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A German court rules that Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 Germany Facebook Instagram

Source: Beijing-based Naive AI, which plans to release its first LLM as early as September, is now valued at $1.4B+ after raising $400M across three rounds (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Mind, whose AI agents autonomously handle data loss prevention tasks, raised a $72M Series B, sources say at a $300M valuation, taking its total raised to $112M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Governor Gavin Newsom signs an EO directing a working group to provide a guide in two months with measures to boost California's AI safety and security laws (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI California

Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights (variety.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Google threat intelligence group details how one of its researchers infiltrated hacker group TeamPCP and helped disrupt its software supply chain hacking spree (www.wired.com)
2026-9-20 Google Hacker Intelligence

Sony Music and UMG sue Suno, alleging that its new model trained in partnership with WMG and BMG infringes copyright because it is based on an infringing model (variety.com)
2026-9-20 Sony

Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 Europe Startup AI

Sources: the US “almost started a war” after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components (www.cnn.com)
2026-9-20 China AI

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-20 AI Virginia

Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A (www.coindesk.com)
2026-9-20 Europe Australia U.S. Hong Kong Singapore

Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-20 Google AI

London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to $140.6M, with a net loss of $1.02B, up from $368.9M (www.cnbc.com)
2026-9-20 IPO Startup AI London

Sources: Anthropic expects to generate $100B+ in annualized revenue this year, up from $65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 IPO AI

Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic; they expect to invest $2B+ in building capacity in this area over the next five years (www.anthropic.com)
2026-9-20

Angle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 IPO

Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20

An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-20 Uber

US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (bloomberg.com)
2026-9-20 AI Iran

Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 Mexico Oracle

Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-20 AI Apple

Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (www.axios.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-20 IPO AI

Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year (www.theregister.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (www.gamesindustry.biz)
2026-9-20

A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times (www.axios.com)
2026-9-20

Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (www.wired.com)
2026-9-20

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