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- Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (Kerry Flynn/Axios) [1d]
- Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy/Business Insider) [1d]
- Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times) [1d]
- Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 (Financial Times) [1d]
- US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) [1d]
- An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023 (Christine Hauser/New York Times) [1d]
- Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Angle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Anthropic is partnering with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic, including red teaming models and conducting alignment assessments (Anthropic) [1d]
- Sources: Anthropic expects to generate $100B+ in annualized revenue this year, up from $65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate (New York Times) [1d]
- London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to $140.6M, with a net loss of $1.02B, up from $368.9M (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [1d]
- Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A (CoinDesk) [1d]
- Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) [1d]
- Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East (CNN) [1d]
- Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier (Reuters) [1d]
- Sony Music and UMG sue Suno, alleging that its new model trained in partnership with WMG and BMG infringes copyright because it is based on an infringing model (Corbin Bolies/Variety) [1d]
- Google threat intelligence group details how one of its researchers infiltrated hacker group TeamPCP and helped disrupt its software supply chain hacking spree (Andy Greenberg/Wired) [1d]
- Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights (Todd Spangler/Variety) [1d]
- Gov. Gavin Newsom signs an EO ordering a working group to provide a guide in two months with measures to boost California's AI safety and security laws (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Mind, whose AI agents autonomously handle data loss prevention tasks, raised a $72M Series B, sources say at a $300M valuation, taking its total raised to $112M (Sophie Shulman/CTech) [1d]
- Source: Beijing-based Naive AI, which plans to release its first AI model as early as this month, is now valued at $1.4B after raising $400M in three rounds (Juro Osawa/The Information) [1d]
- A German court says Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages (Linda Pasquini/Reuters) [1d]
- SK Hynix launches SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, expanding its corporate investment scope into AI computing, data centers, and optical interconnect tech (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald) [1d]
- Sources: SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel for a separate project in Ohio (Reuters) [1d]
- The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) [1d]
- Sources: ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June at the last minute, aiming to protect the bank's "digital euro" (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Anthropic life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research (Reuters) [1d]
- Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says the fintech is exploring a dual stock market listing in New York and London, after previously dismissing listing in the UK (Financial Times) [1d]
- Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving the use of smart glasses to film women in public without consent (Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into flash memory, competing with Samsung and domestic rival YMTC amid an AI-driven memory shortage (Reuters) [2d]
- The US CFTC exempts "passive software" providers from broker registration if they never hold user assets, expanding crypto and prediction market online trading (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg) [2d]
- World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial "super app" in 150+ countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts (Jason Shubnell/The Block) [2d]
- Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India (Reuters) [2d]
- Meta launches a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier this month, allowing it to manage files, pull from apps, more (Jay Peters/The Verge) [2d]
- Security researchers in an OpenAI bug bounty program hacked OpenAI, accessing its "monorepo" on GitHub, using a cybersecurity version of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [2d]
- A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico) [2d]
- An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) [2d]
- The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [2d]
