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IFR: ~7,000 autonomous humanoids were sold globally in 2025 for industrial and professional use, with many bought for research instead of doing productive work (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-21

iPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more (www.ifixit.com)
2026-9-21 iPhone

Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases (www.ft.com)
2026-9-21 AI Nvidia

Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent (www.geekwire.com)
2026-9-21 Amazon AI

How the Clarity Act, heavily lobbied by Coinbase's Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stablecoin yields, collapsed in the Senate (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-21 Senate Coinbase

South Korea reopens a program letting AI talent fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs instead of conventional military service (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-9-21 Korea AI

China collected $32.3B of stamp duty on stock sales between January and August, up 80%+ YoY, as average daily trading value rose 72%, amid an AI trading frenzy (www.scmp.com)
2026-9-21 China AI

A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog (www.prinzai.com)
2026-9-21 Germany

North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-21 Korea

A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down (www.politico.com)
2026-9-21

Nine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial, will split US DoD orders for 60,000 drones in a competition that requires no China-made parts (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-21 China Startup Drone

Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital as it weighs a possible IPO (fintech.global)
2026-9-21 Hong Kong IPO

Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, has raised a $25M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-9-21 AI

Sources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B and €1B in debt for its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales ever (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-21

Adaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, raised a $30M Series B led by Tidemark, bringing its total raised to $57M (www.axios.com)
2026-9-21

Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-21 China Startup AI Job Market

Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-21 Google AI

Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures (www.axios.com)
2026-9-21

Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit (www.ft.com)
2026-9-21 Trump China AI

UK-based Unit1, which develops “hyper-realistic” digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others (www.theguardian.com)
2026-9-21

China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-9-21 China AI

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images (qwen.ai)
2026-9-21 Alibaba

Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-21

Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-21 AI

AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures (www.ft.com)
2026-9-21 AI Singapore

The Brain Is Actually Two Completely Separate Organs (science.slashdot.org)
2026-9-21

Indeed: data center roles in the US offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation workers compared with similar jobs at other businesses (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-21

Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals (www.forbes.com)
2026-9-21 AI

A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-21 AI Apple

Malicious npm packages evade install-script defenses at runtime (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-21

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