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Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lig...

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Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lig...

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Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software (Financial Times)

Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge Fren...

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Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where it is offering robotaxi trips, as it plays catch up with Uber (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at n...

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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)

Suno rolls out v6, a new line of AI models trained...

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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)

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pl...

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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)

Google plans to invest €13B in Finland, its bigges...

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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)

Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 t...

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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)

Sources: China Securities Regulatory Commission is...

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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)

Sources: Apple is set to debut the foldable iPhone...

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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)

Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a...

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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)

Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' ta...

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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)

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a r...

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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)

Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining ...

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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)

Source: Gimlet Labs raised its $300M round after t...

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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)

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitti...

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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)

The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warn...

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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)

In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Cl...

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