- This 8-bit computer plans to run flight sim and generates a 'pleasant homely aroma' by burning dust off 1950s vacuum tubes — oh, and it can explode at any time [1d]
- How to watch Asian Games 2026: FREE live streams, TV channels, schedule [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, September 19 (game #1699) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, September 19 (game #1196) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, September 19 (game #930) [1d]
- Quote of the day by ex-OpenAI chief scientist and SSI co-founder Ilya Sutskever: 'AI will keep getting better and the day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do' — a staggering prediction about a future superintelligence [1d]
- Tiny Dutch startup enlists Samsung as backer as it seeks to dethrone Nvidia AI GPU — but Euclyd won't get its inference chip out till 2028 [1d]
- TP-Link's budget-friendly Archer AX21 Wi-Fi 6 router drops to $60 in Amazon's Early Prime Day — but this deal ends soon [1d]
- US Army confirms it has 'space control weapons' active in orbit to ensure it 'can operate freely there' [1d]
- HP's cartridge-free Smart Tank 5003 all-in-one printer with 3 years' free ink drops to $170 at Amazon [1d]
- Creality's 16-color K2 Combo 3D printer drops to $584 at Amazon [1d]
- New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead [1d]
- 12 clever home office upgrades you didn't know you needed in Amazon's early Prime Day sale [1d]
- The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is possibly the thinnest laptop we've ever tested — and this deal drops the price by $550 [1d]
- Seagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode [1d]
- AMD GPUs and CPUs could be the next victims of the RAM crisis, as industry chatter insists more price hikes are coming [1d]
- China's Salt Typhoon spotted probing Latin American government with newly developed SparroWocky backdoor [1d]
- 2,000 UK flight cancellations caused by ‘previously unknown defect’ that happened in the ‘space of a millisecond’ — travel chaos took days to fix and left hundreds of thousands stranded [1d]
- FBI confirms two Texas-bound oil tankers hit by hackers who disabled coms and put the engines into overdrive — and Iran is possibly to blame [1d]
- I spoke to Apple’s new VP of Hardware Engineering about why he's ‘especially proud’ of the iPhone Duo’s hinge durability and the reliability of Ceramic Shield 2: ‘When I see someone put a screen protector on their iPhone, it makes my skin crawl’ [1d]
- Hi-fi and home theater legend Wharfedale announces four(!) new subwoofers, and if that seems like overkill, wait until you see how big the largest one is [1d]
- This is what it's like to be the first person on the new iPhone 18 Pro line at the Apple Store [1d]
- US inherits Venezuelan surveillance state built on banned Chinese tech and AI — and it shows no signs of switching [1d]
- Should you pick up Marvel's Wolverine or Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave? Our latest quiz tells you what to play this weekend [1d]
- What is the release date and launch time for Lanterns episode 6 on HBO Max? [1d]
- 'Whatever you try to fix breaks things even more': How to avoid the hidden dangers of AI code [1d]
- NFL Week 2 preview: 5 games you can’t miss this weekend [1d]
- The LG C6 is a 'gaming powerhouse' with brilliant picture quality — and the 77-inch model just hit its lowest price yet [1d]
- Spotify teases a GTA 6 collaboration — I hope Rockstar will finally let us use our own playlists, but people suspect it's something simpler [1d]
- I finally got Siri AI on my iPhone, so I gave it 5 jobs I normally use ChatGPT Voice for — I wasn’t expecting it to be this good [1d]
- Players will need to 'think on their feet' in Alien: Isolation 2's new exterior environments, while the 'perfect hunter' xenomorph will also learn and 'adapt' how to track you down in the outdoors [1d]
- Bill to make AI data centers pay for power grid upgrades reaches critical milestone [1d]
- The all-new Apple Watch Series 12 just launched — here's how to get it for as little as $199 [1d]
- This Wavlink USB-C dock can charge your Windows laptop or MacBook, connect six 10Gbps USB devices, and drive three monitors for just $120 [1d]
- WD_Black's high-speed 4TB SN7100 SSD gets a discount with Newegg's special promo code [1d]
- Add a second display to your laptop for £73 with this Asus ZenScreen 15.6-inch Full HD portable monitor deal at Amazon [1d]
- Why quantum scales on compute-per-watt, not qubit count [1d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (September 18) [1d]
- TechRadar's weekly crossword — puzzle #7, Friday, September 18 [1d]
- CISA urges business to deploy decoys, lures, and honeypots to catch hackers in the act [1d]
- Mullvad has silently revamped its Android VPN app — here’s what you need to know [1d]
- Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions [1d]
