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New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital (Brian Danga/The Block)

New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infra...

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PicoJool, which is developing AI data center interconnects based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Socratic Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

PicoJool, which is developing AI data center inter...

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Numeral, a provider of AI-powered tech to automate sales tax compliance workflows in over 90 countries, raised a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners (FinTech Global)

Numeral, a provider of AI-powered tech to automate...

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Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking (Madison Mills/Axios)

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are pr...

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Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+...

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Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts (Tom Wilson/Financial Times)

Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web ma...

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Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken...

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Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new d...

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A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B+ in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it "does not use Taction's" tech (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B...

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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Kore...

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Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it (Reuters)

Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online ...

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Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook decline to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing "political content" (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)

Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and...

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Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a...

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Sources: Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nubank parent Nu Holdings in a deal valuing it at £8B-£10B; Monzo also discussed selling a ~15% stake to PE firms (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)

Sources: Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nuban...

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The US and China create a "Super Intelligence Dialogue" on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era "red telephone" (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

The US and China create a "Super Intelligence Dial...

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Walmart CEO John Furner says the company won't use its AI shopping assistant or electronic shelf labels to change product prices based on a shopper's identity (Gregory Meyer/Financial Times)

Walmart CEO John Furner says the company won't use...

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PitchBook: VCs have invested $4B+ in quantum computing companies YTD, almost as much as in all of 2025, which nearly matched the previous four years combined (Financial Times)

PitchBook: VCs have invested $4B+ in quantum compu...

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A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs (Bloomberg)

A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers ...

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