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05 Sept 2026

Gimlet Labs Raises $300M to Solve AI's Growing Power Crisis with Multi-Silicon Inference Cloud

Gimlet Labs secured $300 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $3 billion valuation. The startup addresses AI inference bottlenecks with its disaggregated inference platform that orchestrates heterogeneous compute systems, delivering up to 10X throughput gains while optimizing intelligence per watt across GPUs and specialized accelerators.

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HP Unveils World's Thinnest NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops with 1 Petaflop of AI Performance

HP announced the OmniBook Ultra 16 and OmniBook X 14, claiming the title of world's thinnest NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops. The Ultra 16 packs up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI performance into an ultra-thin design with 17-hour battery life. HP also detailed the upcoming OmniDesk desktop for continuous AI agent operations.

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Krafton Doubles India Bet With $250M Push Into AI and Deeptech Beyond Gaming

South Korean gaming company Krafton announced a fresh $250 million investment in India over the next three to four years, expanding beyond gaming into AI, robotics, and deeptech. This brings its total planned investment to over $500 million, signaling confidence in India's startup ecosystem despite past regulatory challenges with PUBG and BGMI.

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micro1 Offers $12.5M for Spirit Aviation Data, Outbidding Google in AI Training Records Battle

AI startup micro1 has submitted a $12.5 million competing bid for Spirit Aviation records, offering $2.5 million more than Google's approved deal. The counter-offer proposes an independent ombudsman and addresses privacy objections from labor unions, as the bankruptcy court prepares for a September 9 sale hearing.

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Nvidia in Talks for $10B Investment as Anthropic IPO Shifts to October Targeting $2 Trillion Valuation

Anthropic is delaying its highly anticipated IPO launch to mid-October, with Nvidia considering a $10 billion anchor investment in what could become the largest public offering in history. The artificial intelligence company aims to raise up to $100 billion at a potential $2 trillion valuation, testing public-market appetite for AI as it races to complete the listing before November's US midterm elections.

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Apple Plans AI-Powered Home Security Camera and Subscription Service for 2027 Launch

Apple is developing a privacy-centric home security camera that uses AI monitoring to detect environmental changes without recording actual video footage. The device will integrate with a new home security subscription service and could leverage existing HomeKit Secure Video infrastructure when it launches in 2027.

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04 Sept 2026

Spammers Deploy ASCII Smuggling in Massive Phishing Campaign Hitting 2.37 Million Daily Emails

Microsoft uncovered a large-scale phishing campaign using invisible Unicode characters to split financial keywords and evade email spam filters. The operation peaked at 2.37 million messages daily in late February 2026, adapting ASCII smuggling techniques originally designed for AI prompt injection attacks into traditional spam operations.

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US-China AI Race Takes Dangerous Turn as Former Official Proposes Bombing Chinese Data Centers

A former Obama administration national security official has proposed extreme measures including military strikes on Chinese data centers to prevent China from achieving artificial general intelligence first. The proposal has drawn sharp warnings from experts and direct threats of retaliatory missile strikes from Chinese commentators, marking a dangerous escalation in the US-China AI race.

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AMD Threadripper Halo Station brings supercomputer power to desks with 96 cores and 576GB memory

AMD unveiled the Threadripper Halo Station at IFA 2026, a liquid-cooled AI workstation featuring a 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX CPU and up to four Instinct MI350P accelerators with 576GB of HBM3E memory. The system can run trillion-parameter AI models locally, targeting researchers and developers who need on-premises AI capabilities without relying on cloud infrastructure.

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SpaceXAI's Grok Bot Launches on iPad and Android as Pricing Drops to $20 Per Month

SpaceXAI has expanded its Grok Bot AI agent to iPad and Android while slashing prices from $300 to $20 per month through Cursor Pro subscriptions. The platform now offers enterprise customers a two-week free trial as thousands of organizations deploy millions of autonomous digital workers across business functions.

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Figure Secures 100,000 Nvidia GPUs in $3.5bn Deal to Scale Humanoid Robotics Training

Figure AI signed a strategic partnership with Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 Nvidia GPUs based on the Vera Rubin platform. The $3.5 billion initial commitment, scaling beyond $6 billion, will power training for Helix robotics foundation model starting in 2027. Nscale also took an equity stake in Figure, mirroring Nvidia's investment playbook.

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Luka Kids Unveils AI Drawing Projector That Puts Children in Creative Control at IFA

Luka Kids introduced an AI drawing projector at IFA in Berlin that converts children's spoken ideas into traceable outlines rather than finished images. The device arrives with 384 templates and represents a measured approach to AI toys as the EU implements stricter toy safety regulations requiring mental health risk assessments for digitally connected toys.

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Mark Zuckerberg Pushes Back on Federal AI Regulator in Direct Call With Trump

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told President Donald Trump in August he opposed a proposed national AI regulator. The White House is now weighing two industry-led alternatives: a FINRA-style body funded by tech firms or a voluntary ratings scheme modeled on the Motion Picture Association. The debate centers on the degree of self-regulation rather than whether government oversight is needed at all.

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SentinelOne Integrates OpenAI GPT-5.6-Cyber Model for Advanced Threat Detection

SentinelOne announced an expansion of its Wayfinder Frontier AI Services through OpenAI Daybreak models, deploying GPT-5.6-Cyber for enhanced code risk analysis, compromise assessment, and malware analysis. The partnership addresses the growing challenge of AI-powered cyberattacks by combining frontier AI models with elite security experts to identify exploitable threats before attackers can capitalize on them.

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Resect AI Secures $25 Million Funding to Combat AI Hallucinations with Real-Time Detection Technology

Resect AI launched from stealth with $25 million in funding to tackle AI hallucinations using patented in-stream technology. Unlike traditional post-generation checks, the startup's platform intervenes within large language models' decision-making processes to stop fabrications at the source while generating audit trails for enterprise compliance.

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