Sources: Kalshi plans to seek US regulatory approval to start offering single-stock perpetual futures; Coinbase filed similar regulatory paperwork last week (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/kalshi-looks-to-expand-a-rapidly-growing-universe-of-risky-trading-a7670fde
https://www.wsj.com/finance/kalshi-looks-to-expand-a-rapidly-growing-universe-of-risky-trading-a7670fde
The Wall Street Journal
Exclusive | Kalshi Looks to Expand a Rapidly Growing Universe of Risky Trading
A platform known for prediction markets has seen perpetual futures surge in popularity.
A US judge finds TikTok liable for lying about its safety standards and exposing minors to inappropriate content, in a 2025 lawsuit filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton (Christian Terry/Click2Houston.com)
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/09/10/judge-finds-tiktok-liable-for-lying-about-safety-standards-in-texas-lawsuit/
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/09/10/judge-finds-tiktok-liable-for-lying-about-safety-standards-in-texas-lawsuit/
KPRC
Judge finds TikTok liable for lying about safety standards in Texas lawsuit
A U.S. District Judge has found TikTok liable for lying about its safety standards as part of a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Tencent-backed AI chipmaker Enflame's shares surged 188% in their Shanghai debut, giving Enflame a market cap of $26.3B, after raising ~$910M in an IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367124/enflame-shares-soar-188-shanghai-debut-nvidia-challenger-taps-investor-fever-ai
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367124/enflame-shares-soar-188-shanghai-debut-nvidia-challenger-taps-investor-fever-ai
South China Morning Post
Enflame soars 179% in Shanghai debut as Nvidia challenger taps AI fever
Tencent-backed company valued at US$25 billion, highlighting its role in Beijing’s push for domestic chips amid US export restrictions.
President Trump rejects warnings of AI-driven human extinction, saying the US leads China by a year and will be "in a very bad position" if it doesn't win in AI (Jeff Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/trump-rejects-warnings-that-ai-may-lead-to-human-extinction
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/trump-rejects-warnings-that-ai-may-lead-to-human-extinction
Bloomberg.com
Trump Rejects Warnings That AI May Lead to Human Extinction
President Donald Trump brushed aside warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the technology is becoming too hard to control and could kill all humans, saying his paramount interest is maintaining an edge over China.
Official doc: India's Serious Fraud Office urges the government to probe Xiaomi over alleged business model irregularities and foreign investment law violations (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/indias-serious-fraud-office-recommends-detailed-probe-into-xiaomis-business-2026-09-09/
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/indias-serious-fraud-office-recommends-detailed-probe-into-xiaomis-business-2026-09-09/
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T-Mobile Newsroom
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MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/business/media/ai-chatbots-election-misinformation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AFE.ya1P.DrVmiCYOicde&smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/business/media/ai-chatbots-election-misinformation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AFE.ya1P.DrVmiCYOicde&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Nytimes
Voters Are Asking A.I. About Elections. The Answers Can Vary by User. (Gift Article)
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a go-to stop for voters looking for information about political races. Researchers are studying the effects.
Sources: TikTok rejects ads from Meta that call on competitors to join Meta in settling with US state attorneys general in a landmark child safety lawsuit (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/11/tiktok-meta-ads-children-safety-settlement
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/11/tiktok-meta-ads-children-safety-settlement
Axios
Scoop: TikTok rejects Meta ads amid settlement pressure campaign
Part of Meta's historic multibillion-dollar settlement is contingent on its peers also agreeing to settle.
Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the company aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as finance chief of Amazon, EA, NBC, and most recently Nielsen (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/polymarket-appoints-first-finance-chief-amid-u-s-growth-plans-882f8160
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/polymarket-appoints-first-finance-chief-amid-u-s-growth-plans-882f8160
The Wall Street Journal
Polymarket Appoints First Finance Chief Amid U.S. Growth Plans
Warren Jenson, who previously served as finance chief of Amazon, Electronic Arts, Delta Air Lines and NBC during the ‘90s and early 2000s, has been named Polymarket’s first chief financial officer.
