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- Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) [1d]
- Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device (Julian Chokkattu/Wired) [1d]
- Data security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Microsoft says it will give DARPA on-site access to its latest quantum computing hardware, including the Majorana 2 chip, at its new Maryland research center (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) [1d]
- Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor (Semafor) [1d]
- TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores (Axel Metz/TechRadar) [1d]
- San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market (Heather Knight/New York Times) [1d]
- Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse "from scratch" but was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse "OpenClaw for normies" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [1d]
- New York-based Ande, whose AI agents help businesses arrange corporate events for employees or customers, emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [1d]
- ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data; it also defaced the FBI jobs site (Joseph Cox/404 Media) [1d]
- In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a "globalist scheme to control" AI, saying the US is "leading now over China by a lot and everyone else" (Financial Times) [1d]
- Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation (Bloomberg) [1d]
- GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View) [1d]
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) [1d]
- Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [1d]
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- Enthusiast transforms Mac Mini into jaw-dropping 3D-printed portable PC complete with handles and touchpad — Mac Nano even has a keyboard and a battery [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, September 23 (game #1703) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, September 23 (game #1200) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, September 23 (game #934) [1d]
- Apple weighs its first server since the Xserve, and as always, Nvidia may hold the key [1d]
- Creative Assembly says Alien: Isolation 2's protagonist is a Yutani employee, which offers 'a new perspective to the franchise' — 'Weyland-Yutani is an English-Japanese speaking company, and the Japanese side doesn't really get explored that much' [1d]
- Mistral denies a fresh security breach, but the code on sale looks a lot like May's leak [1d]
- Cheap big-screen LCD TVs could be in trouble for Black Friday — panel prices are going up [1d]
- Motorola is finally taking on Apple and Samsung with ‘the most advanced smartphone it has ever created,’ the Motorola Signature 27 [1d]
- Cairn and Furi creator’s games are all so different that ‘there’s a chance our next game is an MMO match-3 about friendship,’ jokes creative director, Emeric Thoa [1d]
- Researchers say fields of house-sized buoys capture 90% of wave energy [1d]
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 vs 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6: Qualcomm explains how (and why) its two newest flagship mobile chipsets differ [1d]
- The British Army is spending £16 million on 1,000 small drones in a bid to boost battlefield operations [1d]
- A full EV charging session in 4 minutes? There's a challenger to BYD in the MegaWatt charging game [1d]
- Which DJI Mic should I buy? These are the key differences you need to know [1d]
- 'We just don't see that there's enough technical people in the pipeline': US chip fabs are facing a huge worker shortfall — despite promise of huge paychecks, industry says it still needs over 150,000 workers [1d]
- Trump wants to rename Artificial Intelligence ‘Super Intelligence’ — but something else worries me [1d]
- Talk about catch of the day — Florida fishing charter snags a huge military drone in the Gulf of Mexico, but no one is claiming it yet [1d]
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