Sources including French public officials detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron (Océane Herrero/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/mistral-ai-arthur-mensch-emmanuel-macron-gouvernement-france/
https://www.politico.eu/article/mistral-ai-arthur-mensch-emmanuel-macron-gouvernement-france/
POLITICO
How Emmanuel Macron brought France’s AI darling to the world stage – POLITICO
Mistral has forged unrivaled ties with the French presidency. Now, Emmanuel Macron is departing.
Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-high-bandwidth-memory-shortage-bites-2026-09-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-high-bandwidth-memory-shortage-bites-2026-09-10/
Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-researcher-quits-jacob-coxon-ai-fears-humanity/
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-researcher-quits-jacob-coxon-ai-fears-humanity/
WIRED
The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-expert-ai-trainers/
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-expert-ai-trainers/
Rest of World
Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortgage.
How Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/technology/zoox-waymo-san-francisco.html?unlocked_article_code=1._1A.UmXG.fSHCvuBodiUj&smid=url-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/technology/zoox-waymo-san-francisco.html?unlocked_article_code=1._1A.UmXG.fSHCvuBodiUj&smid=url-share
Nytimes
How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco (Gift Article)
The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.
Sources: Grab is in talks to buy a majority stake in Advance Intelligence Group's Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome Financial at a $2B+ valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/grab-is-said-in-talks-to-buy-softbank-backed-fintech-firm-atome
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/grab-is-said-in-talks-to-buy-softbank-backed-fintech-firm-atome
Bloomberg.com
Grab Is Said in Talks to Buy SoftBank-Backed Fintech Firm Atome
Grab Holdings Ltd., the biggest ride-hailing and food-delivery firm in Southeast Asia, is in talks to buy a majority stake in Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later platform Atome Financial, according to people familiar with the matter.
The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0c440134-686f-4b55-ab35-2afe4e6a3f91?accessToken=zwAAAaCJ35XTkc8MRAE0aG9LVdOrNSr-Tmo_kQ.MEQCIER3H-O6mWRcAmNO3_yTDCjVmPf-Ca6Shrf6XTNkM3BQAiAUjNiTniaSHEjRydTLImC95ZyADy7FI3TYJz1a1lHjAQ&sharetype=gift&token=c46878b0-1d41-4b3c-9645-6e6e80bff9fd
https://www.ft.com/content/0c440134-686f-4b55-ab35-2afe4e6a3f91?accessToken=zwAAAaCJ35XTkc8MRAE0aG9LVdOrNSr-Tmo_kQ.MEQCIER3H-O6mWRcAmNO3_yTDCjVmPf-Ca6Shrf6XTNkM3BQAiAUjNiTniaSHEjRydTLImC95ZyADy7FI3TYJz1a1lHjAQ&sharetype=gift&token=c46878b0-1d41-4b3c-9645-6e6e80bff9fd
A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years (Ghosts of Electricity)
https://aleximas.substack.com/p/will-ai-soon-lead-to-double-digit
https://aleximas.substack.com/p/will-ai-soon-lead-to-double-digit
Substack
Will AI soon lead to double-digit growth?
Probably not. Here is why.
Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it "reckless" (Axios)
https://www.techmeme.com/260910/p11#a260910p11
https://www.techmeme.com/260910/p11#a260910p11
Techmeme
Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face…
Axios: Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless”
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on a new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-deepseek-launches-v41-flash-model-2026-09-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-deepseek-launches-v41-flash-model-2026-09-10/
Sources: Moonshot AI is exploring dual Hong Kong and Shanghai listings for greater capital and exposure, amid the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367027/kimi-maker-moonshot-ai-explore-dual-hong-kong-and-shanghai-ipos-boost-capital-sources
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367027/kimi-maker-moonshot-ai-explore-dual-hong-kong-and-shanghai-ipos-boost-capital-sources
South China Morning Post
Exclusive | Moonshot AI considers dual listings in Hong Kong and Shanghai: sources
Moonshot’s exploration of dual listings may stem in part from the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong, the sources said.
