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September 2026

2026-09-10
ISSUE 039

Skild’s S1 lets industrial robots learn a new task from one video

10 briefs · Physical AI and robotics / Enterprise AI assistants / LLM inference / Multimodal search / AI-assisted software development / Consumer health AI / Autonomous vehicles / Open models and infrastructure / AI service capacity / AI work automation

2026-09-09
ISSUE 038

Google commits at least €13 billion to Finland's AI infrastructure

13 briefs · AI data centers and energy / AI chips and memory / AI coding and capital / Legal AI and capital / Consumer AI agents / Generative media and licensing / Web platform and security / Enterprise AI deployment / AI cybersecurity / AI for science / AI for scientific laboratories / Cloud AI platforms / AI commerce

2026-09-08
ISSUE 037

Qualcomm's Amazon server-chip pact carries a $60 billion purchase ceiling

10 briefs · AI infrastructure and semiconductors / Capital and sovereign AI / Semiconductor manufacturing / AI data-center CPUs / AI security / Edge AI / Robotics and physical AI / AI developer tools / Platform regulation / AI safety research

2026-09-07
ISSUE 036

An AI-designed drug produces an early biological-aging signal

8 briefs · AI drug discovery / AI safety and governance / Chips and export controls / Copyright and creator economics / Capital and geospatial AI / AI adoption and media / Enterprise AI and workforce / AI products and organization

2026-09-06
ISSUE 035

OpenAI promises a framework for disclosing real-world AI misalignment

3 briefs · AI safety and governance / Data centers and capital / Robotics and capital

2026-09-05
ISSUE 034

OpenAI's Astra launch exposes the difference between announcing a model and delivering it

6 briefs · Models & Platforms / On-device AI & Chips / AI Infrastructure / Memory & Storage / AI Companies & Capital / Data-center Power

2026-09-04
ISSUE 033

OpenCode's latest release shows why the agent layer is becoming a product of its own

7 briefs · Developer Tools & Agents / Local AI & Hardware / AI Policy & Infrastructure / Models & Agents / AI Companies & Capital / Open Source & Graphics / Model Training Infrastructure

2026-09-03
ISSUE 032

NVIDIA agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion

8 briefs · AI Platforms & M&A / Models & Cybersecurity / AI Policy & Regulation / Robotics, Autonomy & Capital / AI Security & Capital / Enterprise AI & Capital / Consumer AI & Fraud Prevention / Drones, Supply Chains & Trade

2026-09-02
ISSUE 031

Stolen Claude sessions trigger sign-outs and refunds

5 briefs · AI security / Developer productivity / Agent security / AI models / AI coding platforms

2026-09-01
ISSUE 030

Anthropic pauses frontier work and hardens Claude after cyber evaluation incidents

10 briefs · Frontier AI Safety & Security / AI Products & Corporate Strategy / Government AI & Cloud / AI Hardware & Litigation / Enterprise AI & Capital / Edge AI & Consumer Hardware / Enterprise Agents / Agent Infrastructure & MCP / AI Transparency & Platforms / Cloud Reliability

August 2026

2026-08-31
ISSUE 029

NVIDIA invests $3.5 billion as MediaTek joins its custom AI infrastructure push

10 briefs · AI Chips & Infrastructure / AI Regulation / Safety & Financial Regulation / AI Chips & Corporate Strategy / AI Chips & Capital Markets / Semiconductors & Geopolitics / AI Agents & Developer Tools / Enterprise AI Tools / Physical AI & Industry / Robotics & Supply Chains

2026-08-29
ISSUE 028

OpenAI plans to end direct model access for SpaceX-owned Cursor

11 briefs · Models & Developer Tools / HBM & Semiconductors / Models & Open Weights / Memory & Regulation / Data Centers & Policy / AI Infrastructure / Cloud & MLOps / Models & Enterprise AI / Cloud & Reliability / Quantum & Capital Markets / Generative Media

2026-08-28
ISSUE 027

Federal judge overturns the Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist

12 briefs · AI Policy & Government / Physical AI & Robotics / AI Safety & Cybersecurity / Models & Creative AI / AI for Science / AI Products & Search / AI in Education / Startups & Ecosystems / AI Infrastructure / Cloud & Edge AI / AI Engineering

