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Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock
Dubai Chambers is putting more than 14,000 companies through training in agentic AI, the kind of software that carries out tasks on its own rather than answering questions. The body launched the courses on 1 September in front of 90 chairpersons of its busine…
Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected
A new streaming TV channel shows films made with genAI, reports Engadget. "Fairground AI Creator TV" is free — and supported with ads — describing its material as "AI Cinema": "AI-generated" can make it sound as though someone typed a sentence into a machin…
Ukrainian and US teams are building AI tools for wounded troops with no medic nearby
A Ukrainian app and a US chatbot aim to help troops treat battlefield wounds when medics and evacuation aren't available.
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages fr…
OpenAI reveals how much its researchers are spending on AI coding
OpenAI researchers spend heavily on AI coding agents, with top users burning through $7,000 daily in tokens.
Cathay Pacific and Google partner on AI contrail avoidance for ultra-long-haul flights
Cathay Pacific has flown more than 80 contrail-avoidance routes in a trial with Google that began in late 2025, adjusting cruise altitude to steer clear of the thin bands of humid air where aircraft exhaust freezes into clouds that trap heat. Google puts the …
Kyiv air raid alerts at record high as Russia launches round the clock strikes
Schools, businesses and public transport are all struggling with the surge in Russian air attacks.
Cato raises €6m to sell AI into Italy’s €309.7bn tender market
The investment case for Cato is unusual. Most software sells on the promise of making a hard thing easy. Cato’s backers are betting that a hard thing stays hard. The Milan startup has raised €6m in seed funding to sell AI to companies bidding for Italian publ…
Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates
Cognizant announced on Monday that it will hire 1,500 American college graduates this year and build a new job family for the AI era. The company’s own research says AI could take on $4.5tn worth of work Americans currently get paid to do. Both numbers come f…
The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports
The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 Septembe…
Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was the wrong one. The Information broke the story on 3 September. Its current version puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn, on a pre-money valuation…
AI Is Moving Faster Than Higher Education. Here’s Who Can Close the Gap.
AI has already replaced the skills we're teaching students. The capability a degree certifies now has a half-life measured in years, not decades, and no policy closes that distance fast enough.
Is iKairos a Robot, or Jewelry? It’s Both, and It Wants to Be Your Ever-Present AI Memory Keeper
This wearable-cum-desktop robot is one of the most unique AI devices I saw at IFA in Berlin.
'The Jobs Apocalypse Is Postponed. An AI Jobs Boom Is Here'
A new article about AI in The Economist argues that "Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive." Perhaps AI will eventually make many humans unemployable — but there is no sign of it yet. On September 4th the Bureau of Labour Statistics r…
Go beyond ChatGPT basics with this $15 AI E-Degree
TL;DR: Learn transferable AI skills you can apply across tools and professional settings with this 12-course ChatGPT & Automation E-Degree for $14.97 (reg. $790). AI literacy is becoming less about knowing that tools like ChatGPT exist and more about understa…
An A16z partner says Silicon Valley’s fears of an AI 'permanent underclass’ is a ‘dark fantasy’
He said the AI tech boom is a lot less centralized than previous tech cycles, and many players stand to win.
UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI, warning of existential risk
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. He also called on the countries that host AI development and sit in its supply chains to agree …
Taiwan pledges $20bn more in US chip investment while courting the EU, Reuters reports
Taiwan spent this week’s SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once to Brussels: that its chips arrive with democratic governance attached. The commercial half of that argument came with a number, and economy…
Shadow AI is already inside your company. Here’s how to get control of it
Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight. Finding them is only the beginning. For most of the past decade, the list of software a company ran was, at least in theory, one that somebody in IT could fi…
Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch
Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in which the…
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made the comment on Sunday, days after OpenAI released Astra, its newest and most powerful AI model.
AI agents keep finding ways to bend the rules. Here are some of the wildest.
Some AI doomers worry that misaligned AI agents will go rogue and harm humanity. Recent activity is inflaming those fears.
