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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'theft of labor'

Unredacted filings unsealed Sept 17 in The New York Times' suit show a Microsoft exec called AI training data scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' in a 2024 email.

D-Robotics raises $400M, Sunrise chip tops 8M units

China's D-Robotics closed a $400M Series C led by Mirae Asset on September 17, 2026, as its Sunrise robot chips passed 8 million units shipped.

Snap adds an anticipatory AI to its $2,200 Specs glasses

Specs Intelligence, unveiled September 16, tracks a user's goals and routines across iPhone, Mac and Specs AR glasses to give Snap's much-panned $2,200 hardware a reason to exist.

King Charles presses AI CEOs on safety at Scotland summit

King Charles III convened Nvidia, DeepMind and Anthropic's CEOs at Dumfries House on 2026-09-17 to press for AI safety guarantees, backed by a draft Ditchley Foundation charter.

Signals: MCP for homes, memory for agents

Google opens Google Home to rival AI agents via MCP, a Hugging Face project gives coding agents cross-session memory, and Treble raises $18M to simulate how AI hears rooms.

Firefox adds Mistral to its AI mode, expands to France

Mozilla and Mistral partnered on Sept 16 to bring Mistral Small 4 into Firefox's Smart Window AI mode and expand the beta from the US and Canada into France.

Canada and Germany pledge $300M to Bengio's LawZero

Ottawa and Berlin each commit up to CA$150M to Yoshua Bengio's non-profit, which is building a guardrail AI that explicitly rejects reinforcement learning.

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