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Congrats to Harvey but we covered that already . AI News for 9/8/2026-9/9/2026.

Another swarm of AI agents in the wild, this time on a German-language forum, found by safety researchers looking for activity similar to the swarm that attacked Hugging Face. A couple of notes while reading the report at 1.

Cognition, the startup developing coding assistant Devin, announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. The round, which comes just four months after Cognition’s previous fundraise at a $26 billion valuation , was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir.

French AI lab Mistral AI on Tuesday said it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion (about $24.39 billion), confirming earlier rumors . This Series D round, which Mistral said is “the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company,” was led by Samsung Electronics, with…

Engineers at Microsoft typically enjoy a quieter summer to take vacations and spend time with family, as is common at many companies. But this year, the season has been unusually busy for Windows and security engineers, thanks to new AI models that are discovering software vulnerabilities at a rapid pace.

Internal representation of world by AI A world model in artificial intelligence is a machine learning system that builds an internal representation of an environment. Often this is via understanding objects within video, which predictive LLMs cannot.

China is getting first crack at a British technology that might change how mobile games are made and played. Today, the Xiaomi 18 Fold launches in mainland China with an Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processor inside its custom Xring O3 chip .

When Apple debuts the next generation of iPhones this week, they’re likely to come with an unwanted change: a higher price tag. A price hike from the supply-chain powerhouse would be the clearest sign yet that soaring memory costs have become unavoidable — with no end to the memory crunch in sight.

Let’s talk about how generative AI fits into our vision. In short: it doesn’t.

Our series about model distillation continues. We have a surprising mega interview.

Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may go public as early as later this month. Ahead of that expected IPO, the company is reportedly in talks to raise an additional $3.5 billion.

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that “the AGI era” is here now. Today on The Vergecast , we’ve got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week.

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in.

Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 5050 a pretty good deal at $927 for new Woot customers (with code WOOTALIEN used at checkout). It costs $1,029 for returning Woot shoppers, which is a decent discount off…

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home — in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines security camera storage, on-device AI, and smart home control in one system, managed by a voice assistant called Uliya, with the…

The launch is barely 9 hours old, and with 36M views and 164K likes, already is OpenAI’s most successful launch since Sora and certainly GPT-4 or GPT-5 . You’ll recall we’ve previously observed that Anthropic tends to far outclass OpenAI in launch popularity.

Officially, Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 AI rendering was supposed to launch this evening with only a single game , only on Nvidia’s latest RTX 50 GPUs, and with developers in full control of their artistic vision. But unofficially, modders have already ported a leaked version of DLSS 5 to run on just about anything while cranking sliders to the max.

Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded early last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in discussions to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, The Information reported Thursday. Existing backer Accel is in talks to lead the fundraise, according to our source and The Information’s reporting.

Nvidia is announcing its new Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that syncs up your home computers for tackling local AI inference tasks with tools like Ollama and LM Studio. Let’s get the obvious thing out of the way, despite what its name might imply: PAIR is not a hardware router.

Scientists at Google DeepMind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often. WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques, and Google says it will start feeding into…

TL;DR We introduce NeoMME , a family of 260M and 800M multilingual multimodal encoders. Unlike many generative visual language models, NeoMME does not use a separate pretrained vision tower or a causal language model.

After weeks of swirling rumors , Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face’s platform hosts three million models, one million applications used by over 18 million developers, and half a million datasets.

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world’s biggest AI chipmaker. Hugging Face is an online platform founded in 2016 that gives AI developers a space to share their projects and data with other users and the…

This guide is a fully public, inexpensive recipe for making a small model substantially better at structured-output compliance. We fine-tune LFM2.5-350M with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) using the TRL library and evaluate it on the IFStruct benchmark .

Launch season continues from yesterday , with Gemini 3.8 Flash as rumored today, but Muse Spark 1.3, promised in Zuck’s big comeback letter last month, definitely deserved the title story win today. Per AAII it is now the #3 model in the world (!?!) Just look at the confidence displayed finally putting up comparable numbers to the frontier models from…