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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Cymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund.
Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
IndustryMicrosoft really wants organizations to build and publish apps using Copilot
Microsoft is giving users a new way to build apps with AI, bringing a more automated approach to software creation inside its…
Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the…
FundingHarvey Secures $550M in Fresh Funding, Valuation Climbs to $15.5B
Harvey announced on September 9, 2026 that it has raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation in a funding round co-led by…
AI data centers won’t create as many UK jobs as the tech sector projects, think tank warns
A new analysis is challenging claims about how many permanent jobs the U.K.’s data center industry will create as billions pour…
Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’ after colleague quits
An Anthropic safety researcher said there is a greater than 10% chance AI could “kill all humans” after a former colleague quits…
ProductsQualtrics Announces XM Data & AI Platform for Experience Management
Qualtrics announced the XM Data & AI Platform on September 9, 2026, an AI system the company says is built to simulate outcomes,…
ProductsSecurity Bite Podcast: What’s hitting Macs so far in 2026, plus OBTS v9 preview (Part 2)
9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready…
Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up
As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous…
ResearchStudents who use AI generally score worse at school
Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don’t, according to data from a global OECD…
ProductsAI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?
On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its…
FundingWhat Is Natural Language Processing (NLP)? How Machines Understand Language
Natural language processing is the field concerned with computational methods for analyzing, understanding, generating, and…
IndustryEnterprise Voice AI Doesn’t Need More Personality. It Needs Empathy by Design
I have worked in voice since 2017, long enough to have lived through one hype cycle and to watch a second one gain real momentum.…
FundingWhat’s Real and What’s Wishful Thinking in Voice AI
In 2024, if you called a company’s support line and got routed to a “voice agent,” you knew you were talking to a machine within…
FundingMan told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work
Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and…
IndustryStop Designing AI Infrastructure Around the GPU
Why MSPs Should Start with the Workload, Not the Hardware Spend five minutes at an AI conference and you could easily come away…
FundingCloudNC aims to accelerate AI supply chain machining
CloudNC has secured $20 million in new capital to scale its AI precision machining technology across global supply chain…
IndustryMicrosoft Edge Add-ons store pipeline strained by AI submissions
Surging submission volumes from AI-assisted coding forced Microsoft to streamline reviews with automated checks and 15-day badge…
ProductsGeordie launches Cost Intelligence to tie AI spending to agent activity
Agent security startup Geordie AI Ltd. today launched Cost Intelligence, a capability that links enterprise AI spending to the…
PolicyChina’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”
In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they…
US allies lack resources to keep pace on AI, top Pentagon official says
Cameron Stanley talks up ‘revolutionary’ AI capabilities and says Washington working with Nato and Five Eyes partnersThe…
ProductsXiaomi XRing O3 Enters Mass Production as MiMo Goes On-Device and O100/D100 Target 2027
Xiaomi’s XRing O3 SoC has entered mass production with MiMo running on-device, while the O100 AI accelerator and D100…
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