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DraftKings built AI to target gamblers likely to lose

A New York Times investigation published Sept 19, 2026 found DraftKings built a 2023 machine-learning model that scores bettors by predicted losses, then targets the highest scorers with bonus bets.

Tencent backs stealth China LLM startup at $1.42B

Naive AI, a seven-month-old Beijing startup, hit a $1.42B valuation after raising $400M from Tencent and others, The Information reported September 18.

Trump creates an 'AI Force,' pledges an AI czar

Trump posted on Truth Social on September 19 that he's standing up an 'AI Force' modeled on Space Force and will soon name an AI czar, dismissing existential-risk warnings as 'a hoax.'

UMG and Sony sue Suno again over v6's 60,202 songs

UMG and Sony Music filed a second copyright suit against Suno on Sept 18, 2026, covering 60,202 recordings and targeting the new v6 model family.

OpenAI's leaked financials show $278B burn by 2030

A leaked internal OpenAI document shows the company projects $278B in negative free cash flow through 2030, driven by $856B in compute spending, the Financial Times reported September 18, 2026.

Signals: KV cache squeeze, Kimi lands on Bedrock

DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash paper cuts KV cache to 890 bytes a token, Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 lands on Amazon Bedrock, Nvidia ships a rewritten AIPerf benchmarker, and Microsoft finds a bug in how models learn to stop talking.

Pentagon probe: AI compressed targeting before deadly Iran strike

Bloomberg reports Pentagon investigators found Palantir's Maven AI helped compress target review to minutes before a February strike that killed 123 children in Iran, alongside a 90% cut to civilian-protection staff.

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