Rundowns AI https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Trump bans 68 Canadian product lines from US import on September 29 The Boring Company raises $3B at $23B in a round led by the UAE Cognition raises $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May DeepMind scores all 9 billion human DNA variants in AlphaGenome Atlas AWS benchmarks G7 Blackwell GPUs at 60.8% more throughput than G6 Broadcom keeps its $230B AI chip target after Amodei’s slowdown call Evvy raises $40M to take its microbiome dataset into fertility Nvidia’s Huang calls new AI laws ‘completely unnecessary’ as Meta agrees Moonshot launches Kimi for finance with 10+ data feeds and 9 skills OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra at $50 per million output tokens Z.ai launches GLM-5.3 and delays its open weights over cyber risk Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors but never priced the Mythos work Nvidia names 8 European city AI projects, one with a 10% saving Microsoft projects Maia 300 at 40% over GPUs, below Maia 200’s 1.7x Google cut a thought penalty from Gemini 4 Argon’s early training White Circle breaks Nano Banana 2.1 in 20.7% of nudity attacks Apple’s SelfCompact adds 6.3 points and costs more than fixed compaction OpenAI launches Dots free on Pro, then cuts Pro’s allowance to 10x CISPA: latent agent links raise harmful compliance from 4.4 to 31.1 Apple tests 256 model pairs: 92.9% at best, 9.4% open-weight average OpenAI opens ChatGPT Space to Enterprise but keeps Dots off by default Character.AI lists $10.7M of claims and 3 lawsuits priced at Unknown Isomorphic Labs seeks $40B+ and has never disclosed a valuation TypeSafe AI exits stealth with $40M and a model that writes no text AI in daily life is mainstream, mundane and measurably narrow TypeSafe raises $870M at $7.5B on four different Fortune 500 figures AI model comparison: 18 models, 541 prompts, 3 different winners Life Biosciences reports 4 dB vision gains in 2 of 3 glaucoma patients Fired OpenAI safety researchers name METR as the auditor at risk DOJ rebrands AI as “Super Intelligence” in its $300M chip smuggling case Google reshuffles its AI leadership as four senior researchers walk AI4Fire: no LLM beat repeating today’s wildfire staffing count Manus raises $500M+ and its 32% cost claim comes from one test India’s 3 satellite licensees include Ambani’s Jio, not only Starlink Editorial Policy Nous Research names Microsoft’s M12 among backers of its $90M round How to follow AI research news: where papers actually get published OpenAI withdraws 3 of its 722 AI-written math papers over a sign error Nvidia launches PAIR, free software that pools idle home PCs for AI Microsoft benchmarks RTX Spark laptops at 64GB, not the 128GB it sells Reflection AI’s Beam trails GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 on its own benchmarks SpaceX seeks $40B for Nvidia GPUs, more than its $38.4B total debt AI cost per employee: $11.95 at the median, $7,400 at the top 1% Mistral raises €3B at a €21B valuation in Europe’s largest tech round Mistral’s Le Chonk activates 49B of its 1T parameters on 3,800 GPUs Ghost raises $11M for a $3,499 AI computer that isn’t fully offline FieldAI signs a $700M term sheet at a reported $10B valuation LLM pricing tracked: output runs $0.25 to $450 per million tokens Lyft booked $210M of its record $272.5M driver settlement in 2025 ORCA-bench: GLM-5 invents a root cause in 66% of hard incidents