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.
Sources: Ramp is in early talks to raise about $1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $44B in June; Ramp has raised $3B to date (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ramp-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-60-billion-valuation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ramp-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-60-billion-valuation
Bloomberg.com
Ramp in Talks for New Funding at $60 Billion Valuation
Ramp is in early talks with investors for a new round of funding at a roughly $60 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the efforts, just three months after the financial technology startup was valued at $44 billion. The company is considering…
OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)
https://www.techmeme.com/260908/p33#a260908p33
https://www.techmeme.com/260908/p33#a260908p33
Techmeme
OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster…
Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck: OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/exclusive-hands-on-with-chatgpts-new-image-editor
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/exclusive-hands-on-with-chatgpts-new-image-editor
Axios
ChatGPT Images gets better at faces, pets and edits
ChatGPT Images 2.5 adds more visual controls while making it easier to preserve the subject of an original photo.
OpenAI says, while unlikely, it "cannot rule out that de-identified data derived" from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
OpenAI
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-muse-personal-ai-agent
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-muse-personal-ai-agent
Axios
Meta debuts Muse, its long-planned personal AI agent
The product was a core part of Mark Zuckerberg's vision for more personal - and private - AI in his recent 6,500 word manifesto.
Meta says users can connect their apps to Muse to send emails, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases via Link by Stripe support, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-its-muse-ai-agent-will-consumers-trust-it/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-its-muse-ai-agent-will-consumers-trust-it/
TechCrunch
Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? | TechCrunch
Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.
Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week, with $20 and $100 monthly tiers (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/meta-announces-muse-ai-agent-for-personal-tasks-and-organization
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/meta-announces-muse-ai-agent-for-personal-tasks-and-organization
Bloomberg.com
Meta Debuts Muse AI Assistant for Personal Tasks and Organization
Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, advancing Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a future where people each have a personalized AI assistant.