THURSDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2026Global

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  1. AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talksListen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
  2. Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absenceMullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.
  3. OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directorsPaul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
  4. Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rulesMassachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
  5. Apple’s new CEO is reviving a Steve Jobs strategy from 25 years agoJohn Ternus made the case in his first keynote as Apple CEO that the iPhone isn't going anywhere.
  6. Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listeningApple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
  7. Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple WatchThe main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
  8. There are new shiny iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older modelsApple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.
  9. The hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AIApple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
  10. Apple Watch’s new feature listens to your chats and recaps themThe Siri Recap feature is similar to other note-taking apps like Granola.
  11. Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11BThe legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.
  12. Apple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness scoreThe update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
  13. Apple unveils Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 with an AI upgrade that can recap your dayMost notably, Apple is taking aim at the growing wave of AI wearables with new "Audio Intelligence" features that let you rewind moments and remember details from daily conversations.
  14. Apple has a new way prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slopApple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
  15. Apple shows off AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellationThe AirPods 5 support better noise cancellation, Siri AI, and offer volume controls on the stem.
  16. Apple unveils its first foldable, the iPhone DuoUnlike early iterations of foldables, which looked like vertical slabs, Apple adopted a wider form factor that could aid in a better aspect ratio while watching videos when the device is unfolded.
  17. Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhoneThe company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
  18. Apple launches iPhone 18 Pro with upgraded cameraApple's new iPhone 18 Pro lineup upgrades the camera and comes in burgundy.
  19. DOJ wants more answers on Fox’s $22B Roku dealFox’s $22 billion plan to buy Roku has hit a new hurdle. The Justice Department sent Fox and Roku what’s known as a “second request” on Tuesday, asking the companies to turn over more data and documents as it takes a closer look at the deal. That’s a fairly standard step in a major antitrust […]
  20. Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firmsThe three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation.
  21. Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called ClementineInstacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
  22. Autonomy pivots to gas vehicles to keep the dream of car subscriptions aliveScott Painter, founder of TrueCar, is still trying to build a business around vehicle subscriptions, where you can cancel at any time.
  23. Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risksCymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund.
  24. Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a timeIf you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the vehicle that goes to space
  25. Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile upAs it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.
  26. Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the gridFusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.
  27. CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecksUK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million.
  28. White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complainsThe Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company posted that it takes "copyright infringement very seriously."
  29. Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribersLast month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.
  30. Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all marketCognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
  31. The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceXThe Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”
  32. Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.
  33. How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcementApple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT, and we're expecting big news.
  34. OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematicianThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
  35. Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture dealGoogle Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
  36. Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US governmentGoogle said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant's owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department.
  37. Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscapeGoogle is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
  38. Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big businessThe French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.
  39. A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of itThe latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.
  40. Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launchBluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and coming out of stealth.

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