The Information: Briefings

OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers

2026-10-01T19:31:26+00:00

OpenAI said it fired three safety employees for mishandling corporate information, which a person familiar with the matter said included sensitive information with an outside organization that does AI evaluations.

“We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on ...

Federal Court Dismisses Publishers’ Suits Over Google’s AI Overviews

2026-10-01T18:24:15+00:00

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed lawsuits from education technology company Chegg and Penske Media, the owner of Rolling Stone, Variety and other publications, which had alleged Google had violated antitrust law when its AI Overviews summaries used their content. The court rejected the ...

Exclusive: Nvidia, SoftBank Make Final $20 Billion Investment in OpenAI’s Last Round

2026-10-01T18:15:57+00:00

Nvidia and SoftBank have each made the final $10 billion investment in each of their $30 billion pledges to OpenAI’s last funding round, according to a person with knowledge of the investments and a statement from SoftBank.

OpenAI in March said it had $122 billion in commitments in a round that ...

Sharon AI Announces $356 Million GPU-Backed Loan

2026-10-01T16:32:01+00:00

Australian neocloud Sharon AI has secured $356 million through its first loan backed by its graphics processing units, making it the latest cloud provider to finance their expansion by borrowing against chips and cash flows from customer contracts. The senior secured facility carries an interest ...

Data Center Infra Provider Accelevation Sinks In Post-IPO Trading

2026-10-01T16:28:01+00:00

Data center infrastructure provider Accelevation’s shares were trading down roughly 5% on Thursday morning, as the stock continued to sink following its initial public offering earlier this week.

The company on Sept. 29 raised $540 million, moving ahead with the offering even as some ...

OpenAI Accuses Moonshot of Distillation Campaign

2026-10-01T08:51:46+00:00

OpenAI said it recently identified and mitigated a “coordinated model-distillation campaign” involving individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi models.

OpenAI said the operators of the campaign tried to extract protected reasoning—the model’s hidden thinking process ...

Revenue Quintupled at AI Memory Maker Micron

2026-09-30T23:46:12+00:00

Memory maker Micron said revenue nearly quintupled to $54.2 billion in the quarter ending Sept.3, as demand for high-bandwidth memory hardware for AI chips showed no sign of slowing down.

Micron’s gross margin nearly doubled to $86.8%, thanks to its price hikes, allowing it to generate an ...

Microsoft Science President Peter Lee to Step Down

2026-09-30T23:05:42+00:00

Microsoft veteran Peter Lee, who for years led the company’s internal research unit, will leave the company, he announced Wednesday.

Lee is the latest in a string of senior executive departures from Microsoft announced this year. So far this year, Office and Windows boss Rajesh Jha, Xbox CEO ...

Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, Pricing It Well Below Rivals

2026-09-30T23:05:17+00:00

Google launched Gemini 4 Argon, its latest flagship AI model, touting its abilities in cybersecurity defense and coding, legal and finance work. The company hasn’t launched such a frontier model in nearly a year, prompting questions about whether it could stay in the race with Anthropic and ...

Exclusive: Meta’s Muse Tops 3 Million Weekly Users

2026-09-30T23:05:17+00:00

Meta Platforms’ Muse now has more than 3 million users who give the AI agent at least one prompt a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information, giving the product a sizable active audience just weeks after its launch.

That figure is a subset of a broader group totaling more than ...

DeepSeek Open-Sources Software Tools for Huawei AI Chips

2026-09-30T23:05:16+00:00

DeepSeek said Wednesday that it would open-source software tools that are customized for Huawei’s AI chips, as the Chinese AI firm steps up its efforts to use domestic semiconductors for training and running its models.

The software tools include a Huawei-compatible version of TileLang—a ...

Banks Including SocGen, MUFG Pull Back From Data Center Loan Deals

2026-09-30T21:04:00+00:00

Some of the largest lenders to the artificial intelligence build out are becoming more choosy about the deals they take on as market volatility and rising yields give lenders reasons to choose safer deals over more speculative ones.

Lenders including Société Générale, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking ...

Sydney Sweeney-Backed Novig Raised at $2 Billion Valuation

2026-09-30T21:25:49+00:00

Novig, a sports-only prediction market backed by Sydney Sweeney, has raised new funding at a $2 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Founded in 2021 by Harvard graduates Jacob Fortinsky and Kelechi Ukah, Novig only offers trading on sports ...

Apple Plans Aggressive New Push Into Smart Home

2026-09-30T18:49:13+00:00

Apple plans to launch a smart home hub device on October 13th, Bloomberg reported.

The hub has a roughly 6-inch square display that can sit on countertops or be mounted on walls, the news outlet reported. The device will showcase the capabilities of Apple’s overhauled Siri, which was recently ...

Exclusive: GPU Cloud Provider GMI Raises $668 Million From Nvidia and Others

2026-09-30T10:55:47+00:00

GMI Cloud, a five-year-old provider of Nvidia chip servers to enterprises, said Wednesday it raised $668 million in equity and debt financing. The new fundraise indicates Nvidia is continuing to help smaller, upstart cloud providers, especially those that plan to boost Nvidia in more ways than ...

President Trump Announces ‘Super Intelligence’ Accord, Renames AI

2026-09-29T22:49:15+00:00

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that leading AI companies had agreed to non-binding commitments on AI safety provisions, including internal controls on model alignment and external auditing. The “White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which Trump posted on Truth Social, was ...

Google, Microsoft Join Industry Group to Standardize Enterprise Data For AI

2026-09-29T23:06:51+00:00

Google is in the process of joining Apache Ossie, a software industry group with members such as Snowflake and Nvidia that is trying to make it easier for AI tools to access data from applications and databases, according to a company spokesperson.

The search and cloud provider will ...

OpenAI Announces ‘Dots’ Agents at DevDay

2026-09-29T18:07:38+00:00

OpenAI announced its new agent product called “Dots” at its annual Developer Day on Tuesday, jumping into the increasingly crowded market for AI assistants

The announcement, which confirmed The Information’s reporting this month that OpenAI was working on a productivity-focused agent, follows ...

OpenAI in Early Talks to Raise $30 Billion Before an IPO

2026-09-29T17:57:54+00:00

OpenAI is in early talks with investors to raise a pre-IPO round and is targeting raising $30 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The ChatGPT maker could seek a valuation around $1.4 trillion, though it hasn’t signed a term sheet yet with any investor, the person said.

The ...

Meta Adapts Muse Agent For Small Businesses

2026-09-29T16:09:50+00:00

Meta Platforms is adapting its AI agent Muse for small businesses, adding integrations with workplace software including Salesforce’s Slack, Intuit QuickBooks and Zoom.

