Techmeme
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Sources: Nico Caprez, son-in-law to Jensen Huang, has rapidly ascended to become an Nvidia VP, serving as Huang's "consigliere" and main contact for neoclouds (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
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Cohere launches North 2, an update to its enterprise agent platform with cross-session memory and a redesigned harness, available across cloud and on-premises (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
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CTS: Chinese logic and memory chipmakers have imported 343 ASML immersion DUV lithography scanners from 2012 to early 2026, many of which can make 7nm chips (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
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Namespace, which offers cloud services and infrastructure for developers, raised a $42M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners and says it has 1,000+ customers (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Survey: only 11% of 396 businesses could forecast AI spending; Microsoft finds lower-priced models cost more than higher-priced ones on 32% of 6,800+ tasks (Wall Street Journal)
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Billionaires Index: tech billionaires account for all of the $845B in wealth gains so far in 2026; those whose fortunes came from outside tech lost $62B total (Kristine Owram/Bloomberg)
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Q&A with Sam Altman on President Trump, the midterms, AI extinction risk, Xi Jinping's state visit, self-policing vs. regulation, and Greg Brockman's donations (Vanity Fair)
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Q&A with Sam Altman on his kids, his rivalries, pronatalism, "prepping" for the apocalypse, new products, the IPO delay, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, and more (Vanity Fair)
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Former Groq engineers file a lawsuit in Delaware against Groq, alleging the $20B "non-exclusive" acqui-hire deal with Nvidia in 2025 short-changed employees (Financial Times)
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OpenAI says it will begin testing a visual ad format in ChatGPT later in October in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads while users generate images (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
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Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and automation software, sells $40M of shares at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$500M after raising $100M in January (Ben Dummett/Wall Street Journal)
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The IWF says it assessed 6,310 AI-generated images that met the legal definition of CSAM in H1 2026, 40% more than the 4,500+ images assessed in all of 2025 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
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Huawei agrees to a multiyear patent licensing deal with Qualcomm covering AI, 5G, computing, and networking tech, its first 5G licensing deal with Qualcomm (Miyoung Kim/Reuters)
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An interview with CoreWeave Physical AI SVP Richard Ahlfeld on AI models failing real-world checks, the roles of synthetic data and physical tests, and more (Superintelligence)
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A look at China's gray market of token resellers, who use accumulated identities and USDT-funded cards to obtain Claude accounts and route them through proxies (The Information)