Hugging Face paper: AI agents degrade the humans meant to oversee them
Three researchers at Hugging Face and Data & Society have published a position paper arguing that the standard safety answer
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SpaceX commits $100B to a Louisiana spaceport on 125,000 acres
SpaceX is investing $100 billion in Starbase Louisiana, a 125,000 acre spaceport in Vermilion Parish. The state expects 3,000 direct jobs and more than $820 million in local payments, against an environmental record that got SpaceX fined in Texas.
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Nvidia’s equity portfolio hits $99B, up from $2.2B two years ago
Nvidia’s 10-Q reports $99 billion of equity investments as of July 26, 2026, and its 13F itemises eight US-listed positions worth $63.4 billion.
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Furo raises $4M from US investors and stays headquartered in Munich
Furo, a Munich startup whose software runs commercial and industrial battery storage, has closed a $4 million seed round led
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DeepMind scores all 9 billion human DNA variants in AlphaGenome Atlas
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas on 8 September, precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes to human DNA, with a single AVI impact score per variant and about 1 petabyte of data behind it.
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Cognition raises $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May
Cognition raised more than $2B at a $48B valuation as run-rate revenue climbed from $492M in May to almost $900M, and the revenue multiple barely moved.
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The Boring Company raises $3B at $23B in a round led by the UAE
The Boring Company closed a $3 billion Series D led by the United Arab Emirates at a $23 billion valuation, with more than 150 kilometers of UAE tunnel committed and roughly 4 miles of Vegas Loop actually running.
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Valencia researchers: a 184M encoder beats a 123B LLM at value detection
A 184M DeBERTa encoder scored .314 macro-F1 on Schwartz value detection, ahead of the best zero-shot LLM at .241. A random-chunk control explains why retrieval helped each family.
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Trump bans 68 Canadian product lines from US import on September 29
President Donald Trump signed three proclamations on September 8 that bar 68 categories of Canadian goods from entering the United
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OpenAI ships ChatGPT Images 2.5 with Sketch and up to 50% lower latency
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with a @Sketch drawing canvas, two new API model IDs and a claimed 50% latency cut, and the token prices did not move.
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Energy Department closes $1.9B loan for Google’s Iowa nuclear restart
The US Department of Energy closed a loan of up to \$1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to restart the 615 MW Duane Arnold plant in Iowa. Google buys the output on a 25-year deal.
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Mistral raises €3B at a €21B valuation in Europe’s largest tech round
Mistral raised 3 billion euros at a post-money valuation above 21 billion euros, led by Samsung Electronics, with the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund co-leading.
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