
| 5:45 PM • | Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $6.7B est., AI-first annual recurring revenue up 150%+ YoY, and forecasts Q4 revenue slightly below estimates |
| 4:55 PM • | Colin Lecher / CalMatters: California Governor Gavin Newsom signs bills restricting “addictive features” on social media for under-16s and limiting minors' interactions with chatbots |
| 4:30 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $19.35B, vs. $19.14B est., net income up 60% YoY to $4.68B, and cloud infrastructure revenue up 121% YoY to $7.4B |
| 4:15 PM • | Reuters: Sources: Intel-backed Altera is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO in the coming weeks; the offering could raise $2B+, with a listing as early as 2026 |
| 3:55 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: ID verification service IDScan confirms that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems after hackers tried to sell 153M+ licenses |
| 3:10 PM • | Tibo / @thsottiaux: OpenAI says it will pause new $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions amid “unprecedented” Astra demand; existing accounts, other plans, and the API are unaffected |
| 2:45 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog |
| 1:55 PM • | CNBC: OpenAI unveils ChatGPT for Financial Services, a version of ChatGPT Work made with “design partners” Morgan Stanley and Evercore to research like an analyst |
| 1:36 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via “transfer stations” outside China |
| 1:25 PM • | Dustin Volz / New York Times: Anthropic says it disrupted several potential plots in 2026 by scientists who used its AI models for research that could have helped develop biological weapons |
| 1:21 PM • | Anthropic: Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more |
| 12:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: PIF is considering combining EA with Savvy Games to better coordinate its gaming assets, but not before Savvy closes its $6B Moonton acquisition |
| 12:10 PM • | Kenneth Chang / New York Times: Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem |
| 11:25 AM • | Grace Kay / The Information: Sources: SpaceX shifts its data center strategy to redesign existing facilities and prioritize power and cooling redundancy, potentially slowing new build-outs |
| 10:45 AM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M |
| 10:30 AM • | Mark Chediak / Bloomberg: TAR, which builds off-grid power systems for data centers, raised a $120M Series A led by Spark Capital at a ~$1B valuation |
| 10:25 AM • | Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Positron, which is designing AI inference processor Asimov featuring a “memory-first architecture” and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation |
| 9:45 AM • | Peter Adams / Marketing Dive: Amazon partners with OpenAI to let advertisers buy ChatGPT ads via Amazon DSP as a managed service in a US-only pilot; OpenAI will control ad delivery decisions |
| 9:25 AM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B |
| 8:30 AM • | Sonia Sirletti / Bloomberg: Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B, implying an equity value of ~$1.79B |
| 7:35 AM • | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 |
| 7:25 AM • | Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: Nasdaq invests $100M in Kraken parent company Payward, valuing the crypto exchange at $21B; in March, Kraken said it will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks |
| 7:10 AM • | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Paris-based Arlequin AI, which is developing proprietary models based on topological neural networks, raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB |
| 6:25 AM • | Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: EU cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1 |
| 6:20 AM • | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Sources: Moonshot AI is exploring dual Hong Kong and Shanghai listings for greater capital and exposure, amid the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong |
| 5:55 AM • | Reuters: DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context |
| 5:45 AM • | Axios: Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Senator Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless” |
| 2:35 AM • | Ghosts of Electricity: A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years |
| 2:30 AM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in “moonshot” sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 |
| 2:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Grab is in talks to buy a majority stake in Advance Intelligence Group's Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome Financial at a $2B+ valuation |
| 2:20 AM • | Emmy Martin / New York Times: How Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF |
| 1:55 AM • | Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor |
| 1:45 AM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more |
| 1:30 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs |
| 1:01 AM • | Océane Herrero / Politico: French public officials and other sources detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron |
| 12:35 AM • | Paul Christiano / @paulfchristiano: OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an “acceptable” level |
| 12:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab |
| 11:40 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon names Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, noting his extensive experience “combating cyber threats” in public and private sectors |
| 11:25 PM • | Mikella Schuettler / Associated Press: New Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements |
| 11:15 PM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Paul Christiano, an AI researcher and CAISI advisor, joins the OpenAI Foundation board of directors and OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee to reduce AI risk |
