8 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Accenture commits 1,000 engineers to Google's agent push

Accenture and Google Cloud formed a dedicated business group with 1,000 forward-deployed engineers to push Gemini Enterprise agents into production.

Cognition's Series E doubles Devin's valuation to $48B

Cognition's Series E values Devin's maker at $48B, up from $26B four months ago, as its revenue run-rate nearly doubled to $900M.

Fields Medalist Tsimerman launches AI safety institute

Jacob Tsimerman, this year's Fields Medal winner, launched the Mathematical AI Safety Institute on September 8, 2026, days before joining OpenAI's safety team.

DeepSeek routes V4 Pro traffic to cheaper V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek opened a two-day V4.1 Flash beta and says it will bill all V4 Pro traffic at Flash's lower rate once the model ships officially.

Inception's Mercury 2.5 hits 1,107 tokens a second

Inception's diffusion model Mercury 2.5 cut voice-agent P99 latency to one second and matches GPT-5.6 Luna Low on intelligence.

Signals: Anthropic's $80B compute bet, H100 tricks

Anthropic's reported $80B neocloud spree, an H100 trick that packs 8-11x more requests per GPU, and a safety paper on refusing the right slice of a topic.

NSA names six Chinese AI firms in distillation advisory

A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory says DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI ran industrial-scale campaigns to distill Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024.

Qualcomm's AWS deal hands Amazon a $4B stock warrant

Qualcomm and AWS announced a multi-generation custom-silicon deal on September 8, 2026, with Qualcomm issuing Amazon a warrant for 25 million shares, a $4 billion stake.

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