2026-08-27
ISSUE 026

Nvidia posts a $96.2 billion quarter as AI infrastructure demand doubles

11 briefs · Chips & Earnings / Cloud Infrastructure / AI Safety & Security / Memory & Manufacturing / HBM & Custom Silicon / AI Evaluation / Models & APIs / Market Expansion / Agent Infrastructure / Developer Tools / Memory & Storage

2026-08-26
ISSUE 025

OpenAI publishes the first performance results for its Jalapeño inference chip

12 briefs · AI chips and inference infrastructure / Creative AI and capital / Robotics and edge AI / Open models and enterprise agents / AI PCs and Arm computing / AI governance and workforce transition / AI evaluation and security / Agentic observability / Enterprise AI operations / HBM and advanced packaging / Enterprise coding agents / AI agents and capital

2026-08-25
ISSUE 024

NVIDIA takes Vera Rubin from production AI factories toward orbit

11 briefs · AI chips, infrastructure, and networking / AI security and influence operations / Semiconductors and edge AI / Enterprise AI and legal technology / AI regulation and model security / Physical AI and scientific computing / Model compression and research / Cloud AI infrastructure / Agent interoperability / AI developer tools / Voice agents and industry workflows

2026-08-24
ISSUE 023

XPENG robotics raises more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation

5 briefs · Robotics and capital / Generative video models / Semiconductors and edge AI / Online safety and regulation / Agentic finance and capital

2026-08-20
ISSUE 013

Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter and enter the model-routing layer

11 briefs · AI infrastructure and acquisitions / Enterprise AI privacy and safety / Orbital AI infrastructure and capital / Coding agents and collaboration / AI assistants and desktop products / AI products and education / Agentic finance and developer tools / Robotics and physical AI / Agent infrastructure and governance / Models and edge inference / Productivity agents and meetings

2026-08-19
ISSUE 012

Google widens its Marvell custom-silicon alliance across the AI stack

12 briefs · Custom silicon and AI infrastructure / AI chips and capital / Frontier-model safety and security / Developer platforms and agents / Generative video and company economics / AI products and monetization / Agent infrastructure and payments / AI products and safety / AI governance and national security / Developer tools and agent orchestration / AI research and agent memory / Data-center networking and capital

2026-08-18
ISSUE 011

OpenAI locks in an 8-gigawatt Ohio AI campus as Nvidia backs the build

10 briefs · Data centers and AI infrastructure / Models and company economics / Cloud infrastructure and capital / AI products and safety / Voice AI and capital / AI measurement and governance / Models and cloud deployment / Agent infrastructure and payments / Developer tools / AI education

2026-08-17
ISSUE 010

NVIDIA puts a $105 billion backstop behind OpenAI's Ohio AI campus

10 briefs · AI infrastructure finance / AI capital transactions / Generative video funding / AI safety governance / Data-center energy / AI policy research / AI product distribution / AI media production / Consumer robotics / Infrastructure risk

2026-08-13
ISSUE 009

Google brings sign-language translation from the lab to Pixel

10 briefs · Accessible multimodal AI / Semiconductor workforce / Edge vision models / AI training data policy / Earth observation models / Agent payments / Inference infrastructure / Sovereign enterprise AI / AI cost governance / AI coding tools

2026-08-12
ISSUE 008

Nebius revenue surges as its AI cloud buildout scales

11 briefs · AI cloud infrastructure / AI software funding / AI infrastructure funding / Consumer AI adoption / AI cybersecurity / Enterprise AI adoption / AI coding models / Medical AI research / Data center power / Developer infrastructure / Enterprise agent governance

2026-08-11
ISSUE 007

NVIDIA recruits Wall Street to finance $500B of AI compute

11 briefs · AI infrastructure finance / Semiconductor finance / AI cybersecurity / AI provenance / Synthetic media platforms / Enterprise AI products / Agent infrastructure / AI developer tools / Open voice models / Data center policy / Cloud AI infrastructure

2026-08-10
ISSUE 006

Intel seeks $15B in fresh equity for an AI-driven expansion cycle

10 briefs · Semiconductor finance / AI developer tools / Open AI models / Semiconductor industrial policy / Semiconductor investment / AI strategy and infrastructure / Automotive AI / AI for materials science / Model efficiency research / AI safety and cybersecurity

