On September 15, 2026, MediaTek officially launched the Dimensity 9600 Pro flagship chip at its annual Dimensity flagship new product launch event.
The agreement, reported by The Verge on September 14, 2026, includes at least partial support for a proposal that would embed third-party auditors in AI labs.
Reward AI, a robotics startup founded by researchers behind DexCap, HumanPlus, and ALOHA, has unveiled OM-1 (Omnibody Model 1), a general-purpose manipulation policy trained exclusively on human demonstrations captured with a sensorized glove.
At TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in New York on Thursday night, Insight Partners managing director Deven Parekh made a case that has become contrarian in modern venture capital: his firm is deliberately staying diversified while rivals concentrate their bets on frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
The piece, published on 14 September 2026, begins with a friend confessing he wished he had never had children because of AI.
Blockstream rejects ransom as Liquid hackers hold nearly 600 BTC Blockstream has rejected a ransom demand from the hackers who still control nearly 600 Bitcoin taken from the Liquid Network, declaring that withholding user assets is theft rather than responsible disclosure.
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1 on September 14, 2026, a Python web application for rewriting Git commit messages.
The funds were sent back to a Liquid Federation address on September 7, but approximately 598.5 BTCâworth about $47 million at current pricesâremain unreturned.
Metaplanet equity backlash, SE Asia crypto funding doubles: Asia Express A new controversy around Japan's Metaplanet is colliding with fresh data showing Southeast Asian crypto funding doubled in 2026.
Revised CLARITY Act Targets âNon-Decentralizedâ DeFi Operators The revised CLARITY Act would direct United States regulators to decide whether people or coordinated groups controlling ânon-decentralized finance trading protocolsâ must satisfy securities, commodities, and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.
