AI & Robotics News — Wednesday, September 9, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

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Peter Thiel-Backed AI Startup Cognition Raises Funds at $48 Billion Valuation

SourcesWall Street Journal TechnologyReuters TechnologyPYMNTS.comTechCrunch

02

Nvidia teams up with Australian partners to build AI factory capacity

SourcesReuters TechnologyInside AI

03

Meta Launches personal AI agent, Muse, emphasizes safety and privacy

SourcesSiliconANGLESecurityWeekWIREDAxios AI+Tech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI

04

Legal AI startup Harvey reaches $15.5 billion valuation in new funding round

SourcesReuters TechnologyInside AI

05

Nvidia Expands AI Infrastructure Capacity in Partnership With Australia’s Data Center Ecosystem

SourcesNVIDIA Newsroom

06

Clay valued at $7.1 billion in latest funding round as AI agent startups run hot

SourcesReuters TechnologyInside AI

07

Silver Lake merges Cegid and Silae in 10 billion euro bet on AI-era software

SourcesCNBC TechnologyTech Times

08

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

SourcesThe Register AI + MLDark Reading

09

General Robotics GRID Becomes First Robot Intelligence Platform to Auto-Engineer Entire Development and Deployment Lifecycle

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow

10

IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license

SourcesHugging Face

11

Scoop: Meta Acquires Swedish AI startup Stilla.ai

SourcesAxios AI+

12

Ooredoo-backed Zankore secures $3.1 billion financing for Nvidia AI cloud platform

SourcesReuters TechnologyInside AI

13

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

SourcesTechCrunch

14

Anthropic researcher resigns, warning that AI companies are “gambling with our lives”

SourcesNBC 5 Dallas-Fort WorthFortune

15

JD.com to deploy 3 million robots to fully automate logistics

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

16

Panmnesia and Meta Outline CXL Fabric Spanning Entire AI Data Centers

SourcesHPCwire

17

How Mistral’s New Funding is a Bridge to Sovereign AI

SourcesAI Business

18

Qualcomm Forges AI Chip Deal with Amazon

SourcesAI Business

19

Developers are rethinking data center design as the AI backlash makes its way to Asia

SourcesFortune

20

AI data centers won't create as many UK jobs as the tech sector projects, think tank warns

SourcesCNBC Technology

21

Euno Raises $23 Million

SourcescitybizAxios AI+

22

Neura Robotics, Seco Partner to Scale Physical AI in Europe

SourcesAI Business

23

Meta Unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and Instagram

SourcesFinancial Times AICrypto Briefing

24

Big Tech eyes glacier-strewn Patagonia for building mega AI data centers — region offers 17,300 glaciers, coldness, and cheap energy,…

SourcesTom's Hardware

25

Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to Use

SourcesWall Street Journal Technology