XPeng says it plans to begin mass production of its humanoid robots by the end of 2026, then expand to broader China and overseas markets in 2027 amid China’s EV sales heading for their worst year since 2021.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
CNBC
NSA, FBI, and CISA accuse Chinese AI companies—including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—of making “aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation” a core part of their AI strategy at an industrial scale to extract restricted capabilities from US frontier models.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Register
Nasdaq (NDAQ) completed its acquisition of Dasseti, an AI-powered due-diligence and ongoing monitoring platform, to integrate Dasseti into Nasdaq eVestment’s manager-research workflows for public and private markets.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
iOS 27 adds Apple Intelligence-powered Home app summaries for key HomeKit events (e.g., someone seen at your door or smoke detected) to reduce notification overload.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Engadget
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra topped Andon Labs’ “vending evaluation test” for running a retailer and did so “without any unethical business practices,” while outperforming Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 on selling and end-of-run cash.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
Mistral raised a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion, with NVIDIA and ASML participating as existing investors.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office cut its Micron position (23,400 shares as of March 31) and by June 30 had no Micron shares, while adding Alphabet Class A shares to 336,300.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft is pushing a more demanding “useful yield” benchmark for Azure AI infrastructure that requires capacity expansion to come with better end-to-end efficiency across memory, networking, power, software, and fleet operations.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a publicly available database predicting the effects of nine billion human genome nucleotide variations from a petabyte of data, and it assigns each variant an AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score to rank variants for study.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
Meta launched Muse, a “personal agent” available in the US that works 24/7 to do tasks like online shopping (with permission), creating documents, filling out forms, and responding to emails.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
CNET
Palantir reported Q2 2026 revenue growth of 93% year-over-year to $1.935 billion—its fastest pace ever—while posting $1.22 billion in adjusted free cash flow (63% margin) and 157% net dollar retention.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SAP CEO Christian Klein said SAP’s new AI platform is becoming generally available in the fall and is designed to let customers build any agent using any LLM, with a “rich context layer” that he called a breakthrough moment.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI announced a solution to the Millennium Prize Problem for Navier-Stokes, but the breakthrough is tied up in a dispute over whether it drew on unpublished work and how credit would be assigned in publication.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
iOS 27 upgrades the Photos app’s Clean Up so AI object removal is more accurate, with performance choices between an Auto mode plus Fast retouches and High Quality processing that better handles complex scenes but takes longer and uses more battery.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
Bracket22’s total annual labor-related costs dropped from roughly $5 million a year to about $30,000 to $40,000 a year after Kelly switched to agentic AI, while he estimates he’s at least 10 times more productive.
Sep 8, 2026 ·CNBC
AI-first consumer hardware at IFA 2026 is shifting from standalone LLM devices toward context-aware AI agents that can carry out tasks, with products built around specific use cases like note-taking, companionship, health and translation.
Sep 8, 2026 ·CNET
Snowflake reported fiscal Q2 revenue of $1.55 billion, up 35% year over year, and raised full-year product revenue guidance to $6.07 billion from $5.84 billion while increasing its operating margin outlook to 14.5% (from 13.5%).
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Check Point Research found a covert channel in OpenAI’s internal JFrog Artifactory that let one ChatGPT account run hidden tasks (including retrieving email data from a connected Gmail) inside another account’s session, and OpenAI decommissioned the Artifactory instance, closing the hole.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
A compromised Claude session key was used to mint unauthorized Claude Code OAuth tokens, causing a subscriber’s token usage to climb from 45% to 55% while they reported doing no work and then leading to a paid account suspension and session/token invalidation by Anthropic.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Cognition raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, up from a $26 billion valuation from its prior round four months earlier.
Sep 8, 2026 ·TechCrunch
