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Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-21 China Startup AI Job Market

Indeed: data center roles in the US offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation workers compared with similar jobs at other businesses (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-21

The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 China Iran

Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Iran

Mozilla partners with Mistral to power its AI browsing assistant Firefox Smart Window in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Germany France AI Firefox Canada Mozilla

Internal docs: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON sells stolen foreign intelligence and uses AI systems to make the government data more digestible for police (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 China AI Hacker Intelligence

Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 AI

AWS says it is unable to restore some data stored exclusively in Bahrain data centers and one UAE availability zone, after Iranian drone strikes in the spring (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Drone Iran

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Trump AI Elon Musk Zuckerberg

Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20

A profile of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of AI security incidents and who says the explosive response surprised him (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 U.K. AI

The EU details the Kids Act, which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts, ban under-13s, and more (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Ban

Security researchers in OpenAI's bug bounty program hacked OpenAI in July and accessed its “monorepo” on GitHub, using Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity and Opus 5 (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 GitHub

Sources: ECB President Christine Lagarde personally asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June, aiming to protect the bank's “digital euro” project (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 Greece

Angle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 AI

Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20 IPO

Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20

Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-20

An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-13 Interest Rate

Positron, which is designing AI inference processor Asimov featuring a “memory-first architecture” and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12 AI

Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12

Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time adviser to OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12 Startup AI

Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend ~$5B to neocloud startup Fluidstack, which is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12 Startup Pentagon

Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs and freemium MAUs surpassed100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings to drive revenue (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12 AI Adobe

Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via “transfer stations” outside China (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-12 China AI

Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-11 Startup AI

Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the company aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as finance chief of Amazon, EA, NBC, and most recently Nielsen (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-11 Amazon

Sources: Kalshi plans to seek US regulatory approval to start offering single-stock perpetual futures; Coinbase filed similar regulatory paperwork last week (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-11 Coinbase

Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs, with freemium MAUs surpassing 100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-11 AI Adobe

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