In a blog post Tuesday, the company said Muse can connect to small-business owners’ professional Instagram accounts, Facebook ...

OpenAI Nears $70 Billion in Annualized Revenue

2026-09-29T15:44:18+00:00

OpenAI is nearing $70 billion in annualized revenue, up around 70% from its revenue pace at the beginning of the third quarter, according to a person briefed on the numbers.

That growth comes as the ChatGPT-maker has doubled down on selling to enterprises. OpenAI has rapidly cut the prices of ...

Anthropic Discloses up to $84.5 Billion in SpaceX Compute Agreements

2026-09-29T15:24:49+00:00

Anthropic has agreements to pay SpaceX up to $84.5 billion to use the rocket and AI company’s Nvidia-based computing capacity through 2029, according to a confidential initial public offering prospectus reported by Reuters on Tuesday. Those agreements can mostly be cancelled with a 90-day notice ...

Amazon Looks to Further Automate Media Buying With New Agentic Tools

2026-09-29T14:23:50+00:00

Amazon introduced new AI-powered tools to help marketers buy ad inventory across the vast variety of media it sells, as it steps up its effort to strengthen its position in the ad tech world.

One of these tools, full-funnel campaigns, is designed for advertisers who already sell on Amazon’s ...

Oura Postpones IPO, Citing “Uncertainty” in IPO Market

2026-09-29T11:58:07+00:00

Oura, the maker of a popular ring that tracks people’s health, said Tuesday it was postponing its initial public offering, “despite strong demand, due to uncertainty in the IPO market.”

Oura was scheduled to go public later this week. The company had made public its IPO filing at the beginning ...

Samsung Invests $1 Billion in KKR-Backed AI Infrastructure Firm Helix

2026-09-29T07:25:35+00:00

Samsung Electronics and five of its affiliates are investing $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI infrastructure venture established in June by private equity firm KKR, the companies announced on Tuesday.

Soaring AI demand has prompted tech companies, energy providers and investment ...

Anthropic’s Confidential Filing Reveals Customer Concentration

2026-09-29T03:21:19+00:00

Anthropic said nearly a quarter of its $4.6 billion in revenue last year came from just two customers, according to a confidentially filed IPO prospectus reported by Reuters on Monday. That’s one metric that could give investors pause ahead of its IPO, expected later this year. The report didn’t ...

OpenAI Will Not Ship GPT-6.1 Astra Due to Safety Concerns

2026-09-28T23:53:11+00:00

OpenAI has decided not to release the AI model that it had intended to release as GPT-6.1 Astra due to its results on safety tests, a spokesperson said Monday.

The model performed worse than GPT-6 Astra—OpenAI’s newest model, released earlier this month—on tests measuring whether it pursues ...

Startup NinjaTech AI Takes Aim at Agent Sticker Shock

2026-09-28T22:44:36+00:00

NinjaTech AI, an early-stage startup backed by Amazon and led by a former Google product management executive, unveiled a new product that promises to help large companies take the guesswork out of forecasting the costs of running agents around the clock to complete long-running tasks.

The ...

Manus Unveils New Personal Agent App in Challenge to Meta’s Muse

2026-09-28T22:23:06+00:00

Manus, the AI agent startup that recently separated from Meta Platforms, launched on Monday a new standalone app for personal agents that could compete with Meta’s Muse.

The new app, Cue, provides each user with multiple personal AI agents. Each agent has access to its own email, phone number, ...

AMD to Buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 Billion

2026-09-28T20:34:34+00:00

Advanced Micro Devices said Monday it has agreed to buy World Labs, the two-year-old maker of models that can simulate three-dimensional spaces, for about $8.2 billion in an all-stock transaction.

The deal is expected to close at the end of this year, AMD said. World Labs CEO and AI researcher ...

Florida AG Seeks to Bar OpenAI from Developing New Models Without Guardrails

2026-09-28T21:14:57+00:00

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday asked a Florida state court for an injunction that would bar OpenAI from developing new AI models “without third-party approved safety guardrails” and from allowing minors to use ChatGPT. The injunction would be effective throughout Florida.

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Exclusive: Instinct Hires Coatue’s Schwerin as Chief Business Officer

2026-09-28T18:39:31+00:00

Instinct, Silicon Valley’s hot AI assistant of the moment, is hiring Ben Schwerin, an investor at Coatue Management, as its first chief business officer.

In Schwerin, the year-old company—which Monday said it raised $1 billion at a $10-billion valuation—is getting a hot consumer tech connection ...

Nvidia Authorizes $150 Billion Stock Buyback Increase, Largest In History

2026-09-28T15:48:47+00:00

Nvidia’s board approved adding $150 billion to its stock repurchase program, bringing the total amount currently authorized to $235 billion.

Nvidia said it is the largest stock buyback authorization increase in history, and said it expects to buy back all of that $235 billion in stock by the end ...

Nvidia Releases Products To Stop AI From Going Rogue

2026-09-28T15:47:05+00:00

Nvidia on Monday released new software and hardware products to prevent hacking incidents such as the breach in July of Hugging Face and other companies by OpenAI’s AI. Other AI developers such as Anthropic and Google have disclosed similar hacking incidents involving their AI agents, which took ...

Exclusive: LiveRamp Expands OpenAI Partnership to Let Brands Target ChatGPT Ads

2026-09-28T15:43:37+00:00

LiveRamp, which helps advertisers use customer data to target and measure ads, said Monday it is expanding its partnership with OpenAI so advertisers can target their ads in ChatGPT based on customer data they collect, a feature already available with Google and Meta.

ChatGPT currently matches ...

Meta Taps MongoDB CEO to Lead New Enterprise AI Division

2026-09-28T15:42:24+00:00

Meta Platforms is launching a new division to sell its AI tools to businesses, tapping MongoDB Chief Executive Chirantan Desai to lead the unit as chief enterprise platform officer.

In a post on X Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the new division, called Meta Enterprise Platform, will focus ...

SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit For The First Time

2026-09-28T15:22:32+00:00

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket into orbit on Monday morning in a historic first for the company.

It was the 14th test flight of the massive rocket ship but the first that has reached orbit. The rocket released 26 of SpaceX’s’s new Starlink V3 satellites about 10 minutes after reaching ...

Anthropic’s Amodei to Dine With Trump at White House

2026-09-27T18:47:41+00:00

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday, Axios reported.

