Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power
Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power

“Getting there means controlling the infrastructure from electrons to tokens,” said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and chief executive of Crusoe. He was describing what he called an era of abundance brought by AI. The Denver company announced the initial…

Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring
Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring

“Security software shouldn’t just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk changes,” said Lewis Carhart, chief executive and co-founder of Comp AI. The Miami company has raised a $34m Series A led by Roo Capi…

Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads at its advertiser summit
Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads at its advertiser summit

“Traditional search advertising has long relied on keywords, but in an AI-driven world, people are expressing themselves in much richer ways,” said Bill Ready, chief executive of Pinterest. The company announced Visual Search Ads on 17 September at Pin…

Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year
Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year

Jensen Huang told reporters at King Charles III’s AI summit in Scotland that he expects to sell twice as many chips in the coming year. Nvidia’s own August guidance was 70% revenue growth, with a doubling described as what the company could reach if it…

Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing
Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing

“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind, co-founder and chief executive of Treble Technologies. The Reykjavík co…

Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a deepfake of a UK councillor
Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a deepfake of a UK councillor

Meta’s rules on AI deepfakes are “consistently and fundamentally inadequate to address the rapid rise of AI-generated content”, the Oversight Board said on 17 September. The board ordered Meta to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook. The first …

Claude Code’s revised projects adds AI orchestration, but local developers must wait

Claude Code Projects could change how developers manage complex AI coding workflows by coordinating threads, sharing memory, and spanning repos, but its biggest benefits are still cloud-only for now.

SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models
SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models

SpaceX has held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational records from troubled or defunct startups to train its AI models, Bloomberg reported. The buyer would be SpaceXAI, whose training of Grok on European users’ posts has been un…

King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control
King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control

“Those in our world who value deeply our humanity and its vital moral component are anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny, or our souls,” King Charles III told AI leaders on 17 September. The King spoke at a su…

House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI
House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI

“This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. This is an American issue, and it is a global issue,” House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark said on 17 September. Her party is pressing Republicans to stay in Washington and legislate on AI. Clark spoke al…