OpenAI, AARP Partner on Free ChatGPT Workshops for 1,000 Older Adults
OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities, according to an OpenAI announcement . The program aims to build practical AI skills safely among participants .…
AI safety debate splits into two blocs at Dreamforce, with business models driving the divide
The AI industry's safety debate crystallized into opposing camps at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference on Tuesday, with Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg arguing that market forces and engineering discipline are sufficient gu…
Samsung and ex-ASML chief back Euclyd's €200M+ bid to break Nvidia's inference grip
Euclyd, a two-year-old Eindhoven startup with no commercial silicon, just closed a Series A of more than €200 million co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries . The round'…
Spain's AEPD logs first data breach attributed to an autonomous AI agent
Spain's data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), has received the first breach notification in the country attributed to an autonomous AI agent that chained together multiple attack stages without human…
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RANKED · 14 THIS DAYGates Foundation commits $1B over two years to expand global AI access
The Gates Foundation is pledging more than $1 billion over two years to expand global access to artificial intelligence and deploy the technology against social inequalities, the foundation announced on Tuesday, September 15 . Bill Gates,…
OpenAI Weighs Pre-IPO Round at $1.2T, Seeks $1.5T Floor
OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2 trillion valuation ahead of its planned initial public offering, according to the Financial Times . Separately, the New York Times repo…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind Confirm Weeks-Long AI Safety Talks
OpenAI has been working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind for several weeks on AI safety coordination, the company's global policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed to reporters on September 15 . Lehane said the firms do not need an antitrust w…
Canada and Germany commit up to $300M to Bengio's LawZero safety non-profit
The Canadian and German governments are committing up to $300 million in grant funding to LawZero, the non-profit founded by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio to build AI systems designed to avoid the failure modes of current models . Each…
Mistral acquires marketing startup Pimento, its third deal since €3B raise
Mistral has acquired Pimento, a marketing startup, marking the company's third acquisition since its €3 billion fundraise . The deal surfaces days after Mistral secured a consumer distribution channel through Mozilla's Firefox browser, a p…
Salesforce and Nvidia Corp. build Koa, a CRM reasoning model that undercuts frontier labs on Agentforce
Salesforce announced Koa at its annual Dreamforce conference on September 15, marking the company's first reasoning model, built on Nvidia Corp.'s open-weight Nemotron architecture and post-trained jointly by the two companies for sales, ma…
Meta prices AI usage into new Meta One subscription tiers, rolls out globally
Meta on September 15 began selling Meta One, a global subscription bundle that pairs premium social-media features with expanded access to the company's AI tools, including capabilities powered by its Muse AI assistant . Individual plans s…
ByteDance AI spending cuts net profit margin to 16.7% as H1 revenue hits $120B
ByteDance posted first-half 2026 revenue of approximately $120 billion, a roughly 30% year-over-year increase, while net profit fell by a single-digit percentage to $20 billion, according to a report by The Information . The net profit marg…
ByteDance Wires Doubao, Feishu, Volcengine Into Single Enterprise AI Stack
ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo used the 2026 Feishu Future Unlimited Conference and Doubao Work kickoff to lay out a three-part enterprise AI architecture: Doubao for intelligence and agents, Feishu for the collaboration workplace, and Volcengine…
Open-weights models close frontier gap to 4.4 months at 30% of cost, Mozilla report finds
The performance gap between the best open-weights AI models from Chinese companies and closed frontier models from US tech firms has narrowed to 4.4 months, according to Mozilla's latest State of Open Source AI report, published on Septembe…