The private dinner will be the first meeting between Trump and Amodei, Axios reported, and could be a sign of warming relations between Anthropic and the White House. ...

OpenAI Agents Tried to Hack Education Depart. Website Amid Dozens of Misdeeds

2026-09-26T01:02:39+00:00

OpenAI agents attempted to hack the Department of Education’s website but was not successful, according to researchers at AI nonprofit Transluce. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company was reviewing the incident, first reported by The New York Times.

OpenAI agents also accessed public data from ...

Exclusive: Meta Bolsters Muse Safety Warning After Security Vulnerability Found

2026-09-25T17:41:55+00:00

Meta Platforms is adding a clearer safety warning within Muse after a security researcher discovered a vulnerability in the AI agent that could let an attacker access a user’s sensitive personal information.

The security flaw, which was flagged by an outside researcher through Meta’s bug bounty ...

Federal Court Sides With Pentagon in Anthropic Dispute

2026-09-25T16:48:02+00:00

A federal court ruled in favor of the Department of Defense in a lawsuit over the Department’s decision to label Anthropic a supply-chain risk earlier this year. In a split 2-1 decision, Judge Gregory Katsas of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court, an appointee of President Trump, wrote for the ...

Exclusive: Figma Exec Joins AI Inference Startup Baseten

2026-09-25T15:37:44+00:00

A key Figma executive whose departure helped send the stock down in August is joining the rapidly growing upstart Baseten.

Sheila Vashee, who spent three years at the design software firm as chief marketing officer, left Figma this summer amid an executive shakeup that also saw chief product ...

Microsoft Launches Revamped Copilot ‘Super App’ with Muse Competitor

2026-09-25T12:50:48+00:00

Microsoft on Friday launched a revamped version of its Copilot app that combines features that had previously been sold separately, including AI coding tools, features that automate tasks in Office 365, and an always-on “Autopilot” agent similar to Meta’s Muse.

The overhaul is meant to make ...

Chinese Leader Xi Calls for U.S.-China Cooperation to Prevent AI Abuse

2026-09-25T10:14:57+00:00

Chinese leader Xi Jinping said during his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump that the two nations can “jointly prevent the misuse and abuse of AI” through more cooperation.

Trump and Xi held talks on Thursday at the White House, and a major topic on the agenda was AI safety and governance.

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Databricks Acquires Microsoft Excel Competitor Row Zero

2026-09-24T21:38:22+00:00

Databricks is acquiring Row Zero, a five-year-old Microsoft Excel competitor that sells spreadsheet software that’s designed for analyzing massive amounts of data.

The deal could help Databricks attract more non-technical users to Genie, a chatbot it launched last summer that lets business ...

Amazon Gives Merchants Tools to Manage Walmart, Shopify Inventory

2026-09-24T21:37:04+00:00

Merchants that sell on Amazon can now use Amazon’s software tools to manage their inventory at rival retailers, including Walmart, Shopify, eBay and TikTok, Amazon announced Thursday at its annual conference for sellers. Merchants will be able to update their product listings and track orders ...

Former OpenAI Data Center Chief Is Now At Nvidia

2026-09-24T17:44:00+00:00

Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, joined Nvidia as the vice president of Nvidia’s DSX Platform this month, according to his LinkedIn profile. DSX is the Nvidia division that helps customers design and build AI data centers according to Nvidia’s specifications.

Malone left ...

New York Sues Polymarket Over Alleged Illegal Gambling

2026-09-24T16:21:38+00:00

New York has sued Polymarket for allegedly running an illegal gambling operation, expanding the state’s fight against prediction markets after earlier suing rival startup Kalshi and others.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the action against Polymarket on Thursday. The state has ...

Oracle Invokes Force Majeure in Aim to Protect Itself From Data Center Cost Overruns

2026-09-24T14:48:32+00:00

Oracle, which is set to lease a New Mexico data center on behalf of OpenAI, sent a notice to the project’s developer asserting its contractual rights to withhold payments if project delays persist, according to Bloomberg.

Oracle sent a notice that cited “force majeure” to a developer owned by ...

DeepSeek Aims to Close $7.5 Billion Funding Round by End-October

2026-09-24T10:37:21+00:00

DeepSeek is aiming to complete its second funding round by the end of October as it prepares to go public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, The Information reported on Thursday. The company’s fundraising efforts may be fuelled by a boost in revenue, which has hit $1 billion on an annualized basis. ...

Meta Announces New Retail Partnerships for Agent Muse

2026-09-23T23:59:15+00:00

Meta Platforms announced partnerships with Walmart and other retailers for its AI agent Muse days after e-commerce giant Amazon blocked the personalized agent from accessing its shopping site.

At Meta’s annual Connect conference on Wednesday, Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said the company is ...

Blackstone Exec Says Big Unknowns Remain For AI Credit Demand

2026-09-23T22:17:06+00:00

Jas Khaira, head of Blackstone’s AI-focused investment team, said on Wednesday that the firm is still figuring out which kinds of investors will step in to provide the massive amounts of financing still needed for the AI buildout. The investment giant itself is waiting to see if debt from the ...

OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government, Prime Minister Says

2026-09-23T21:34:41+00:00

An AI agent developed by OpenAI hacked an Australian government website in June, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday. The AI accessed both public and nonpublic data from the country’s Department of Health website, Albanese told reporters, adding that the country is now ...

Patreon Co-Founder Sam Yam Joins OpenAI to Lead New Creator Division

2026-09-23T21:36:19+00:00

OpenAI has hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead a new creator product division, Creator Product, Yam announced Wednesday on X, a sign of renewed interest in attracting consumers.

Two other former Patreon executives, head of product Drew Rowny and head of engineering Shannon Ma, are joining ...

Anthropic Says Its AI Helped Discover a Possible New Gene-Editing Tool

2026-09-23T20:23:28+00:00

Anthropic said that Claude helped discover a previously unknown molecular system that the company said could represent a new gene editing tool akin to CRISPR, which has transformed the creation of new gene therapies.

In a post on X, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cautioned that the “precise ...

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Brief UN Security Council

2026-09-23T20:22:56+00:00

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei briefed the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday as part of the international organization’s General Assembly week in New York. In a session on artificial intelligence and international security, the two executives addressed concerns ...

Former Lone Pine Capital Director Launches $500 Million-Plus Tech Fund

2026-09-23T18:11:40+00:00

Kevin Salimian, former managing director at investment firm Lone Pine Capital, has launched a new firm with more than $500 million in committed capital, according to a person familiar with the firm’s operations.

The firm, Voxel Capital Partners, will invest in 12 to 15 public companies in AI ...

