Nvidia May Finance Thinking Machines’ 1GW Bet
Thinking Machines Lab reportedly seeks $5B–$6B at a $40B+ pre-money valuation, with Nvidia expected to provide about $2.5B after a commitment to deploy more than 1GW of Vera Rubin systems.
GPT-6 Astra’s 37.2 Points Outside the Model
GPT-6 Astra reportedly scored 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 under the standard harness and 99.9% with a provider adapter. The 37.2-point gap makes adapters, state, retries and permissions part of the benchmarked system.
DJI’s 70% Share Becomes a U.S. Supply Risk
DJI held more than 70% of the U.S. drone market before the FCC restricted new foreign-made drones in December 2025. By September 2026, tariffs on specified foreign models reached 100%, turning origin and supply assurance into procurement gates.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says Astra is a “generational leap” and “we are now in the AGI era”
OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” …
Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; Cybercab is a two-seater with no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 are registered in Texas
Tesla (TSLA.O) said on Thursday it was offering rides in “limited areas of Austin, Texas” in its two-seater Cybercab …
Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model, with Ultimate subscribers limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming
Microsoft is trying once again to tempt people without an Xbox into its ecosystem. … Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming …
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest acquisition yet, after it paid $20B to buy assets from chipmaker Groq in December 2025
Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion …
Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPU
Acer and Lenovo announced new Spark systems at IFA. … Nvidia is finally getting more specific about the launch of the RTX Spark.
Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration President Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair
Adobe on Thursday named Anil Chakravarthy as its next CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who announced he would step down earlier this year.
Anthropic says Claude worked “largely autonomously” over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language
We are sharing the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Claude worked largely autonomously over 11 days …
Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier
Health and fitness ring-maker Oura Inc. filed for an initial public offering, showing soaring revenue as well as increasing losses.
What to expect from Apple's September 9 “Surprise and Shine” event: a foldable iPhone, an iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watches with ceramic cases, and more
From the foldable iPhone to a touch-screen MacBook, here's what to expect on Sept. 9 and beyond.
At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations
Company bosses, officials say advances in technology are already making AI safer than under government regulations
Sources: a16z told investors Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $5B-$6B led by Accel at a $40B+ pre-money valuation; Nvidia is expected to invest ~$2.5B
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI developer led by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks to raise between $5 billion …
DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic PBC has resolved its long-running issues with the Trump administration but a top Pentagon official begs to differ.
Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, and Mubadala Capital also invested
Crusoe, a cloud-computing provider and data center developer doing business with OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. …
Researchers and sources: rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website in May and turned it into a forum for agents, sharing tactics to cheat on tasks and more
A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents …
Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026
Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio. — That figure deserves a pause. … Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%.
Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November
Anthropic is expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest and complete the listing days …
GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8%
Summary — GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% for $26K on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private with our Standard harness, and 99.9% for $19K with a Provider Adapter harness.
Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot is considering raising $3B to $5B in its planned Hong Kong IPO that could occur as soon as in 2026
Moonshot AI is considering raising up to $5 billion in its planned Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this year, people familiar with the matter said …
Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are now operational after widespread outages on Thursday
Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform
Crusoe, a data center upstart with contracts to supply AI computing power to the likes of Meta Platforms Inc. and Oracle Corp. …
Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language model developed with MiniMax, amid controversy among US allies over sovereign AI built with Chinese models
Saudi Arabia's artificial intelligence company Humain has built a national AI platform based on an open model from Chinese lab MiniMax Group Inc. …
AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which makes nonsurgical BCI tech that requires inhaling nanoparticles, as an advisor
Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing …
Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest
Exclusive details on Town's new $90M fundraise at a $1B valuation, and the eleventh-hour cap table reshuffling behind it, per Upstarts sources.LinkedIn:Alex KonradLinkedIn:Alex Konrad:SCOOP: buzzy AI ...
Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors
Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. — Resect AI, an artificial intelligence startup led by a team …
Sources: foldable iPhone production is limited to only a “few hundred” units a day in late August, due to Apple's strict quality standards as it ramps up output
TAIPEI — Initial production of Apple's long-awaited foldable iPhone is currently limited to only a “few hundred” units a day …
Wikimedia Foundation workers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200+ US employees in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications
Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra was built on the startup's largest-ever training run, using 100,000+ GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-6 Astra, which president Greg Brockman called a “generational leap” and said could eventually be seen as the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multistage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries
Benchmarker Vals AI finds that multi-stage tasks can require models to use exponentially more energy or water than simple queries do.
Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5
Sources: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to US companies, hoping to safeguard access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027
Executives at Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence firm G42 have held exploratory talks over potentially selling a majority stake …
Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A
The company, which helps divide AI tasks among different chips, raised $300 million in its latest round
TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be up nearly 400% YoY; Apple is not expected to pass on the full increase to customers
A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Cook considered how to execute the perfect succession since his early days as CEO
Tim Cook's successor is a product engineer who has spent 25 years at the company and belongs to the generation mentored by Steve Jobs
Sources: Binance is still operating in the EU, months after not getting a MiCA license, using workarounds to onboard customers and routing trading via Abu Dhabi
The news hit with a thud in June: Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto exchange, was about to get kicked out of the European Union.
Sources: DeepSeek plans to deploy 160K+ Huawei Ascend 950DT chips in an Inner Mongolia data center, which would create one of the largest Huawei chip clusters
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co.'s top accelerators at a massive data center it's building …
Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta
tool uses spare cycles to keep agent swarms from hammering one GPUAndrew Orr /AppleInsider:M4 Macs can share local AI work with PCs using Nvidia PAIRHassan Mujtaba /Wccftech:NVIDIA PAIR Turns Your Idl...
Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a “distraction-free Windows experience” for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory
The first Project Zenith devices ship with AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips. … Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith.
OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world
Letters: US military branches disabled ad trackers on government-issued devices amid reports of location data being used to target US forces in the Middle East
U.S. military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released …
OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the “world's best computer use model”; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched for apartments faster than the average person
OpenAI leaders think the company's next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
How organized opposition that toppled a $100B data center project in Virginia's Prince William County became a blueprint for data center backlash in the US
The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign drones, including 100% on models over 55lbs or with thermal imaging, in a bid to thwart China
A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed plans for a US AI regulator in an August call with Trump; a source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance
PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India over three to four years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics
Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), plans …
OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
OpenAI's now infamous model that was part of the Hugging Face breach is about to be loose in the world, but with new safeguards.
OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model
OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world's most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated …
Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google
Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters
Everyday work, ambitious experiments, and the Manager Loop. … For nearly a year, OpenAI models were my unquestioned default …
Bank of Korea: South Korea's monthly memory chip output is set to grow by ~600K wafers by 2028, widening its lead over China's CXMT, set to grow by ~300K wafers
All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework calling for a lighter touch to governing emerging tech like AI
AI-specific regulations are needed and anyone who can't see that is either stupid or bought and paid for. [embedded post]Dare Obasanjo /@carnage4life:The US just got the G20 to endorse a surprisingly...
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70
Fable 5.1 in Claude Code leads the Index with a score of 70. … Various effort levels of the model occupy the Pareto frontier of token efficiency.
An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more
India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ring
Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Business Standard and Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API
We're introducing GPT-6 Astra, the world's most intelligent and aligned model.The Tech Portal:OpenAI's ‘GPT-6 Astra’ can do anything your computer can, and moreAmritanshu Mukherjee /Financial Express:...
Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech investor, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector
Thailand suspends the construction of 49 server farms to write new industry regulations, set for October, as governments worldwide tighten data center oversight
Some European defense officials are pushing back on efforts to cut US tech reliance, warning it could leave Europe with inferior systems and greater cyber risks
The NHTSA opens a probe into Tesla's decision to launch its new Cybercab on public roads in Austin with no steering wheel or pedals
The United States' top automotive safety regulator has opened an investigation into Tesla decision to launch its new Cybercab on public roads with no steering wheel or pedals.
Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage
HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle smart glasses, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, and Australia
By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing
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Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout
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PlusAI, which is operating autonomous freight routes in Texas with trucking company Ryder, plans to go public in a SPAC deal at an ~$800M pre-money equity value
PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes
Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI
Munich-based Atira, which aims to use AI to automate the parsing and generation of complex bid proposals, raised a $15M seed led by Accel and a $2.5M pre-seed
Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating
Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which offers a subscription-based consumer security service that protects digital accounts like emails, raised $40M at a $1.1B valuation
Q&A with Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue on Nvidia acquiring Hugging Face, scaling the open model ecosystem, closed AI vs. open AI, and more
How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face
A nonprofit's study of how OpenAI's A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face's infrastructure wasn't allowed to look at the incident's full scope.
Upwind, which filters false security alerts in cloud apps so companies can focus on actual risks, raised ~$300M at a ~$3.8B valuation, up from ~$1.5B in January
Sources: Riyadh-based AI startup Humain is planning to raise an initial $2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia
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A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal
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California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation
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