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Google wins $10M Spirit auction for AI training data
Google has won a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and operations from Spirit Airlines, with plans to use the trove to improve its AI models.
Nvidia's $500B AI Funding Follows SEC Securitization Guidance
Nvidia announced a $500 billion funding package for AI infrastructure, following SEC July guidance that eased data center securitization restrictions and is underpinning the debt-fueled buildout.
Amazon Cuts Rare Book Spines to Train AI
Amazon is buying rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training data, according to 404 Media, which traced a GPS-tagged book to a Las Vegas Amazon facility.
Groq raises $350M as Nvidia backs its neocloud pivot
AI startup Groq raised $350 million led by Disruptive with planned Nvidia participation, valuing it at $3.5 billion — about half its $6.9 billion September peak — as it pivots from chipmaking to opera
Speko (YC S26) Launches OpenRouter for Voice AI
Speko, a Y Combinator S26 startup, launched a routing platform that benchmarks combinations of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models and selects the best stack based on user-defined constrain
Speko (YC S26) Launches OpenRouter for Voice AI
Speko, a Y Combinator S26 startup, launched a routing platform that benchmarks combinations of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models and selects the best stack based on user-defined constrain
Nvidia Puts $1.5B Into SB Energy for OpenAI Data Center
Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a SoftBank- and OpenAI-linked data center developer, securing its role as sole compute supplier for OpenAI's Ports-Pike facility near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Tesla FSD v14 nearly hits ditch at 110 km/h
Tesla's Full Self-Driving v14.3.6 attempted to take a highway exit the car had already passed at 110 km/h on an empty Quebec highway, nearly driving into a ditch before the driver intervened.
Indian Deeptech Funding Hits Record $11.4B
India's deeptech sector has reached a record $11.4 billion in cumulative investment according to the IVCA Bharat DeepTech Report 2026, which frames the growth as a strategic pivot toward scientific an
Brockman Calls OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident a Cybersecurity Watershed
Greg Brockman publicly called the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident "a watershed moment" for cybersecurity, saying it revealed the growing capabilities of AI in both attacks and defenses.
OpenAI Signs 20-Year, 10GW Ohio Data Center Deal
OpenAI signed a 20-year agreement for 10GW of data center capacity in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy, and Nvidia agreed to backstop a portion of the completed facility's value.
Chip Giants Top $250B Startup Funding; Nvidia Leads at 59 Deals
Semiconductor giants have collectively poured more than $250 billion into startup funding rounds year-to-date, with Nvidia leading the pack at a record 59 deals.
GPT-5.6 Sol Leads OpenAI Vision Tests
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol delivered a major leap in Roboflow’s vision tests, especially in object detection and counting, but deployment still brings model-specific stability, latency, and cost trade-offs
Wispr Raises $280M Series B at $2B Valuation
Voice AI startup Wispr closed a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $361M alongside a base of 100,000 business customers.
Whisker's Litter-Robot 5 Pro AI Can't Tell Two Cats Apart
A six-month test of Whisker's $899 Litter-Robot 5 Pro found its AI-powered cat facial recognition, waste identification, and weight tracking all failed so badly that the system merged two cats into on
Anthropic watermarks Claude using Google's SynthID-Text
Anthropic detailed the invisible text watermarking system it is adding to Claude to comply with the EU AI Act, revealing the system uses a version of Google DeepMind's open-source SynthID-Text technol
Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex (Wall Street Journal)
A WSJ analysis finds nine major tech companies — including Alphabet and Meta — have stacked up roughly $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI commitments for data-center leases and chips, dwarfing their
Evooo1Bot Botnet Hijacks Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies
Fortinet researchers have identified Evooo1Bot, a previously undocumented Linux botnet built on the leaked Mirai source code that hijacks internet-facing devices and turns them into SOCKS5 proxies, wh
Moxie AI Robot Shuts Down, Leaving Neurodivergent Kids Behind
Embodied's Moxie, an AI companion robot built to help neurodivergent children practice social and emotional skills, is being shut down — and a six-year arc with one 10-year-old user illustrates both t
Zuckerberg's AI vision hit by Meta trust deficit
TechCrunch's Equity podcast dissected why Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay positioning AI as personal empowerment is being widely rejected, with critics pointing to Meta's social media track record
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