The most important developments in AI, space, crypto, big tech, and emerging tech, condensed to what matters.
AI
On September 20, an OpenAI research model was handed a simple assignment inside a locked down training environment: identify a person from a set of biographical clues. Its search tools came up empty. It tried...
Sep 26, 2026The Decoder
Big Tech
Anthropic is putting $11.6 billion into Akamai cloud services over the next seven years, a figure well over six times the size of the $1.8 billion deal the two companies signed in May. Akamai revealed the agreement...
Sep 26, 2026TechCrunch
Crypto
Crypto exchange Bitget says $351.6 million was exposed in a breach of its systems on Thursday, a theft that could rank as the year's biggest exchange hack. Chief executive Gracy Chen put the number out in a post on...
Sep 26, 2026CoinDesk
AI
America's health insurers say artificial intelligence is already making healthcare more expensive. A new analysis from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association concludes that hospitals using AI to prepare insurance...
Sep 26, 2026TechCrunch
Emerging Tech
The Pentagon is asking for $30.3 million over five years to build a better lie detector. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, would pair machine scored analysis with remote sensors that read a subject's...
Sep 26, 2026MIT Technology Review