| 10:35 PM • | Lauren Goode / Wired: Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M |
| 10:05 PM • | Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers with 25MW+ of peak demand to bring their own power and meet all demand with clean energy |
| 10:00 PM • | New York Times: Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, which Groq called a “nonexclusive licensing agreement” |
| 9:55 PM • | Madison Mills / Axios: AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI |
| 9:40 PM • | Christine Mui / Politico: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law two bills, backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, regulating how outside groups evaluate AI for safety |
| 9:20 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month |
| 8:10 PM • | The Information: Sources: Jeffrey Katzenberg, ex-OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup to train AI video models for filmmakers |
| 7:45 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple unveils a new Apple Health app with Apple Intelligence, an Insights tab, a “readiness” score, “Health Age” metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026 |
| 6:50 PM • | Jason Shubnell / The Block: Consensys says it will split into two: MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO, and a new Consensys focused on Ethereum and institutional blockchain infrastructure |
| 5:55 PM • | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members and was voted interim CEO |
| 5:45 PM • | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who in October 2025 came over from Thinking Machines Lab as one of the highest paid employees, is leaving the company |
| 5:15 PM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing |
| 4:20 PM • | Supreeth Koundinya / AIM: Shopify acquires Tailwind Labs, which develops Tailwind CSS; in January, Tailwind laid off three of four engineers, citing AI's impact on documentation traffic |
| 3:31 PM • | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: Apple raises its prices by $100 on all older iPhone models it still sells, including the iPhone 16, 17, 17e, and Air, and discontinues the 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max |
| 3:27 PM • | Anthropic: Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them |
| 3:20 PM • | Business Insider: Sources: Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year |
| 3:16 PM • | Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: The iPhone Duo supports Apple Pencil and features iOS 27 revamped for multitasking that auto-adjusts controls and apps depending on screen size and orientation |
| 3:05 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Apple says it will release iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI, on September 14; older devices will not get Siri AI |
| 2:55 PM • | The Verge: Hands-on with the iPhone Duo: the folding mechanism is smooth, the crease is almost impossible to find with a finger, and the inner screen has a matte finish |
| 2:36 PM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with a 2TB model costing $3,199, in star white and night sky colors; preorders start Oct. 16, and sales begin Oct. 23 |
| 2:17 PM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, with a 5.4-inch outer and a 7.6-inch inner display, an A20 Pro with a new display engine, and Touch ID |
| 2:08 PM • | Jeremy Gray / PetaPixel: iPhone 18 Pro has a faster 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture that lets in ~50% more light in low-light, along with enhanced camera app controls |
| 2:04 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, with a new S11 chip, upgraded health tracking, an Audio Intelligence feature, a readiness feature, and more |
| 1:55 PM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple announces two AirPods 5 models with ANC that removes up to 50% more noise than AirPods 4, for $129 or $149 with a wireless charging case |
| 1:50 PM • | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: iPhone 18 Pro comes with a smaller Dynamic Island; 18 Pro starts at $1,199 and the 18 Pro Max starts at $1,299, both costing $100 more than the 17 Pro lineup |
| 1:40 PM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple adds a Reference Image feature to the iPhone 18 Pro, which digitally authenticates that photos taken with its camera haven't later been altered by AI |
| 1:32 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple unveils the 2nm A20 Pro, featuring a 6-core CPU with two up to 20% faster super cores, an up to 40% faster 7-core GPU, and 32 Neural Engine cores in total |
| 1:21 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, with a similar design to 17 Pro and a new A20 Pro chip, in deep black, silver, glacier, and burgundy |
| 1:01 PM • | Apple on YouTube: A recording of Apple's “Surprise and Shine” event |
| 12:55 PM • | The Verge: A live blog of Apple's “Surprise and Shine” event, where new iPhone 18 Pro, Apple's first foldable phone, new Apple Watches, and AirPods are expected |
| 12:40 PM • | Kimberly Leonard / Politico: Florida's AG sues Netflix, alleging it misleads parents about how it collects data on minors and harms children with features that lead to binge watching |
| 12:30 PM • | Reuters: Researchers: OpenAI's agents used 10+ previously undisclosed sites for unsanctioned communications earlier in 2026; the behavior was closer to spam than hacking |
| 12:20 PM • | Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: AI CRM software startup Lightfield raised a $47M Series A led by a16z, after pivoting from AI presentation builder Tome, which had raised $80M in Series A and B |
| 11:45 AM • | Scott Horsley / NPR: Anthropic releases an interactive tool that lets users explore how AI might affect US GDP growth, job reallocation, wages, and labor vs. capital share by 2030 |
