The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said it patched its bridge nodes
- The attacker who withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from a Liquid Federation wallet has returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes had been patched.
Hunter Biden teases a $LAPTOP memecoin launch on September 9; sources: it will launch on Base, and some tokens will be sent to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP
The personal computer that launched a thousand memes will debut this week as a digital token
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
SUPPORT THE DATA DRAGNET SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/data- dragnetThe LG Smart TVs we've tested have first-party ACR (automatic content recognition)...
Huawei unveils the Mate XT 2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions
TAIPEI — China's Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first triple-folding smartphone powered by chips that it says are free …
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
A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
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
Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
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
Meta on Tuesday announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.
Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding
AI computer tool use is a big deal. — A reminder that I'm on vacation this week, but the flood of impressions people …
Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow aging
Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition.
Grindr agrees to pay £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' sensitive info, like their HIV status, with ad firms, in breach of UK law
US-owned dating app allegedly allowed ad firms access to private information in breach of UK law — Grindr will pay £26m to settle a lawsuit brought …
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
In short: — The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.
Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns
Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome
AlphaGenome Atlas is the most comprehensive catalogue of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology. — VP Science, Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist, Google Cloud
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
Around 2020, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook returned from a trip to Asia unusually energized about a new product category: foldable phones.
Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving some math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters
Plus, a machine hermeneutics story Researchers discover another OpenAI agent emergent communication incident: ...Less severe …
Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy
Argentina's rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed …
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
ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking …
Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's $11B+ IPO, which could give it more influence over the number of shares allocated to its customers
Playing an official part in the IPO process could give Robinhood more influence over the number of shares allocated to its customers
Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan
Prosecutors in Belgium cite ‘indications’ suspect took role at tech company in China months after joining now-defunct semiconductor maker Belgan
Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code
The media regulator Coimisiún na Meán has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns …
The US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put “trustworthy” news providers at the top of social and video feeds
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
The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.
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”
It seems the Trump administration doesn't want to tempt a lawsuit from The Tetris Company
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
The brokerage will add yes-or-no contracts from Crypto.com prediction business and take stake in digital-currency exchange
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
Qualcomm shares rose 3% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services …
Blockstream's Liquid Network halted new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin in its Liquid Federation wallet
worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
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
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday rolled out changes to its online search results in Europe to satisfy EU antitrust regulators …
Sources: Anthropic has decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup; a source says the two may still collaborate
Anthropic PBC has decided against acquiring artificial intelligence startup Decart AI, people familiar with the matter said. — Anthropic had been exploring a deal …
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
Tech giant plays ‘project management’ role to build components needed for DUV machines and avoid export controls
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims
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
The company cited a rapid surge in user demand for AI and increased complexity of its computing systems
Researchers say Meta ran 350+ ads with CSAM in 2026 so far; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to “nudification” apps from China
Early last month, Meta deleted around 50 ads posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads that directly included child sexual abuse material …
Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust
The financial technology company is seeking to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank — Block wants to build a bank.
Circle agrees to acquire Singapore-based cross-border B2B payments company Tazapay for $400M, in one of its largest publicly disclosed acquisitions to date
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
Putting a little pep in Neoverse N-series' step. … Arm is bringing its next-gen Neoverse CSS N4 platforms to the cloud …
Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month
ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc …
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
Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.
LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M
Google Cloud and Accenture form the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group to train up to 1,000 Accenture forward deployed engineers for Gemini Enterprise
Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing
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
Healthcare automation startup Forus has raised $150 million at a $3 billion valuation just months after completing a previous funding round.
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
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
Sources: London-based UForce, which makes unmanned vehicles for air, land, and sea, is seeking about $500M led by Valor Equity at a ~$5B valuation
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
Blee, a marketing compliance software startup, raised $27 million in seed and Series A financing, founder and CEO Guy Shahar tells Axios exclusively.
A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage
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
China plans to deploy artificial intelligence computing clusters containing 100,000 accelerator cards and sharply expand …
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
Silicon Valley is known for embracing the ethos of “move fast and break things.” Poseidon Aerospace's co-founder and CEO David Zagaynov just wants to move things fast.
A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products
Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures
Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council, an industry advocacy group, over legislation …
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
Figure AI pulled the wraps off Index last week. It's a billion-dollar bet on real-world data for robot AI training …
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M
A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles
Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours
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
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
then a dispute eruptedPradeep Viswanathan /Neowin:OpenAI says its unreleased AI model has solved a $1 million Millennium Prize problemMatthias Bastian /The Decoder:OpenAI researcher allegedly pressure...
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
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
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
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more
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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
Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user's behalf, advancing Mark Zuckerberg's vision …
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
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
Sebastien Bubeck /@sebastienbubeck:Forums:r/singularityForums:r/singularity:Sebastien Bubeck's post refuting the claims
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
Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media's consumer harms …
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
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