Mach Industries raises a $600 million Series C extension after paying $50 million in cash and equity for Exquadrum, outbidding at least eight suitors and expanding into solid rocket motors through its new Mach Energetics unit.
Apple says its upcoming Live Rewind feature captures the previous 15 seconds after a Digital Crown double-press, then uses the S11 chip’s Secure Enclave to process and immediately delete the audio, while Siri Recap offers toggleable high-level conversation summaries without transcripts, speaker labels, or timestamps.
Meta agrees to pay as much as $17 billion to resolve states’ claims while disabling school-hour notifications and restricting likes for underage accounts, as California also pauses AI chatbot toys for children under 16 for four years.
Google launches Gemini for Windows 10 and 11 worldwide, letting users press Alt + Space for on-screen help and Gmail/Drive-powered project summaries, while Gemini Spark 1 tackles multi-step tasks and Nano Banana generates images.
Universal Music Group lets its artists opt into a new ElevenLabs platform that licenses their music for AI use, while keeping it separate from ElevenLabs’ Music API and ElevenMusic generator and continuing parallel work with Udio.
Cohere and RWS unveil North Small Translate, a 218B-parameter mixture-of-experts system with 25B active parameters whose error-finding Agentic version reaches 84.36 on WMT26 tests and beats DeepL NextGen across every tested non-European region.
Anthropic says a Yemen-based operation uses Claude Code to build rocket-guidance software and seeks troubleshooting advice after a failed test flight, while Chinese labs including Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Xiaomi allegedly use thousands of fraudulent accounts to distill Claude outputs.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs are developing a licensed fan-creation platform for remixes, mashups, alternate versions and personalized vocal experiences from participating artists’ music, with creators promised compensation and new revenue streams.
Anthropic says it has blocked several attempts to use its AI for biological-weapons research, while former safety leaders Evan Hubinger and Paul Christiano warn that the industry still lacks an adequate plan to control potentially catastrophic superintelligent systems.
U.S. business AI adoption reaches 56.1% in August, but the biggest spenders cut per-employee outlays from $7,976 to $7,205 as frontier models’ token share slips to 45% and open-source or Chinese options remain used by just 6.4% of AI-buying firms.