| 11:30 AM • | Madina Touré / Politico: The American Federation of Teachers and Microsoft agree to guarantee privacy standards for classroom AI use, consisting of 10 legally enforceable protections |
| 11:20 AM • | Jacob Reid / Bloomberg: UK PM Andy Burnham says he “won't go as far as” a data center moratorium because it is “important” local communities see the benefits of building data centers |
| 10:50 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Enterprise AI security startup Cymphony emerges from stealth with $30M, including a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC, at a $100M+ post-money valuation |
| 10:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Dell raised $5B from an investment-grade bond sale, after investors placed ~$23B of orders for the offering at its peak, as sees a revenue surge from AI servers |
| 10:15 AM • | Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: Latitude, a Texas-based global payments infrastructure company co-founded by Stripe, Uber, Coinbase and Meta alumni, raised a $35M Series A led by Oak HC/FT |
| 9:50 AM • | Najmeh Bozorgmehr / Financial Times: Sources: Iran's central bank has quietly relaxed foreign currency controls to encourage traders to repatriate funds via cryptocurrencies to bypass US sanctions |
| 9:30 AM • | Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Analog Devices agrees to buy privately held Alif Semiconductor, which makes low-power AI processors, for $1.35B in cash, with contingent payments of up to $200M |
| 9:15 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Euno, whose platform reconstructs data flow, meaning, health, and more across data environments to give AI agents context, raised a $23M Series A led by N47 |
| 9:05 AM • | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: NYC-based AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025 |
| 8:50 AM • | Heekyong Yang / Reuters: OpenAI expands its Samsung work to production and research on its next-gen chips, and says Samsung is “one of the largest-scale deployments of ChatGPT globally” |
| 8:20 AM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Savvy Wealth, which provides RIA software for independent financial advisors, raised a $100M Series C led by Halo Fund, taking its total funding to $200M+ |
| 7:55 AM • | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March |
| 7:40 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software |
| 7:25 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where Lyft is offering robotaxi trips; Waymo and Lyft partnered in 2025 |
| 6:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Suno rolls out v6, a new generation of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when v6 is used |
| 5:35 AM • | Sarah Wynn / The Block: Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme that stole and laundered $245M+ in crypto |
| 4:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Google plans to invest €13B+ in Finland over two years, its biggest investment in Europe to date, to build three new data centers and expand an existing one |
| 2:20 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for prerelease testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism |
| 1:00 AM • | The Information: Sources: The China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after industry leader Unitree's volatile debut |
| 12:50 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's first foldable phone will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at ~$2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October |
| 12:20 AM • | Evan Hubinger / @evanhub: Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and is worried about recursive self-improvement |
| 11:40 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash |
| 11:20 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, taking its total flaws patched in 2026 so far to 2,760, more than double from 2025 |
| 10:10 PM • | Dwarkesh Podcast: Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements |
| 9:15 PM • | The Information: Source: Gimlet Labs raised its $300M round after telling investors OpenAI would likely spend $100M+/year on its services; OpenAI says it's not a paying customer |
| 8:25 PM • | Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control |
| 8:20 PM • | Reuters: The NSA, the FBI, and CISA issue a joint warning that Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Alibaba are doing distillation “at an industrial scale” |
| 7:30 PM • | Hayden Field / The Verge: In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier |
| 6:40 PM • | Alex Heath / Sources: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, the privacy concerns around Meta's smart glasses, and more |
| 5:55 PM • | Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ: Ireland's media watchdog opens an investigation into X over age assurance and parental control concerns, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code |
| 5:50 PM • | Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust |
| 5:40 PM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Chime Financial agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 5%+ |
| 4:35 PM • | Maria Curi / Axios: Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry advocacy group opposed three export control measures |
| 3:55 PM • | John Koetsier / Forbes: Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock |
| 3:20 PM • | Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers |
| 3:15 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more |
| 3:10 PM • | Ina Fried / Axios: Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses |
| 3:05 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says, while unlikely, it “cannot rule out that de-identified data derived” from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models |
| 2:50 PM • | Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT |
