Cantor Fitzgerald raised its Salesforce price target to $300 from $250 while keeping an Overweight rating, citing Salesforce’s open-platform strategy as an early enterprise-AI winner that can stay the underlying enterprise platform even as customers adopt other AI models or platforms.
Sep 4, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Baidu’s core AI-powered business generated RMB 12.5 billion in Q2 2026, up 25% year-over-year and making up 50% of general business revenue, while AI cloud infrastructure revenue rose 50% to RMB 7.3 billion and GPU Cloud revenue increased 283% year-over-year.
Sep 4, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Oppenheimer raised SpaceX’s price target to $280 (from $250) and lifted long-term revenue estimates by about 10%, saying stronger AI compute pricing could extend the runway by about 20% longer-term, but noting AI infrastructure capex is a major bottleneck—AI segment capex rose to $15.83B in Q2 from $749M a year earlier while the AI segment posted a $1.26B operating loss.
Sep 4, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
DLSS 5 is launching first on GeForce RTX 50 GPUs and will also receive official support for GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs later, after RTX 50 performance is tuned, but for gamers it will be an on-or-off toggle rather than full slider control.
Sep 4, 2026 ·
The Verge
Crusoe raised a new $3 billion round at a $30 billion valuation, per Bloomberg.
Sep 4, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
OpenAI is pledging $1B in credits under its “Daybreak for Frontline Defenders” initiative to subsidize access to its services and training for under-resourced cyber defenders over the next six months.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
The Register
Ugreen’s smart home hubs are built for local AI—HomeAgent runs on ARM with up to 205 TOPS (HA100 Pro: 32GB RAM) and MasterAgent runs Nvidia Jetson Thor with 128GB unified memory and up to 2,070 TOPS, with the flagship hub costing $20,000 at retail ($10,000 early bird).
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Engadget
SpaceXAI said a Memphis compute-center outage took Grok offline for about 3.5 hours starting at 6:30AM PT, with services restored and “functioning nominally” afterward.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Engadget
Palladyne AI reported second-quarter revenue of $5.783 million, up 470% year over year, while its operating loss widened to $13.413 million from $8.094 million a year earlier.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, positioning it as its most intelligent model yet with strengths in cybersecurity, software engineering, and multi-step agentic workflows, and rolling it out first to Daybreak access before expanding to Plus, Pro, and Business users over the coming days.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
CNET
Ultrahuman raised $70 million from Qualcomm Ventures, Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume and others to develop next-generation AI wearables, including future rings built around sensing, materials, electrical engineering, algorithms, physiology and clinical science.
Sep 3, 2026 ·CNET
A 2-year Shigella outbreak at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center generated data from 169 microbiologically confirmed shigellosis cases in non-human primates, including 151 Shigella isolates (whole genome sequencing on 95) and immune sampling from 41 infected animals.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 is trained on live satellite data and delivers higher-resolution (5-kilometer grid) hourly forecasts, including precipitation forecasts that DeepMind says are up to 50% more accurate.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Engadget
The Take It Down Act makes it a federal crime to publish or threaten to publish nonconsensual intimate imagery—including AI deepfakes—and requires online platforms to remove such content within 48 hours.
Sep 3, 2026 ·CNET
Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, with existing investor Accel in discussions to lead the round.
Sep 3, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Realta Fusion said it will explore building a 200-megawatt, grid-connected fusion power plant with Madison Gas and Electric in Wisconsin in the mid-2030s and also received an undisclosed equity investment as part of the deal.
Sep 3, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Three climbers on California’s Mount Shasta relied heavily on Google Gemini for route and packing advice, were advised to bring far less food and water than needed, and after one fell and injured his leg they needed a multiday rescue following two failed helicopter airlifts and an extended descent over roughly three days.
Sep 3, 2026 ·CNET
Jefferies reiterated a Hold rating on Adobe (ADBE) and raised its price target to $285 from $230, expecting results to come in line with expectations and citing Adobe’s long-term prospects amid a renewed focus on user acquisition and engagement.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Abliteration.ai offers a commercial service that hosts open-weight models with AI guardrails and refusals removed—saying it enables users to run “offensive cyber, red-teaming, and agent testing” that other models refuse, including an abliterated version of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 accessible via web or API.
Sep 3, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Spi-Fly, a fruit-fly-inspired sparse-coding algorithm, reached peak odor classification after just 3 exposures per odor on a gas-sensor dataset, versus roughly 70 exposures needed by backpropagation, while retaining old odors with almost no accuracy loss under incremental “catastrophic forgetting” tests.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
