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Sources: in August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied (www.semafor.com)
2026-9-20 AI

DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after crypto trading firms like Wintermute used it for arbitrage (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20

Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 AI

UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20 Budget

Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents (blog.google)
2026-9-20 Google

CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025 (fortune.com)
2026-9-20 AI

The US Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework; crypto falls (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-20 Senate

Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Iran

During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI Salesforce

At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 AI Bannon

Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from Founders Fund, Stripe, and others (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-20

OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 (x.com)
2026-9-20

At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says AI labs should get no liability exemptions and calls for more open-source models built in the US (fedscoop.com)
2026-9-20 AI

OpenAI weighs funding round at $1.2tn valuation before IPO (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 IPO

TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed (www.forbes.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new glasses model has six microphones to let users speak with Meta AI and Muse (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have “the responsibility and incentive” to train models safely and that “any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind” (x.com)
2026-9-20 AI Zuckerberg

Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the US-China AI race, distillation, chip export controls, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 China AI

Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 AI Democrat Republican

Zuckerberg says “Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security” and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before it acted (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI Zuckerberg

Analysis: direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO have delayed only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity in the US (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-9-20 New York

Sources: AI assistant Instinct maker Spear Street seeks to raise $1B at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2.25B in August; Sequoia and Benchmark may lead the round (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Cybersecurity experts say that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent, not credible, and show an unfamiliarity with the subject (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more (www.404media.co)
2026-9-20 Google

TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to return typed probabilistic decisions for use by software or AI models (www.theregister.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Sources: investors approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be $1.5T+ based on client traction (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20

Police in Gujarat, India, will question Google after a criminal network used 513,847 Gmail accounts to send hoax bomb threats to government offices since 2022 (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 India Google

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