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A sandstone capitol building with a domed rotunda, symbolizing the Musk Apple antitrust lawsuit court proceedings.
Policy & Regulation
September 15, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Musk drops Apple from his antitrust case as OpenAI heads to trial

X Corp and SpaceXAI moved to dismiss their Apple antitrust claims with prejudice on September 14. The three OpenAI defendants stay in the case, which is set for trial on January 11, 2027.

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Stock chart, illustrating the Larry Ellison Oracle stock sale, a $7.5 billion trading plan now cancelled.
Funding & Business
September 14, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Larry Ellison cancels a $7.5B Oracle stock sale one day after disclosure

Oracle says Larry Ellison cancelled the 10b5-1 plan that would have let him sell 50 million shares, one day after a Form 10-Q disclosed it. No stock was sold.

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A screen of financial market data showing price quotes, illustrating the OpenAI IPO decision to stay private in 2026.
Funding & Business
September 14, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

Altman rules out an OpenAI IPO in 2026 as rivals back a slowdown

Sam Altman told Fortune that an IPO now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, hours after Dario Amodei called on the industry to pace the frontier.

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Data centre illustrating the SageMaker G7 benchmark for small LLM inference against G5 and G6
Models & Research
September 13, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

AWS benchmarks G7 Blackwell GPUs at 60.8% more throughput than G6

AWS benchmarked two 30B Mixture-of-Experts models on SageMaker AI. An ml.g7.12xlarge endpoint hit 391.3 output tokens per second on Qwen3-Coder-30B, 60.8 percent above G6 and 13.0 percent above G5, using two GPUs instead of four.

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A gold two-door Tesla Cybercab, subject of the Tesla Cybercab NHTSA audit, stopped at a crosswalk on a tree-lined San Francisco street
Policy & Regulation
September 13, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

NHTSA audits Tesla Cybercab certification hours after Austin launch

NHTSA opened an audit into how Tesla self-certified the Cybercab, a robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, hours after its Austin deployment. Zoox took the exemption route instead.

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Automation imagery illustrating human oversight of AI agents eroding as tasks are handed off
Models & Research
September 13, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

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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Stock chart, illustrating spacex plans to build a $100 billion spaceport in louisiana
Funding & Business
September 12, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

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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Financial district skyline, illustrating Nvidia equity portfolio holdings worth $99 billion
Funding & Business
September 12, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

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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GPU hardware, illustrating the Furo funding round led by TQ Ventures
Funding & Business
September 12, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

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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Financial district, illustrating google deepmind maps 9 billion possible dna variants
Funding & Business
September 11, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

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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Stock chart, illustrating the Cognition $48B valuation after its $2B Series E round
Funding & Business
September 11, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

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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Financial district, illustrating the Boring Company Series D funding round backed by the UAE
Funding & Business
September 10, 2026 Rundowns AI Desk

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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