New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave
Italian cybersecurity startup Exein raised a $270 million round at a $1.7 billion valuation to secure its physical AI layer for connected devices.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Italian cybersecurity startup Exein raised a $270 million round at a $1.7 billion valuation to secure its physical AI layer for connected devices.
Sep 15, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Salesforce is putting its AI strategy in the spotlight at Dreamforce and at an Investor Day.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Mozilla’s State of Open Source AI report finds the performance gap between frontier closed models and best open-weights models is now equivalent to about a 4.4-month head start for closed models, with closed models costing roughly 5× more per completed task for that advantage (mainly on 8–12 hour workloads).
Sep 15, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is included in Investor's Business Daily's “Stocks That Funds Are Buying” list, alongside Travelers (TRV) and Welltower (WELL), despite investors’ misgivings.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Salesforce introduced Koa, its first reasoning model, built on Nvidia’s open-weight Nemotron and post-trained with synthetic data to handle sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks without ingesting any actual customer data.
Sep 15, 2026 ·TechCrunch
HSBC Private Bank launched HSBC Access in Singapore for ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices, giving qualifying clients institutional-style options including venture capital funds, private market products and direct investments that were previously limited to institutional investors.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goldman Sachs says Meta’s Muse could reach $2.4 billion in annual revenue if 10 million users subscribe—either via the $20/month power plan (about $200 million/month) or via roughly 2 million subscribers on the $100 Maximum tier.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX signed an AI hosting deal worth $1.11 billion per month, bringing annual recurring revenue to $13 billion.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Oracle’s fiscal Q1 backlog rose by $209 billion to $664 billion, with more than $30 billion of the new orders tied to new AI cloud contracts, alongside 30% revenue growth and 60% profit growth.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fraudsters used AI to scan public obituaries and convince a widow to pay $7,000 after claiming her late husband evaded taxes and the payment was needed to “preserve what was left of her inheritance.”
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan expect the Fed to raise rates 25 basis points this week, with futures pricing about a 90% probability—creating faster, different interest-cost risk for CoreWeave versus IREN given their debt structures and capex outlook.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Wall Street analysts said they doubt Anthropic and OpenAI leaders’ calls to “pace the frontier,” with Gil Luria saying “Nobody’s actually slowing anything down.”
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A wave of AI-safety endorsements has added uncertainty to AI capex spending and triggered a sell-off in AI-related stocks, contributing to expectations for longer fundraising and IPO timelines.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Workday and Adobe rose about 2.5% to 3% after chip stocks fell on calls to slow frontier AI development, supporting the view that slower frontier progress could give incumbents more time to monetize AI in existing platforms.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic expects positive adjusted operating income for a second consecutive quarter, with Financial Times reporting gross margins above 80% before revenue-sharing and model-training costs.
Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Open weights let people download and run the trained weights and deploy or fine-tune a model, but the Open Source Initiative says weights alone provide only “a fraction of the information required for full accountability,” which critics argue is why “open source” labels are often disputed in AI.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
The Register
Everpure says it’s building an AI data platform on Nvidia’s AI Data Platform reference design to keep LLM agents from “starving” for policy and other data—targeting storage performance of 400 to 450 million IOPS, 220 GB/sec bandwidth, and 4.6 billion metadata operations/sec with its FlashBlade//EXA approach.
Sep 15, 2026 ·The Register
MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro and 9600M phone processors, targeting advanced gaming (up to 185 frames per second) and on-device AI features for upcoming high-end phones.
Sep 15, 2026 ·
CNET
Apple’s iPhone Duo (5.4-inch outer display and 7.6-inch inner display) treats folding and unfolding as a “UI event with backend consequences,” so apps must preserve state and respond cleanly when the visible screen changes on opening or snapping shut.
Sep 15, 2026 ·The Register
China’s State Security minister Chen Yixin argues AI poses risks to national security, the Communist Party’s governance, and social stability, and calls for “special laws and regulations” covering AI R&D, application, supervision, and accountability focused on algorithm security, data protection, ethical norms, and privacy rights.
Sep 15, 2026 ·The Register
