Crusoe on September 17, 2026, announced the initial closing of its anticipated $3.9 billion Series F funding round at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, an oversubscribed financing co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners. Investor Syndicate and Use of Proceeds Beyond the three co-leads, the company named significant new and existing backers…
Black Kite’s 2026 Manufacturing & Distribution Ransomware Report: Still the #1 Target, but the Victim Profile Moved Downmarket and Overseas finds that ransomware pressure on manufacturers is not only increasing, but changing shape. The Black Kite Research Group analyzed thousands of publicly disclosed ransomware incidents from 2023 through July 2026, alongside current external exposure data…
Sierra announced on September 17, 2026, that its AI agent platform has achieved AIUC-1 certification following an independent audit by Schellman and extensive testing by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC). AIUC-1 is a standard designed specifically for AI agents that tests how agents actually behave, including what happens when someone tries to manipulate them,…
The children of New York City’s public schools returned this fall with far less artificial intelligence (AI) within reach. On September 2, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Public Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced a one-year moratorium that blocks student-facing generative AI, including AI tutors and chatbots, for roughly 600,000 students from pre-K through…
Healthcare’s AI race is increasingly moving away from the question of whether machines can generate medical information and toward a more consequential one: what happens when AI can work with the patient data that clinicians and researchers already have? Three recent developments point to where that shift may be heading. First, OpenAI recently connected ChatGPT…
Pinecone has released VQ-bench, an open-source framework for building and benchmarking vector quantization methods, in a September 17, 2026 announcement by Ashwin Padaki, Amir Ingber, and Edo Liberty. The release pairs a public website hosting a running benchmark of popular quantizers with an MIT-licensed GitHub repository and a paper presented at VecDB@VLDB 2026. Why Pinecone…
Insilico Medicine on September 17, 2026 announced the publication of a study in Cell introducing an openly released AI toolkit for aging biology: the LongevityBench benchmark, a family of five compact Longevity-LLMs, and the Longevity Claw agentic research platform. Publication in Cell The paper, “An open benchmark and language models for AI in aging biology,”…
Lightmatter joined the Open CPX Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) and introduced the Passage L20 CPX optical module in a September 17, 2026 announcement, which the company described as the first Open CPX module for AI infrastructure to use bidirectional (BiDi) optical link technology. Lightmatter said the module halves the fiber and connectors required in AI scale-up…
The gig postings and service offerings at casual work outlets such as Upwork and Fiverr heavily feature the word ‘humanize’ these days, with a range of jobs and providers proposing various levels of obfuscation of the fact that an article was written, or partly written, or co-written, with AI. The demand for human and automated…
Huawei introduced OceanStor M900 Context Memory Storage at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai on September 17, 2026, unveiling a storage system designed for AI inference in hyperscale data centers. David Wang, Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman at Huawei, presented the product during his keynote, and Huawei says a single cluster delivers 64…