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Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)

AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7, featuring larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs, along with new video and audio encoding/decoding tests, and more (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports (Carly Page/The Register)

Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down "pickup line" and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)

Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister's resignation (Reuters)

Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users own; ads play "before sessions begin" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Abstract Security, which offers an in-stream threat detection platform, raised a $25M extension to its $15M Series A, bringing its total funding to $48.5M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to give ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations and will soon let them get quotes from local service providers via ChatGPT (Madison Mills/Axios)

AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in December; a16z, SK Hynix, and others also invested (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

The European Commission approves EA's $55B acquisition, announced in September, by investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

IBM agrees to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, seeking to integrate HRL's electron spin quantum circuits into its quantum computers (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving (Jack Ewing/New York Times)

Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight the service's AI capabilities, leading to an internal redesign project called Lighthouse (Reuters)

Filing: Alphabet holds $94.1B in SpaceX equity post-IPO; $80B are under short-term sale restrictions, while $14.1B remain long-term restricted until Q3 2027 (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)

A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is "shallow" in most occupations (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)

Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules (Akanksha Khushi/Reuters)

In a leaked nearly four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute power, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more (Fred Gao/Inside China)

Bipartisan US House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the DHS the authority to shut down or slow AI models that it deems dangerous (Politico)

The Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

STMicro forecasts Q3 revenue up ~16% YoY to $3.7B, below $3.79B est., and expects AI sales to pass $1B in 2026 and be "well above $2B" in 2027; STM falls 14%+ (Bloomberg)

Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' "dystopian" ideas (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally (Reece Rogers/Wired)

The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play app developer rules (New York Times)

Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $5.46B, above $5.26B est., net income up 53% to $1.98B, and forecasts $5.65B-$6.15B in Q3 revenue, above est. (Grace Yoon/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Intel and AMD are signing longer-term server CPU purchase commitments with Chinese customers; prices of some CPU products are up 40%+ in China YTD (Reuters)

Sources: China resumes issuing robotaxi permits after an industry-wide full safety review prompted by an April outage involving 100+ Baidu robotaxis in Wuhan (Bloomberg)

ServiceNow invests $40M in banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian company at $700M and taking a roughly 5% stake (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Dassault Systèmes agrees to acquire ArisGlobal, a US supplier of software to the life sciences industry, from Nordic Capital for ~$2B, set to close in H2 2026 (Adrià Calatayud/Wall Street Journal)

As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors (The Atlantic)

A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, a feat that would typically have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks (Bloomberg)

The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Sources: Shanghai-listed chip test instruments maker Semight, whose stock is up ~2,200% since its April debut, is considering a secondary listing in Hong Kong (Bloomberg)

Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says "AI will not kill the software industry", as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)

Sources detail how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and crypto adviser Bo Hines worked to shape the GENIUS Act and loosen safeguards to benefit Tether (Bloomberg)

A study of 11,989 Polymarket users finds 61% placed fewer than 100 trades over a six-week period, with 58% making or losing less than $100 during that period (Kaitlyn Radde/Pew Research Center)

US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid (Washington Post)

Meta's infrastructure teams have become bloated, leading to poor decisions like troubled Rivos acquisition, loss of supplier trust due to hardware pivots, more (SemiAnalysis)

Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits (Reuters)

Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI spending, marking its first cash burn since going public more than two decades ago (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI staff were "freaked out" when GPT-Sol 5.6 breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic (Financial Times)

The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI (Sophia Cai/Politico)

Movement Labs, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain developer, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a period of upheaval that included a token scandal and Binance ban (CoinDesk)

Google projects full-year capex will be $195B to $205B in 2026, after saying in April that it will spend as much as $190B; its Q2 capex hit $44.92B, up 100% YoY (Julia Love/Bloomberg)