Space and Time: where AI agents meet verifiable onchain data
Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsoft’s M12 venture arm, backing that helped put the project on the map early. Since then, the company has launched its purpose-built SXT Chain and expanded its Proof of SQL technology acro…
EU tech chief says AI guardrails are coming to the US anyway
Henna Virkkunen told Axios at the G20 innovation ministerial that the US and the EU keep arriving at similar AI protections, Europe by regulating in advance and America through courts and state law. She made the argument at the summit where Washington launche…
Thailand halted more data centres than it has running
Thailand has stopped construction on 49 data centres, which is more than it currently has running. Anuchit Nguyen reported the suspension for Bloomberg on Friday, after the first meeting of a new supervision commission chaired by finance minister Ekniti Nitit…
OpenAI’s AGI number came from a harness, not the model
OpenAI declared the AGI era on the strength of a 99.9% score. Run the same model through the benchmark’s own software, and it scores 62.7%. The gap is not a rounding error or a rival’s complaint. It comes from the organisation that built the test. ARC Prize p…
How property management education may evolve or the next generation of leaders
A discussion about future training can start with the skills employers expect to value. The World Economic Forum reported in 2025 that surveyed employers expected 39% of workers’ core skills to change by 2030. Its findings placed analytical thinking first amo…
I coach executives. AI makes their emotional intelligence more valuable, not less.
Pam Manfredo Curtis says emotional intelligence will become more important as AI transforms work. Parents can begin developing it in childhood.
AI Can Build Your Next Feature in Hours. Should You Join In?
AI makes software development faster and cheaper, but speed alone does not create better products.
10 high-paying, fast-growing jobs that are at the forefront of the AI revolution
Data scientists and human resources specialists are high-paying, growing jobs with very high relative exposure to AI.
AI agent reliability requires a new model of observability
The rapid adoption of AI agents is changing the architecture of how organizations operate. Agents can interpret information, make decisions, interact with enterprise systems, and execute tasks with a degree of autonomy that would previously have required huma…
The rise of searching for hard ROI in the CFO role
The adoption race is over. The ROI race just started. In a June 2025 survey of 183 CFOs, Gartner reported that 84% of finance organisations had deployed AI or planned to, but only 7% reported a high impact. Most AI spend results in increased productivity, eff…
AMC CEO Furious at Robinhood for Tokenizing Stock Without Permission
AMC CEO Adam Aron is threatening legal action over Robinhood’s tokenized AMC stock, raising fresh questions about who gets to put a company’s equity on a blockchain.
My Favorite Home Security Reveal at IFA Was AI, but Not How You Think
Free, custom AI learning tech in home security could be closer than we thought.
Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports
A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia and th…
UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports
For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops taking. UBS has changed the question. It is no longer asking how many juniors it needs. It is asking what a junior has to be. The …
Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round
Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapore’s state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space Investme…
OpenAI has filed an EU incident report on the hijacked German wiki, the Commission says
OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took over and used as a messaging channel between themselves. Thomas Regnier, a Commission spokesperson, confirmed the filing, Reuters reported, an…
No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet.
Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose. No automated monitoring caught it. The article’s argum…
The AI cybersecurity war has a new front line star, and a seven-figure price
AI agent breaches have pushed the chief information security officer into the boardroom in America, with seven-figure pay packages and a recruiting market one search firm compares to nothing since cloud. Europe reached the same place by statute, with NIS2 put…
The US paid for a peace deal in Nvidia chips
When Armenia opened the biggest AI factory in its region last month, we filed it under compute diplomacy. The Wall Street Journal now reports what the compute actually bought. Robbie Whelan reported on Friday that US negotiators used the promise of access to …
Nvidia now holds $99bn in shares of the companies that buy its chips
Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the company’s own quarterly filing. CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier …
Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year
In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released ChatGPT the same year. Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur set out what happened next, reporting from Nairobi for the New York Times with Edwin Okoth.…
An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word ‘funding’ in spam
For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is told. Microsoft has now found somebody using the same charact…
OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed
OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put in themselves. The other says nobody should be going this fast. Both are on the company’s own site, dated 6 September, three days after it s…
Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer
Ultrahuman has raised $70m, and the pitch it made to get the money is not a better sleep score. The Indian company wants its smart ring to stop being a tracker and start running software. TechCrunch’s Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an interview …
Can The Chancellor's Positive Vibes Limit Tax Rises?
Chancellor John Healey aims for ‘vibes boost’ in first major economic speech.
Hypershell’s Halo Full-Leg Exoskeleton Made Me Dream Big About the Hikes I Hope to One Day Attempt
I forgot all about my creaky knees while trying out the all-terrain exoskeleton at IFA 2026.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses update makes them more useful on the go
Meta’s v28 update makes its AI glasses more useful with walking directions, Spatial Audio, and stronger camera protection.
