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Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M round at a $4B valuation, signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound Manus' short-lived $2B buyout by Meta (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: Emulate, a month-old world models UK startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind employees, is in talks to raise up to $700M at a $3.7B post-money valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 Google Startup

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Tim Cook

Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance agreements, worth $8.15M, during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20

Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions (www.axios.com)
2026-9-20 Google Energy AI Nvidia

Huawei plans to debut the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and unveils an architecture to let up to 1M processors operate as one system (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 AI

PitchBook: brain-computer interface startups have raised $1B+ in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined; Neuralink is the best-funded (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 Startup

Anthropic and other researchers detail how a network of ~28 dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from models like Claude catfished thousands of people (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-20

A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare, as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes can increase the risk of errors (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20

Snap is pitching its $2,195 Specs as an enterprise product, inking Salesforce, Amazon, and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays, alongside consumer features (www.wired.com)
2026-9-20 Amazon Salesforce Nvidia

US and Chinese experts propose nuclear-style AI safeguards, including a dedicated AI military hotline, as part of a dialogue ahead of planned US-China AI talks (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 China AI

How AI beauty tools like Qoves and UMax commercialize facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and more to prescribe treatments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI Algorithm

macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful non-AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space (arstechnica.com)
2026-9-20 Intel AI

A profile of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of AI security incidents and who says the explosive response surprised him (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 U.K. AI

At India's Semicon, Narendra Modi launches a charm offensive for investors, drawing pledges from Applied Materials and Lam Research for billions in investments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 India

Survey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-9-20 AI Democrat Republican

The EU details the Kids Act, which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts, ban under-13s, and more (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Ban

Dario Amodei's essays chronicle the AI industry's shifting ways of selling its product, from wariness of regulation to calls for third-party evaluators (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to “increase the speed of development” to “see the dangers” of AI, contrasting with the US' slowdown calls (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 China AI

DoorDash says Costco members can now order same-day delivery from every US Costco store, a day after Uber expanded its Costco deliveries from 17 to 47 US states (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 Uber

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials are fantastic, the Health Sensing System is a big upgrade, but many features are coming later (9to5mac.com)
2026-9-20 Apple

A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 China AI

The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption for platforms that offer tokenized stock trading, relieving them of many rules that apply to stock exchanges (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20

Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's EV platform for affordable models, set to launch as soon as 2028 (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 Europe

King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20

The UK FCA, working with tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to its “light-touch” crypto regulation (www.coindesk.com)
2026-9-20 Tax

Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20

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