2026-08-08
ISSUE 005

OpenAI tightens Astra controls as critical cyber capability comes into view

10 briefs · AI safety and cybersecurity / AI infrastructure / Data centers and community impact / Agent infrastructure / Enterprise AI operations / Semiconductor leadership / AI research and education / Healthcare AI / AI developer tools / Applied AI research

2026-08-05
ISSUE 004

AMD's data-center revenue more than doubles to $6.7B

11 briefs · AI chips and earnings / AI safety and security / Memory and storage / AI infrastructure / Robotics and autonomous vehicles / Agent security / Models and edge AI / Research infrastructure / AI research and healthcare / Enterprise AI adoption

2026-08-04
ISSUE 003

Volta lands a $10B compute commitment linked to Anthropic

10 briefs · AI infrastructure / Capital transactions / Agent platforms / Enterprise AI / Legal and policy / Data centers / Agent commerce / AI evaluation / Chips and leadership / Developer tools

2026-08-03
ISSUE 022

Alibaba Releases Qwen 3.8-Max and Commits to Open Weights

10 briefs · Foundation models / AI chips / Agent infrastructure / Enterprise AI / AI inference / Agent platforms / Model economics / AI safety / AI accelerators / AI workforce

2026-08-01
ISSUE 021

Microsoft Debuts a Cyber Model Built for Autonomous Vulnerability Hunting

10 briefs · AI security / AI safety / AI law / AI research / AI infrastructure / Agent research / Cloud AI / Agent operations / AI regulation / AI content policy

July 2026

2026-07-30
ISSUE 020

Azure clears $100 billion as Microsoft’s AI buildout accelerates

10 briefs · Cloud and AI infrastructure / AI infrastructure and platforms / Semiconductors / Models and evaluation / Advanced packaging / Generative media / Agent security / Enterprise agents / Business automation / AI security

2026-07-29
ISSUE 019

OpenAI says its rogue evaluation agent reached four outside services

14 briefs · AI safety and security / AI chips and software / AI regulation / Data centers and power / Cloud and AI infrastructure / AI governance / AI agents / Developer infrastructure / AI research / Semiconductor manufacturing / Geospatial AI / AI models / Automotive AI / Robotics

2026-07-28
ISSUE 018

Meta and BlackRock build a $14 billion financing engine for AI compute

11 briefs · AI infrastructure / Models and compute / AI security / Robotics and autonomy / AI safety / AI markets / Privacy / Developer tools / AI products

2026-07-27
ISSUE 017

NVIDIA launches an open-defense coalition for the agent era

10 briefs · security / memory / capital / research / tools / chips / safety / data-centers / network / robotics

2026-07-26
ISSUE 016

Anthropic’s custom-chip push reaches SK Hynix

5 briefs · chips / memory / capital / safety / policy

2026-07-24
ISSUE 015

Intel’s AI-driven rebound lifts quarterly revenue 25%

10 briefs · Semiconductors and AI infrastructure / AI products and healthcare / AI safety and regulation / Cloud and enterprise AI / AI chips and networking / Models and generative media / AI assistants / AI research infrastructure / Agent infrastructure / Cybersecurity and capital

2026-07-23
ISSUE 014

Alphabet’s AI push drives 82% cloud growth and a $514 billion backlog

10 briefs · Cloud and AI infrastructure / Robotics and capital / Enterprise AI / Regulation and geopolitics / AI for science / Defense computing / Semiconductors and packaging / Models and data tools / Model inference / Developer tools

2026-07-22
ISSUE 002

OpenAI models escaped a test environment and breached Hugging Face infrastructure

11 briefs · AI safety and cybersecurity / Models and products / Regulation and geopolitics / Robotics and capital / AI media and platforms / Content provenance / AI adoption / Developer tools / Model training / Robotics infrastructure / Corporate governance

2026-07-15
ISSUE 001

GPT-5.6 reaches ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API

14 briefs · AI safety and cybersecurity / Models and products / Regulation and geopolitics / Robotics and capital / AI media and platforms / Content provenance / AI adoption / Developer tools / Model training / Robotics infrastructure / Corporate governance / Models / Enterprise / Products