Europe wrestles with impact of historic regional gains for Germany's AfD
The BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler sees the far-right win in Saxony-Anhalt state ringing alarm bells for the EU and traditional parties.
'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homes
Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers.
Berlin fears France’s Palantir rival is a new dependency, Politico reports
France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German government notes seen by Politico Europe show Berlin is wary of Arcadia, the French-built Palantir rival. The wo…
German far-right set for big win in eastern state - exit polls
Germany's AfD has hailed a "historic result" and is projected to win 44.5% of the vote, far ahead of the conservative CDU on 18.5%.
Torvalds joked that AI made Linux 7.3-rc2 this big, and nobody checked
Linus Torvalds spent Sunday afternoon doing what he does most Sundays. The result was a Linux 7.3-rc2 that came in far heavier than the calendar says it should. He could not find a single cause for it. So he offered the one everybody reaches for. “It might be…
NEURA and SECO will build robot compute modules in Europe
A German company designs the robot. An Italian company builds the board that goes inside it. An American company designs the chip that goes on the board. That is the European Physical AI stack as it actually exists. On Monday, two thirds of it signed a partne…
German exit polls suggest far-right party has big lead in regional election
Exit polls show Germany's AfD taking a commanding lead in a regional election, but it remains unclear whether the far-right party can form the country's first state government since World War II.
Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams
Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and more mature deployment systems have shortened the distance between an idea and a working product. But faster delivery also raises the stakes.…
Insilico says its AI-designed lung drug lowered biological age markers in a 42-patient trial
Blood samples from a small lung-disease trial have been run through six independently built ageing clocks, and all six returned the same answer: the patients on the drug looked biologically younger than the patients on placebo. “More lifetimes than humanity l…
I took a 6-figure job at Amazon after stepping away from full-time entrepreneurship. A chance meeting led me back to my business.
Seun Phillips returned to his business, Stemnetics, after a one-year stint at Amazon. He used his tech experience to expand STEM education programs.
ByteDance is preparing a real-time spatial video model under Zhang Yiming, Bloomberg reports
ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the work and a launch possible as soon as next month, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be ide…
EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups
The EU’s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget. “The act is not about budget,” said Thomas Skordas, deputy director-general of the European Commission’s DG CNECT, at a European Parliament event last week, on 3rd of September. “What th…
Claret Capital closes €575M Fund IV for European growth debt
Claret Capital Partners has closed its fourth European growth debt fund at €575M, well past the €500M it set out to raise. The London firm announced the final close today, splitting the total into €440m of Fund IV commitments and €135m of affiliated discretio…
The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days
A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat’s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of Claude agents wrote 13 million l…
NASA Readies Its Quiet Supersonic Jet for a Noise Test Later This Year
The agency wants to see just how quiet the X-59 really is.
The best Android phone of 2026 just scored a massive discount during Amazon's Labor Day sale — but you better act fast
Amazon's Labor Day sale is nearing an end, but you can still grab an outstanding 27% discount on the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra if you act quickly.
Sony Surprises With New 1000XM4C 2nd Gen Headphones With Updated Sound, Bluetooth 6.0
The $300 WH-1000XM4C will be released alongside Sony’s new midrange CH730N and entry-level CH530 headphones.
Over Half of US Adults Want Better Battery Life, but Can Apple Deliver with its New iPhone Lineup?
Apple users may not get everything they want Wednesday, thanks to RAMageddon pushing prices higher.
Google Pixel 11 vs. Motorola Edge 2026: There's an obvious winner
Looking to buy a phone and unable to decide? The Pixel 11 is my go-to choice if you need something that will last the better part of a decade.
iPhone 18 Pro: Nine Reasons Not to Upgrade This Year
Apple is set to unveil new iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max models on Wednesday, September 9, and the devices are expected to feature a design that's largely similar to the iPhone 17 Pro models, with a peppering of enhancements inside. Major changes are no…
A Humanoid Pretended to Punch Me. It’s Time to Stop Glorifying Violence Among Robots
Commentary: Robots pose an inherent risk to humans. It’s time to take safety more seriously.
This new slim phone puts a 6,000mAh battery in a seriously thin frame
The ridiculously thin 6.39mm TECNO Camon Slim 5G packs a massive 6,000mAh battery, rugged durability, and killer Sony cameras into an art-inspired shell.
