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Release date is not the same as training cutoff: how to read a new AI model

Ten of the 20 current AI models on a tracker published on 16 September 2026 carry a training cutoff their lab actually publishes, and the gap between that date and the release date is the part launch coverage skips.

What an AI funding round actually means: Lovable's $6.6B and the edtech collapse

Lovable's latest funding round values the Swedish vibe coding startup at $6.6 billion, two sources told CNBC, more than trebling the $1.8 billion valuation it reached in July. Meanwhile global edtech venture funding fell below $3 billion in 2025, from a 2021 peak of $16.7 billion.

AI and the job market: weak hiring, record-low confidence and a data centre backlash

US employers shed 23,000 jobs in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on 7 August, the first monthly decline since February and a figure far below analyst expectations.

Wearables turn the world into a sleep lab, but the study design is still catching up

Xpeng Merges Four Product Lines Into Two To Rein In R&D Spending

Hyundai Workers Strike Over Atlas Humanoids as Robot Push Spreads

NASA's Starling swarms a satellite using star trackers and a 20,000-object catalog

Data centre power and cooling: why the newest fixes are gas turbines, fines and orbit

Inference Academy Benchmark: DeepSeek V4 Flash Costs 14.9x More on Cold Requests

AI labs sued over development slowdown as Europe's tech sector pushes back on AI panic

EU tech regulation: Brussels' AI Act meets a doomer backlash

AI safety researchers quit, warn and cheat as evaluations fail

Zhejiang opens grid storage to spot market as US AI hiring data splits

Nvidia's Rogue-Agent Sandbox Arrives as Regulators Circle AI Platforms

OpenAI pauses some training as agent incidents mount and the liability question hardens

SpaceX launches first orbital Starship attempt as UK stands up a space squadron

Robotaxis Can Already Drive Themselves. The Problem Is What Happens Between Rides

Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform Promises to Quarantine Rogue AI Agents in Milliseconds

Alibaba Cloud puts $3M into Omarchy as European AI funding cools

Google's orbital data centre test and three other power and cooling stories that explain the squeeze