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The US Federal Reserve's September meeting shows officials are increasingly citing surging AI investments, not tariffs, as the driver of rising goods inflation (www.washingtonpost.com)
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A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built (www.nytimes.com)
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A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have quietly started probing whether their models can break important cryptographic protocols (scottaaronson.blog)
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Vitalik Buterin says “we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously”, backing a “bunker mode” call for the blockchain industry (cointelegraph.com)
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Filing: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$515M in a new share sale; Biren's Hong Kong-listed stock is down 50%+ from a June peak but up ~70% YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
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Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B (www.bloomberg.com)
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Keyu Tian, a former ByteDance intern, raised ~$30M from 5Y and IDG for his unnamed AI lab that focuses on building world models, at a $200M post-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
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Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” (www.wsj.com)
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Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (www.wsj.com)
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Sources: former White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is raising a ~$500M fund to back growth- and later-stage US AI companies, prioritizing national security (www.theinformation.com)
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Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
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Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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PoeLLM malware infects exposed AI servers in cryptomining attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Healthleap, which makes AI screening software to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, raised $38M across a $30M Series A and an $8M seed (techcrunch.com)
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Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised $90M at a $1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises (www.wsj.com)
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Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that lets users detect AI-generated image, video, and audio media across dozens of common file formats (techcrunch.com)
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Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest $300M and the US invests $500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training (www.reuters.com)
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North American startup funding hit $92B in Q3, down 35% QoQ but up 50% YoY, with $61B to AI startups; there were 11 $1B+ acquisitions and IPOs remained quiet (news.crunchbase.com)
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Stuut, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise order-to-cash cycles and serves 150+ clients, raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight, for $93M total funding (siliconangle.com)
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Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria (www.theverge.com)
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Sources: Dallas-based Disruptive is targeting up to $10B for a late-stage fund, and has secured $7.5B; founded in 2012, it has backed Groq and Reflection AI (www.wsj.com)
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PS5 modders using AI tools have rapidly installed emulators, as jailbreaks spread across social media; recent games requiring newer firmware are inaccessible (www.pushsquare.com)
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Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with $52M seed and Series A (www.wsj.com)
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South Korea Says AI Agents May Have Been Used to Hack the Country's Banks (news.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Korea AI

AI startup acquisitions by other AI startups hit 195 through Sept. 29, up 14% from all of 2025, but number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active (news.crunchbase.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison (www.billboard.com)
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New York-based Melius, which provides AI tools for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25M, including a $20M Series A and a $5M seed (techcrunch.com)
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To face AI intrusion, counting legacy systems will be easy. Fixing them won't (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
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OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math results, nearly all from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent; some might have taken multiple attempts (www.scientificamerican.com)
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HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs In AI Restructuring (slashdot.org)
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