The History of Ultima VII, One Of The Greatest RPGs Ever Made
Exploring the history and legacy of Ultima VII: The Black Gate.
Here's what critics who saw Nathan Fielder's secret Elizabeth Holmes doc are saying
A24 surprised critics at the Telluride Film Festival with a screening of an Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here were some of their impressions.
'Black Swan' investor Mark Spitznagel says the crash of a lifetime is coming after one more 'euphoric rally'
Universa Investments' Mark Spitznagel told BI that he expects one more "euphoric rally" followed by a "bigger crash than we've seen in our lifetime."
Solaris in Xenogears Is A Disturbing But Fascinating Journey Into Human Nature
Xenogears has one of the most ambitious and complex narratives ever told
Si quieres un buen iPhone, no merece la pena esperar: el iPhone 17 Pro está más barato que nunca en Amazon
Sí, estamos a solo dos días de que salga el iPhone 18 Pro, pero si lo que tú quieres es un buen iPhone, te gusta el diseño de la última generación y prefieres ahorrar algo de dinero, Apple acaba de ponerte sobre la mesa una de las mejores ofertas del año. El …
Why big voices in tech are so hyped about a central Asian country you probably haven't heard of
Some of tech's biggest names are increasingly bullish on the Kazakh capital.
Mamdani signals union loyalty with new NYC office for rank-and-file workers
The Mamdani administration announced a new Office of Worker Power Monday — and is still facing skepticism from business leaders.
Inside the tiny Anthropic team designed to kill bad ideas fast and keep starting over
Anthropic Labs built some of the company's biggest hits, like Claude Code. Cofounder Ben Mann lays out his team's efforts and changing ambitions.
My startup worked out of 5 different spaces in a year. Here's how we found our dream office.
Sami Akkawi's startup, Petra Labs, began in his cofounder's apartment lounge. After a VC workspace and a WeWork, it found its dream office.
Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions
A new study published Friday in AGU Advances "depicts the most advanced picture yet of how a rare but massive solar storm could affect some US industries and electric systems more than others," reports CNN. "During a 250-year solar storm, the East Coast wou…
The Top Tech Trends at IFA Berlin 2026
Here are six of the top trends I spotted while roaming the IFA floor.
The Top Tech Trends at IFA Berlin 2026
Here are 6 of the top trends I spotted while roaming the IFA floor .
German exit polls suggest far-right party has big lead in regional election
The Alternative for Germany party has a strong lead in a regional election, but it is unclear if it will be able to form Germany's's first far-right state government since WWII, exit polls indicate.
Jaguar Land Rover cuts 4,000 jobs and resets break-even to 300,000 cars
The number that matters in Monday’s Jaguar Land Rover announcement is not 4,000. It is 300,000. That is the annual sales volume at which the company now intends to break even. Its brands have historically sold well over 400,000 vehicles a year. Just Auto made…
Civilization 7’s Biggest Free Update Yet Will Finally Take It To The Atomic Age Over Two Years Later
Arc of Tomorrow will arrive in 2027
Build the pipeline your investors want to see
Ask a seed investor what they want to see before the next round and the answer is rarely a bigger number. It is a pipeline they can read. Where deals come from, how fast they move, why they stall, and what the founder does about it. Most seed-stage B2B startu…
They were getting closer to student-loan forgiveness. Then their progress was stripped away.
The Trump administration removed some student-loan borrowers' payments toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness. It's throwing their futures into limbo.
An Apple Watch Ultra 4 Could Outshine the Series 12 This Year, but at What Price?
Apple’s rugged smartwatch could get a back-to-back refresh with more processing power and battery, but potentially at a higher price.
This Interactive Tool Visually Compares Your Vaccine vs. Disease Risk
This is how it works and where it sources its data.
Nscale is selling Figure $3.5bn of compute and buying a stake in it
Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power. It has also bought a stake in Figure, which is the part worth looking at. The London company announced the partnership on 3 September in a statement also carried on PR Newswire. The deal cov…
Uber put $100m into the company that hired Anthony Levandowski
Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Google’s self-driving secrets cost Uber a fortune, and it helped end Travis Kalanick’s time as chief executive. The company is Atoms, Kalanick’s new venture. Rafe Rosner-Uddin…
Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday night, the first commercial European company to do so and on only its second flight. It lands four days before Macron’s Paris space summit, which…
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