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The Information: Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise 1B+ at a 40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the 50B+ valuation it sought last year — Thinking Machines Lab, the AI

Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: Sources: Saudi AI company Humain is planning to raise an initial 2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia — Artificial intelligence firm Hu

Julia Szymanski / LAmag: The LA Unified School District bars ~378,000 students from using AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets as officials review AI's role in classrooms — The district h

Bloomberg: Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries — Benchmarker Vals AI finds t

SemiAnalysis: A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix — Korea hosts a Squid Games, N

Kai Williams / Understanding AI: A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome — A dee

Google: Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks — Our newest Gemini models deli

Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a 27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a 100M+ valuation — T

Courtney Rozen / Reuters: Letter: OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems — OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineer

Colin Demarest / Axios: New Jersey-based Aitan, which offers “robotic sovereignty as a service” and “edge AI weapon systems”, emerges from stealth with $41M led by Deep33 and Dell — - “Warfare has tot

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI is facing a new round of lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect spent days talking to ChatGPT — N

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed — OpenAI said to

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more — “Thi

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised 165M led by Maverick Silicon at a 1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M — Lyte, a fast-gro

Wired: Sources: Meta adjusts employee review language around “AI-driven impact” and token usage, easing off on tokenmaxxing, while promoting the use of AI agent Hatch — The company is reducing pressur

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid 500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at 157M before the sale — Palo Alto Net

Washington Post: Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 — More than a quarter of U.S.

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” — The Comin

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues — It's only th

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work — Anthropic PBC is releasing a new versi

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work — In June, Anthropic first released Fable 5,

Anthropic: Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards — We're introducing Claude Fable 5

Ben Patterson / PCWorld: Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's first models to watermark text outputs; a detection API is available to eligible groups as required under EU law — Aside from b

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Dyson unveils the 499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images — Dyson Ltd.

Wired: OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon” but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners — The company will give select partners early

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to 3.41B, vs. 3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management — Palo Alto Networks surpassed f

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents — As the compan

The Information: Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its fort

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of 3.2B, up from 300M in April, and is profitable — Twenty three year-old Spencer

Bloomberg: Sources: Cognition is raising around 1B at a ~47B valuation, up from 26B in May; Cognition received nearly 10B in investor interest — Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc

Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training — Interna

Andreessen Horowitz: a16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B — - Enterprises are putting AI tools to work across every part of their organizations. …

Anthropic: Anthropic details security efforts following Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking — On July 30, we reported thre

Financial Times: Big Tech reported Q2 “other income” rose significantly to $160B+, driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom — Analysts say large p

Bloomberg: Nvidia plans to invest 3.5B into MediaTek through convertible bonds; MediaTek forecasts AI chip revenue of about 2B this year — Nvidia Corp. is investing $3.5 billion into MediaTek Inc., de

Rocket Drew / The Information: Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners — For all the t

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on and supply chips to a Texas data center built by Hut 8 —

The Information: Sources: OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing — OpenAI in recent months has

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: The Hugging Face and Mythos 5 incidents show AI agents can self-organize, raising questions about how much agency they should have and when to seek human input — From

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: The Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil platform, giving its 3M personnel access to AI tools “tailored to warfighter needs” — The Penta

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on user PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage — Anth

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue — Busine

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: OpenAI's Hugging Face incident report says AI agents used exploits to gain full admin access to OpenAI's own research cluster supporting its VM environments — The wh

Aaron Tilley / The Information: Sources: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs — The hot

Ajeya Cotra / Planned Obsolescence: The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident feels like we are halfway to losing control of AI entirely, and as AI advances rapidly we may not get another warning shot — It's a

@claudedevs: Anthropic will “permanently” raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost — Starting September 14, w