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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)

https://www.ft.com/content/356cf253-7711-4a89-8139-5b0152824975
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)

https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-472-deepminds-cheating
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)

https://taekim.substack.com/p/gpt-6-astra-and-the-fourth-exponential
Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/36333a53-4063-4aad-8df9-8d2f9d0048a3
Mistral raised €3B led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands to building data centers instead of solely developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html
Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy (Leila Miller/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/tech-companies-look-argentinas-windswept-patagonia-build-massive-data-centers-2026-09-07/
Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/politics/calif-ai-worm-wechat-hack.html
NYC-based Blee, which makes marketing compliance software for financial services companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Fin Capital and SMBC and a $7M seed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/09/08/blee-27r-million-compliance-software
Google rolls out changes to search results in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest reduction in quality of service in Search's history (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/google-warns-lower-quality-it-revamps-europe-search-results-avoid-eu-fines-2026-09-08/