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Robotics data startup Mecka AI is nearing a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital at a valuation of about $500 million, according to people familiar with the deal. The…

Khosla Ventures is opening its first office outside its longtime Menlo Park base, with a new location on 14th Street in New York expected to open this fall. Managing director…

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says U.S. regulators should not restrict AI model distillation and has suggested that smaller American open-weight labs should be free to learn from domestic frontier…

Twenty-five Fields Medal-winning mathematicians have signed an open letter warning that competition among AI companies to solve major mathematical problems could damage attribution, collaboration and open research. The group behind…

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, twice its reported run rate in August, according to Bloomberg. The target follows…

Roblox is expanding its AI-powered game creation tools while giving developers more ways to distribute games and access their earnings. Announced at its annual Roblox Developer Conference, the updates include…

U.K.-based AI infrastructure company Nscale has appointed former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo as an independent director as it prepares for a potential public listing. Simo joins a board that already…

European battery startups are focusing on specialized materials and manufacturing technology as the region searches for ways to compete after high-profile failures including Northvolt and Morrow. Dutch companies LeydenJar and…

Warnings from current and former Anthropic researchers about artificial intelligence potentially threatening humanity are drawing skepticism from some Silicon Valley executives and investors. The debate intensified after researcher Jacob Coxon…

L’Oréal Brandstorm attracted 380,000 participants from 64 countries in 2026 as the cosmetics company continues using a competition format to identify young talent. The program gives participants the chance to…

Marvel’s Wolverine launches exclusively on PlayStation 5 on September 15, giving Insomniac Games its biggest release of the year after the studio’s recent Spider-Man games sold more than 50 million…

Anthropic says it identified and disrupted attempts to use Claude in research that could support biological weapons development, alongside cases involving cyberattacks, surveillance, fraud and conventional weapons. The findings appear…

Smart glasses are becoming more common in public spaces, allowing wearers to make calls, use AI and record photos or videos without holding a phone. But the growing use of…

A cross-party group of UK MPs and peers is calling for a new AI law after concluding that existing rules are not equipped to address the human rights risks created…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for frontier AI development to slow so safety research, external evaluation and regulation can keep pace with increasingly capable models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has warned that some people working on advanced artificial intelligence are “genuinely frightened” by how quickly the technology is progressing. The 27-year-old, who previously worked…

U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States will remove tariffs on Irish whiskey, announcing the decision at the end of his two-day visit to Ireland. Trump made the announcement…

Amazon has suspended operations with cargo carrier 21 Air after a Boeing 767 operated for Amazon Air overran a runway at Miami International Airport on September 6, killing five people…

OpenAI has temporarily stopped new subscriptions to its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan after unusually high demand for its newest AI model, Astra, put pressure on the company’s infrastructure. Other options,…

Anthropic says China-based AI companies carried out increasingly sophisticated attempts to extract Claude’s reasoning and other capabilities for use in training their own models. In its September 2026 threat intelligence…