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LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-2

Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-2 AI

John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' “field, machine, and operational data” (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-2 AI

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME's 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders (slashdot.org)
2026-9-2 AI

A consortium of 21 banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, says it will establish a company and launch its stablecoin venture in H1 2027 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-2 U.S. Goldman

AI power infrastructure company SB Energy, which is backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Nvidia, files for an IPO, and says it is “substantially dependent” on OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-2 IPO Energy AI Nvidia

Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-2 Google Adobe

Air Security, which builds a security service for extensions and other tools installed on AI agents, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Sequoia and Greenoaks (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-9-2 AI

DataAgent, which is developing AI agents that autonomously fix failures inside companies' own cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $10M pre-seed (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-9-2 AI

A consortium of 21 banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, plans to establish a company and launch its stablecoin venture in H1 2027 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-2 U.S. Goldman

Starman Optical agrees to acquire GoPro in an all-cash deal valued at $285M, a premium of 29.5% to GPRO's last close; GoPro hit a market cap of $4B in 2014 (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-2

PE firm Epiris agrees to buy European enterprise communications provider Gamma Communications for about £1B, a 53% premium to Gamma's share price on April 7 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-2 Europe

Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits workloads between frontier cloud models like Opus 5 and local LLMs, for all users of its Mac app (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-2

Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-2

Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-2 AI

Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox plans to start testing in Houston and San Diego (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-2 Amazon

PSI, which aims to use AI “to industrialize the discovery of new physics” including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-9-2 AI

Novocure data breach affects more than 1,400 cancer patients (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-2

Hackers push malicious Virtualizor update in BGP hijacking attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-2

Why Even the Best Edge Security Still Misses High-Risk Sessions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-2

Indian edtech startup upGrad closes its acquisition of rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal valuing Unacademy at ~$206M, down from its peak $3.5B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-2 India Startup

Memo: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38B investment in the video game industry since 2021, is stepping down (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-1 Saudi Arabia

Roku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs, starting at $999 for 55" and 65" 120Hz models and $1,299 for 144Hz models, sold exclusively via Amazon (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-1 Amazon

Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-1 IOS Apple Firefox Mozilla

Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to hijack attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-1 Microsoft

Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on, and supply chips to, a Hut 8-built Texas data center (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-1 Nvidia Texas

Nvidia plans to launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-1 Nvidia

Sources: Salesforce is leading a $160M+ raise for HR software company HiBob at a $3.2B+ valuation, up from $2.66B in 2023; HiBob has raised $700M+ since 2015 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-1 Salesforce

John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO and Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-1 Apple Tim Cook

California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-9-1 Solar California

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