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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-23

Check Point warns of Management Server zero-day exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23

In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is “officially” renaming AI to “super intelligence” because “artificial” makes it sound fake (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-23 Trump AI Intelligence

Sources: in a London presentation, SpaceXAI says Grok Bot hit 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% from the week prior; SpaceXAI launched it in mid-August (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-23 London

Chamelio, which is building AI tools designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment, raised a $26M Series A (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-9-23 AI

Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-23 CFTC

EvilTokens PhaaS disrupted after compromising 12,000 Microsoft accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-23 Microsoft

Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-23 AI

Apple announces new $350 Beats 360 headphones, with IPX4 rating, swappable ear cups, a replaceable battery, ANC, Find My support, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-23 Apple Battery Qihoo

Microsoft lays off 268 Xbox staffers across Halo and other studios, as part of an ongoing gaming “reset”; Activision will take over Halo and two other games (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-23 Microsoft Xbox

Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-23 AI Iran Pentagon

Sources: after a deadly school strike in Iran, US Central Command changed its targeting process, integrated open-source data, and upgraded Palantir's Maven (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-22 Iran

Sources: Xi Jinping is unlikely to bring corporate executives to his DC summit with Trump; industry officials expected them at a dinner with top US tech CEOs (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-22 Trump

Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo (www.macrumors.com)
2026-9-22 iPhone Apple

Adobe launches its free Premiere video editing app on Android, nearly a year after its iOS launch, to replace Premiere Rush, set to lose support on September 30 (www.wired.com)
2026-9-22 Android IOS Adobe

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he plans to use the UK's upcoming G20 presidency to broker a global AI governance deal, ahead of the UN General Assembly (www.politico.eu)
2026-9-22 AI G20

Webinar tomorrow: Inside real-world Google Workspace breaches (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-22 Google

Baselayer, which uses AI to help financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, raised a $35M Series A led by M13, for ~$40M in total funding (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-9-22 AI

Australian healthcare AI startup Heidi raised $340M, including a $100M Series C led by Blackbird at a $900M valuation, taking its total funding to $430M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-22 Australia Startup AI

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems (siliconangle.com)
2026-9-22 AI Robot Alphabet

D-Link warns of max severity zero-day bug in DIR-822A routers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-22

Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framework designed to classify and analyze AI-integrated malware by tracking AI metadata and behavioral fingerprints (www.wired.com)
2026-9-22 AI Cisco

Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~$600M deal, including $500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-9-22 Intel Robot

a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-22

DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-22

Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot are among the companies briefing the UN Security Council on AI risks and international security during the UN General Assembly (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-22 AI

Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform (www.coindesk.com)
2026-9-22

Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-22 China

Get 5 years of AdGuard VPN + Ad Blocker for life for only $50 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-22 VPN

The Austrian Academy of Science, Mistral, and Sail Reply plan to launch Apollo, an Ancient Greek LLM trained on ~600M historical Greek words, available for free (www.wired.com)
2026-9-22 Greece Austria

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