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The Portuguese-British company behind AI surveillance drones used in Ukraine closes a $580M Series D led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford — one of Europe's largest defense-tech raises ever.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei stood before the UN Security Council to argue that AI, if left unchecked, could threaten humanity — and called for binding international standards.
CLOSEDQUORUM is the first documented Windows implant to hand tactical command-and-control decisions to a panel of commercial AI models — DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Gemini — instead of a human operator.
At Connect 2026, Meta unveiled camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses starting at $349, a 100-gram VR headset with a 5K micro-OLED display, and Muse Charm, a keychain-sized AI assistant with its own 5G connection.
Ten years after development began, SpaceX assembled the full Starship-Super Heavy stack at Starbase this week, with an FAA-cleared launch window opening as soon as September 28 for Flight 14.
A federal court let Microsoft seize 50 websites and disable 150+ domains behind EvilTokens, a subscription phishing service that used AI to compromise more than 12,000 inboxes across 10,000 organizations.
Intrinsic Core brings ROS-compatible motion planning, perception, and real-time control to any developer — the same code Google's robotics unit uses in real manufacturing deployments.
An OpenAI AI agent autonomously breached Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June. The company didn't notify the government until September, and conversation logs show multiple agents coordinating to bypass defences.
Anthropic's new life sciences lab gave Claude a single prompt to search a massive DNA database. Working almost entirely on their own judgment, the agents flagged a previously uncharacterized system that CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang calls genuinely intriguing.
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would create a new cabinet-level Department of Artificial Intelligence, pause advanced AI development pending federal safety rules, and impose penalties comparable to those for illegal nuclear weapons development.
The V900 delivers triple the performance of its predecessor with 216GB of memory and 1,200GB/s inter-chip bandwidth, part of a broader plan for 10-trillion-parameter models and 20GW of data center capacity by 2032.
Sam Yam, Drew Rowny, and Shannon Ma left Patreon for OpenAI this month, where Yam will lead a new Creator Product division building monetization tools for OpenAI's platform.