Amazon Gives Sellers 12 Months of AI Software Quick Plus For Free

2026-09-23T18:12:13+00:00

Amazon is giving the merchants that sell goods on Amazon’s site 12 free months of Quick Plus, an AWS AI workplace assistant, Amazon announced Wednesday at its annual conference for sellers, Amazon Accelerate. Quick Plus normally costs users $20 a month.

Amazon is also letting sellers integrate ...

China Leads U.S. in Top AI Talent, Study Finds

2026-09-23T11:16:59+00:00

Chinese AI researchers have increasingly opted to stay and work in their home country, leading China to become the top destination for elite AI talent, according to a study by think tank Carnegie China.

The research found that the share of top AI researchers working in China rose from 27.1% in ...

Shares of Chinese AI Model Firms Fall After Report of Regulatory Probe

2026-09-23T09:25:51+00:00

Hong Kong-listed shares of Z.ai and MiniMax plunged on Wednesday, after The Information reported that China’s internet regulator is probing potential data leaks to Anthropic. Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, dropped 12.4%, MiniMax fell 4% and Alibaba declined 4.4%. The benchmark Hang Seng Index ...

OpenAI Partners With Grab in Southeast Asia for AI Skills Program

2026-09-23T09:27:05+00:00

OpenAI and Grab, a Singapore-based transport and food delivery company, on Wednesday launched a program to train Grab’s drivers, merchants and delivery riders to use ChatGPT for work.

The program covers Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines and aims to train around 30,000 people ...

Anthropic in Talks to Lease Apollo-Controlled Stream Data Centers

2026-09-23T04:49:58+00:00

Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to 1 gigawatt in compute capacity from Stream Data Centers, a developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, which could house tensor processing units designed by Broadcom and Google, The Information reported Tuesday. Anthropic could ...

Exclusive: Microsoft to Boost Copilot Discounts as It Launches AI ‘Super App’

2026-09-23T00:06:46+00:00

Microsoft leaders told sales staff this week that it is authorizing steeper discounts of 30% to 50% on subscriptions of its Copilot AI software for corporate customers who commit to purchase a large number of seats and commit to additional payments based on their usage of certain features, ...

CoreWeave Completes $4.2 Billion Convertible Offering

2026-09-22T23:38:22+00:00

CoreWeave said on Tuesday it had completed a $4.2 billion convertible bond offering, an upsized amount versus what the AI cloud provider initially targeted last week.

The company had said last Thursday that it was looking to raise $3 billion in the offering, and said it had priced $3.7 ...

Anthropic releases cheaper model in first launch since slowdown calls

2026-09-22T22:51:17+00:00

Anthropic announced the release of its newest model, Claude Opus 5.5, saying it performs as well or better than Anthropic’s previous most powerful models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, in domains including coding, reasoning, business workflows, and safety. At the same time, it will cost 40% less to ...

Binance Invests $100 Million in Circle

2026-09-22T21:05:04+00:00

Binance has made a $100 million strategic equity investment in Circle, as the two companies enter a new, five-year agreement to promote Circle’s stablecoins USDC on the Binance platform.

Circle will also pay a monthly fee to Binance, based on a percentage of the amount of USDC held through ...

OpenAI Announces Cheaper GPT-6 Family Models

2026-09-22T18:00:45+00:00

OpenAI on Tuesday announced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, which it describes as cheaper and faster models in the GPT-6 Astra family.

The company said that the new models show significant improvements compared to their predecessors, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.6 Luna, in areas like professional work, ...

Exclusive: Meta’s Muse Surpassed 500,000 Users After First Week

2026-09-22T17:49:21+00:00

Meta’s new personal AI agent, Muse, had more than 500,000 people try it out roughly a week after launch, including more than 250,000 daily active users, according to internal data viewed by The Information. Users have also submitted more than 2 million prompts.

The data indicate there has been ...

Z.ai Open-Sources ZCode After Data Uploading Scandal

2026-09-22T07:35:23+00:00

Z.ai said that it has open-sourced its coding tool, ZCode, after the Chinese AI firm faced intense backlash from developers who found out that their data was being uploaded to cloud servers without their consent.

“In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we ...

Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip And Data Center Expansion Plan

2026-09-22T07:27:39+00:00

Alibaba on Tuesday unveiled a powerful new AI chip for training and running models, highlighting the rapid progress in China’s domestic semiconductor capabilities.

During its annual Apsara tech conference, Alibaba said its new AI chip, Zhenwu V900, delivers three times the performance of its ...

Exclusive: Xbox to Cut Hundreds of Jobs, Consolidate Game Studios

2026-09-22T14:06:12+00:00

Xbox is planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff reduction this year, according to someone briefed on the plans. The Microsoft-owned firm also plans to consolidate several of its game studios, this person said.

After The Information reported the planned ...

SB Energy Faces Investor Skepticism in IPO, Report Says

2026-09-21T23:27:05+00:00

SB Energy’s initial public offering is facing investor skepticism, The New York Times reported Monday.

The SoftBank majority-owned company is planning to raise $5 billion to $7 billion in a public offering to help develop a massive data center complex OpenAI plans to lease, which is set to be ...

Smart-ring Maker Oura Files to Sell $2.2 Billion in IPO

2026-09-21T22:40:08+00:00

Oura is looking to sell $2.2 billion in shares during its initial public offering, the company said in its updated S-1 filing on Monday. Oura, which makes smart rings that track biometrics including sleep quality and heart health, could reach a $15.6 billion fully-diluted valuation from the ...

Paramount Settles State Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Deal to Close

2026-09-21T20:39:13+00:00

Paramount Skydance settled a lawsuit filed by 12 states that had threatened to stop its $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement, filed in court on Monday, clears the way for the deal to close.

Under the settlement, Paramount agreed to release at least 30 films into movie ...

OpenAI Releases Proposal for International AI Safety Coordination

2026-09-21T18:11:04+00:00

OpenAI released a proposal on Monday that would create international coordination around AI safety. In a blog post, OpenAI called for national AI safety institutes, such as the U.S. Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, to set standards around areas including model ...

Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse Agent

2026-09-21T19:51:34+00:00

Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse personalized AI agent from accessing its shopping site, Amazon confirmed, saying that agents such as Muse “should operate openly and respect provider decisions about whether or not to participate.”

The block appeared to even prevent Muse from browsing Amazon’s ...

Alibaba Appoints New Head of Qwen LLM Team

2026-09-21T06:29:46+00:00

Alibaba Group has appointed Dayiheng Liu, one of its senior AI researchers, as the head of its Qwen large language models, according to two employees with knowledge of the matter.

