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Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M

The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch.

SK Hynix reportedly in talks with Intel to build memory chips in US

SK Hynix told TechCrunch the company hasn't finalized any plans or arrangements yet.

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The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years,…

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Building the materials foundation for AI

The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge. As AI pushes computing into new territory, the materials behind that infrastructure are becoming just as crucial as the algorithms running on it. Semiconductors and data centers are approaching physical limits around performance, thermal management, electrical efficiency, and reliability, creating new demands for materials that can do…

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ChatGPT pioneer launches Jev model for programmatic logic

TypeSafe, founded by a ChatGPT co-inventor, has left stealth and is launching its Jev model to automate programmatic decisions with parallel sampling architecture. Software systems requiring automated deterministic logic can now bypass conversational language models following TypeSafe AI’s release of Jev, a specialised System One Model designed to execute structured probabilistic decisions directly inside production […] The post ChatGPT pioneer launches Jev model for programmatic log

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Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi support

Amazon is letting all customers use Alexa+ assistant in early access period

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China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown

The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. But Beijing is deeply skeptical of a deal that prioritizes keeping US companies ahead.

Samsung Leads $231M Bet on Dutch Inference Chip as Supply Chain Begins Structural Hedging Against Nvidia

Euclyd has raised more than €200 million ($231 million) in a Series A led by Samsung and others to launch a non-GPU AI inference alternative by 2028. The investment signals growing structural hedging against Nvidia as Samsung seeks a parallel outlet for its memory business.

ChatGPT Co-Inventor Launches Jev: Drops Text Generation, Claims AI Reasoning Costs Cut 400x

Diogo Almeida, a co-author of InstructGPT and a contributor to RLHF, has launched Jev through TypeSafe AI, a decision model that returns calibrated choices and probabilities instead of text. The company claims it is 20–200x faster and 40–400x cheaper than large language models, though independent testing remains limited.

Former OpenAI Researcher Diogo Almeida Launches Jev, a Hallucination-Free Decision Model, With $40 Million

TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, has released Jev, its first System One model, alongside $40 million in funding. The model outputs type-safe structured values with calibrated probabilities, claiming comparable intelligence at a fraction of the cost and a mathematical impossibility of type errors.

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We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says

AI isn't some new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker.

Google Opens Claude Opus 5 to All Engineers on September 15, Internally Acknowledges Gemini's Coding Capabilities Are Insufficient

On September 15, 2026, Google gave all engineers quota access to Anthropic Claude Opus 5 through its internal Antigravity platform while officially keeping Gemini as its primary internal foundation model and acknowledging its weaker performance on complex coding tasks. The move marks the first time the world's largest AI vendor has systematically let its own engineers use a competitor's model.

CoT Monitoring Faces Plan Injection Attacks; Stanford Paper Shows 25-33% Bypass Rate

A Stanford paper reports that injecting seemingly benign but harmful reasoning plans into an Actor model's context can completely bypass Monitor safety detection in 25-33% of cases. The finding challenges safety strategies that rely on CoT monitoring and suggests that giving the Monitor more compute can sometimes lower detection rates.

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The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry

National outcry against data center construction has spread to Philadelphia, where officials suggested possible construction in a neighborhood already impacted by a now-defunct oil refinery.

After Five Missed Launches for Grok 4.7, xAI Jumps Straight to 4.8: A 2.5-Trillion-Parameter C++ Rewrite and a Roadmap Pointing at AGI

xAI has announced Grok 4.8, a 2.5-trillion-parameter model built on a from-scratch C++ training stack, even as Grok 4.7 sits unreleased after at least five missed launch dates. Musk's roadmap — from 4.7 through an AGI-level Grok 5 — rests largely on his own public self-assessment rather than published benchmarks.

UK Cross-Party Committee: Global AI Regulation Fails Everywhere; 100-Page Report Calls for Legislation

The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a 100-page report concluding that no country's AI laws and regulatory system are fit for purpose, and proposing a single statutory AI regulator, pre-deployment evaluations for powerful models, and outright bans on certain applications. The report lands as industry leaders call for slowing frontier AI and as concrete AI safety incidents sharpen the case for legislation.

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