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DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports

FintechOS raises $28M in equity and debt after turning profitable

Spott raises $21M Series A led by Balderton for its AI platform for recruitment agencies

Biolevate raises €30M Series A and opens Boston office for its life sciences AI

Nvidia is buying SB Energy stock at 90% of its IPO price

OpenAI asks Washington to lead a global AI standards push

California will fine creators $5,000 a post for hidden political ads

AI model costs are pushing startups towards cheaper open weigh

Hyundai’s answer to the EV slowdown is building tens of thousands of robotaxis

Corridor launches with $25m to fix health benefits for small businesses

The state of the American advertiser

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court

Volvo names Klaus Zellmer as chief executive

Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027

Dragos closes its NetRise and runZero deals as Accenture takes control

Amber Electric raises €49m to take home battery automation to Europe

Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications

A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor

Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899

The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027

A single git trick beat the safety lock on four AI coding agents

Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy

Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders

The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week

London’s Unit1 raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour

Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead

The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail

Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China

ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site

The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is

SoftBank is reportedly raising about $11bn in bonds to cover its next OpenAI payment

Albanese says Tim Cook backed Australia’s under-16 social media ban

Firmus will reportedly open its $5bn ASX float on 6 October

Facebook and Instagram went down for US users on Sunday night

China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip

Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips in six months. GoPro’s shareholders are getting $285m in cash for the entire company.

Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.

Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.

US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.

Apple’s new chief executive built up to unveiling the ideal AI device, then said it was the iPhone.

Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.

Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.

We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution

Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.

OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.

Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.

Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.

Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.