Triarom Computers https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Robinhood adds Crypto.com’s yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in the exchange and its prediction market business OG (Wall Street Journal) 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 (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg) Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML’s High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks (Bloomberg) Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands into data centers beyond developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times) London-based UForce, which makes unmanned vehicles for air, land, and sea, is seeking about $500M led by Valor Equity at a ~$5B valuation (Bloomberg) Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup (Bloomberg) Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users’ HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian) Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan (Andy Bounds/Financial Times) Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers (Wall Street Journal) it will launch on Base, and some tokens will be sent to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal) The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched (The Block) 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 (Tae Kim/Key Context) Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters (Jack Clark/Import AI) 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 (The Guardian) Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI) Home Page 2 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 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) 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 (Bloomberg) A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage (Financial Times) Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions (Nikkei Asia) Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after "purported white-hat hackers" withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk) 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 (Reuters) Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners (New York Times) Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy (Simon Foy/Financial Times) since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade (Valida Pau/The Information) OpenAI says it hit its “automated research intern” goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens (OpenAI) TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business Apple’s plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) 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 (Yan Zhuang/New York Times) OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation How AI gutted Kenya’s essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students’ homework, leaving few paths back to work (New York Times) Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown Clucky’s new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster other hacked message boards, OpenAI’s cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don’t Worry About the Vase) OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch (Emily Forlini/Fortune) Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies (Philip Wegmann/Wall Street Journal) Travis Kalanick’s Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times) How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal) Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg) at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls (Nikkei Asia) Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal) Blog Right Sidebar