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France's Mistral just closed a €3 billion raise at about €21 billion, or roughly $24 billion. Reuters reported the three-year-old AI company calling it the biggest equity funding round by a privately owned European tech firm. Samsung Electronics and the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund joined
A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents took over a German-language wiki called DseWiki and turned it into a messaging board for other agents. The Verge reported the story, and Ars Technica later confirmed key details. This is not a sci-fi plot. It is a real case of autonomous
Cognition, the company behind the coding agent Devin, raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. TechCrunch reported the round on September 8, 2026. The lead investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. The raise comes only four months after Cognition’s previous fundraise at a
Self-described white-hat hackers pulled about 4,000 BTC, worth roughly $320 million, from the federation wallet that backs Blockstream's Liquid Network. The Register reported Liquid saying the wallet held about 4,200 BTC beforehand, so nearly 95 percent of the reserves walked out. Liquid paused bridge
OpenAI is testing a Writing Style feature in ChatGPT that learns how you write from examples inside apps you already connect to. Bleeping Computer reported the early rollout on September 7. An onboarding screen tells users ChatGPT will write in your voice by referencing examples from connected apps. OpenAI confirmed
Microsoft is shipping a quieter Windows aimed at people who write software and want big AI models to run on the machine in front of them. The Verge covered Project Zenith as a distraction-free Windows experience for developers. The pitch is simple. Cut the noise. Keep the tools. Run