| 2:45 PM • | Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck: OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he reached out to Levent Alpöge to coordinate their releases and denies asking to remove Alpöge from authorship of his own work |
| 2:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Ramp is in early talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $750M at a $44B valuation in June; founded in 2019, Ramp has raised $3B to date |
| 1:50 PM • | Samantha Oltman / Bloomberg: AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue has grown from $492M in May to almost $900M |
| 1:20 PM • | Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes “copyright infringement very seriously” |
| 1:02 PM • | Wired: OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster and Alpöge's prompts and says it spent millions in compute after rumors of Anthropic making progress |
| 1:00 PM • | Madison Mills / Axios: OpenAI says an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours |
| 12:25 PM • | Jacob Reid / Bloomberg: UK seeks to force Apple and Google to block children from taking, viewing, or sharing nude images on their devices, and praises Apple's age-based restrictions |
| 11:50 AM • | Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it |
| 11:40 AM • | Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: NextEra Energy, which partnered with Google to revive an Iowa nuclear power plant, gets a $1.9B loan from the Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment |
| 11:05 AM • | Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Circle agrees to acquire Singapore-based cross-border B2B payments company Tazapay for $400M, in one of its largest publicly disclosed acquisitions to date |
| 10:50 AM • | Google: Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome |
| 10:35 AM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Irvine-based Celero, which is developing chips to move more data faster over longer distances and between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation |
| 10:25 AM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Runway co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis says the startup's annual recurring revenue hit $200M in September; source: it expects ARR to cross $350M by the end of 2026 |
| 10:10 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Poseidon Aerospace, which plans the first test flight of its pilotless cargo plane by year-end, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures, after an $11M seed |
| 9:45 AM • | Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Google Cloud and Accenture form the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group to train up to 1,000 Accenture forward deployed engineers for Gemini Enterprise |
| 9:40 AM • | Matt Burgess / Wired: Researchers say Meta ran 300+ ads with CSAM in 2026 so far; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to “nudification” apps from China |
| 9:35 AM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Qualcomm announces a data center infrastructure partnership with AWS, as part of which it issued warrants to Amazon to acquire $4B worth of Qualcomm's stock |
| 9:00 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and prediction market company OG, spun out of Crypto.com |
| 8:40 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's path to a foldable phone, the iPhone's biggest design change yet; sources: the memory shortage led Apple to blow past its $1,999 price target |
| 8:25 AM • | Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later in September, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems |
| 8:00 AM • | Clare Armstrong / ABC: Australia proposes a “My Feed, My Way” initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content |
| 7:40 AM • | Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Forus, which uses AI to help patients get prescribed drugs more quickly by navigating steps like insurance coverage, raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation |
| 7:30 AM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Google rolls out search result changes in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest quality of service reduction in Search's 29-year history |
| 7:25 AM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: NYC-based Blee, which makes marketing compliance software for financial services companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Fin Capital and SMBC and a $7M seed |
| 6:50 AM • | Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: China says its AI compute capacity rose 177% YoY to 2,185 eflops by the end of June, and is targeting 9,800 eflops by 2030 via ~$532B in IT infrastructure spend |
| 6:30 AM • | Dustin Volz / New York Times: Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability |
| 6:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks |
| 6:10 AM • | Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post: DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an “unprecedented” hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents |
| 4:56 AM • | Leila Miller / Reuters: Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy |
| 1:25 AM • | Adam Satariano / New York Times: Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a ~€21B valuation, up from €11.7B in September 2025, as it expands from developing AI models into data centers |
| 12:55 AM • | Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-custom chip design platform built on TSMC's N3P node, with support for 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz |
| 12:40 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to end China's reliance on foreign suppliers |
| 12:01 AM • | Gamers Nexus on YouTube: Analysis of LG's smart TVs shows its ad software tracks nearby devices, security flaws can allow hackers to eavesdrop via the built-in microphone, and more |
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