Liu’s appointment has brought more clarity to the Qwen team’s leadership after multiple rounds of reorganization ...

U.S. and China Discussed AI Safety System, Bessent Says

2026-09-21T01:18:17+00:00

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the U.S. and China had discussed setting up a mechanism called the U.S.-China AI dialogue to address potential threats.

Speaking to reporters at the JPMorgan headquarters in Manhattan at the conclusion of a day of talks with Chinese ...

President Trump Announces ‘AI Force,’ Will Appoint New Czar

2026-09-19T20:01:40+00:00

President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was creating a new “AI Force,” that would be similar to his Space Force—the arm of the Defense Department focused on space combat started by Trump during his first administration—and he planned to appoint a new AI czar to lead it.

On his Truth Social ...

OpenAI Said to Forecast Nearly $280 Billion in Cash Burn Through End 2030

2026-09-19T02:32:44+00:00

OpenAI has told some investors that it expects to burn $278 billion by the end of 2030, the Financial Times reported, as it spends more on cloud computing and chips to run and train its AI. The forecast, based on a recent presentation, is higher than the one it gave investors early this year, ...

Google’s Gemini Model Hacks Companies During Test

2026-09-20T11:49:26+00:00

Google acknowledged that its Gemini AI model unexpectedly breached the networks of three outside companies during safety evaluations conducted by third-party testing firm Irregular last May, The Wall Street Journal reported.

During the exercise, Gemini gained entry to the companies’ systems by ...

Nscale IPO Files to Go Public, Shows Huge Revenue Jump And Steep Losses

2026-09-18T21:00:13+00:00

Nvidia-backed startup Nscale disclosed Friday that revenue had surged 10 times in the first half of this year from the year-ago period, but losses mounted as the cloud startup spent billions on data centers and the AI chips they’ll house.

The two-year-old UK startup, a spinout of an Australian ...

CoreWeave Prices $3.7 Billion Convertible Bond Offering

2026-09-18T13:47:47+00:00

CoreWeave said on Friday it had priced $3.7 billion in convertible bonds, more than the AI cloud provider had previously said it was targeting.

The convertible senior notes will be due in 2033 and carry a coupon of 2.875%, at the top of the pricing range marketed to investors and up from the ...

U.S. Lawmaker Ro Khanna Urges Chinese Labs to Help Pace Frontier AI

2026-09-18T02:41:59+00:00

Ro Khanna, a Democratic congressman for Silicon Valley, has sent letters to Chinese AI companies including Alibaba Group, DeepSeek and Moonshot, requesting their commitments to join American AI labs in a binding international agreement to pace the development of the technology.

Khanna, a ranking ...

Bug Hunters Used Claude to Hack OpenAI

2026-09-18T02:37:59+00:00

A team of cybersecurity researchers with startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI, gaining access to a key repository of OpenAI’s software, the researchers revealed Thursday.

The hack, which occurred on July 25, further demonstrates AI companies’ vulnerability to ...

Cooley Partners with OpenAI on Legal Tool For Drafting SEC Filings

2026-09-17T23:38:19+00:00

OpenAI and law firm Cooley co-launched a product, called GO Public, that can draft S-1 filings, the document companies must submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission before they can go public, Cooley said Thursday.

Lawyers at Cooley can prompt GO Public, which also has access to Cooley ...

Exclusive: OpenAI Hires Global Sales Chief From SpaceX and Two Senior Snowflake Salespeople

2026-09-17T20:53:32+00:00

OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX’s Cursor unit as its new global sales chief, reporting to recently hired Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic, the AI firm said Thursday.

In addition, two veteran sales executives from Snowflake, including a senior vice president who helped negotiate the ...

Bridgewater’s Jensen Says Hedge Fund Has “Very Small Position” in AI Build Out Trade

2026-09-17T21:14:26+00:00

Greg Jensen, the managing chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, said demand growth for AI infrastructure is largely priced into markets. As a result, Bridgewater has begun looking for investment opportunities elsewhere.

“We thought this was ...

SEC to Allow Tokenized Stocks in U.S.

2026-09-17T20:40:06+00:00

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday issued a temporary order allowing certain types of tokenized stocks—crypto tokens that represent equities—to trade in the U.S., a crypto-friendly move that has drawn pushback from some traditional financial firms. Shares of tokenization ...

Microsoft Execs Voiced Concern About OpenAI’s Data Use, New York Times Claims

2026-09-17T19:44:39+00:00

Microsoft executives expressed concerns in recent years that OpenAI’s use of paywalled articles from the New York Times and other publishers to train its models could pose legal issues, and OpenAI executives discussed how doing so could threaten those publishers’ businesses—but OpenAI proceeded ...

CoreWeave Unveils New ATM Program, Seeks $3 Billion in Convertible Bond Sale

2026-09-17T15:26:51+00:00

CoreWeave said on Thursday that it could sell up to 35 million shares, worth roughly $3 billion based on the prior day’s closing price, through a new at-the-market offering program. At the same time, the company announced plans to raise $3 billion in a convertible note issue, with an option for ...

Huawei Speeds Up AI Chip Launch to Challenge Nvidia

2026-09-17T09:05:30+00:00

Huawei Technologies plans to launch its new AI chip in the first quarter of 2027, nine months earlier than planned, as it steps up its efforts to challenge Nvidia.

Tao Wang, Huawei’s deputy chairman and rotating chairman, said at the Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai on Thursday that the new ...

OpenAI Discloses More Safety Incidents and Adopts New Reporting Framework

2026-09-16T23:52:39+00:00

OpenAI released a new framework on Wednesday for how it aims to report unsafe or concerning behavior in its models, and disclosed six incidents of such behavior it had observed in the past six months.

The framework comes after multiple employee warnings and hacking incidents increased public ...

Google Must Make Tech More Compatible With Rivals, Judge Rules

2026-09-16T23:46:00+00:00

Google must improve the ability of its advertising technology to integrate with the products of competitors, according to the decision of a federal judge made public Wednesday. The opinion follows a ruling last year that Google operated an illegal monopoly in parts of the market for advertising ...

OpenAI Tests Sponsored Agents, Adds AI Tools for ChatGPT Advertisers

2026-09-16T20:00:25+00:00

OpenAI said Wednesday it is testing allowing some U.S. advertisers to sponsor AI agents working in ChatGPT, a move that would bring ChatGPT ads closer to what Google and Meta Platforms already offer.

ChatGPT users who click an ad can now start a conversation with an AI agent to ask follow-up ...

