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Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for frontier AI labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/frontier-overhangs/

Frontier Overhangs
Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for the frontier labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement.

Riesenrakete Starship: Nächster Startversuch erst in der Nacht zu Freitag
Die Behebung der Probleme am Starship dauert ein paar Tage länger als ursprünglich gedacht. Jetzt soll die Riesenrakete in der Nacht zu Freitag abheben.

Riesenrakete Starship: Nächster Startversuch erst in der Nacht zu Freitag
Die Behebung der Probleme am Starship dauert ein paar Tage länger als ursprünglich gedacht. Jetzt soll die Riesenrakete in der Nacht zu Freitag abheben.

Att Andy Burnham gör hemlösheten till stridsfråga är en tydlig signal https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-att-gora-hemlosheten-till-stridsfraga-ar-en-tydlig-signal/

Att Andy Burnham gör hemlösheten till stridsfråga är en tydlig signal
Att Andy Burnham gör hemlösheten till stridsfråga är en tydlig signal till Labours vänsterfalang

Government strategy is shaping the global brain-computer interface race https://neurotechreports.com/news/government-strategy-is-shaping-the-global-brain-computer-interface-race

Government Strategy Is Shaping the Global Brain-Computer Interface Race   - Neurotech Reports
Three events converged this year to turn brain-computer interfaces from a research curiosity into a subject of government strategy. China moved a product to market, having already built the machinery to pay for it. The U.S. funded a founder. The European Union asked its regulators to study a problem. This is not an accident of timing. It reflects fundamentally different beliefs about what a government should do when a new technology can read, and may soon write to, the human brain.  

Nine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial, will split US DoD orders for 60,000 drones in a competition that requires no China-made parts (Steve LeVine/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dr

Drone Startups Backed By Eric Schmidt and the Trump Family Win the Pentagon’s Latest Competition
Last month, the Pentagon threw up its arms in frustration (metaphorically speaking) when most of the drone startups in competition for $300 million in contracts failed to produce aircraft that met a hard-and-fast specification: The drones could contain no Chinese-made components or materials.

China droht EU im Streit um JD.com
Die EU prüft, ob JD.com bei der geplanten Ceconomy-Übernahme unfaire Vorteile durch Subventionen hat. Peking kündigt Gegenmaßnahmen an.
https://www.heise.de/news/China-dro…

China droht EU im Streit um JD.com
Die EU prüft, ob JD.com bei der geplanten Ceconomy-Übernahme unfaire Vorteile durch Subventionen hat. Peking kündigt Gegenmaßnahmen an.

Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says it will soon start rolling out the tech, which supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/walmart-to-finally-start-ac…

Walmart to finally start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay | TechCrunch
Are pigs flying? Walmart has finally caved on its refusal to support Apple Pay and Google Pay.

Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ai-data-s…

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom | TechCrunch
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.

Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.

Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M from Silversmith Capital Partners (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-sta…

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI | TechCrunch
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.