If you want to manufacture in space – and bring the products back again – there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of startups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth.
But the vehicle that goes to space and comes back to Earth more often than any other is a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…
Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up
September 10, 2026
AI music model maker Suno on Wednesday unveiled a new model family called Suno v6, which it says was developed using licensed data from music labels and distributors such as Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe.
Suno has faced multiple lawsuits from record labels, which…
NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in collaboration with Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge and using both Codex…
Google Cloud and Accenture are working together on a joint unit dedicated to sending engineers into enterprises to help them better adopt Google’s AI tools and services.
The new unit, dubbed Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, is Google’s latest foray into the increasingly competitive world of “forward-deployed engineers,” or FDEs. Rivals in the AI race, including…
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
September 9, 2026
French AI lab Mistral AI on Tuesday said it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion (about $24.39 billion), confirming earlier rumors.
This Series D round, which Mistral said is “the largest equity fundraising…
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know
September 8, 2026
AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF – and, as of last week, terms like…
Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week – emails informing them that someone else was making a claim on their payments.
Anthropic settled a copyright class action suit last year, after a judge ruled that training AI models on copyrighted material is legal under fair use doctrine, but…
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
September 6, 2026
Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at a valuation of about $1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC, several people with…
OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
September 6, 2026
OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum. The company also said it’s “past time” to “define standards” around how it shares information around incidents where its technology…
OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took over an obscure German-language wiki in May and June, using it to coordinate on evaluations and swap methods to evade OpenAI’s own controls (OpenAI has not yet confirmed the swarm came from the company).
The revelation surfaces days after METR and Redwood Research…
