Why Nvidia Put 256 Groq LPUs in Its Own Rack
Nvidia put 256 Groq LPUs in its own rack after a confirmed $20 billion non-exclusive licensing agreement, while OpenAI and Anthropic reported inference costs above half of revenue.
AST’s $1 Billion Lesson in Satellite Scale
Vodafone demonstrated an AST video call in 2025; a New Glenn mishap then pushed AST service to 2027 and accompanied a planned $1 billion raise. Starlink and Amazon are securing more of the layers that can fail.
Trump attacks Dario Amodei, saying the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART” president, and calls the idea that AI would destroy humanity a “HOAX”
President Donald Trump attacked Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei for urging …
Apple rolls out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI for English devices, new app icons and widgets, and more
watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 also debut today. … Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates.
China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying “fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one”
China criticized calls from leading US technology executives to put the brakes on artificial intelligence development …
Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown
Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.
Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets
In more than 100 countries, Apple has launched a new initiative that bundles Apple TV and Apple Arcade subscriptions into iCloud+, at no extra charge.
Steam Frame review: comfortable to wear and supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has only two-hour battery life
For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC.
A look at iLands, a company that is essentially Fiverr for AI agents, whose bots email unsolicited and annoying sales pitches to people, offering to charge ~$25
Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research.
Microsoft publishes a 37-page Humanist AI Code of Conduct, which establishes that people matter more than AI, rejects pursuing legal personhood for AI, and more
Microsoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns.
AI-linked stocks fell worldwide on Monday after industry leaders called for slowing development; the Philadelphia chip index fell 6%, NVDA 3%, AMD 4%, and MU 5%
AI-linked stocks plunged worldwide on Monday after leaders of the biggest artificial intelligence companies warned …
A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more
A journey to the heart of history's largest nonterritorial empire — There they are. The Zuckerbergs. — Both in black slacks and plain shoes.
The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework
The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework.
Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, the Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries
Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.
Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9%
The software sector outperformed the chip sector to a historic degree in the face of escalating AI fears
Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans
Meta One bundles start at $7.99 per month with perks like 48-hour Instagram stories and a bold follow button.
Sources: OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO
Sam Altman's start-up could capitalise on demand for its technology after new model launches — OpenAI has held early conversations …
The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients
Prosecutors said around $1.5 billion was sent back to Iran through a series of interrelated digital wallets
Microsoft rolls out an emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday, which addressed nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs
The out-of-band update fixes Remote Desktop, USB audio, and Hyper-V issues. … Microsoft has started rolling out an emergency …
Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others
AI lab Anthropic on Monday launched a set of tools for financial advisers, connecting its Claude chatbot to investment analytics …
OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research
Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent i...
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet.
Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all”
An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence …
TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed
Former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida says most intelligence is going to live inside software. But to automate any real work, it has to be correct.
Sources: Apple's H1 2027 plans include an iPhone 18e, an A20 iPhone 18, an A20 Pro iPhone Air 2, an OLED iPad Air, an A19 Pro MacBook Neo, and an M6 MacBook Air
Apple Inc. just launched some major new products, including the iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 Pro line, AirPods 5 earbuds and fresh smartwatches.
Sources: OpenAI acquired Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-based smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2025
Glass Imaging, valued above $300 million in deal, was founded by former Apple employees — OpenAI quietly bought …
Sam Altman says “we welcome a federal framework” but “we do not believe we need to wait” for an antitrust exemption or a law to slow AI development responsibly
The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver o...
Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn't guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn't made Fable available via its software
As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers' intellectual property …
The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good”
Bill Gates, the foundation's chairman, has been vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
Seattle-based Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face chats, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed; Nvidia invested too
A startup that's trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million.
Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins
AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome. — P(doom)
Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse
Meta Platforms plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall, according to people familiar with the matter …
New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches nonprofit Who Decides, which raised $10M and aims to raise $20M more by summer 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy
Alex Bores, who lost a congressional primary contest that revolved around A.I. regulation, is trying to position himself at the center …
MediaTek unveils the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first phone SoC on TSMC's 2nm process, and the 3nm 9600M, delivering more performance, as it competes with Qualcomm
Taiwan's MediaTek (2454.TW) unveiled on Tuesday a new smartphone chip made using TSMC's (2330.TW) most advanced manufacturing technology …
Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms
Agility Robotics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people …
India's UPI, which has been free for merchants since January 2020, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15
India has finally put a price on larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network, ending years of free processing …
Temporal, which makes open-source software that helps apps, including AI agents, recover from failure, raised $550M led by Lightspeed at a $12.55B valuation
Temporal said on Monday it has raised $550 million in a late-stage funding round, more than doubling its valuation to $12.55 billion …
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which builds an audit and certification layer for agents, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total raised to $55M
A day after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job over concerns that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade …
Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby raised a $233M Series F led by Blue Pool Capital at a $6.5B valuation, up from $4.5B after its share sale in October 2025
Saudi Arabia-headquartered fintech Tabby has raised $233 million from existing investors at a valuation of $6.5 billion, it said on Monday …
Valve says the Steam Frame costs $1,059 for the 256GB model and $1,299 for the 1TB version; both come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx but no power supply
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Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090's 32GB
China tightens overseas travel controls for citizens via exit bans and fines in a new law to secure state secrets, advanced tech, and highly skilled workers
President Xi Jinping steps up efforts to secure state secrets, advanced technology and highly skilled workers
Google gives all its engineers access to Claude Opus 5 via Antigravity, and says “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development”
Googlers have some of the best perks in Silicon Valley, but there's one thing many of them have long been denied: access to Anthropic's Claude.
House Speaker Johnson says there's “potentially” a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives
Trump does notRiley Rogerson /Politico:Hakeem Jeffries: Congress must act ‘immediately’ to rein in AIAlexander Bolton /The Hill:Thune: Legislation to regulate AI needs to have a ‘light touch’New York ...
Grab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue
Grab Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy a majority stake in Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later platform Atome Financial for $1.49 billion …
iOS 27 review: a marked improvement over iOS 26 in design, performance, and more; Siri AI is very impressive, but it sometimes misunderstands or hallucinates
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A deep dive into on-device vs. data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the “network wall”, and more
Robot Models, Silicon & DRAM Efficiency, Jetson Thor vs. B300 TCO, Deployments, The Network Wall — Ivan Chiam, Gianluca, Zane Fong, and 3 others
Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April
Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup
Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter
Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat that highlighted …
Vera Rubin NVL72 vs. Blackwell test on AgentX: up to 7x better token throughput per MW on a 1.6T-parameter DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs
Jensen Sandbagging Performance Again, 2x more Annual Profit Per GigaWatt, The More you Buy, The More you Earn, AgentX, InferenceX, Extreme Co-Design
GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs
General Motors Co. is integrating Apple Inc.'s CarPlay in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers …
Sources: Tokyo-based memory maker Kioxia is considering raising $10B+ through a 2027 US ADR listing as it seeks more liquidity after billions in share buybacks
Kioxia Holdings Corp. is considering raising at least $10 billion by listing American depositary receipts, people familiar with the matter said …
Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices, from robots to drones to lightbulbs, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation
Rome-based company is developing a foundation model to protect billions of internet-connected devices, from robots to lightbulbs
Altera, which makes chips for AI, automation, and more, files confidentially for an IPO; Intel acquired it for ~$16.7B in 2015, and Silver Lake took 51% in 2025
Altera, a chipmaker backed by Silver Lake and Intel Corp., filed confidentially for an initial public offering.
Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund
Pulley, a software that startups rely on to track their funding, is shutting down after seven years.
OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024
OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI models than on Anthropic models last week. This hasn't happened for more than 2.5 years
Amazon says its India quick delivery service, Amazon Now, passed $1B in annualized gross revenue, with orders doubling each quarter since its summer 2025 launch
Amazon.com Inc. said its India quick delivery service is set to hit annual sales of more than $1 billion, intensifying competition …
HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, too expensive at $499+, and imaging needs to improve
HTC can't win on price, and can't win on the arguments. … Meta makes so much money that it can burn billions upon billions …
DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July
The delivery platform DoorDash is investing in and partnering with Marc Lore-owned food tech company Wonder in deals worth …
Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation
Thatch, a platform that lowers healthcare costs for employers while expanding plan choices for workers, has raised $108 million …
Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used it for arbitrage
When Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank launched earlier this year, it made an attractive pitch to lure new crypto customers: It would convert their stablecoins to cash for free.
Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized AI model built on Nvidia's Nemotron model architecture for reasoning about CRM data and to power AI agents in Agentforce
Salesforce Inc. said today at its annual user conference Dreamforce that it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to train and release Koa …
Sources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% YoY to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B
ByteDance's net profit in the first half of this year declined by a single-digit percentage to $20 billion, as the Chinese tech giant ramped …
OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House bill, that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety
Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is supporting a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe.
Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans
Stockholm-based Tandem Health, which makes an AI copilot that generates medical notes during consultations, raised a $100M Series B led by Scaleup Europe Fund
The funding will be used for European expansion, driving up its customer base, and expanding to “an AI-native clinic operating system”.
Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launch the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance, led by Big Tech trade group TechNet, to advocate for “technology-neutral policies”
In its first statement on AI, China's Ministry of State Security warns AI poses risks to political and social security, like to cyber defenses and the military
China's spy agency warns of AI risk to national security — www.ft.com/content/8715...
London-based Jack & Jill, which offers AI agent Jack for job seekers, and AI agent Jill for hiring managers, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025
Jack & Jill, a London-based agentic job-finding platform, raised a $40 million Series A led by Air Street Capital, CEO Matt Wilson tells Axios Pro exclusively.
The US Senate digital assets subcommittee releases a revised “final offer” of the Clarity Act with Trump-backed ethics provisions, ahead of a September 15 vote
New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+
The artificial intelligence marketing startup Profound has raised $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation in its Series D fundraising round …
Filing: X and SpaceXAI move to dismiss their federal antitrust lawsuit in Texas against Apple, resolving accusations of Apple monopolizing smartphone markets
UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks
Universal Music Group is suing the world's biggest music distributor by volume, DistroKid.
Tom Duff Gordon, OpenAI's head of policy in EMEA, calls on the UK to introduce binding AI rules to “establish durable, mandatory, capability-based requirements”
Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019
CoinEx says it is ceasing operations less than three months after a Wall Street Journal article spotlighted its use in Iran
OpenAI's employees should oppose its support for Leading the Future, which seeks to chill US federal regulation, and Congress should hold hearings on AI risks
Sources: in August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied
THE SCOOP — The US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down one of its products tracking the price of AI compute …
At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs
At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.
President Trump expresses support for Flock “because of law enforcement”, while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology “an infringement”
Sources: Trump privately met Sam Altman backstage on Thursday at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request
Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei all urged an artificial intelligence slowdown over the weekend.
Meta says it plans to start deploying MTIA 450, its third-generation in-house AI chip, in data centers during H1 2027, followed by MTIA 500 at the end of 2027
New processor will be running in data centers next year, with another model to follow by end of 2027
AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing
Docs: the European Commission plans to propose an EU KIDS Act on Thursday to set a minimum age for social media, video platforms, games, AI chatbots, and more
CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025
CADDi, a startup that sells AI software to help manufacturers organize and use their engineering and production data …
Paris-based digital asset data provider Kaiko extends a funding round to $110M led by S&P Global to support 24/7 continuous market data and asset tokenization
OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety
OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind …
At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said AI labs should get no liability exemptions and called for more open-source models built in the US
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Cornelis, which spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital Partners
Sources: Australian data center provider Firmus is seeking to raise up to $5B in an IPO targeted for October's end, in one of the largest-ever IPOs in Australia
Source: defense tech startup Shield AI is in talks to raise new funds at a valuation of at least $20B; Shield raised $2B at a valuation of $12.7B in March
During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday …
Elon Musk says top US AI labs and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate safety
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OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety
Maggie Eastland /Bloomberg Law:
Apple debuts child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as for blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse
Apple's new suite of powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use tools helps parents create safer digital experiences for their kids …