Circle Launches New Blockchain for Stablecoins, Other Assets

2026-09-16T16:40:12+00:00

Stablecoin issuer Circle officially launched Arc blockchain, which will support the trading of stablecoins, tokenized equities, and other assets.

The blockchain will also support perpetuals, lending protocols, and social trading apps, Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, said in a press briefing. ...

Nvidia CEO to Attend Trump’s State Dinner for Xi

2026-09-16T12:36:11+00:00

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang plans to attend President Donald Trump’s state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington next week, according to a person familiar with the matter. His attendance comes as AI chips and the pace of AI development become growing sources of tension between the U.S. ...

SK Hynix in Talks With Intel to Make Memory Chips in the U.S.

2026-09-16T21:05:00+00:00

South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix is in talks with Intel about a deal to manufacture memory chips on U.S. soil for the first time, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the discussions.

SK Hynix would either lease part of Intel’s long-planned Ohio fab, or form a joint venture ...

Zuckerberg Says AI Safety Is Becoming a Competitive Necessity

2026-09-16T04:12:10+00:00

Meta Platforms chief Mark Zuckerberg said ensuring the safety of AI is a commercial necessity for the companies that make models, and took an implicit swipe at calls for a collective slowdown in the technology’s development.

“Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace ...

Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety

2026-09-16T03:26:36+00:00

Two researchers who worked on AI safety left their roles at Google DeepMind, stating that they departed over concerns that powerful systems could endanger humans.

The two, Bilal Chughtai and Josh Engels, both of whom are joining organizations dedicated to AI safety, add their voices to those of ...

Elon Musk Says AI Companies Should Test Each Other’s Models for Safety

2026-09-16T03:24:12+00:00

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk proposed that competing AI companies, including his own SpaceXAI, should “peer-review” each other’s models prior to release, as industry leaders acknowledge rising worries around AI safety.

“Instead of grading your own homework, you would at least have competitors grading ...

Anthropic to Open Singapore Office, Hires Regional Head from OpenAI

2026-09-16T03:37:52+00:00

Anthropic is opening its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore to drive enterprise adoption of Claude, the company said on Wednesday. Anthropic plans to work with startups, large enterprises and the public sector in Singapore, where Claude usage per capita is among the highest globally.

Dale ...

OpenAI in Early Talks for New Funding Round at $1.2 Trillion Valuation

2026-09-15T22:36:33+00:00

OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about a new funding round that could lift its valuation to $1.2 trillion or higher, according to people familiar with the conversations. The conversations come as OpenAI has pushed off a planned initial public offering to next year or later.

The ...

Microsoft Raises Dividend 8%

2026-09-15T22:37:16+00:00

Microsoft said Tuesday it will raise its quarterly dividend to 98 cents per share, up from 91 cents, beginning in December. The company previously raised its dividend by 10% a year ago. Microsoft’s stock was roughly flat in after hours trading.

The company’s move to return more cash to ...

Crypto Stocks Fall After Clarity Bill Fails to Advance

2026-09-15T21:59:03+00:00

A landmark crypto legislation, the Clarity Act, failed to advance in the Senate in a procedural vote Tuesday, sending prices of crypto shares down as the bill became unlikely to pass under the Trump administration.

The Clarity Act, a comprehensive crypto market structure bill, would set explicit ...

Salesforce Unveils New AI Model, Agent Security Tools at Dreamforce

2026-09-15T19:40:31+00:00

At the opening of its annual Dreamforce customer conference, Salesforce signaled its involvement in two major trends in enterprise AI: Open-source AI models and software that helps corporate customers safely run AI agents on their data.

Salesforce unveiled a new AI model, called Koa, which it ...

Meta Rolls Out New ‘Meta One’ Subscription Plans With Higher AI Usage Limits

2026-09-15T19:11:45+00:00

Meta Platforms is expanding its paid subscription offerings for its AI tools across Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook as it looks to diversify revenue beyond digital advertising.

The company announced Tuesday in a blog post that it is introducing new tiers of its Meta One subscription plans, ...

Elon Musk hints at possible Tesla-SpaceX merger

2026-09-15T18:19:43+00:00

Elon Musk once again teased the potential of a merger between Tesla and SpaceX on Monday, saying it was a “great question” why Tesla and SpaceX were separate companies.

“With all this collaboration, on so many levels, who can imagine what action one might take when there’s so much close ...

DoorDash Invests in Marc Lore’s Wonder

2026-09-15T13:23:53+00:00

DoorDash is teaming up with Marc Lore’s restaurant meal business Wonder, putting $125 million into the company and buying a campus dining business from Wonder for $300 million, the two companies said.

Wonder offers its own lineup of meals, made in its own kitchens, for delivery, which makes ...

Chinese AI Chip Firm Biren Plans $1 Billion Fundraising

2026-09-15T08:56:40+00:00

Chinese AI chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology is considering raising around $1 billion through a stock offering, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the situation.

Biren, which develops graphics processing units used to train and run AI models, debuted on the Hong ...

Trump Skewers AI Leaders’ Calls for Slowdown

2026-09-15T06:13:49+00:00

President Trump on Monday shot down calls by AI leaders to slow down the pace of development. In a series of social media posts, Trump called claims about AI’s risk to humanity a “hoax,” and equated it with other views he’s sharply criticized, such as climate change.

“There is a SICK conspiracy ...

OpenAI Said to Buy Startup Glass Imaging for $300 Million

2026-09-15T05:38:44+00:00

OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a startup developing higher quality cameras for smartphones, in a deal valued at $300 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The startup, founded by ex-Apple employees, was valued at $100 million in a funding round last year. The acquisition could help ...

Microsoft Joins Calls for AI “Pacing,” Pledges to Build Kill Switches Into AI Products

2026-09-14T13:00:55+00:00

Microsoft on Monday published a new AI “code of conduct” promising to avoid building products that could evade human oversight, following CEO Satya Nadella’s call on Sunday for the tech industry to “pace” its progress in developing new AI.

The measures follow similar calls for pacing from ...

China Rebuffs U.S. “Fearmongering” in Light of AI Pacing Calls

2026-09-14T10:22:14+00:00

China on Monday rejected calls from top U.S. tech executives on pacing frontier AI development while maintaining a lead over China to ensure America’s national security.

“The development of artificial intelligence concerns the common well-being of all humanity. All parties should jointly promote ...

Z.ai Plans $5 Billion Fundraising as Compute Cost Grows

2026-09-14T06:41:24+00:00

Z.ai is raising about $5 billion through equity and convertible bond offerings, seeking to replenish its warchest in the increasingly costly race to develop frontier AI models.

