Andreessen Horowitz Raises a $1.1 Billion Machine Age Fund for AI Hardware
Andreessen Horowitz raised a $1.1 billion Machine Age Fund to back chips, memory, networking, power and AI hardware.
California legislature passes a bill creating an AI auditor registry
California's legislature passes a bill creating a state registry for artificial intelligence auditors, operative January 1, 2029.
California legislature passes Adam's Law on companion chatbots and children
California's legislature sends Adam's Law to the Governor, imposing child safety duties on companion chatbot operators.
European Commission designates ChatGPT under the Digital Services Act
The European Commission designates ChatGPT a very large online search engine, adding Digital Services Act duties from January 2027.
NVIDIA Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek Convertible Bonds
NVIDIA put $3.5 billion into MediaTek convertible bonds and brought MediaTek into the NVLink Fusion custom-silicon ecosystem.
ChatGPT for Healthcare connected to Epic EHR and public health data
OpenAI connected ChatGPT for Healthcare to Epic electronic health records and nine official public healthcare data sources.
Dell Books $60.9 Billion of AI Server Orders and a $95 Billion Backlog
Dell booked $60.9 billion of AI server orders in one quarter and exited with a record $95 billion AI backlog.
Fervo Energy signs 396 MW geothermal power deal with Google for Utah data center
Fervo Energy and Google signed the largest enhanced geothermal power deal to date, sized for an AI data center
Justice Department tells a federal court that LLM training is fair use
The Justice Department tells a New York federal court that training large language models on copyrighted text is fair use.
Waymo opens public robotaxi service in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa
Waymo began public rider-only service in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa on September 1, 2026, reaching 14 US cities.
Broadcom AI Semiconductor Revenue Triples to $16.7 Billion in a Quarter
Broadcom posted $16.7 billion of AI semiconductor revenue in Q3, up 221 percent, and guided Q4 AI revenue to $21.7 billion.
G20 innovation ministers adopt the Carolina Principles on emerging technology
G20 innovation ministers adopt the US drafted Carolina Principles, urging sector specific AI rules and no new regulators.
Google's Fairwind Program hands government defenders an agentic patching stack
Google opened Fairwind on September 2, 2026, giving governments and 650-plus partners Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and CodeMender.
FDA grants De Novo authorization to an AI model that reads ECGs for hidden heart attacks
FDA cleared Powerful Medical's Queen of Hearts AI, DEN250044, to flag STEMI and STEMI-equivalent patterns on ECGs
Figure Commits $3.5 Billion to Nscale for Up to 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs
Figure committed $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to train its humanoid robot models.
NVIDIA Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, buying the hub where 18 million developers share AI models.
OpenAI committed 1 billion dollars to Daybreak for Frontline Defenders
OpenAI committed 1 billion dollars in subsidized Daybreak cyber access for frontline infrastructure defenders.
Tesla starts paid Cybercab rides in Austin and NHTSA opens an audit the same day
Tesla put roughly 1,000 control-free Cybercabs into commercial service in Austin; NHTSA opened audit query AQ26002 that day.
WeatherNext 3 puts hourly 5 km AI forecasts into Google Search and Maps
Google DeepMind shipped WeatherNext 3, an hourly AI forecast model at up to 5 km, now serving Search, Maps, and Gemini.
Federal court denies xAI's bid to block Minnesota's AI nudification ban
A federal judge denies xAI's bid to block Minnesota's law banning AI tools that generate nonconsensual nude images
Gimlet Labs raises $300 million Series B for multi-silicon inference cloud
Gimlet Labs raised $300 million led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $3 billion valuation to run AI inference across mixed chip fleets
China's Supreme People's Court issues its first national rules for judging AI disputes
China's top court issues 24 articles of guidance for AI cases, covering face and voice cloning, AI content liability and training data
A UK MP introduces a bill to prohibit the development of artificial superintelligence
Labour MP Alex Sobel wins leave for a Ten Minute Rule bill to ban superintelligent AI in the UK, with second reading set for November 13
Accenture and Google Cloud form a 1,000-engineer group to scale Gemini agents inside enterprises
Accenture and Google Cloud launched a Gemini Enterprise Business Group staffed by 1,000 forward-deployed engineers
Google DeepMind publishes AlphaGenome Atlas, predictions for every possible single-letter DNA change
AlphaGenome Atlas precomputes molecular-effect predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter variants in the human genome.
