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Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised 156M at a 5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity — Identi

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit 279B in Q2, up from 119B in Q1, 95.2B in Q4 2025, and 50.3B in Q3 2025 — The AI chi

CNBC: Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong — Nvidia shares rose nearly 9% Thursd

Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” — OpenAI, Anthropic, A

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks — Code reviewed by WIRED

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month — It seems the

Reuters: Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~4B valuation — Anthropic discussed buying arti

New York Times: Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as 10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic — The social networking giant

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place — The company is rethinkin

Bloomberg: Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating — The US government is inves

Newcomer: Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a 1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures — Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raisi

Madison Mills / Axios: Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 — After burning t

Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them — Artificial i

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to 350M — Buzzy startup Instinc

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers — Anthropic add

Karen Weise / New York Times: Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs — Bill Gates is t

Bill Gates / GatesNotes: Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework — Bill Gates, a

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project — AM Intelligenc

Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit — Resea

Alex Heath / Time: Interviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and others on the company's reboot; Sam Altman says OpenAI would have a system he would call AGI by the end of 2026 — Alex Heath … They ho

METR: METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face — Redaction summary statement: Exc

Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters: Nvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of 108B, above a 104B estimate, and expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by about 70%; NVDA jumps 4%+ after hours — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) quarterly re

OpenAI: OpenAI publishes a technical report on the Hugging Face incident, detailing the agents' activity, safeguard failures, and measures to prevent recurrence — Read the technical report Read METR r

Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach — In July, an

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills — Salesforce

Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~400M in its second startup fund, after it raised 175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft — The Cha

The Information: Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for 12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce — Nvidia has agreed to buy Huggi

Business Insider: Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing — - The companies have not reached a deal

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale 45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips — Anthropic PBC has a

The Information: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a 6B valuation; 1X sought 1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% — SoftBank is in talks to

Courtenay Brown / Axios: The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring — The Trump adm

Z.ai: Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price” — We introduce GLM-5.3-Flash, the firs

SemiAnalysis: A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models — OpenAI's self-designed ASIC

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude chat

Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are 899+ and 1,699+, 100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is 5,499+, up $200 — Betw

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey — Alphabet's Goog

Eugene Demaitre / The Robot Report: Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU — As AI mode

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperf

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs — Perplexi

Skild AI: Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning — UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSON

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above 30T, topping SpaceX's 28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 —

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised 140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation “close to 1B” — An Israeli sta

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots — E

Cassandre Coyer / Bloomberg Law: Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marsha