Hong Kong-listed Z.ai said in a regulatory filing on Sunday that it plans to raise $2 billion through a share ...

Tesla Teases October Next-Gen Roadster Reveal

2026-09-12T22:47:52+00:00

Tesla teased an October 1 Roadster reveal on Saturday. The company shared a photo of what appears to be the back of the vehicle with the words “Go for launch” on X and updated its Roadster webpage with a countdown to October 1.

Tesla also sent some reservation-holders invites to the event, ...

Larry Ellison Cancels Plan to Sell Up to $7.5 Billion of Oracle Stock

2026-09-12T19:18:53+00:00

Oracle founder Larry Ellison has canceled plans to sell up to 50 million of his shares in the company, worth around $7.5 billion at current prices, Oracle said on Saturday. The announcement came a day after Oracle disclosed that Ellison had adopted a trading plan to sell the shares by late ...

Altman and Musk Back Amodei’s Call for AI Companies to Slow Down AI Development

2026-09-12T16:57:44+00:00

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for leading AI companies to slow the development of advanced AI, drawing supportive responses from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

In a 3,800-word essay Saturday morning, Amodei said Anthropic would give “employee-like access” to ...

Nvidia May Invest Up to $10 Billion In Anthropic’s IPO

2026-09-12T13:36:43+00:00

Nvidia has discussed investing in Anthropic’s upcoming initial public offering that would raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of around $2 trillion, Reuters reported Friday. Nvidia could invest as much as $10 billion in Anthropic at the IPO price, according to the report. Anthropic last ...

OpenAI AI Swarm Hacked Software Service Months Before Hugging Face Incident

2026-09-12T00:37:50+00:00

A swarm of OpenAI agents conducted a cyberattack on software service RubyGems in May, months before the company’s agents hacked model platform Hugging Face, researchers at AI safety organizations Nightingale Collective and AI Futures Project found. RubyGems allows software engineers to download ...

Polymarket Appoints First CFO

2026-09-11T22:24:04+00:00

Polymarket appointed former Amazon executive Warren Jenson as its first chief financial officer as the prediction markets startup looks to grow in the U.S.

Polymarket said Jenson will set Polymarket’s financial and capital strategy as it scales up its Commodity Futures Trading ...

Exclusive: Salesforce to Drop ‘Agentforce’ Branding From Some Products

2026-09-11T21:25:51+00:00

Salesforce, ahead of its annual Dreamforce customer conference next week, is removing the word “Agentforce” from the names of some of its top products, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The reversal comes after Salesforce made Agentforce a centerpiece of its product ...

Microsoft Chief Communications Officer Shaw to Depart

2026-09-11T16:52:20+00:00

Microsoft chief communications officer Frank Shaw will leave the company at the end of this year, he announced in a LinkedIn post Friday.

Shaw has spent more than 28 years at the company, including 17 years overseeing its communications. During that time, he steered the company’s public ...

Tencent-backed Enflame Triples on Debut as China Pushes for Chip Self-sufficiency

2026-09-11T09:32:35+00:00

Shanghai Enflame Technology surged on its first trading day Friday after the Chinese AI chip developer raised about 6.12 billion yuan ($911 million) in an initial public offering, underscoring strong investor appetite for domestic alternatives to Nvidia chips.

Shares opened at 410 yuan, nearly ...

OpenAI to Pause New Pro Subscriptions, Cites Astra Demand

2026-09-10T23:55:28+00:00

OpenAI said Thursday it will pause new subscriptions to its $200-a-month plan for Astra, its new flagship model, another sign of the compute crunch facing AI companies.

Thibault Sottiaux, who leads OpenAI’s Codex coding agent, cited strains on the company’s systems and a desire to preserve ...

Adobe Shares Drop 2% Despite AI Product Sales Growth

2026-09-10T23:01:54+00:00

Adobe Systems shares dipped 2% late Thursday after its third-quarter earnings report, as some investors appear to unsure about how much its AI products will drive future revenue growth.

Adobe, which began breaking out revenue for its AI products in March, is continuing to highlight this area of ...

Anthropic Says It Blocked Bioweapons Efforts and Detected Chinese Distillation Attacks

2026-09-10T22:44:40+00:00

Anthropic has disrupted several attempts to use its Claude models for potentially malicious activity, including research into how to adapt bird flu to a human-transmittable strain with “pandemic potential,” the company said in a report Thursday.

Amid increasing worry about AI misuse and rogue ...

SpaceX Signs Another Compute Deal With New Customer

2026-09-10T22:28:52+00:00

SpaceX has signed another cloud computing rental deal to an identified customer that will pay it about $1.11 billion per month starting on Dec. 1, the company’s chief financial officer, Bret Johnsen, said in an interview at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology conference on Thursday.

The ...

Microsoft, Hurt By Server Shortage, Aims to Triple Cloud Capacity by 2032

2026-09-11T17:00:03+00:00

Microsoft is planning to more than triple the size of its Azure cloud unit’s data center capacity to over 38 gigawatts by 2032, up from 12 gigawatts today, Bloomberg reported Thursday. A gigawatt of capacity would be able to power a city the size of San Francisco.

In a statement Friday, a ...

Oracle Reports 30% Topline Growth for August Quarter

2026-09-10T20:29:50+00:00

Oracle reported 30% growth in revenue of $19.3 billion for the quarter ending Aug. 31, a slightly better growth rate than the company projected in June, even as it burned $5 billion to expand the data centers that are driving its accelerating topline growth.

The software and cloud firm said ...

Sen. Josh Hawley Launches Investigation Into OpenAI Hugging Face Hack

2026-09-10T15:30:56+00:00

The U.S. Senate formally launched an investigation into the July hack of Hugging Face, when a swarm of OpenAI agents broke out of a testing environment and gained access to the open-source repository.

In a letter sent to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said that ...

Bending Spoons Buys Miro For $1.355 Billion

2026-09-10T15:19:23+00:00

Italian digital conglomerate Bending Spoons is buying whiteboarding software firm Miro at a valuation of $1.355 billion, the latest in a series of purchases the Italian firm has done at knock-down prices.

The price for Miro is a huge discount to its peak valuation of $17.5 billion, dating ...

Amazon Is Helping Advertisers Buy Ads on ChatGPT

2026-09-10T14:00:16+00:00

Amazon is letting advertisers test buying ads on ChatGPT via Amazon’s advertising technology platform, Amazon said on Sept. 10.