Garry Tan says "I would do nothing" about China's AI distillation and urges the industry to focus on current AI risks instead of doomsday-style extinction fears (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/y-combinator-garry-tan-says-do-nothing-about-distillation.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/y-combinator-garry-tan-says-do-nothing-about-distillation.html
CNBC
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan says 'do nothing' about distillation as AI giants accuse China of copying their tech
At Y Combinator’s annual Demo Day, CEO Garry Tan explained why he's less concerned about frontier AI model distillation and the existential risk of AI.
Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M Series E in March 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.techmeme.com/260911/p9#a260911p9
https://www.techmeme.com/260911/p9#a260911p9
Techmeme
Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M…
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M Series E in March 2026
A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/linkedin-beats-browsergate-lawsuits-over-scanning-users-chrome-extensions/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/linkedin-beats-browsergate-lawsuits-over-scanning-users-chrome-extensions/
Ars Technica
LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions
Judge tosses lawsuits, says plaintiffs didn't allege any real privacy violation.
Sources: Moonshot AI told investors it topped $1B ARR in August, up from $300M in June, driven by its Kimi K3 release; it aims to hit $2B ARR by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/china-ai-star-moonshot-eyes-2-billion-annualized-sales-in-2026
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/china-ai-star-moonshot-eyes-2-billion-annualized-sales-in-2026
Bloomberg.com
China AI Star Moonshot Eyes $2 Billion Annualized Sales in 2026
Moonshot AI is targeting a manifold jump in annualized revenue to $2 billion by the end of the year, using the breakout success of its Kimi K3 model to dial up the heat on rivals from Anthropic PBC to Z.AI Co.
Source and draft press release: the Trump admin will lend $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telecom company, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-administration-lend-100-million-africell-countering-huawei-africa-2026-09-11/
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-administration-lend-100-million-africell-countering-huawei-africa-2026-09-11/
OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of "slop mathematics" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-caltech-ai-math-hackathon-backlash-anthropic-2026-9
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-caltech-ai-math-hackathon-backlash-anthropic-2026-9
Business Insider
OpenAI pulls out of Caltech math hackathon after mathematicians issue open letter criticizing AI math 'slop'
Caltech mathematicians said the event, which is sponsored by AI companies, "is likely to have destructive impacts for the mathematical community."
Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-fidji-simo-to-join-board-of-cloud-provider-nscale-ahead-of-ipo-3b452424
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-fidji-simo-to-join-board-of-cloud-provider-nscale-ahead-of-ipo-3b452424
The Wall Street Journal
Exclusive | OpenAI’s Fidji Simo to Join Board of Cloud Provider Nscale Ahead of IPO
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo has joined the board of directors at Nscale, a startup that has raised billions to build data centers for AI.
A US court sentences Ukrainian Oleksii Lytvynenko to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the Conti ransomware attacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/conti-ransomware-gang-member-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/conti-ransomware-gang-member-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison/
BleepingComputer
Conti ransomware gang member sentenced to 4 years in prison
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022.
Threat intelligence report: Anthropic says it disrupted a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software for missiles (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/anthropic-says-yemen-group-used-claude-in-missile-development
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/anthropic-says-yemen-group-used-claude-in-missile-development
Bloomberg.com
Anthropic Says Yemen Group Used Claude in Missile Development
Anthropic PBC uncovered a group in northern Yemen — where Iran-backed Houthi militants operate — using its Claude AI model to support the development of missile and rocket systems, highlighting growing concerns over the use of advanced AI in military programs…
Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/10/marc-andreessen-trump-biden-ai-opinion-01045516
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/10/marc-andreessen-trump-biden-ai-opinion-01045516
POLITICO
Opinion | What Really Happened at the White House Lunch That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump
Setting the record straight about the venture capitalist’s meeting with us in the Biden White House.
GSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal providing a 50% discount from October 1, with access to GPT-6 Astra (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/openai-gives-us-agencies-50-off-models-ending-1-per-year-deal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/openai-gives-us-agencies-50-off-models-ending-1-per-year-deal
Bloomberg.com
OpenAI Gives US Agencies 50% Off Models, Ending $1 Per Year Deal
OpenAI is ending a pilot program that allowed government agencies to use its models for only $1 per year and moving to a usage-based pricing system that will give federal workers access to the technology at a 50% discount from standard prices, according to…
Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/993974/meta-ai-prompt-invasive-suggestions
https://www.theverge.com/tech/993974/meta-ai-prompt-invasive-suggestions
The Verge
Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
Meta says it “missed the mark.”