Anthropic gives EU cybersecurity agency ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months of talks that began in late May; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1 (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/anthropic-gives-eu-access-to-mythos-months-after-model-s-release
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/anthropic-gives-eu-access-to-mythos-months-after-model-s-release
Bloomberg.com
Anthropic Gives EU Access to Mythos Months After Model’s Release
Anthropic PBC has handed the European Union’s cybersecurity agency access to its powerful Mythos artificial intelligence model, more than three months after first signaling the bloc would be given access.
Paris-based Arlequin AI, which is developing proprietary models based on topological neural networks, raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/09/10/arlequin-ai-lands-eur28m-to-scale-topological-neural-network-technology/
https://tech.eu/2026/09/10/arlequin-ai-lands-eur28m-to-scale-topological-neural-network-technology/
Tech.eu
Arlequin AI lands €28M to scale topological neural network technology
Arlequin AI has secured Series A funding to develop its topological neural network architecture and expand the deployment of AI tools for analysing complex, interconnected data.
Sources: Nasdaq is investing $100M in Kraken parent Payward, valuing the cryptocurrency exchange at $21B; Kraken will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/nasdaq-invests-in-kraken-parent-payward-at-21-billion-valuation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/nasdaq-invests-in-kraken-parent-payward-at-21-billion-valuation
Bloomberg.com
Nasdaq Invests in Kraken Parent Payward at $21 Billion Valuation
Nasdaq Inc. is investing $100 million in Payward, the parent of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, as the firm continues to build out infrastructure that supports trading stocks in tokenized form, according to people familiar with the matter.
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/ant-international-visa-mastercard-ai-agent-payment-standard.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/ant-international-visa-mastercard-ai-agent-payment-standard.html
CNBC
Ant International partners with Visa, Mastercard on developing AI payments
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International are working on common standards for AI-agent payments — including ways to verify and monitor their transactions.
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B (Sonia Sirletti/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/bending-spoons-agrees-to-buy-workspace-miro-for-1-36-billion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/bending-spoons-agrees-to-buy-workspace-miro-for-1-36-billion
Bloomberg.com
Bending Spoons Agrees to Buy Miro for $1.36 Billion
Bending Spoons SpA agreed to acquire workplace-collaboration platform Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the business at $1.36 billion, as the Italian technology group continues its acquisition spree.
Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/defense-tech-mach-industries-doubles-valuation-to-3-7b-in-3-months/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/defense-tech-mach-industries-doubles-valuation-to-3-7b-in-3-months/
TechCrunch
Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months | TechCrunch
The buzzy startup raised another $600 million in a Series C extension round, bringing the total of the round to $900 million.
Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month (Peter Adams/Marketing Dive)
https://www.marketingdive.com/news/amazon-pilots-ad-services-in-chatgpt-what-marketers-need-to-know/829945/
https://www.marketingdive.com/news/amazon-pilots-ad-services-in-chatgpt-what-marketers-need-to-know/829945/
Marketing Dive
Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT: What marketers need to know
The managed service offering, which is in a U.S. pilot and available via Amazon DSP, comes as ChatGPT Ads recently hit a revenue milestone.
Positron, which is designing an AI processor called Asimov with a "memory-first architecture" and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/positron-valued-at-5-billion-in-new-funding-as-cpu-demand-surges-76dde819
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/positron-valued-at-5-billion-in-new-funding-as-cpu-demand-surges-76dde819
The Wall Street Journal
Exclusive | Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges
NEA, Atreides and Jim Clark are among the investors putting $875 million into the firm, which makes chips designed for fast running of AI models.
TAR, which builds off-grid power systems for data centers, raised a $120M Series A led by Spark Capital at a ~$1B valuation (Mark Chediak/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/anthropic-investor-leads-funding-for-off-grid-ai-power-startup
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/anthropic-investor-leads-funding-for-off-grid-ai-power-startup
Bloomberg.com
Anthropic Investor Leads Funding for Off-Grid AI Power Startup
A startup that builds off-grid power systems for data centers said it raised $120 million in a Series A funding round led by Spark Capital, an investor in artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic PBC.
Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/maven-robotics-wants-to-steal-your-robot-deployment-deal/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/maven-robotics-wants-to-steal-your-robot-deployment-deal/
TechCrunch
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal | TechCrunch
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.