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
https://taekim.substack.com/p/gpt-6-astra-and-the-fourth-exponential
Substack
GPT-6 Astra and the Fourth Exponential
AI computer tool use is a big deal.
The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched (The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/defi/2026-09-07-liquid-network-attacker-says-they-will-return-most-of-4000-btc-after-bug-fix-413673
https://www.theblock.co/news/defi/2026-09-07-liquid-network-attacker-says-they-will-return-most-of-4000-btc-after-bug-fix-413673
The Block
Liquid Network attacker says they will return most of 4,000 BTC after bug fix
The Liquid Network attacker said they would return most of the roughly 4,000 BTC once the software bug affecting the network is patched.
Hunter Biden teases a $LAPTOP memecoin launch on September 9; sources: it will launch on Base, and some tokens will be sent to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/hunter-biden-and-his-laptop-enter-the-cryptosphere-with-new-meme-coin-4d46fc9c?st=rBFEhm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/hunter-biden-and-his-laptop-enter-the-cryptosphere-with-new-meme-coin-4d46fc9c?st=rBFEhm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Wall Street Journal
Exclusive | Hunter Biden (and His Laptop) Enter the Cryptosphere With New Meme Coin
The personal computer that launched a thousand memes will debut this week as a digital token.
Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/robinhood-wins-a-new-role-in-the-oura-ipo-underwriter-9a76c632
https://www.wsj.com/finance/robinhood-wins-a-new-role-in-the-oura-ipo-underwriter-9a76c632
The Wall Street Journal
Robinhood Wins a New Role in the Oura IPO: Underwriter
Playing an official part in the IPO process could give Robinhood more influence over the number of shares allocated to its customers.
Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/07/grindr-settle-uk-lawsuit-dating-app-ad
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/07/grindr-settle-uk-lawsuit-dating-app-ad
the Guardian
Grindr pays £26m to settle UK lawsuit over allegedly sharing users’ HIV status
US-owned dating app allegedly allowed ad firms access to private information in breach of UK law
Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup (Bloomberg)
https://www.techmeme.com/260907/p22#a260907p22
https://www.techmeme.com/260907/p22#a260907p22
Techmeme
Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup
Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup
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
https://www.ft.com/content/36333a53-4063-4aad-8df9-8d2f9d0048a3
Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-custom chip design platform, and says it supports 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz on TSMC's N3P node (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/arm-debuts-next-gen-semi-custom-neoverse-css-n4-ranger-platform-compute-subsystem-packs-up-to-128-cores-per-die-on-tsmc-n3p
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/arm-debuts-next-gen-semi-custom-neoverse-css-n4-ranger-platform-compute-subsystem-packs-up-to-128-cores-per-die-on-tsmc-n3p
Tom's Hardware
Arm debuts next-gen semi-custom Neoverse CSS N4 ‘Ranger’ platform — compute subsystem packs up to 128 cores per die on TSMC N3P
Putting a little pep in Neoverse N-series’ step.
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html
Nytimes
French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift
Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
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/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/tech-companies-look-argentinas-windswept-patagonia-build-massive-data-centers-2026-09-07/
DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an "unprecedented" hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366740/deepseek-embarks-unprecedented-hiring-spree-it-overhauls-backend-systems
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366740/deepseek-embarks-unprecedented-hiring-spree-it-overhauls-backend-systems
South China Morning Post
DeepSeek seeks 150 engineers in hiring spree to overhaul back end systems
The company cited a rapid surge in user demand for AI and increased complexity of its computing systems.
Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/asml-tsmc-samsung-intel-back-12-inch-masks-for-ai-chips
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/asml-tsmc-samsung-intel-back-12-inch-masks-for-ai-chips
Bloomberg.com
ASML Wins Over Top Chipmakers for New EUV Machines
ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking on a broader agreement to meet surging demand for more powerful artificial intelligence technology.
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/politics/calif-ai-worm-wechat-hack.html
Nytimes
A.I. Models Built a Computer Worm That Could Rapidly Hack WeChat Accounts
The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.
China says its AI compute capacity rose 177% YoY to 2,185 eflops by the end of June, and targets 9,800 eflops by 2030 via ~$532B in IT infrastructure spend (Howard Liu/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3366733/china-targets-fourfold-boost-ai-computing-capacity-2030-major-tech-push
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3366733/china-targets-fourfold-boost-ai-computing-capacity-2030-major-tech-push
South China Morning Post
China targets fourfold boost in AI computing capacity by 2030 in major tech push
The nation’s intelligent computing capacity hit 2,185 eflops at the end of June, up 177 per cent from a year earlier, according to MIIT.
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
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/09/08/blee-27r-million-compliance-software
Axios
Exclusive: Blee raises $27M as AI strains compliance teams
Compliance review can remain heavily manual for fintechs.
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/
https://www.reuters.com/world/google-warns-lower-quality-it-revamps-europe-search-results-avoid-eu-fines-2026-09-08/
Forus, which uses AI to help patients get prescribed drugs more quickly by navigating steps like insurance coverage, raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ai-health-company-forus-raises-150-million-at-a-3-billion-value
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ai-health-company-forus-raises-150-million-at-a-3-billion-value
Bloomberg.com
AI Health Company Forus Raises $150 Million at a $3 Billion Value
Healthcare automation startup Forus has raised $150 million at a $3 billion valuation just months after completing a previous funding round. The Series C round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, a firm that has invested in the company since its early-stage…
Australia proposes a "My Feed, My Way" initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labour-s-social-media-algorithm-choice-duty-of-care-bill/107130100
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labour-s-social-media-algorithm-choice-duty-of-care-bill/107130100
www.abc.net.au
Australians could get the power to switch off social media algorithms
Labor wants to make social media platforms proactively reduce foreseeable harms while giving users control over whether algorithms shape their feeds.
Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later this month, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/science/jacob-tsimerman-math-ai-safety.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.fyIA.4SWeUMzEQZAp&smid=url-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/science/jacob-tsimerman-math-ai-safety.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.fyIA.4SWeUMzEQZAp&smid=url-share
Nytimes
Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety (Gift Article)
Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.
A look at Apple's path to a foldable device, the biggest change in iPhone history; sources: memory shortages led Apple to blow past an early $1,999 price goal (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/apple-s-2-000-plus-foldable-iphone-was-a-decade-in-the-making
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/apple-s-2-000-plus-foldable-iphone-was-a-decade-in-the-making
Bloomberg.com
Apple’s $2,000-Plus Foldable iPhone Was a Decade in the Making
Around 2020, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook returned from a trip to Asia unusually energized about a new product category: foldable phones.
Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in the exchange and its prediction market business OG (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/robinhood-strikes-deal-with-crypto-com-in-latest-prediction-markets-push-901a32aa?st=98Z3Xk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/robinhood-strikes-deal-with-crypto-com-in-latest-prediction-markets-push-901a32aa?st=98Z3Xk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Wall Street Journal
Exclusive | Robinhood Strikes Deal With Crypto.com in Latest Prediction-Markets Push
The brokerage will add yes-or-no contracts from Crypto.com’s prediction business, and take a stake in the digital-currency exchange.