September 15, 2026

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Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too: When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused on the phone he used to take it. Read More

Salesforce and Nvidia's new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear: Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks. Read More

Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents: Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic. Read More

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump 'we're not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen': Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently. Read More

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says: Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode. Read More

Spotify finally lets parents exclude kids' music from Wrapped and recommendations: Parents can finally get the kids' music out of Spotify Wrapped and other personalized playlists. Read More

Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women's health research with vaginal microbiome data: Women’s health company Evvy announced Tuesday a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management. Read More

Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo: Essentially is a camera app, Superpose analyzes selfies or photos and generates four potential poses using AI. Read More

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Last but Not Least

New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave: Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation. Read More