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.
Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide "multiple generations of customized silicon" to help build AWS' AI infrastructure; QCOM jumps 6%+ (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/08/qualcomm-amazon-data-center-infrastructure-deal.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/08/qualcomm-amazon-data-center-infrastructure-deal.html
CNBC
Qualcomm issues warrants to Amazon to acquire $4 billion worth of chipmaker's stock as part of AI infrastructure deal
Qualcomm is trying to move into the data center business, where Nvidia has been the dominant player in the AI boom.
Researchers say Meta ran 300+ ads with CSAM this year; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to "nudification" apps from China (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-failed-to-catch-hundreds-of-ai-child-abuse-ads-some-included-images-of-real-kids/
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-failed-to-catch-hundreds-of-ai-child-abuse-ads-some-included-images-of-real-kids/
WIRED
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
Google Cloud and Accenture form the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group to train up to 1,000 Accenture forward deployed engineers for Gemini Enterprise (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/google-cloud-accenture-launch-unit-to-put-ai-engineers-on-site-with-customers-698a8628
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/google-cloud-accenture-launch-unit-to-put-ai-engineers-on-site-with-customers-698a8628
The Wall Street Journal
Exclusive | Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With Customers
The new group will be made up of 1,000 forward-deployed engineers.
Poseidon Aerospace, which plans the first test flight of its pilotless cargo plane by year-end, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures, after an $11M seed (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/poseidon-aerospace-lands-60m-ahead-of-first-pilotless-test-flight/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/poseidon-aerospace-lands-60m-ahead-of-first-pilotless-test-flight/
TechCrunch
Exclusive: Poseidon Aerospace lands $60 million ahead of first pilotless test flight | TechCrunch
The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.
Runway co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis says the startup's annual recurring revenue hit $200M in September; source: it expects ARR to cross $350M by the end of 2026 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ai-startup-runway-hits-200-million-in-annual-recurring-revenue
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ai-startup-runway-hits-200-million-in-annual-recurring-revenue
Bloomberg.com
AI Startup Runway Hits $200 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue
Runway AI Inc.’s annual recurring revenue hit $200 million in September, underscoring growing demand from companies using the startup's image- and video-generating software to make marketing materials and ads.
Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.techmeme.com/260908/p22#a260908p22
https://www.techmeme.com/260908/p22#a260908p22
Techmeme
Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $275M at a $3B+ valuation
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome (Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/
Google
AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.
Circle agrees to acquire Singapore-based cross-border B2B payments company Tazapay for $400M, in one of its largest publicly disclosed acquisitions to date (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/09/08/circle-agrees-to-buy-cross-border-payments-firm-tazapay-for-usd400-million
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/09/08/circle-agrees-to-buy-cross-border-payments-firm-tazapay-for-usd400-million
Coindesk
Circle agrees to buy Tazapay for $400 million in one of its largest acquisitions to date
The deal could grant Circle vital, regulated "last-mile" infrastructure, bridging the gap between stablecoins and traditional local banking systems.
NextEra Energy, which partnered with Google to revive an Iowa nuclear power plant, gets a $1.9B loan from the Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/googles-revived-nuclear-power-plant-gets-1-9b-loan-from-us-government/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/googles-revived-nuclear-power-plant-gets-1-9b-loan-from-us-government/
TechCrunch
Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government | TechCrunch
Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant's owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department.
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and used an internal model to solve it (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-may-have-just-solved-a-million-dollar-math-problem-the-field-will-never-be-the-same/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-may-have-just-solved-a-million-dollar-math-problem-the-field-will-never-be-the-same/
Scientific American
AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem. The field will never be the same
A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
UK seeks to force Apple and Google to block children from taking, viewing, or sharing nude images on their devices, and praises Apple's age-based restrictions (Jacob Reid/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/uk-to-force-apple-google-to-block-nude-images-on-kids-devices
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/uk-to-force-apple-google-to-block-nude-images-on-kids-devices
Bloomberg.com
UK to Force Apple, Google to Block Nude Images on Kids’ Devices
The UK government will require technology companies such as Apple Inc. and Google to stop children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images on their phones and tablets, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told the House of Commons on Tuesday.
OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts, says it spent millions in compute after hearing Anthropic had a breakthrough (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-navier-stokes-math-discovery-academics/
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-navier-stokes-math-discovery-academics/
WIRED
OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul
A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.
OpenAI says an internal model "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra" solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/openai-math-solution-navier-stokes-credit
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/openai-math-solution-navier-stokes-credit
Axios
OpenAI's historic math solution overshadowed by credit controversy
The company denies any ties to other research.
The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes "copyright infringement very seriously" (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)
https://kotaku.com/white-house-removes-awful-tetris-clone-from-website-after-the-tetris-company-posted-it-takes-copyright-infringement-very-seriously-2000732129
https://kotaku.com/white-house-removes-awful-tetris-clone-from-website-after-the-tetris-company-posted-it-takes-copyright-infringement-very-seriously-2000732129
Kotaku
Tetris Clone Removed From White House Site Following Copyright Reminder
It seems the Trump administration doesn't want to tempt a lawsuit from The Tetris Company
AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M (Samantha Oltman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ai-startup-cognition-raises-2-billion-at-a-48-billion-value
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ai-startup-cognition-raises-2-billion-at-a-48-billion-value
Bloomberg.com
AI Startup Cognition Raises $2 Billion at a $48 Billion Value
Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. has raised $2 billion in a new round of funding that vaulted its valuation to $48 billion.