Tech

Bank of Korea: South Korea's monthly memory chip output is set to grow by ~600K wafers by 2028, widening its lead over China's CXMT, set to grow by ~300K wafers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 China Korea

Thailand suspends the construction of 49 data centers in order to develop new industry regulations, as governments worldwide tighten oversight of the facilities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 Thailand

Sources: DeepSeek plans to use 160K+ of Huawei's Ascend 950DT chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, which would create one of the largest Huawei chip clusters (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4

Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-4 AI Nvidia Equity

Sources: Binance is still operating in the EU months after it failed to get a MiCA license, using workarounds to onboard new customers and reroute its trading (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4

Tesla Launches Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi In Austin (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 Tesla

Sources: initial foldable iPhone production is limited to only a “few hundred” units a day due to Apple's strict quality standards as it ramps up output (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-9-4 iPhone Apple

Q&A with Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue on the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal, scaling open-source models, the rumored $1B talent retention plan, and more (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-4 Nvidia

A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-4 chatbot Nvidia

Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 AI Ban

Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 AI

Wikimedia Foundation staffers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200+ US employees across engineering, finance, and communications (www.wired.com)
2026-9-4

Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors (www.geekwire.com)
2026-9-4 AI Equity

Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4

Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; the two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 Cybercabs are registered in Texas (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-4 Tesla Texas

AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor (fortune.com)
2026-9-4 Google Startup AI

Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2026-9-4 AI

Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 Equity

Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 AI

Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (www.axios.com)
2026-9-4

French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4 France

Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 Apple

Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits (games.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 Xbox

Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 IPO

Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-4 Adobe

OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world (www.axios.com)
2026-9-4

'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts (slashdot.org)
2026-9-4

Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4

Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 AI

GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8% (arcprize.org)
2026-9-4

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