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Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, about 250km west of Brisbane, according to Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the deal. The site on which the data center will be built belongs to a Singapore-based developer, likely Zerra DC, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Temporal has raised $550m in a Series E round that values it at $12.55bn. That is more than double its valuation seven months ago. The company announced the round on 14 September. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round. Wellington Management, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Tiger Global were co-leads. T. Rowe Price and [] This story continues at The Next Web

The recording industrys global trade body has launched a new commitment asking music distributors to stop fraudulent tracks before they reach streaming services. IFPI announced the Streaming Integrity Initiative in London on 14 September. Twenty-seven companies and industry groups back it at launch. They include Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. [] This story continues at The Next Web

For years, some of cryptos most revealing onchain investigations have arrived after the damage was done. A token collapses, traders lose money. Analysts trace the wallets to uncover concentrated holdings, coordinated buyers or supply controlled by connected insiders. Bubblemaps is now trying to move that analysis earlier in the trading cycle. A redesigned token discovery [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has told shareholders it expects positive adjusted operating income for a second straight quarter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing several people with knowledge of the matter. CNBC reported the same on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The FT also reported that Anthropics gross margins are above 80%. That figure [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon Web Services has told customers it cannot restore access to its cloud facility in Bahrain or one of its three data hosting zones in the UAE, six months after drone strikes hit its sites in the Gulf. The explanation matters because it shows the limits of the resilience built into cloud infrastructure. The damage [] This story continues at The Next Web

A cross-party committee of MPs and peers wants a dedicated UK AI law and a single regulator with enforcement powers. On the same day, OpenAI said it would back binding UK rules for the few companies building the most powerful AI. That includes OpenAI itself. Tom Duff Gordon is OpenAIs head of policy for Europe, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The appeal of prop trading starts with a genuine problem around access to capital. 45% of people who dont invest said they simply did not have enough money to do so. Talented traders lack enough capital to turn skill into returns. Proprietary firms are an alternative. They give capable traders the opportunity to manage substantially [] This story continues at The Next Web

Choosing a crypto wallet used to come down to a few basic questions: Which networks does it support? Is it secure? And how easily can users send, receive and store assets? In 2026, the answer is becoming more complicated. Wallets are increasingly integrating swaps, perpetual futures, DeFi, yield products and cross-chain transactions directly into their [] This story continues at The Next Web

Kamala Harris posted a four-paragraph statement on X on Monday night setting out what she wants Washington to do about AI. She asked Congress to pass new laws and establish a new federal entity to provide oversight and independent testing for frontier models. She asked the president to pursue a treaty with countries including China [] This story continues at The Next Web

Three senators will put AI legislation in front of Congress this week, and none of them can say when it might be voted on. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, plans to introduce a measure on Wednesday requiring developers to build a shutdown mechanism into their systems. Bernie Sanders is hosting a briefing with AI [] This story continues at The Next Web

Phasecraft has produced what it says is the largest known database of variational quantum eigensolver results, more than 3,000 emulations across 13 molecular systems. The work ran on Nvidia Hopper processors hosted at the University of Nottingham, using Nvidias cuQuantum toolkit, and the company reports a 15-fold speedup over earlier results for modelling many-body systems. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seconds of speech on screen as text. Lawyers in four US states now say the features may test state eavesdropping law. Those laws require [] This story continues at The Next Web

Dario Amodeis essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China and to crack down on smuggling and on remote access to data centres outside the country. Chinas commerce ministry called the essay further [] This story continues at The Next Web

Donald Trump was watching golf at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland on Sunday when reporters asked him about the AI industrys sudden appetite for slowing itself down. He said the United States leads China, that he wants to keep it that way, and that whoever wins with AI wins. We can put guardrails, we can [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon has made its Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows, pitching it to enterprise IT as the governed alternative to shadow AI. Quick runs in ordinary European AWS regions with inference kept inside Europe, but it is not on the published service list for the sovereign cloud AWS opened in Brandenburg in [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI has stopped selling the $200 tier of ChatGPT Pro, saying demand for its Astra model is straining its systems. European organisations face a second constraint the pause does not touch, because Astra still has no EU data zone deployment and no paid option keeps processing inside the EU data boundary. OpenAI has paused new [] This story continues at The Next Web