ChatGPT started selling ads earlier this year, which it has let advertisers buy through its own interface and via partnerships with smaller advertising technology firms ...

The DOJ Is Investigating Nvidia’s Licensing Deal With Chip Startup Groq

2026-09-10T19:06:55+00:00

The Department of Justice is looking into whether Nvidia tried to avoid antitrust scrutiny in its $20 billion deal to license the technology of chip startup Groq and hire most of its employees in December, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The two companies described the deal as a “ ...

Nvidia Deepens Partnership With AI Chip Startup D-Matrix

2026-09-10T13:01:01+00:00

Chip startup d-Matrix said Thursday it plans to use Nvidia’s networking hardware to connect its chips for running AI models to each other and to Nvidia’s Vera central processing units, which are used in data centers.

The startup will use Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion products, including switches, data ...

Chinese CEO Laments Many Robotics Firms Fabricate Revenue

2026-09-10T10:29:50+00:00

The co-founder and CEO of Mech-Mind Robotics, a Beijing-based robotics firm that recently went public, said in a post on WeChat on Thursday that many Chinese embodied AI companies are “creating false and unsustainable revenue,” in response to The Information’s scoop on Chinese regulators ...

China Hits Back at U.S. Accusation of “Industrial-Scale” AI Distillation

2026-09-10T07:40:09+00:00

China’s Ministry of Commerce rejected U.S. accusations that some Chinese AI firms are conducting “industrial-scale distillation” of American AI models, describing Washington’s latest move as an attempt to politicize a “normal technical and commercial issue.”

“China’s open-source models are ...

Anthropic Discloses Fourth Cybersecurity Incident

2026-09-09T23:28:55+00:00

Anthropic said Wednesday it had found a fourth cybersecurity incident involving its Claude models. The company disclosed the new incident, which occurred in January and involved an early version of Claude Opus 4.6, and additional information on three previously known incidents amid growing ...

Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia Joins Amazon’s Board

2026-09-09T21:26:47+00:00

Kevin Mandia, a cybersecurity expert who founded Mandiant, is joining Amazon’s board of directors, increasing the board’s size to 12. The board had shrunk briefly after Keith B. Alexander left the board in the spring. Like Mandia, Alexander had a security background—he served as a general in the ...

OpenAI Appoints White House AI Advisor to Nonprofit Board

2026-09-09T21:02:21+00:00

OpenAI announced on Wednesday that Paul Christiano, a senior technical advisor at the U.S. Commerce Department’s AI center, would be joining the board of the OpenAI Foundation, the charity that has a 26% stake in the company. Christiano will also be a non-voting observer on the board of OpenAI’s ...

Block Applies to Establish National Bank

2026-09-09T20:58:25+00:00

Block, the fintech firm cofounded by Jack Dorsey, said it has applied to federal regulators to establish an uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust.

The company has sought approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to set up the proposed institution, ...

Apple Launches Foldable iPhone Duo

2026-09-09T19:59:39+00:00

Apple unveiled a much anticipated foldable iPhone at its first product launch featuring brand-new Chief Executive John Ternus.

The iPhone Duo is Apple’s first foldable smartphone—a product category that competitors have been selling for years, but has remained mostly a smaller, niche part of the ...

Anthropic Believes AI ‘Could Kill All Humans’ Within the Next Decade, Researcher Says

2026-09-09T16:14:49+00:00

Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger said in a post on X Tuesday night that his company does “earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” adding that he believes there’s a greater than a 10% chance that happens within the next decade.

The post immediately sparked outrage and concerns from ...

OpenAI Works With Samsung on Next-Generation Chips

2026-09-09T19:07:20+00:00

OpenAI said it is working with Samsung Electronics to develop next-generation chips, deepening a collaboration with the South Korean technology giant that already spans data centers and enterprise sales, Reuters reported.

“One of the areas where we have made the most progress and gained the most ...

U.S. Accuses DeepSeek, Alibaba and Other Chinese AI Firms of Large-Scale Distillation

2026-09-09T14:24:21+00:00

The U.S. government has accused six Chinese AI firms of using large-scale distillation to copy the capabilities of American models, in a move that highlights the intensifying AI rivalry between the two nations.

The six Chinese firms under accusation are DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba Group, ...

Google Warns that EU-Mandated Changes Worsen User Experience

2026-09-09T19:07:20+00:00

Google said that changes it rolled out Tuesday to its search results in Europe to satisfy European Union regulators will significantly worsen users’ experience there, Reuters reported.

The company made the changes in response to a ruling, accompanied by a 460 million euro fine, that it violated ...

OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Solved Prize Math Problem

2026-09-09T19:07:20+00:00

OpenAI said Tuesday it had solved a problem that mathematicians have been grappling with for more than a hundred years. But the achievement set off accusations that OpenAI had leaned on another researcher’s work to solve the problem.

More than 10,000 OpenAI agents worked together to solve the ...

Cognition Raised Over $2 Billion at a $48 Billion Valuation

2026-09-09T19:07:20+00:00

Cognition, the artificial intelligence startup behind the Devin coding assistant, has raised more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation including the new funding, nearly double its valuation in May, the company said Tuesday. The round shows coding agent startups are continuing to thrive ...

Chime Strikes Deal to Buy Stride Bank

2026-09-09T19:07:21+00:00

Chime, a fintech company that offers bank accounts and cards to consumers, has struck a deal to buy Stride Bank, an Oklahoma-based institution that has supported Chime behind the scenes for years.

Chime on Tuesday said it will buy Stride Bank for $590 million and will rename the institution ...

Meta Launches Its First Consumer AI Agent ‘Muse’

2026-09-08T20:09:12+00:00

Meta Platforms unveiled Muse, its first consumer-facing AI agent, giving users an AI assistant designed to carry out tasks on their behalf across the web.

In a Threads post Tuesday announcing the product, CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Muse as a personal agent that “understands your goals and ...

White House Declines Senate Democrats’ Request for AI Policy Clarity

2026-09-09T19:07:20+00:00

Attempts by Senate Democrats to get more clarity about the White House’s AI policies have gone nowhere. A White House official responded last Friday to an August letter from a group of Senate Democrats asking for more details about the White House’s voluntary AI testing framework without a ...

OpenAI CFO Touts User Growth Resulting From Lowering Prices

2026-09-09T09:40:22+00:00

OpenAI’s price cut on its GPT-5.6 Luna model shortly after its release in July resulted in a tenfold increase in model usage, said OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar in an interview on Monday at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology conference in San Francisco. Usage of the model is ...