The Trump administration filed a 20-page brief arguing there is a strong national interest in allowing OpenAI to continue training its large language models on copyrighted material without permission to help the U.S. retain global AI leadership.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Berenberg reiterated a Buy rating on Autodesk (ADSK) on September 1 and trimmed its price target to $333 from $335, citing 2Q results with revenue up 16% year over year to $2.05B and non-GAAP operating margin rising to 41%.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds (not equity), and CEO Jensen Huang said the deal is “not circular” because “they do their own business and we do our own business.”
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Snowflake’s product revenue growth accelerated to 34% year-over-year in Q1 after rising from 30% the prior quarter and 26% a year earlier, with management calling it its “strongest sequential dollar growth in company history.”
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia led chip stocks higher as renewed confidence in AI spending lifted the sector.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI delayed Astra’s release after reports it uses a more opaque looped transformer/recurrent-depth architecture that shows far less “thinking,” raising fears safety monitoring could fail.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Verge
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI’s argument that training AI large language models on copyrighted New York Times text is fair use, warning that a ruling narrowing fair-use doctrine would “severely hamper” “the Progress of Science and useful Arts.”
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge
Wonderful raised $550 million in a Series C at a $5 billion valuation, more than doubling its nearly six-month-ago $2 billion valuation.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
MrBeast (Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson) has a multi-year partnership with Google that will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos starting with a wilderness-survival video on September 5.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge
Microsoft is switching text predictions off by default in Word and Outlook, while keeping the feature available for users to enable in app settings.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Register
Berkshire CEO Greg Abel said Berkshire Hathaway Energy expects AI-driven data-center demand to be constrained by power availability, not by Berkshire’s ability to generate energy, and that data-center projects must not negatively affect other customers’ rates.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
HiddenLayer raised $100 million in a Series B round to secure AI models, agents, and workflows as enterprise demand accelerates.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Equinix shares rose about 2% after it announced Equinix Inference Exchange, a distributed AI inference program for global enterprises built with NVIDIA and Together AI.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Adobe acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo via a deal that involved licensing and hiring Rilo’s six-member team, while neither side disclosed deal terms.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
IBM Granite time series foundation models and Confluent Cloud integration put real-time forecasting and anomaly detection on streaming data directly in Apache Flink, with access opening on Confluent Cloud on AWS and Confluent Platform next.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Hugging Face
The Dow Jones rose 0.5% and the S&P 500 rose 0.1% after jobs data came in weaker than expected, while the Nasdaq composite fell 0.1%.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sands Capital Select Growth Fund returned 23.2% in Q2 2026, outperforming the Russell 1000 Growth Index’s 16.7%, and cited Shopify as a key example of companies embedding AI into ecommerce to drive merchant productivity and discovery despite investor worries about AI-related expenses.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
UK MPs warned Anthropic’s new managing director for international affairs, Matt Clifford, of a “clear conflict of interest” because he plans to keep chairing ARIA while also leading the LLM maker’s government dealings outside North America.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
Slackbot can now call Adobe apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock, Lightroom, and others to complete tasks users describe in Slack.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
iPronics says its second-generation optical circuit switching (OCS) tech can reconfigure in sub-millisecond times and scale from a 32-port-per-chip design to 72- and 144-port chips, aiming for up to 720 port pairs per rack unit using silicon photonics with no moving parts.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
