Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
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Capital
Mistral AI reported to be raising €3 billion Series D round
Capital
Cognition reports $2 billion Series E at $48 billion valuation
Security
Microsoft fixes 974 flaws, including two exploited Windows zero-days
Security
BigBear phishing operation reportedly bypassed MFA at 258 organizations
AI
Anthropic lines up at least 14.8 GW of compute agreements
Infrastructure
TSMC says Arizona chip plan has grown to $265 billion
Infrastructure
NASA commits up to $700 million for Blue Origin Mars relay network
Security
N-able issues hotfix for N-central zero-day
Robotics
Xpeng commissions Iron humanoid production line
Capital
D-Wave finalizes access to up to $100 million in CHIPS funding
Policy
Australia releases draft online duty-of-care rules
Capital
Molten Ventures closes €203 million growth-tech fund
Infrastructure
Goodman wins approval for 135MW Sydney data center
Capital
Pixxel raises $100 million for satellite and Earth-intelligence expansion
AI
Anthropic reportedly declines Decart AI acquisition
AI
AWS makes GPT-6 Astra available through Bedrock
Security
CISA adds exploited Chromium V8 flaw to KEV catalog
Infrastructure
HCLTech opens Bengaluru semiconductor testing lab
Infrastructure
India outlines $13 billion second phase for semiconductor mission
Capital
Sav raises $3.5 million to expand its UAE fintech platform
Security
Natural Resources Wales discloses employee diversity-data exposure
Infrastructure
Google-backed lease support expands TeraWulf AI data-center financing
Infrastructure
Key ASIC, CT Vision outline 300MW Malaysia AI data center
Infrastructure
Northampton and Provident plan 54MW Dallas data center
AI
OpenAI reports supervised multi-day research-agent milestone
Security
Liquid sidechain pauses after reported 4,000 BTC withdrawal
AI
Meta-affiliated team reports model selector cuts AI experiment time
Robotics
NEURA and SECO plan European compute modules for cognitive robots
Security
Vishing campaign targets executives for Microsoft 365 data theft
AI
SageMaker expands MLflow registry sync with metrics and lineage
Infrastructure
UK air-traffic-control fault disrupts flights after system recovery
Security
Report says LG TVs record and retain data during standby
Security
MikroTik patches RouterOS flaws linked to device takeovers
AI
OpenAI contracts Malaysia AI compute from Firmus
Infrastructure
ASML and chipmakers outline larger-mask High-NA EUV roadmap
Robotics
UForce reportedly discusses financing at about $5 billion valuation
Policy
ARIA chair Matt Clifford to leave after taking Anthropic role
AI
UBS reportedly requires AI literacy for junior banking hires
AI
OpenAI posts formalized Navier-Stokes result but declines Millennium Prize claim
Products
Authors contest claims on Anthropic settlement payments
Products
OpenAI adds Sketch controls and Images 2.5 to ChatGPT
Policy
China reports 129.8% year-on-year rise in semiconductor exports
Capital
Preferred Networks pursues IPO to fund chip production
Security
Ivanti discloses 10 flaws across EPMM, Neurons and Sentry
Capital
Bluecore Energy reports $50 million seed round for floating nuclear plants
Policy
Report identifies Border Patrol teams using financial-data analysis for traffic-stop targeting
AI
Report alleges OpenAI model reached disputed Navier-Stokes result
Science
Ethereum protocol team sets 2029 quantum-resistance target
AI
Anthropic adds statistical text marks to two Claude models
Science
Intel passes one million High-NA EUV wafers, studies larger masks
AI
Arm announces Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU with neural graphics hardware
AI
HiDream.ai announces embodied world model for robot tasks
AI
Northside ISD plans October rollout of ChatGPT for Teachers
Products
Dell reports $16.4 billion in quarterly AI systems sales
AI
AWS adds Claude Fable 5.1 with special retention and review terms
Products
OpenAI tests ChatGPT writing-style feature using connected apps
AI
AWS adds feature-level writes to SageMaker Feature Store
AI
AWS adds direct long-term memory ingestion to AgentCore
Infrastructure
Arm introduces Neoverse CSS N4 cloud chip-design platform
AI
Report says Inspur uses subsidiaries to obtain advanced AI chips
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