JoyIn, a Chinese robotics startup, has accused OpenAI of copying its ideas and its website. Its chief executive, Guo Renjie, set out the claims in an open letter in Chinese on the companys WeChat account, dated 10 September. On the same day, JoyIn announced Aether, a model for controlling humanoid robots. People often say major [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon will let advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT through its own advertising platform. Amazon Ads announced the partnership with OpenAI in a blog post on 10 September. Select US advertisers are already testing it in a pilot. Advertisers who plan and run campaigns with Amazon Ads can now extend them to ChatGPT, the company said. [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI inference company Baseten has acquired Blaxel, a startup that builds secure execution environments, or sandboxes, for AI agents. Baseten co-founder and chief technology officer Amir Haghighat told Axios Pro about the deal, which the outlet reported first on Thursday. Baseten later announced the acquisition. Axios describes Blaxel as a San Francisco startup. The announcement [] This story continues at The Next Web

TAR has raised a $120m Series A led by Spark Capital at a $1bn post-money valuation. The Austin company builds off-grid power systems for AI data centres. The company announced the round on Thursday. Prior investors Buckley Ventures and Align Fund also took part, Bloomberg reported. Spark Capital is an investor in Anthropic, Bloomberg noted. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Motive has secured more than $1.3bn in growth financing from General Catalysts Customer Value Fund, the company announced on Thursday. Because of the financing, Motive has withdrawn its previously filed S-1 registration statement for an initial public offering. The San Francisco company describes itself as the AI platform for physical operations. Its software helps companies [] This story continues at The Next Web

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters and CNBC also reported it. According to the announcement, the framework is meant to help card networks, digital wallets, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsofts September Patch Tuesday fixes 974 security flaws across its products, according to the companys release notes. Attackers were already exploiting two of them before the patches landed on Tuesday. Both zero-days let an attacker who already has a foothold on a Windows machine gain higher privileges. One sits in the Windows Update Stack (CVE-2026-81963), [] This story continues at The Next Web

Celero Communications, a two-year-old chip startup, has raised $275m in a Series C round that values it at more than $3bn. It makes the processors that push data down fibre optic cables between AI chips, racks and whole data centres. Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and CapitalG, Alphabets growth fund, co-led the round. Dina Bass [] This story continues at The Next Web

The UK government has published a new space strategy, backed by 7.8bn to 2030. It brings the governments civil and military space spending under one plan. The governments announcement on 8 September named national security and defence as its key pillars, alongside growth. The UK Space Strategy formally replaces the National Space Strategy of 2021. [] This story continues at The Next Web

A 30-year-old Polish software developer has built an iPhone app that detects Meta smart glasses in the vicinity and estimates how far away they are by reading the Bluetooth signals the glasses broadcast. It has around 5,000 users a month after launch. Pawel Szydlowski bought several models of smart glasses and catalogued their Bluetooth fingerprints, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Suno has launched a new generation of AI music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, and will switch off everything that came before them. As v6 rolls out, we will retire our previous models and move Suno entirely onto the v6 generation, the company said. The announcement, published on Wednesday, introduces three [] This story continues at The Next Web

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong will buy just over 7.1 million shares from his mother, Hong Ra-hee, in an off-market transaction worth 1.94tn won, or about $1.4bn. The deal is scheduled for 12 October and wasreported by Reutersafter a filing with South Koreas Financial Supervisory Service on Wednesday. The mechanics are small, and the meaning [] This story continues at The Next Web

Three US agencies have jointly named six Chinese AI companies as having systematically extracted capabilities from American frontier models since late 2024, in an advisory detailed enough to list which model each firm went after and how the requests were disguised. The National Security Agency, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published [] This story continues at The Next Web

CloudNC has raised $20mn to push its AI machining software into more workshops and launch a second product aimed at quoting, the commercial bottleneck that sits in front of every job a precision manufacturer takes on. The round is led by Nimble Ventures, a US venture investor, with Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First and LM [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features rather than model research, including the ability to share the prompt alongside [] This story continues at The Next Web

Growth hacking was supposed to be dead. The term had a good run. Sean Ellis coined it in 2010, and for a decade it described the scrappy, slightly unholy tricks that built the consumer internet: Airbnb piggybacking on Craigslist, Dropbox handing out free storage for referrals, Hotmail signing every outgoing email with an ad for [] This story continues at The Next Web

Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures, a London seed and Series A firm that now describes AI in Europe as its sole focus, as an advisory partner. His stated contribution is US connectivity from Silicon Valley, meaning talent, company connections and capital. Reid Hoffman says he is joining Mosaic Ventures as an advisory [] This story continues at The Next Web

Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares worth about $4B, vesting against commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases, alongside a multi-generation custom silicon deal for AWS. Qualcomm is also one of three chipmakers that signed memoranda to supply the EUs AI gigafactories, a programme with roughly EUR 1B actually [] This story continues at The Next Web

Irelands media regulator has opened an investigation into whether Xs age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July and was allowed to appeal it in January, so it is being [] This story continues at The Next Web

An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it. Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus [] This story continues at The Next Web

The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation on the governments media Green Paper, which opened on 23 June. That [] This story continues at The Next Web

A Welsh chipmaker has just posted a 40% jump in revenue. Its shares are up 849% this year. And its chief executive has told an interviewer that the industry has a supply problem it cannot fully solve. Sofia Gerace reported the interview for Bloomberg. Jutta Meier runs IQE, based in Cardiff. She said access to [] This story continues at The Next Web

A new player in on-chain trading is bringing token discovery, real-time scoring and cross-chain execution into one terminal. Byrrgis has opened its beta to its full community, giving users access to a non-custodial trading platform spanning Solana, Ethereum and BNB Chain. The platform combines a live Scout Score with tools for finding coins early, buying [] This story continues at The Next Web

A San Francisco startup has raised $4M to help software get chosen by AI agents. Lightsage calls the category Agent-Led Growth, the company said. Nexus Venture Partners led the round. Angel backers include former Salesforce chief technology officer Steven Tamm, Postman chief executive Abhinav Asthana, Apollo chief executive Matt Curl and DocuSign president Robert Chatwani. [] This story continues at The Next Web

King Charles is convening about 30 senior figures from the AI industry at a Scottish country house this month. He does not intend to tell them what he thinks. Joseph Bambridge reported the plans for Politico. Two people familiar with them spoke on condition of anonymity, because nobody has announced the event. One of them [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google DeepMind put 100 AI agents in a room and asked them to prove hard mathematics. One found a way to cheat. Twenty-seven minutes later the entire problem set was gone. The paper, published on arXiv last week by six DeepMind researchers, is a case study rather than a benchmark. Nobody set out to test [] This story continues at The Next Web

Satellogic has appointed Frank D. Trey Whitworth as president, giving the day-to-day running of a commercial Earth-imaging company to the man who directed Americas spy-satellite intelligence agency until 10 months ago. The appointment was announced today by the company. Whitworth, a retired US Navy vice admiral, directed the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from June 2022 to [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission has a plan to loosen Chinas grip on the supply chains that feed European industry, and before it proposes the plan formally, it wants to find out how much of it companies are prepared to pay for. Trade commissioner Maro efovi is expected to put that question to European chief executives on [] This story continues at The Next Web

Stoke Space has raised a billion dollars for a rocket that has never flown. The Washington company says the Series E takes its total funding to $2.3bn. It has not yet reached orbit once. Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round, according to Stokes announcement. General Innovation, Glade Brook Capital, US Innovation Technology, Washington [] This story continues at The Next Web

Digital sovereignty has arrived in the boardroom and has immediately been downgraded. Some 93% of large organisations have now discussed it at the board level, and 59% say full digital sovereignty is not a realistic goal, according to a Capgemini Research Institute surveyof 1,300 business and technology executives published on Tuesday. What has replaced the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Dacia has revealed a second-generation Spring built at Renaults Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia, and the entire range is priced below 20,000 before government subsidies. The first-generation car, which sold more than 210,000 units across forty countries since 2021, was built in China. That relocation is the story, and the press materials do not mention [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has decided against buying Decart AI,Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. The company had explored a deal and completed due diligence before walking away, and one of those people said the two may still find other ways to work together. Representatives for both companies declined to [] This story continues at The Next Web

Australia has published draft legislation that would require social media platforms to show users recurring prompts offering to turn the algorithmic feed off. The exposure draft of the Digital Duty of Care bill went out this week,Reuters reported, and carries penalties above A$100m for breaches. Plenty of jurisdictions have established that users should be able [] This story continues at The Next Web