MrBeast, whose YouTube channel recently hit 500M subs, will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multi-year Google deal (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/988355/mrbeast-google-partnership-gemini-fitbit

The US Army awards $192M in contracts to Palantir and Anduril to produce eight TITAN AI-powered mobile ground stations, to be delivered over the next 18 months (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)

https://www.tectonicdefense.com/the-army-awards-palantir-and-anduril-192m-for-eight-titan-mobile-ground-stations/

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 (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/pro/private-equity/blackstone-backs-cybersecurity-startup-huskeys-to-fight-unwanted-ai-traffic-410c5c6a?st=RxHExB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says "we trust Anthropic" as they are "back on the right side" with the administration and that "they've done what we asked" (Maria Curi/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/02/lutnick-anthropic-trump

Thyme Care, which focuses on filling gaps in cancer treatment through a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation (Ian Thomas/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/thyme-care-raises-125-million-cancer-startups-value-over-2-billion.html

X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/x-shifts-us-creator-payouts-from-stripe-to-x-money/

Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta's API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as its predecessor (Ina Fried/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/02/meta-debuts-muse-spark-13-as-personal-agent-work-continues

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are "coming soon" (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)

https://www.techmeme.com/260902/p37#a260902p37

Letter: OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing "automated shutdown capabilities" for AI systems (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-is-building-automated-shutdown-capabilities-ai-tools-letter-lawmakers-2026-09-02/

Snowflake reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to $1.55B, vs. $1.48B est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 22%+ after hours (MarketWatch)

https://www.techmeme.com/260902/p39#a260902p39

Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 86% YoY to $29.59B, vs. $29.36B est., AI semiconductor revenue up 221% to $16.7B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/broadcom-avgo-q3-earnings-report-2026.html

HPE reports Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to $12.2B, vs. $11.9B est., forecasts FY 2026 and FY 2027 sales growth above est., signs a $3.5B server deal with a cloud firm (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-02/hpe-lifts-sales-forecast-on-ai-demand-for-servers-networking

Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 (@artificialanlys)

https://www.techmeme.com/260902/p42#a260902p42

Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-02/thoma-bravo-s-proofpoint-is-said-in-talks-to-acquire-varonis

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 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/palo-alto-networks-paid-500m-for-thrive-backed-console-sources-say/

Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/988415/uber-wayve-robotaxi-london-launch

Microsoft will start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as part of a shift in its reporting structure, under which Azure revenue grew 42% YoY to $29.42B in Q4 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/microsoft-to-disclose-azure-revenue-as-part-of-segment-changes.html

Microsoft shifts from three reporting segments to two: Agents and Infra, including Microsoft 365 and Azure, and Devices and Consumer, with Windows and Xbox (Stephen Nakrosis/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-to-change-reporting-structure-to-reflect-effects-of-ai-59dce66d

A look at Loudoun County, Virginia, dubbed "Data Center Alley", which hosts ~250 data centers and offers a glimpse into data centers' impact on communities (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/975597/loudoun-county-virginia-data-center-backlash?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImdOTzNBbXNGVFoiLCJwIjoiL2NzL2ZlYXR1cmVzLzk3NTU5Ny9sb3Vkb3VuLWNvdW50eS12aXJnaW5pYS1kYXRhLWNlbnRlci1iYWNrbGFzaCIsImV4cCI6MTc4ODc4MjY4NiwiaWF0IjoxNzg4MzUwNjg3fQ.fluxVpED1fJ-DEk8WWOP3EJ5LdE4FtugNovvbbdW1j0&utm_medium=gift-link

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 (Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pushes-its-new-ai-agent-on-employees-but-eases-off-on-tokenmaxxing/

China-based Moonshot filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO; source: the company is in talks to raise a pre-IPO funding round at a $50B valuation (Juro Osawa/The Information)

https://www.techmeme.com/260902/p50#a260902p50