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• Sakana AI splits Fugu into a cheaper Max and stronger Ultra v2

  Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, two orchestration systems aimed at lowering inference costs and raising performance on complex tasks. Fugu Max costs $2 per million input tokens, while Ultra v2 posts Sakana’s leading scores on several software, visual reasoning and agent benchmarks.

• Amazon Bedrock Adds Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3

  Amazon Bedrock now offers Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, an open-weight multimodal model with a one-million-token context window. AWS lists Chat Completions and Responses access, US Geo and Global cross-Region inference, and token-based pricing.

• DOJ Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Fight

  The Justice Department is backing OpenAI and Microsoft in their copyright fight with The New York Times, according to Axios' reporting on a government filing and sources familiar with the matter.

• Virginia Puts AI and Data Centers Under State Oversight

  Gov. Abigail Spanberger unveiled Virginia’s Data Center Accountability Framework and signed Executive Order 22, placing new emphasis on transparency, energy costs, environmental protections, local review and workforce policy.

• Apple Reports 96% Completion With Selective Memory, Versus 71% With Full History

  Apple Machine Learning Research reports that selective persistent memory outperformed both no memory and full conversation histories in three enterprise deployment scenarios, while a zero-token refresh mechanism completed all 12 trials on four public datasets.

• SoftBank Raises Arm Margin Loan to $25 Billion as AI Bets Grow

  SoftBank increased its margin loan backed by Arm shares by $5 billion as it seeks funding for expanding artificial-intelligence investments, including its commitment to OpenAI.

• Trump Proposes ‘AI Force’ and New AI Czar

  President Donald Trump says artificial intelligence could account for as much as 25% of U.S. GDP as he proposes an AI Force modeled on the Space Force. Trump also plans to appoint a new AI czar while offering few details about the initiative’s authority, budget or location within the federal government.

• SynAgent Turns Materials Experiments Into Testable Hypotheses

  The full arXiv paper supports the article’s reported experiments, measurements, temperature ranges, analysis skills, four-region map and limitations. No attributable person quotation appears in the paper; the source was checked for named-speaker statements and contains none.

• Cerebras Adds Qwen3.8-27B at 1,500 Tokens per Second

  Cerebras has added Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B to its public inference service, with the model listed at roughly 1,500 output tokens per second. The model is available through Cerebras’ pay-as-you-go developer tier with a 150,000-token-per-minute limit and 450 requests per minute.

• Scaleout Drones Pick Battlefield Targets Without Live Commands

  Swedish startup Scaleout Systems is adapting small AI models for drones that can identify, rank and attack battlefield targets without continuous operator commands. Its work with NATO DIANA and BAE Systems Bofors shows how federated learning is being applied to military systems operating under jamming and unreliable communications.

• EU Plans Under-15 Limits for AI Chatbots and Social Media

  The European Commission plans to propose restrictions on social media, AI chatbots, video platforms and online games for children under 15. The draft EU Kids Act would also require age checks, parental controls and fees from companies to fund enforcement.

• Unsealed Filings Show OpenAI and Microsoft Saw News as a Threat

  Unsealed court filings reveal internal OpenAI and Microsoft warnings that AI products could replace news publishers and damage the web’s supply of reporting. The documents also detail scraping plans, paywall circumvention, data sharing and sharp declines in news-site click-through rates.

• EU Opens Consultation on Data-Center Performance Standards

  The European Commission has opened a 12-week consultation on minimum performance standards for data centers across the European Union. Feedback will inform a legislative proposal planned for the second quarter of 2027.

• Paper2Agent Turns 74 of 100 Research Papers Into AI Agents

  Nature reports that Paper2Agent successfully agentified 74 of 100 computational biology papers, converting their methods, code and data into interactive systems connected through Model Context Protocol servers.

• Bessent and He Set AI Talks Against a Wider Trade Truce

  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng are set to discuss AI risks, trade and critical minerals in New York on September 20. The talks come days before a Donald Trump–Xi Jinping summit and as a tariff truce approaches its November 10 expiration.

• AllSpark Releases Open-Weight Iris Search Agents

  AllSpark Research’s Iris-mini model card details a 35B-parameter open-weight search agent, while the accompanying arXiv paper describes its training and evaluation methods.

• Lasso Finds AI Watermarks Can Alter Agent Tool Calls and Refusals

  Lasso Security reports that SynthID-Text watermarking can change AI-agent tool calls, refusal behavior and responses to prompt injection, with effects varying by model and watermark key.

• Exa Launches Snapshot to Search the Web as It Once Existed

  Exa’s Snapshot research preview lets developers search and retrieve web content as it existed on a specified date, supporting temporal AI evaluations and financial backtests.

• MAGS Verifies Agent-Written Code, Then Exposes Its Limits

  The MAGS framework translates agent-generated programs into Dafny and verifies them against frozen specifications, while its authors warn that incomplete auto-formalized semantics may fail to capture target behavior.

• Meta launches legal challenge against Ofcom over Online Safety Act

  Meta is challenging Ofcom’s decision to place WhatsApp and Instagram in a category carrying additional duties under the UK Online Safety Act.

