September 08, 2026

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician: There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. Read More

Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?: Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data. Read More

Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government: Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant's owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department. Read More

How to watch Apple's foldable iPhone announcement: Apple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT, and we're expecting big news. Read More

Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch: Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and coming out of stealth.  Read More

Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets: Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket for operations. Read More

Eric Wu's newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction's labor crunch: Eric Wu, who built and ran Opendoor before stepping away in 2022, has had his new company, NavigateAI, out of stealth since May — building AI copilots that give construction workers real-time, hands-free guidance through smartphones and Meta's AI glasses, backed by $25 million from Elad Gil, Khosla Ventures, and Lennar to tackle a labor shortage severe enough that data center projects alone now need 4,000 to 5,000 workers apiece. Read More

A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it: The latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date. Read More

AI agents sound sure of themselves even when they're wrong. The fix isn't a better model — it's a governed trust layer underneath it. See how engineering and data teams at Roche, Snowflake, and dbt built theirs in ThoughtSpot's free 3-day virtual series, September 22–24.

Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape: Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster. Read More

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