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Mecka AI is closing in on a 500 million dollar valuation and robot training data is why

Mecka AI, a two-year-old startup that produces training data for robots, is approaching a 500 million dollar valuation in a Sequoia-led round. It's a ...

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25 mathematicians vs OpenAI: The fight over who owns mathematical discovery

Twenty-five leading mathematicians have signed an open letter targeting OpenAI, arguing that AI labs are misrepresenting mathematical discovery and ...

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A lawyer cited AI-hallucinated murder witnesses and got fined 5,000 dollars

A New Mexico lawyer has been fined 5,000 dollars by the state Supreme Court after submitting a murder conviction appeal containing AI-fabricated ...

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GPT-6 Astra is running Perplexity's production systems with almost no human check-ins

Perplexity is now using GPT-6 Astra to write communications, push software changes, and monitor its own production systems with almost no human ...

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DeepSeek's new model costs a fraction of a cent and just crashed two stock prices

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash uses 552 billion parameters but activates only a fraction per query, with pricing aggressive enough to crash rival AI stocks on ...

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Universal music and ElevenLabs just made AI remixing legal and that changes everything

Universal Music Group, which controls roughly a third of the recorded music market globally, is launching an AI remix platform with ElevenLabs, and ...

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OpenAI pauses new Pro sign-ups because GPT-6 Astra is breaking the internet

OpenAI has closed the door on new Pro subscribers because GPT-6 Astra demand is genuinely overwhelming its infrastructure, and that tells you ...

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Ten thousand AI agents, 88 hours, and a fight over who got there first

The OpenAI Navier-Stokes proof came from 10,000 agents running 88 hours. OpenAI will not claim the million dollar prize, and a credit fight has ...

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NSA and CISA tell AI firms to quietly serve worse models to distillers

A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory names six Chinese AI companies over industrial-scale distillation, and tells US model providers to degrade ...

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DeepSeek ran V4.1 Flash for 48 hours, then closed the endpoint

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ran as a limited beta for two days before the endpoint closed. Native multimodal architecture, output speeds peaking near 507 ...

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A humanoid robot just walked off a production line by itself

XPeng IRON humanoid robot production has started on a line that is more than 80 percent automated, and the first unit walked off it unaided on 8 ...

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Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon now hold seats on PyTorch's board

Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon joined the PyTorch Foundation as Platinum members, taking governing board seats. Ant Group joined at Gold on 8 September.

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OpenAI claims it solved a 90-Year-Old maths problem, but not everyone is convinced

OpenAI says it has cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, a mathematical puzzle that has stumped the world's best minds for 90 years and carries a one ...

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Samsung just led the biggest funding round in European tech history

Mistral AI raised 3 billion euros at a 21 billion euro valuation in a Samsung led Series D, the largest equity round European tech has ever recorded.

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Cognition hits a 48 billion dollar valuation and the AI coding race just got more interesting

Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI software engineer, has just closed a funding round that values it at 48 billion dollars, a higher ...

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China just budgeted 532 billion dollars to stop needing Nvidia

China's MIIT plan targets 9,800 exaflops of AI compute capacity by 2030, backed by 3.8 trillion yuan and written around domestically produced chips.

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OpenAI is funding Ukrainian journalism with AI tools. It's more complicated than it sounds.

OpenAI is teaming up with WAN-IFRA and the Association of Independent Regional Publishers of Ukraine to give Ukrainian journalists access to its AI ...

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Four frontier AI models shipped in 72 hours and three came with a locked tier

Best AI model September 2026 comparison: four frontier releases landed in 72 hours, three shipped a restricted cyber tier, and pricing moved twice in ...

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The EU AI Act is enforceable now and the fine is 7 percent of revenue

EU AI Act enforcement started on 2 August 2026, with fines up to 35 million euros or 7 percent of global turnover. A month in, the effects are ...

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Anthropic bought $517 billion of compute after warning rivals about the risk

Anthropic has signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months, months after Dario Amodei warned competitors were not weighing the ...

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The Seattle Times and Newsday want the models destroyed, not just damages

The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on 4 September 2026, asking a federal court to order destruction of the training datasets and ...

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OpenAI's 'Alien mind' essay is the most honest thing the company has ever published

OpenAI's chief scientist just published an essay called 'An Alien Mind', and it's unlike anything you'd normally expect from a frontier AI lab at the ...

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Open Yap 1K: 1,000 hours of free conversational audio just landed for AI developers

A new dataset called Open Yap 1K just dropped on Hugging Face: 1,000 hours of full-duplex conversational audio, free to use commercially. The ...

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Figure retired its robot fleet at BMW Spartanburg after 30,000 cars

The Figure robot BMW Spartanburg pilot ended after 11 months, 30,000 X3 vehicles and 90,000 sheet metal parts. Figure 03 now takes over on paid ...

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XDOF targets 1.2 billion dollar valuation just three months after stealth exit

XDOF, a robot data startup that nobody had heard of three months ago, is already in Series B talks at a 1.2 billion dollar valuation. It is a sign of ...

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