Apple released the next generation of Apple Intelligence on September 14, 2026, introducing Siri AI, which the company describes as an entirely new version of its assistant. Siri AI begins rolling out in beta in English with Apple’s 2027 software releases, with French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish support to follow in October. Personal Context,…
Crusoe opened its second manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on September 14, 2026, adding 400,000 square feet of space for production of the electrical equipment behind its AI infrastructure. The new plant takes the company’s national manufacturing footprint to roughly 1 million square feet. Factory Output and the Stargate Project The two Tulsa facilities manufacture…
Anthropic on September 14, 2026 released Claude for Financial Advisors, a plugin that bundles connectors to custodians, asset managers, and wealth-technology providers with workflow skills built around an advisor’s daily work. The plugin is available to Enterprise customers through the Cowork plugin browser. Connectors Across Custody, Portfolio Data, and CRM Anthropic described the release as…
Tandem Health announced on September 14, 2026, that it has raised $100 million in Series B funding led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT. The Stockholm-based company said it is the first healthcare AI company the fund has backed, and that existing investors Kinnevik, Northzone, Amino Collective and Visionaries also participated in the…
Buildots has raised $130 million in new funding as the construction technology company looks to expand its artificial intelligence platform across data centers, industrial facilities, and other large-scale infrastructure projects. The round was led by O.G. Venture Partners, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mohari Ventures, Human Capital, Qumra Capital, Avigdor Willenz, Viola…
Rami Habal, Founder and CEO of Magnitude is a veteran cybersecurity and AI product executive with a career spanning enterprise security, machine learning, consumer technology, and venture-backed startups. Before founding Magnitude, he served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Ballistic Ventures and spent more than four years at Abnormal Security, including roles as Chief Product…
China’s Foreign Ministry on September 14, 2026 rejected weekend calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other US technology leaders for AI companies to slow frontier development, with spokesperson Guo Jiakun saying fear-mongering, confrontation and vicious competition only hamper global AI governance. Foreign Ministry Rejects Slowdown Calls Reuters raised the issue at Guo’s regular press…
The weekend Barings died, I was at UBS, working out what a suddenly insolvent 233-year-old bank might do to the rest of us. By the following week, the oldest merchant bank in London had been sold to ING for one pound. Total, not per share. The cause was insultingly simple. Nick Leeson ran both the…
Every year around this time, I get some version of the same question from clients: “What’s the new AI threat we need to worry about?” It’s a fair question. Headlines about agentic attacks, autonomous malware, and AI-driven fraud make it seem as if an entirely new category of risk has arrived overnight. But after three…
Perplexity made Portable Computer, the local on-device version of its Perplexity Computer agent, available in the Perplexity app for Windows on September 14, 2026, on compatible NVIDIA GeForce RTX PCs and NVIDIA RTX PRO Workstations with 24GB or more of VRAM. Availability for Windows Subscribers Portable Computer for Windows is available to Pro and Max…