SoftBank shares slide up to 13% as AI stocks fall on slowdown calls
SoftBank Group shares fell as much as 13% in Tokyo on Monday, their steepest drop since 17 July. AI-linked stocks sold off worldwide that day. Over the weekend, the heads of Anthr…
Profound raised $180m at a $1.8bn valuation to sell brands visibility in AI answers
Profound, an enterprise-grade marketing platform built for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), has raised $180M in a Series D co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, valuing …
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Tandem Health raises $100m to turn its AI scribe into clinic software
Stockholm-based Tandem Health has raised $100m in a Series B round led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, which EQT manages. The company announced the round on 14 September. Existing inv…
API gateway vs AI gateway: Where AI governance meets execution
API Gateways provide a controlled path into backend services and can apply security and traffic policies as requests move through the system. AI introduces additional runtime deci…
Anthropic is Rum Group’s $13.7bn compute customer, The Information reports
Anthropic is the unnamed customer behind a $13.7bn, six-year computing contract that Rum Group disclosed last month, The Information reported on Sunday. Rum Group owns the video p…
New York picks Brooklyn startup “it’s electric” to build its 700-charger curbside network
New York City has selected it’s electric, a Brooklyn company that manufactures in Queens, to replace its curbside electric vehicle charging pilot with a permanent network across a…
The robot that sweeps the car park is also watching it. Viabot’s $24m round calls that soft security.
Viabot has raised a $24m Series A led by Walden International, bringing total funding to $43m for its autonomous outdoor sweeping robot. The same machine runs what the company cal…
Spotify finally lets parents exclude kids’ music from Wrapped and recommendations
Parents can finally get the kids' music out of Spotify Wrapped and other personalized playlists.
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.
ENISA used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in EU code, Politico reports
The EU’s cybersecurity agency used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in code for an EU project, Politico reported on 10 September. ENISA spokesperson Laura Heuvinck confirmed the…
New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave
Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.
Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear
Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and customer-support tasks.
Some prop firms profit from failure
The appeal of prop trading starts with a genuine problem around access to capital. 45% of people who don’t invest said they simply did not have enough money to do so. Talented tra…
The best Web3 wallets in 2026: from crypto storage to onchain trading hubs
Choosing a crypto wallet used to come down to a few basic questions: Which networks does it support? Is it secure? And how easily can users send, receive and store assets? In 2026…
Kamala Harris asks Congress for a new AI regulator and a treaty with China
Kamala Harris posted a four-paragraph statement on X on Monday night setting out what she wants Washington to do about AI. She asked Congress to pass new laws and “establish a new…
Congress has three AI bills and no timetable for a vote on any of them
Three senators will put AI legislation in front of Congress this week, and none of them can say when it might be voted on. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, plans to intr…
Cathie Wood calls AI extinction warnings ridiculous at a Sydney briefing
Cathie Wood praised the AI industry for talking openly about its own risks and dismissed the specific risk it has been talking about, in the same set of remarks to reporters in Sy…
Bilal Chughtai left DeepMind’s AGI safety team in July and posted his warning this week
Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reasons for leaving, writing on X: “I recently resigned from Goog…
The Gates Foundation will spend at least $1bn on AI access over the next two years
Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of t…
Jack & Jill raises $40M to put an AI agent on both sides of the hiring table
Jack & Jill has raised $40M in a Series A led by Air Street Capital, bringing total funding to $60M less than a year after a $20M seed round. Madrona and Antler are new investors,…
Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax
Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the…
Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too
When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.