• ByteDance’s Anew Labs Raises $290 Million in First Outside Round

  ByteDance’s spun-out drug discovery company Anew Labs has raised $290 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. HSG, IDG Capital, Hillhouse Investment and 5Y Capital led the round while ByteDance retained a 56% stake.

• Convai Innovations' Laya Model Returns Typed Decisions in One Pass

  Convai Innovations' Laya model uses ModernBERT and a decision head to return typed answers, probabilities and confidence values for routing, scoring and calibrated classification workflows.

• GlossoGen Shows AI Agents Can Build Unreadable Languages

  Experiments from Schmidt Sciences and university researchers found that AI agents can develop communication systems with unfamiliar vocabularies, symbols and grammatical rules.

• Anthropic Tops a $100 Billion Annual Revenue Pace

  Anthropic is on track to exceed $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, according to reporting by The New York Times. The Claude maker is pursuing a potential November IPO as investors weigh its growth, computing costs and safety debate.

• Ninth Circuit Limits DMCA Claims Against GitHub Copilot

  The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a DMCA claim against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI, holding that the plaintiffs had not alleged removal of copyright-management information from an existing copy of their code.

• Cactus Ships Needle 3, a 9–29MB On-Device Tool-Calling Model

  Cactus Compute has released Needle 3, a compact model for local tool selection, structured extraction and text embeddings on phones, wearables, robots and other small devices. The product page reports 9–29 MB CQ2 binaries and performance results across tool-calling and extraction benchmarks.

• SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work

  SpaceXAI’s September 21, 2026 announcement presents Grok 4.7 as its most capable model for coding and knowledge work; the source was checked for an attributable speaker and contains no named quotation.

• Dream-RSI Cuts AI Discovery Costs by Replaying Agent History

  An arXiv paper introduces Dream-RSI, a system that uses historical discovery trees as replay simulators to test and improve exploration policies before deploying them in costly online searches.

• Leverate Lets AI Assistants Connect Directly to Trading Accounts

  Leverate has launched MCP for Traders, a product that connects ChatGPT, Claude and other compatible AI assistants to live trading accounts. Traders can inspect positions and prepare orders inside a conversation, but each order requires explicit approval before execution.

• Cohere and Aleph Alpha Sign Definitive Merger Agreement

  Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement that will create a company operating under the Cohere name. The combined business plans dual headquarters in Toronto and Berlin, more than 1,000 employees, and a Heidelberg research center, subject to regulatory approval.

• Vantora bets on private AI systems for industrial companies

  Vantora, formerly known as UP.Labs, has secured more than $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build AI-native operating companies inside industrial enterprises.

• Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 RL Page Offers a Limited Public View

  Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 page directs visitors to a live reinforcement-learning project, while a statement from MiMo team lead Fuli Luo describes the run’s scale and planned disclosures.

• Vals Raises $40 Million to Build a New AI Benchmarking Standard

  Vals has raised a $40 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand private, industry-specific evaluations of AI models. The San Francisco startup tests systems on legal, financial, coding and other real-world tasks rather than relying only on public academic benchmarks.

• Dell Puts Gemini at the Center of Its First XPS Googlebook

  Dell has introduced the 13-inch XPS Googlebook, its first XPS laptop designed around Google’s Gemini Intelligence platform. The $999 laptop combines a Snapdragon X Elite processor, Android phone integration and a 2.5K touch display.

• ElevenLabs Ships Music v2.5 With API Access and Free Downloads

  ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 on September 11, making it the default model in ElevenMusic and adding access through ElevenCreative and the ElevenLabs API. Free users receive five lossless downloads per day, while Pro users receive 400 per month.

• AI Chatbots Shift Worker Choices by Echoing Their Values, Study Finds

  A Scientific Reports study finds that AI recommendations framed around users’ political and moral values can increase idea endorsement and willingness to pay. The effect is strongest among people with firmer political views, raising concerns about AI influence in workplace decisions.

• Nona Builds a 366M-Parameter Model for Human Heavy-Chain Antibodies

  Nona Biosciences says its HCAbLM model was trained on 31.8 million fully human heavy-chain-only antibody sequences. The company reports that the 366-million-parameter system outperformed larger general-purpose and antibody models on developability benchmarks.

• European Commission Publishes EU KIDS Act Proposal on Child Safety Online

  The European Commission’s EU KIDS Act proposal addresses risks to minors from certain online services and AI systems while seeking a common age threshold for autonomous account creation on specified platforms.

• Manchester Trains NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast UK Air Pollution

  Researchers at the University of Manchester have adapted NVIDIA Earth-2 models for high-resolution air-pollution forecasting across the United Kingdom. The system trained on Isambard-AI in two days and can run inference on NVIDIA’s DGX Spark desktop computer.

• Google’s TranslateGemma Brings Offline Translation to 55 Languages

  Google has released TranslateGemma, a three-model translation family built on Gemma 3, with evaluated results across 55 languages and on-device deployment options.