Google's threat intelligence group reports attackers moving from prompting AI to running agents
GTIG says attackers used a multi-agent framework to plan and run a credential-harvesting campaign that hit thousands of credentials in under six hours
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that runs in its own secure cloud VM
Meta launched Muse in the US on iOS, Android and the web, a personal agent powered by Muse Spark that acts on a user's behalf.
Mistral AI raises 3 billion euros in a Samsung-led Series D
Mistral AI raised 3 billion euros at a post-money valuation above 21 billion euros, led by Samsung, as Samsung adopts its models for chipmaking
Qualcomm signs a multi-generation custom AI silicon deal with Amazon, backed by a warrant tied to up to $60 billion of purchases
Qualcomm will build custom inference silicon for AWS and gave Amazon a warrant for 25 million shares that vests with up to $60 billion of purchases
US security agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale distillation of American models
CISA, NSA and FBI advisory AA26-251A names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI as distilling US frontier models
Apple debuted iPhone 18 Pro with Siri AI beta and a cryptographic camera authentication feature
Apple unveiled iPhone 18 Pro on Sept 9, 2026, launching Siri AI as a beta and a cloud-signed photo authentication feature.
Governor Newsom signs California's AI auditor and verifier framework into law
Governor Newsom signs SB 813 and AB 1405, creating California's framework for independent AI auditors and verifiers
NVIDIA and Australian partners plan up to 2 gigawatts of AI factory capacity by 2027
NVIDIA said Australian cloud and data center partners are building toward up to 2 gigawatts of NVIDIA AI factory capacity by 2027
Savvy Wealth raises $100 million Series C for AI-native wealth advisor platform
AI-native RIA platform Savvy Wealth closed a $100 million Series C as its ARR approached $100 million on 4x AUM growth
Adobe AI-first ARR grows more than 150 percent as monthly users pass 1 billion
Adobe Q3 FY2026 revenue hit $6.76 billion as AI-first ending ARR grew over 150 percent year over year past one billion users
Anthropic's September 2026 threat report describes AI-run espionage, ransomware and influence operations
Anthropic published case studies of Claude being used to run espionage, extortion and influence campaigns at scale
Governor Newsom signs Adam's Law, California's companion chatbot child-safety statute
Governor Newsom signs Adam's Law, requiring companion chatbots to detect self-harm risk and protect minors by default
Motive takes more than $1.3 billion from General Catalyst and withdraws its IPO filing
Fleet AI company Motive secured over $1.3 billion from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund and withdrew its S-1, with ARR above $600 million
NASA and IBM open-source a foundation model built to read the Moon
NASA and IBM released an open lunar AI model and a dataset combining 30-plus data layers from nine instruments
Oracle books $30 billion more AI cloud contracts, RPO hits $664 billion
Oracle Q1 FY2027 revenue rose 30 percent as cloud infrastructure grew 121 percent and remaining obligations hit $664 billion
Positron AI raises $875 million at a $5 billion valuation for inference chips
Positron AI raised $875 million across Series C and C-1 at a $5 billion post-money valuation to tape out its Asimov inference chip on TSMC N3P
Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls on frontier AI labs to deliberately pace capability gains
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publishes an essay urging AI labs to deliberately slow capability gains and open labs to outside evaluators
Temporal raises $550 million at a $12.55 billion valuation as agent workloads grow
Temporal raised a $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, led by Lightspeed, with run-rate revenue above $250 million
Waymo opens fully driverless rides in Las Vegas
Waymo began fully autonomous rides in Las Vegas over a nearly 24-mile area from Boulder Junction through the Strip, using its Ojai vehicle
California requires disclosure of AI-generated performers in advertising
Governor Newsom signs SB 1050, making it false advertising to prominently feature an AI synthetic performer in an ad without a clear label
Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive agreement to combine
Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive business combination agreement to form a Berlin and Toronto headquartered sovereign AI company
Newsom orders California to study a frontier AI kill switch and onsite lab auditors
California Executive Order N-9-26 fast-tracks AI auditor rules and asks for kill-switch and loss-of-control proposals by November 16