Tech

AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-9 Startup AI

Google's Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-9-9 Google

OpenAI says it is working with Samsung on its next-gen chips, and Samsung is one of the “largest-scale deployments of ChatGPT globally” (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-9 Samsung

Savvy Wealth, which provides RIA software for independent financial advisors, raised a $100M Series C led by Halo Fund, taking its total funding to $200M+ (www.axios.com)
2026-9-9

Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 Startup AI

Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where it is offering robotaxi trips, as it plays catch up with Uber (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 Uber

Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software (www.ft.com)
2026-9-9 France Silver

Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when models are used (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 AI

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency (www.theblock.co)
2026-9-9 Cryptocurrency

Google plans to invest €13B in Finland, its biggest investment in Europe to date, over two years to build three new data centers and expand an existing center (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 Europe Google Finland

OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math's 'Millennium Problems' (science.slashdot.org)
2026-9-9 Mathematics

Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism (www.ft.com)
2026-9-9 AI

Sources: Apple's first foldable will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at $2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 iPhone Apple

Sources: China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-9 China IPO Startup

Star Trek Turns 60 (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-9-9

Sources: Apple is set to debut the foldable iPhone Duo at $2,000+ with 256GB of storage, with sales starting as early as October, in white and dark blue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 iPhone Apple

Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement (x.com)
2026-9-9 AI

Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-9 Tax

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2025 (arstechnica.com)
2026-9-9 Microsoft

Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements (www.dwarkesh.com)
2026-9-9

Source: Gimlet Labs raised its $300M round after telling investors OpenAI may spend $100M+ annually on its services; OpenAI says it's not a paying customer yet (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-9

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-9 AI

The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-9 China AI FBI

In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-9

Google Will 'Degrade' Search In Europe to Avoid EU Fines (search.slashdot.org)
2026-9-9 Europe Google

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more (sources.news)
2026-9-9 Zuckerberg

Feds Accuse China of 'Systematic' Distillation of US AI Models (slashdot.org)
2026-9-9 China AI

Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-9

Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code (www.rte.ie)
2026-9-9 Ireland

Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9

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