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Today’s highlights
- XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation — 2026-09-04
- The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
- OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them — 2026-09-04
- OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
- Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor — 2026-09-04
- Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn’t nearly as bad as the early
- AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing — 2026-09-04
- Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
- The White House is making arcade games racist — 2026-09-04
- The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed “arcade” games, some of which are racist - and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated wit
- What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event — 2026-09-04
- Apple’s September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple’s first event since John Ternus took over as CEO on September 1st, stepping in for Tim Cook, and will likely feature the first mod
- GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’ — 2026-09-04
- GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company’s “core DNA,” after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts
- Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now — 2026-09-04
- A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.