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Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained in partnership with WMG and BMG, and says it will pay labels and publishers royalties when models are used (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-09/ai-music-startup-suno-launches-new-models-that-pay-labels
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Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-09-08-a-22-year-old-crypto-ringleader-pleads-guilty-to-245-million-racketeering-scheme-413911
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Google plans to invest €13B in Finland, its biggest investment in Europe to date, over two years to build three new data centers and expand an existing center (Kirsi Heikel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-09/google-plans-13-billion-ai-infrastructure-investment-in-finland
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Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/560e1c8b-f163-4fd6-b604-e905550ac870
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Sources: China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-curbs-humanoid-ipos-unitrees-volatile-debut
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Sources: Apple is set to debut the foldable iPhone Duo at $2,000+ with 256GB of storage, with sales starting as early as October, in white and dark blue (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-09/apple-event-details-2-000-iphone-duo-apple-watch-series-12-recording-feature
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Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a ">10%" chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement (Evan Hubinger/@evanhub)
https://x.com/evanhub/status/2097497037956891126
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Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/states-that-gave-data-centers-billions-in-tax-breaks-are-now-ripping-up-the-deals-4879c4f9?st=Lemw6y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2025 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/microsoft-patches-a-record-972-vulnerabilities-112-of-them-critical/
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Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements (Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/pretraining-progress-is-mostly-data
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Source: Gimlet Labs raised its $300M round after telling investors OpenAI may spend $100M+ annually on its services; OpenAI says it's not a paying customer yet (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/gimlets-three-tranche-deal-reveals-ai-funding-frenzy
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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-out-of-control-ai-fears-707b7628?st=axTZSz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting "industrial-scale" distillation campaigns (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-accuses-chinese-ai-firms-industrial-scale-theft-ai-technology-2026-09-08/
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In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990313/anthropic-class-action-lawsuit-pricing-subscription-plans?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjJUcVVhYnBzNm8iLCJwIjoiL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzk5MDMxMy9hbnRocm9waWMtY2xhc3MtYWN0aW9uLWxhd3N1aXQtcHJpY2luZy1zdWJzY3JpcHRpb24tcGxhbnMiLCJleHAiOjE3ODkzMzg2MTQsImlhdCI6MTc4ODkwNjYxNH0.dVyfUa4E3PrNiSev77RXZgABmIiF7eNU0KlFJhCjsYY&utm_medium=gift-link
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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/mark-zuckerberg-meta-muse-ai-podcast-interview
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Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0908/1590789-coimisiun-na-mean-x-investigation/
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Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/block-applies-to-establish-builders-bank-trust-3c6c9556?st=E7uHEo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5%+ after hours (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/chime-to-become-bank-by-buying-partner-stride-for-590-million
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Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/anthropic-breaks-tech-group-chips
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Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock (John Koetsier/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/09/08/heres-a-32-million-bet-that-robots-dont-need-a-billion-dollars-of-real-world-data/
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Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week, with $20 and $100 monthly tiers (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/meta-announces-muse-ai-agent-for-personal-tasks-and-organization
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Meta says users can connect their apps to Muse to send emails, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases via Link by Stripe support, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-its-muse-ai-agent-will-consumers-trust-it/
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Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-muse-personal-ai-agent
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OpenAI says, while unlikely, it "cannot rule out that de-identified data derived" from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/exclusive-hands-on-with-chatgpts-new-image-editor
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OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)
https://x.com/sebastienbubeck/status/2097379411691516310
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Sources: Ramp is in early talks to raise about $1B at a ~$60B valuation, up from $44B in June; Ramp has raised $3B to date (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ramp-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-60-billion-valuation
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AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M (Samantha Oltman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/ai-startup-cognition-raises-2-billion-at-a-48-billion-value
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The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes "copyright infringement very seriously" (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)
https://kotaku.com/white-house-removes-awful-tetris-clone-from-website-after-the-tetris-company-posted-it-takes-copyright-infringement-very-seriously-2000732129
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OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts, says it spent millions in compute after hearing Anthropic had a breakthrough (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-navier-stokes-math-discovery-academics/
http://www.techmeme.com/260908/p29#a260908p29