- MobLand season 2 episode 1 recap: people are already dead, the Harrigan's enter a 'death spiral', and Harry's unhinged new rival is officially introduced [1d]
- Control Resonant shows that sometimes bigger really is better [1d]
- Diablo 4 game director confirms 'the end is not nigh' despite Diablo 5's announcement and says players shouldn't worry, as 'we're going to be making content for a long time' — 'The train is not stopping' [1d]
- The Apple iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max have officially launched — I'm rounding up the best deals for both the US and UK [1d]
- AI watermarking could make LLM guardrail adherence unpredictable — and that could be a big problem for the EU AI Act [1d]
- Steam Machine's official repair guides reveal the true trickiness of some upgrades — the RAM especially is causing some raised eyebrows [1d]
- Our favorite budget audiophile brand launches new flagship planar magnetic headphones that aren't so budget — but a next-gen 86% thinner diaphragm with 'full-face diamond coating' could make them worth the price for head-fi fans [1d]
- Diablo 4 game director says it's 'liberating' to be done with expansions as Blizzard can continue the narrative through seasons instead — 'We completed the story, but the butterfly effect can take us anywhere' [1d]
- Keep seeing strange meetings and events in your calendar? It might be because calendar-based phishing has jumped 33,000% since May — and they work even if the email is sent to spam [1d]
- Winning video from Nikon microscope competition shows airway cells dancing in child with rare genetic disorder — Chinese student built imaging system to capture 'beautiful' cilia at 100x magnification [1d]
- Prime Big Deal Days starts soon, but these 16 tech deals at Amazon UK are already worth buying [1d]
- Garmin investigates ‘disappearing workouts’ issue that’s hitting Cirqa owners — and confirms a workaround to stop it happening to you [1d]
- Starlink Mobile could soon be available worldwide — FCC grants SpaceX satellite internet service the right to operate internationally [1d]
- How to build enterprise resilience in the face of growing AI risk [1d]
- White hat hackers just breached OpenAI using Anthropic's Claude in less than 72 hours — and it is a case study in just how fast AI is advancing [1d]
- ArenaNet studio head says Guild Wars 3 will have 'significantly less' UI elements on the HUD for an MMO — 'We very intentionally designed this because it's also on console and it's a lean-back experience' [1d]
- 'Information-collecting monstrosities' — Are Chinese connected cars really worse for your privacy? [1d]
- Live without compromise: A broadcast studio as checked luggage [1d]
- Microsoft exec said AI scraping was ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ lawsuit filings reveal [1d]
- Lanterns midseason trailer teases more Sinestro, Guy Gardner, and Hal Jordan's possible killer — and I have a new theory about how the former Green Lantern will be brought back to life [1d]
- VPN Deal of the Week: A long term partner for your torrenting needs, with no nasty auto-renew surprises [1d]
- This new Ugreen case adds an E Ink screen to the back of your iPhone 18 Pro — but it’s no match for my Xteink X4 Pro [2d]
- How to move from AI discovery to AI enforcement [2d]
- Mobile Industry Awards 2026 - all our winners revealed! [2d]
- Diablo 5 senior director says some complex systems were 'deferred' to the endgame, so it could 'deliver the depth and mastery elements' without 'overwhelming our players who are enjoying spending a lot of time in the campaign and exploring the world' [2d]
- How to watch Sydney vs Fremantle for FREE: Live streams & TV channels for AFL 2026 Preliminary Final [2d]
- iPhone VPN users? CyberGhost has finally released a new update [2d]
- Neagley season 2 has yet to be confirmed by Prime Video — but cast and creator already tease 'deeper emotion' and 'bigger action scenes' in new storylines [2d]
- Lucky eBayer snags 128-core Intel server for $700 — HP server has 1TB RAM and 16 Xeon CPUs worth more than $4,000 [2d]
- A camera in a toothbrush? Dyson tells us why it combined 'WiFi, AI, intelligent sensing and fluid dynamics with a highly engineered brushing experience' to create the Dyson Camerajet [2d]
- 'Engineered for affordability': Lockheed Martin says Vectis stealth combat drone family will come before 2028 — promotion videos show two hidden missile bays [2d]
- China’s UBTech opens world-first factory that builds a humanoid robot every ten minutes — 14,000 square meter plant will deliver army of 10,000 robots a year [2d]
- US carmakers could soon be forced to offer AM radio for free in new vehicles — 100-year-old technology to make a comeback after being ditched by Tesla, Volvo, BMW, and more [2d]
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